[19].Surah Maryam [Mary]: Ayat 97-98

Ayat 97. So We have made this (the Qur'an) easy in your own tongue (O Muhammad  [SAWW](PBUH), only that you may give glad tidings to the Muttaqun (pious and righteous persons), and warn with it the Ludda (most quarrelsome) people.

Ayat 98. And how many a generation before them have We destroyed! Can you (O Muhammad [SAWW](PBUH) find a single one of them or hear even a whisper of them?

[Tafseer] So have We made the (Quran) easy in your own tongue, that with it thou majesty give Glad Tidings to the righteous, and warnings to people given to contention. But how many (countless) generations before them have We destroyed? Canst thou find a single one of them (now) or hear (so much as) a whisper of them? from which this sentence is brought up as a reminiscence, showing the progress of sin, the Guidance which Allah gives to the good, the degradation of blasphemy, the respite granted, and the final End, when personal responsibility will be enforced.

Hazrat Ibn Masud (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah [SAWW](PBUH) said, "Whoever recites a letter from the Book of Allah, he will be credited with a good deed, and a good deed gets a ten-fold reward. I do not say that Alif-Lam-Mim is one letter, but Alif is a letter, Lam is a letter and Mim is a letter.''

[At-Tirmidhi, Hadith # 2910] 

Lesson : as mentioned above in Surah Maryam Ayat 97."We have made this (the Qur'an) easy". This Hadith urges us to recite the Qur'an and also mentions the great reward for reciting it.