Question:
Salaam alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakaatuh,
What is the difference between Reciting the Quran majid and making meditation with the Shaykh.after having learned about the benefits of both,it appears that both should have or do have the same outcome.is there some difference in doing rabita?
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
Each has its purpose and benefits. It is like asking “should I pray 2 raka`ts nafl or recite one page of Quran?”
In fact, rabitah with the Shaykh can be made before any form of worship and will be a cause for much more intensity, spiritual focus and perfection, for as one’s rabitah increases, it becomes more and more the Shaykh peforming the worship than yourself as you dissolve in his presence. After all our beloved Prophet Sayyidina Muhammad (s) was the Quran walking, the embodiment of the Quran, the Quran’s appearance in life, and similarly are our mashaykh, and Allah knows best.
Taher Siddiqui
