Tilāwa
Definition
Tilawa is the act of reciting the Quran — reading or chanting its words with the appropriate rules of pronunciation and with the inner orientation of reverence and reflection. Al-Ghazali distinguishes between tilawa as mere phonetic performance and tilawa as the act of worship it is meant to be: the former produces correct sounds, the latter produces a living encounter between the human heart and the divine speech. He cites Quranic verses and prophetic traditions that describe the rewards of tilawa and then asks the pointed question: are these rewards for the sound produced, or for the state of heart in which the recitation was performed?
As understood in the classical tradition of Imam al-Ghazali and the scholars of his school.
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