some people who, whenever their hearts feel constricted, listen to a reader blessed with skillful recitation and a pleasant voice. Nowadays this is easy, for there are recordings of certain reciters who do not force their style, whose voices are melodious and whose delivery is excellent. When one listens to them he almost never grows weary, for the Word of Allah exerts a special influence when it is conveyed by someone of beautiful voice and proper rendition; one simply does not tire of it.

From these two hadiths we learn that a person ought to recite the Quran in the finest manner he can manage, with the best voice and the most correct delivery. We ask Allah, Most High, to make me and you among those who give the Quran its full due—both in its letters and its limits—so that it will testify for us and not against us. Allah is the One who grants success.

1006 – Al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib—may Allah be pleased with him—said: “I heard the Prophet ﷺ recite Surah al-Tīn during the ‘Isha prayer, and I have never heard anyone whose voice was more beautiful than his.” Agreed upon.

1007 – Abu Lubābah Bashīr ibn ʿAbd al-Munḏir—may Allah be pleased with him—reported that the Prophet ﷺ said: “Whoever does not beautify his voice with the Quran is not one of us.” Related by Abu Dāwūd with a chain of transmission