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The benefits of reading
- Reading repels anxiety and grief.
- While busy reading, one is prevented from delving into falsehood.
- Habitual reading makes one too busy to keep company with the idle and the inactive.
- By reading often, one develops eloquence and clarity in speech.
- Reading helps to develop the mind and purify its thoughts.
- Reading increases one in knowledge and improves both memory and understanding.
- By reading, one benefits from the experiences of others: the wisdom of the wise and the understanding of scholars.
- By reading often, one develops the ability to both acquire and process knowledge and to learn about the different fields of knowledge and their applications to life.
- One’s faith will increase when one reads beneficial books, especially books written by practicing Muslim writers. The book is the best giver of sermons and it has a forceful effect in guiding one towards goodness and away from evil.
- Reading helps to relax one’s mind from distraction and to save one’s time from being wasted.
- By reading often, one gains a mastery over many words and learns the different constructions of sentences; moreover, one improves his ability to grasp concepts and to understand what is written between the lines}
"Nourishment of the soul is in concepts and meanings, And not in food and drink."