Virtues of the Quran
Why learn, recite and listen to the Quran? Here is what Allah and His Messenger ﷺ said, taken from the Quran and the most trusted hadith collections.
From the Quran
ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبُ لَا رَيْبَ ۛ فِيهِ ۛ هُدًى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guidance for those conscious of Allah -
إِنَّ هَـٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ يَهْدِى لِلَّتِى هِىَ أَقْوَمُ وَيُبَشِّرُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ أَنَّ لَهُمْ أَجْرًا كَبِيرًا Indeed, this Qur'an guides to that which is most suitable and gives good tidings to the believers who do righteous deeds that they will have a great reward.
وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ ٱلْقُرْءَانِ مَا هُوَ شِفَآءٌ وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ ۙ وَلَا يَزِيدُ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ إِلَّا خَسَارًا And We send down of the Qur'an that which is healing and mercy for the believers, but it does not increase the wrongdoers except in loss.
يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ قَدْ جَآءَتْكُم مَّوْعِظَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَشِفَآءٌ لِّمَا فِى ٱلصُّدُورِ وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ O mankind, there has to come to you instruction from your Lord and healing for what is in the breasts and guidance and mercy for the believers.
وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ And We have certainly made the Qur'an easy for remembrance, so is there any who will remember?
كِتَـٰبٌ أَنزَلْنَـٰهُ إِلَيْكَ مُبَـٰرَكٌ لِّيَدَّبَّرُوٓا۟ ءَايَـٰتِهِۦ وَلِيَتَذَكَّرَ أُو۟لُوا۟ ٱلْأَلْبَـٰبِ [This is] a blessed Book which We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], that they might reflect upon its verses and that those of understanding would be reminded.
لَوْ أَنزَلْنَا هَـٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ عَلَىٰ جَبَلٍ لَّرَأَيْتَهُۥ خَـٰشِعًا مُّتَصَدِّعًا مِّنْ خَشْيَةِ ٱللَّهِ ۚ وَتِلْكَ ٱلْأَمْثَـٰلُ نَضْرِبُهَا لِلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ If We had sent down this Qur'an upon a mountain, you would have seen it humbled and coming apart from fear of Allah. And these examples We present to the people that perhaps they will give thought.
From the Sunnah
“The best among you are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it.”
“Whoever recites a letter from the Book of Allah will receive a good deed for it, and the good deed is multiplied by ten. I do not say that Alif Lam Mim is one letter, but Alif is a letter, Lam is a letter and Mim is a letter.”
“Recite the Qur'an, for on the Day of Resurrection it will come as an intercessor for those who recite it.”
“The one who recites the Qur'an and masters it by heart will be with the noble and righteous angelic scribes. And the one who recites it with difficulty, exerting himself to learn it, will have a double reward.”
“The example of a believer who recites the Qur'an is that of a citron, which tastes good and smells good. The believer who does not recite it is like a date, which tastes good but has no smell.”
“Indeed, by this Book Allah raises some peoples and lowers others.”
“Do not make your houses graveyards. Satan runs away from the house in which Surah al-Baqarah is recited.”
Hadith wordings are condensed from the standard translations on sunnah.com. Please follow the links for the full narrations and chains. Quran translation: Sahih International.