Benefits of a hardcopy of Quran

We usually switch to a digital version of Quran loaded in our mobiles allowing us to carry it everywhere. Those who do not forget right after downloading it, can make a great use of it. It can be read everywhere in place of worship or all other permissible places and times like transports. Many of us like this option because it's the unproductive time of our journeys. As commuting time tend to be inscreasing in our congested magapoles, reading Quran in this time really becomes intresting. Strike days, belated train days, never-ending-wait for buses turn into filling up your sawab account.

Quran is amazing, once you start reading, you want to read some more. In fact it's like Quran wanted to be read over and over again and it attracts its reciter to continue. So make sure, you multiply opening this Quran without internet app you downloaded. These apps have another benefit of getting undercover, without undesired publicity.  To strengthen this strategy, I've worked out a reminder every morning at my home exiting time which says: 3 ayahs per day. That's our minimum duty, right? So you open your app, you read your three ayahs and then you can peacefully shut it down. Well, most of the time, people end up reading the whole page because of impossibility of marking the exact ayah in mainstream versions. Mark the page is possible though. That way you progress. Little by little, page by page, slowly, the first Juz ends. It encourages you, it increases your speed. And by staying committed to only these three ayah duty you end up finishing a Quran in no time. You didn't even wonder it was possible. Now you know. And the exciting part is : there is still room for progress. 

But then, we do not need a hardcopy anymore ?

We should at least read once a hardcopy resting in our homeshelves. for it can can not accomplish it's very purpose "resting" on our shelves. It has to be used, get pages torn by use, loose its ink because of the passage of your fingers on special ayahs. It has to be our hands. It has to the extension of our hans instead of our cellphones.

I've been given a hardcopy by one of my relatives and though my mum kept reading it for me while I enjoyed the Quran app, I wanted to try the hardcopy. The difficult part is the respect you owe to the book. You can't put it everywhere. But a part from that I think we (the app-people like me) should dear this book. Having it in my hands twice a day, on my commute, it became my identity. It became my world because I had no more to think of finding things to occupy myself. I put my mind on dischipering the Arabic. If we just dear Quran in words, and do not take it our hands and think upon it and do in depth of it's sayings, we are missing something huge. It must be the book we most consult. It must be accessible, it must be used, old, become used by our research on it. May the Quran in our shelves that look brand new not testimony against us for the little use, the little rôle we gave them to play, in our lives.  

My commuting time became an enjoyable time. A time where I progressed and I could start my day well in mind that I am a Muslim and I should act as such. Encouraging me and motivating me to do good. When I was all alone on the bus stops, I read it loud so that, the nature around me could hear and enjoy. Everyday, I made progress and I could physically see it by the place of my bookmark. It's not so eveident in mainstream version of apps. You know the juz but there's no pie-chart to tell "that percentage done", "that percentage to read". You have a correct information to make this pie-chart in your mind but still in the hardcopy, its directly available. In mere thirty days, it was finished. Alhamdulilla. I pray Allah to continue this in my coming journeys inshallah.

That's my experience of Quran hardcopy. Feel free to share your experiences and things you do to progress in your way towards Allah.