another group was deceived by the recitation of the quran so they waste it in vain and perhaps they complete it in a day and night and their tongues run with it and their hearts fall into the valleys of desires and contemplation of the world and they do not contemplate the meanings of the quran so that they may be deterred by its warnings and be admonished by its sermons and stop at its commands and prohibitions and consider the points of consideration from it and take pleasure in it from the point of view of meaning not from the point of view of its arrangement. and whoever recites the book of allah the most high a hundred times in a day and night then abandons its commands and prohibitions he deserves punishment. and perhaps he may have a soft voice so he recites and takes pleasure in it and is deceived by his pleasure and thinks that this is communing with allah the most high and listening to his speech. how far that is if his pleasure is in his voice. if he had realized the pleasure of the speech of allah the most high he would not have looked at his voice and its pleasantness nor would his mind have been attached to it. and the pleasure of the speech of allah is only from the point of view of… meaning..
وفرقة أخرى اغتروا بقراءة القرآن.. فيهدرونه هدرا.. وربما يختمونه فى اليوم والليلة ختما.. وألسنتهم تجرى به.. وقلوبهم تتردى فى أودية الأماني والتفكر فى الدنيا.. ولا يتفكر فى معانى القرآن..لينزجر بزواجره.. ويتعظ بمواعظه.. ويقف عند أوامره ونواهيه.. ويعتبر بمواضع الاعتبار منه.. ويتلذذ به من حيث المعنى لا من حيث النظم.. ومن قرأ كتاب الله تعالى فى اليوم والليلة مائة مرة.. ثم ترك أوامره ونواهيه فهو مستحق العقوبة.. وربما قد يكون له صوت لين فهو يقرأ ويتلذذ به.. ويغتر باستلذاذه.. ويظن أن ذلك مناجاة الله سبحانه تعالى.. وسماع كلامه.. وهيهات ما أبعده.. إذا لذاته فى صوته.. ولو أدرك لذة كلام الله تعالى ما نظر إلى صوته وطيبه..ولا تعلق خاطره به.. ولذة كلام الله إنما هى من حيث المعنى..