THE EFFECT OF THE QUR’ANIC RECITAL: AN AEP STUDY

Some Moslems believe that their holly book (The Qur'an) had special features besides just the divine revelation of God. They recite (reading or listening to) certain chapters or verses for some certain occasions, i.e. when some ones is dying, exorcism, healing the sickness or illness, etc. They also said that they feel composed after these Qur’anic recitals. So, we did the study on the effect of Qur’anic recital on the brainwave that evoked during the listening, it is an auditory evoked potential (AEP) study. We recorded the AEP of 10 subjects of volunteer while they are listening to The Qur’anic recitals that we were prepared. They are: recital patterns of 58 of the Qur’an, Asma’ul Khusna recital, Shalawat, pass-praying Dzikir recital and healing Tahlil recital. We saw that subject’s responses are all the same. The Qur’anic recital much increased d-wave to all subjects, even to non-Moslem, when compared with before the stimulation. This might mean the subjects were very relaxed, though they did not fall asleep. Keywords: Qur’anic Recitals, Auditory Evoked Potential and d -wave.