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106 What do you think about the
: “
following verse And the Messenger
, ‘
has said O my Lord, indeed my people
]
[

have taken this Quran as a thing
: )
abandoned. ’” ( Quran 25 30 ?
his verse is about the Day of Judgment. These are the
Twords the Prophet will say on the Day of Judgment
about his community of later times. After the death of
the Prophet and the passing of several generations, the
followers of the Prophet went into a state of religious
degeneration, thus abandoning their revealed Book.

Today we see that Muslims respect the Quran by kissing
it and keeping it in sacred places, but they do not really
follow its guidance in their lives. Instead of being a source
of guidance, it seems to have acquired the status of being
a display article.

This verse of the Quran is a warning or admonition for
the Muslim community. They are forewarned that they
should save themselves from developing the tendency of
simply reciting the Quran while heeding to the dictates
of their own desires.

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