Surah Qāf

In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy.

[Surah Qāf (50): verse 37]

“Indeed, in that is a reminder for whoever has a heart or listens attentively while fully present.” (37)

If you wish to benefit from the Quran, gather your heart when reciting it, listen attentively, and be fully present as someone being addressed through it by the One who spoke it—glorified is He—directly from Him to you. For it is His address to you, glorified is He, conveyed through His Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. The Most High says: “Indeed, in that is a reminder for whoever has a heart or listens attentively while fully present.”

For an effect to be fully realized, there must be a cause capable of producing it, a receptive subject, the necessary condition for the effect to occur, and the absence of any obstacle preventing it. This verse explains all of these in the most concise, clear, and expressive terms.

His words, “Indeed, in that is a reminder,” refer to what precedes, from the beginning of the surah to this point. This is the effective cause. His words, “for whoever has a heart,” identify the receptive subject. What is meant is a living heart that understands what Allah conveys, as the Most High says (36:69, 70): “It is nothing