Various types of “abandonment” of the Qur’an

[Abu Isra'il]

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (d. 758 AH) said: "There are various types of “abandonment” of the Qur’an: To abandon listening to it and believing in it; to abandon acting upon it, and ignoring its halaal (lawful) and haraam (prohibited) ordinances, even if one believes in it and recites it; to abandon judging by it, and resorting to it as a judge when there are differences in the essence of the religion or other matters; to abandon pondering over it, and understanding it, and seeking the explanation of it; to abandon using it as a cure in all types of diseases of the heart, and instead to seek to cure these diseases by other means.

And all of these categories are included in the statement of Allah (awj): “And the Messenger (will) say: O My Lord, indeed my people took this Qur’an as something worthy of being abandoned.” (al-Furqan 25/30) even though some of these types of abandonment are worse than others." (113)