Is it valid to be occupied with the Qur’an during a time when prayers are answered instead of supplicating, and is the reciter given better than what is given to those who ask, based on the Hadith Qudsi: "To whomever the Qur’an distracts from My remembrance and My asking, I grant him better than what I grant to those who ask"?

Reciting the Quran is the best form of remembrance (dhikr) by far, and for each letter, there are ten good deeds. It was reported from Ibn Taymiyyah that the general category of Quran recitation is better than the general category of other forms of remembrance, and the general category of remembrance is better than the general category of supplication (du'a). A hadith states: "Whoever is preoccupied with the Quran and My remembrance from asking of Me, I shall give him better than what I give to those who ask," which Tirmidhi graded as hasan (good), and it implies that whoever is engaged with the Quran instead of supplicating, Allah will give him better than what He gives to those who ask.

However, performing the prescribed remembrances and supplications at their specific legally determined times is better than reciting the Quran at those times, such as the morning and evening remembrances, those after prayers, and sending blessings upon the Prophet on Friday.