{"id":1,"date":"2014-02-08T20:37:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T20:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/marlanaletelier\/?p=1"},"modified":"2014-04-12T20:57:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T20:57:04","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marlanaletelier\/2014\/02\/08\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Recitation of the Light Verse (Week 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/marlanaletelier\/files\/2014\/02\/Recitation-Light-Verse.m4a\">Recitation &#8211; Light Verse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While reading \u201cThe Quran in Indonesian Daily Life\u201d by A. Rasmussen this week, I was interested to learn about female recitation life in Indonesia.\u00a0 Rasmussen\u2019s experience, as a non-Muslim woman, learning to recite in Indonesia made me curious to try it out for myself. \u00a0She was able to observe the recitation from an outsider&#8217;s perspective while gaining access to an insider&#8217;s perspective. \u00a0I learned that I could also try to do the same. \u00a0What is it about recitation that is so special?\u00a0 What makes people so dedicated to the practice and mastery of it?\u00a0 Building upon our previous lectures and discussions, I know that recitation is an art that connects with the Divine in a special way because the words from the Qur\u2019an, when spoken in Arabic, are the same words that Allah spoke to Muhammad.\u00a0 After practicing the Arabic pronunciation several times, I went into a silent space to recite the Light Verse for the recording.\u00a0 I felt a sense of calm and reverence that I hope is captured in my very first Qur\u2019an recitation recording.\u00a0 In the reading from <em>Approaching the Qur\u2019an <\/em>for this week\u2019s lecture, Sells discusses the control and slowing down of breath in relation to Qur\u2019an recitation and its meditative quality.\u00a0 As an avid yoga practioner, I can attest to the fact that reciting the Qur\u2019an, even as a complete amateur, immediately relaxed me just as the recitation of the \u201cAum\u201d in yoga does at the beginning and end of practice.\u00a0 \u00a0I hope one day to learn Arabic so that I can recite more effectively and be able to bring this new meditative practice that I experienced today, into my everyday life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recitation &#8211; Light Verse While reading \u201cThe Quran in Indonesian Daily Life\u201d by A. Rasmussen this week, I was interested to learn about female recitation life in Indonesia.\u00a0 Rasmussen\u2019s experience, as a non-Muslim woman, learning to recite in Indonesia made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marlanaletelier\/2014\/02\/08\/hello-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marlanaletelier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marlanaletelier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marlanaletelier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marlanaletelier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marlanaletelier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marlanaletelier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marlanaletelier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marlanaletelier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marlanaletelier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/marlanaletelier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}