assalamu aleykum, someone sent me this email, i found it funny yet it shows that we need to understand the Qur'an and that it was not reavaled just to recite.
Abu 'Uthman al-Jahidh narrates: Yahya ibn Ja'far informed me of an incident saying,
'I used to have a neighbour from the people of Faris (Persia) who would weep the whole night through (in prayer). One night I was woken up by his weeping and loud cries, he was sighing and hitting his head and chest - repeating only one verse from the Book of Allah. When I saw what he was going through, I said to myself, 'Indeed, I must hear this verse that's killing him and that has driven away my sleep!' So I listened in on him and behold he was reciting the verse;
وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الْمَحِيضِ قُلْ هُوَ أَذًى
"They ask you concerning menstruation. Say: that is an Adha... " [al-Baqarah: 222]
[Dumoo' al-Qurra]
