The Guiding Light — Page 407
Sur a h az-Zilz a l, Chapter 99 407 First Rak‘ah of Tuesday ‘Ish a’ Prayers 1 Importance of Sur a h Az-Zilz a l • It is mentioned in the H ad i th that reading this S u rah of the Holy Qur’ a n gives on reward as much as reading half the Holy Qur’ a n. The Holy Prophet sa has been reported to have said this at three different occasions. o It is reported that this was said to people who have difficulty in learning the Holy Qur’ān; an old man with tongue problems, an uneducated woman with poor memory and a non-Arab with limited knowledge of Arabic language. o Thus the Islamic philosophy of reward has been clarified by this H ad i th; it is not the quantity of good deed that determines the 1 Tafs i rul-Qur’ a n by The Promised Messiah, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as of Qadi a n, Pages 396-402 available on www. alislam. org