Is Memorizing the Qur’an for Health and Strengthening Memory Considered a Worldly Purpose?

هل حفظ القرآن للصحة وتقوية الذاكرة من الغرض الدنيوي؟

Is Memorizing the Qur’an for Health and Strengthening Memory Considered a Worldly Purpose?

Translated by: Reza Ervani bin Asmanu

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السؤال

Question:

هل يعتبر حفظ القرآن لمنفعته على الصحة وتقوية الذاكرة حفظًا لغرض دنيوي؟ جزاكم الله خيرا.

Is memorizing the Qur’an for its health benefits and for strengthening one’s memory considered memorization for a worldly purpose? May Allah reward you with goodness.

الإجابــة

Answer:

الحمد لله، والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله، وعلى آله وصحبه، أما بعد:

All praise is due to Allah, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, his family, and his Companions. To proceed:

فحفظ القرآن لهذا الغرض فقط لا بقصد التقرب إلى الله تعالى هو من إرادة أغراض الدنيا, ومن أراد حفظه لما له من المنافع في الدنيا إضافة إلى قصد التقرب إلى الله تعالى، فلا حرج في ذلك. وانظر الفتوى الأحرى هنا

Memorizing the Qur’an solely for this purpose, without intending thereby to draw closer to Allah Most High, falls under seeking a worldly objective. However, if a person memorizes it for the benefits it brings in this world while also intending to draw closer to Allah Most High, then there is no harm in that. See also the following fatwa:

• Performing Good Deeds with the Intention of Gaining Ease in Worldly and Hereafter Matters Does Not Contradict Sincerity

ومن أراد تقوية ذاكرته ليكون أعون له على تحصيل العلم الشرعي ونحو ذلك من مقاصد الآخرة، فهو قصد أخروي حسن.

Whoever seeks to strengthen their memory so that it may better assist them in acquiring Islamic knowledge or in pursuing other objectives related to the Hereafter has a good and praiseworthy intention directed toward the Hereafter.

والله أعلم.

And Allah knows best.

Source: IslamWeb