Is reciting the Koran without full understanding to its meanings a kind of worship?

Reciting the Koran even without understanding the meanings is a kind of worship, because the reader spends his time obeying God and reciting the Koran is obedience to God, the reader is away from heedlessness, fun, play and other things God ordered us to avoid.
Reading the Koran collects the facts of man after they are separated, it collects his mind, his heart, his soul and his organs during recitation. This full occupation in reciting makes one forget his worries and feel serenity and tranquility and this gets him to be safe from being affected by emotions and also safe from the power of anger that destroys him and makes him ready for psychological, mental and physical diseases.

I don’t see why not. If the person identifies as a Muslim and practices his religion by reciting it’s enough for me to consider him Muslim. If his form of worship is recitation who am I to question it.

I can teach a parrot to say “I am a dog”. I have friend with a bird that imitates the sound of a telephone when his phone rings. If the bird regularly repeats these sounds but does not understand the meaning, is that worship?
If it is, why would any religion want and need that kind of worship?

If someone wants to do it and finds comfort in repetitive actions like chanting, meditation, davening, bowing, etc. they are free to do so. That is their right, as long as they do not expect others to do the same.

Reciting the written words of any religion is taking the first steps towards understanding the fundamentals of said religion.

Doing anything in a spirit of reverence is a form of worship. There are Buddhists who, as a devotional practice, just fan the pages of one of their sacred books. Others chant lines that have been translated and mistranslated so many times over so many centuries that they’re little more than meaningless syllables.

On the face of it, this is pointless. No information is conveyed his way. But that’s not the reason for this kind of practice. The mind state of reverence is what matters to them and, in a way, semantics would just complicate things unnecessarily.

In my opinion, reciting and following any religious belief or value without truly understanding it is blind worship, and is the source of much world strife.

Have Muslims started using the old Baltimore Catechism as a model of how to explain their faith?
@hassan99, @shehabzooz