A boy onced asked his father what the benifit was of reading the Quraan over and over again. The father kept quite but instaed asked his son to fetch water from the river using an old bucket.
The boy jumped up and ran to the stream to fetch the water. On his way back he noticed that the bucket had holes in it and that all the water seeped out. He turn back and went back to the river. This time he decided to run abit faster hoping that he would return with at least some water left over in the bucket. However, to his disapointment, all the water seeped out again. He tried this over again and again without any success.
Finally, he decided to return to his father with the empty bucket. He explained to his father that he did was not able to fetch the water as the bucket was full of holes.
His father smiled at him and replied, “You see my son, we might never understand why we do things over and over but take a look at the bucket you have in your hand.”
The boy looked at the bucket and was surprised to see it glowing as if it was brand new.
The father explained that reading the Quraan over and over is simply to purify the spirit.