Ibn Ḥajr al-‘Asqalānī

Ḥāfiẓ ibn Ḥajr al-‘Asqalānī ^{[d. 852H]} (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “The one who constantly reads the Qurān, gets his tongue used to it and so reading becomes easy for him, but when he abandons it, reading it becomes very heavy for him and difficult.”