The Object is ‘Ibadah is Not Pleasure
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is taken from Haqiqat ath-Tariqa’ min as-Sunnah al-Aniqah of Mawlana Ashraf ‘Ali Thanawi ( r.a. ), as translated by Shaykh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo. It is related on the authority of Sayyidatin ‘Aishah bint Abu Bakr ( r.a. ) that the Messenger of Allah ( s.a.w. ) said, “One who has mastered the Qur’an shares the rank of the noble, pious scribes. While one who recites the Qur’an falteringly, who finds it difficult to recite, for such a one there is a two-fold reward.’ This hadits is recorded by Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isma’il al-Bukhari ( r.a. ), Imam ‘Asakir ad-Din Abu al-Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj ( r.a. ), Imam Abu Dawud Sulayman ibn al-Ash’ats as-Sijistani ( r.a. ) and Imam Abu ‘Isa Muhammad ibn ‘Isa as-Sulami at-Tirmidzi ( r.a. ). It sometimes happens, when people find that they are not deriving any pleasure from the act of dzikr , remembrance, or the performing of other acts of worship, that ...