Prerequisites for the recitation

Prerequisites for the recitation
Some scholars said: 'All words (of the Qur'an) are addressed to those who carefully observe their duty. What is required for a reciter is to believe in them, accept them completely, rely on them and turn to them with endurance, pleasure, thanks, hope, fear and love.
There are some tasks which some scholars have pointed out for the recitation of the Qur'an:
 1. Understanding the glorification of the literal words of Allah.
 2. Glorifying the Speaker (in the Qur'an).
 3. Paying attention and abandoning inner utterances of the soul (hadith al-nafs).
 4. Pondering over the subject matter of the ayat recited.
 5. Understanding the meaning of the ayat recited.
 6. Avoiding the obstacles mentioned below: a. Too much concentration on the pronunciation of letters to the detriment of an understanding of the ayat. b. Blind imitation of a school of thought, c. Persistence in sin because of pride and a slavery of passion.
 7. Considering every part of the Qur'an is meant for the reciter.
 8. Developing the feelings with the message of the Qur'an by creating grief, fear and hope.
 9. Recitation of the Qur'an in its real sense', says al-Imam al-Ghazali, 'is an activity in which the tongue,
 10. the intellect and the mind all take part. . . the tongue is the exhorter, the intellect is the translator (of what it understands of the exhortation) and the mind is that which accepts the exhortation.'
 11. Creating the impression that the reciter is hearing the literal words of Allah from Allah and not from himself.
 12. Avoiding any sense of the reciter's ability and power by looking at himself with the eye of satisfaction and purification.