Have you read the entire Quran in a language you UNDERSTAND?
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Peace All,
Some experiences to share (As I understand now)
This is the DIVINE key.
- When you read the Quran, you shall seek refuge with God from Satan the outcast.
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Whenever My HEART detects an EVIL interpretation in my MIND from the DIVINE WORD. I REJECT thE EVIL interpretatiopn and exchange it with the thought of THE MOST COMPASSIONATE.
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MANY times when I come again across a verse, a new insight opens up. So I do not try to get a fixed insight from every verse at once. Those which appeal, leave their taces and the others I leave for other times.
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Sometimes a vers catches and pinpoints my attention. then I will have a walk and contemplate on its message.
Many times What makes me shiver is imagining how Mohammad or Jesus shook the HEARTS without having a dictionary in their hands or using lot of intellectual stuff.
I would be gratefull to hear the experiences of others.
peace,
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Peace all,
Yes ive read the entire Quran in English along with the Arabic numerous times. Actually when i was a 12 yr old boy i used to read the Quran in English and 2130 was the verse which really convinced me of the Quran being from GOD at that time. This verse immediately amazed me and i knew i was reading GOD's Word. I studied the Arabic text much later. I just finished reading the Quran another time last month both with Arabic and English together , praise be to GOD. GOD Bless! -
Peace,
Have read and understood several translations manifold and read in Arabic twice including bits here and there.
Quran is no doubt a good read carrying along some common sense and wisdom but not perfect, neither infallible and certainly not GOD?s Words. It is a collection of phenomenon warped and reflected in TIME, an analogy of a genie in a bottle; "Open the bottle and command your wishes to be granted and there you have it."
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peace all
halihan, beautiful avatar !
i read quran in several translations at the same time - and each time a verse is not clear to me, i check in each version (have 4 at the time being). If this does not help i turn to arabic...but things usually get really tough then lol
to alpha i read quran for about 20 years now and what seemed hard to accept to me from the beginning i usually understand differently now, just because my outlook on quran changed.
lk
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Peace danish. I think your genie in the bottle analogy sums it up beautifully .Many people take from the quran what their harmful desires, distorted wishes and uncontrolled ego wants them to...,and then claim its from allah.. ! shock roll .
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Peace Stitch
I have read it, the quran front to back, a few times. I've only read translations, particularly Yusuf Ali and Ahmed Ali.
I know of people who when we've discuseed the quran had only read it in arabic though arabic they speak not. I feel that this method (of reading a language you do not understand) will not convey to you the pictures that the words paint, but the human being is more than the intellect, so how I see it is that they are developing a different side of their self, the more feeling side, for to a friend of mine this is as poetry and helps the friend feel at peace. So I think what many of us mourn when people read the quran without understanding is the loss that we percieve of the intellectual development and the fact that others will tell them this is what they are to do as the quran says too and other such rhetoric that takes advantage of an awakened emotion centre and dorment mind.
peace,
Khalil -
peace,
its hard for me to say if ive read a translation of 'al quran' entirely. the reason being, every time i read it, i always come across something that i want to investigate more thoroughly, so i end up cross referencing a lot.
if i had to guess, i would say i haven't read it all, but definitely i have read most of it, via English translations.
Wakas
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Salam all,
I have read a translation of Al-Quran in swedish language and I guess I have read it more than 3 times from cover to cover.
But I have also two different kinds of English translations of Quran at home, but I have only in them read selected parts.
Take Care!
Peace Sis Majidah
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Peace 'enquirer',
Peace danish. I think your genie in the bottle analogy sums it up beautifully .Many people take from the quran what their harmful desires, distorted wishes and uncontrolled ego wants them to...,and then claim its from allah.. ! shock roll .
Thanks. Certainly agree. Perhaps the nuclear WWIII may set the time right back for some.
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Salaam all,
I read the quran using Indonesian and English translations. The Indonesian is the one supplied by the Department of Religion of my country. While the English ones are Y. Ali, QXP, and Free-Minds mostly. If reading entirely means reading every ayats then yes, I have done so. But if entirely means understand it fully, then far from it. ;D
=adley=
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Salaam to all,
Thank you to all those who have replied. ;D
I am truly pleased to read that many of you have read the Quran at least once; some of you have impressively read it many times in different languages! Mashallah!
However, when I ask this question to the many Sunnis, they become deflated. I was once like this too. I used to go on about how "Islam is perfect", yet when I thought about the Quran and realised that I hadn't read it, I knew that I was being a hypocrite. Back then when I used to think about reading the Quran, I would be put off by the size of the book and the language style. But when the day came when I had to really find God for myself using the intelligence and abilities God bestowed upon me, I picked up the Yusuf-Ali translation I had sitting in my house for over ten years and I read the whole book cover to cover with ease. I believe that because I had reached a point where I really needed God to give me some confirmation, reading his message became easy. I am now reading the Quran a second time through, after this I intend to read other translations and even read the Old Testament and New Testament.
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Salaam all,
I really thought that this poll would be a lot more popular. Considering that hundreds if not thousands of people from all over the world visit this site to discuss "Quran alone". At this point in time, I would have thought more than 17 people would have voted!
I get the feeling that many on this forum have not read the Quran yet. However, many see it fit to engage in discussions about all kinds of topics in regards to what the Quran says.
It's just my observation, I'm not expecting anyone to justify themselves.
Peace,
Stitch
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Peace Stitch. I think it may be that there are not a huge amount of active posters on this forum....A lot of the 'viewers',are guests who dont post,or maybe members who dont post regularly...
peace all. ps; just for the record,i have read the whole quran in arabic (which i learnt years ago.) and in english,many times...Im sure i voted in your poll too... pps; Im sure a large majority of the regular posters here have read the quran in their own language... -
peace stitch,
i have read the quran in my own language, most of my famly members and friends only read it in arabic only.
stitch- I get the feeling that many on this forum have not read the Quran yet. However, many see it fit to engage in discussions about all kinds of topics in regards to what the Quran says.
It's just my observation, I'm not expecting anyone to justify themselves.
I think most of the members on this forum have read quran in their own language, but in pakistan even though 90%+ read it in arabic only but would still engage in discussions about all kinds of topic in regards to what quran says.
The problem is that if you show them the translation of a verse which is in contrast to their claims they will simply ignore it by saying "wrong translation" or "wahabi/sunni/shia/" translation.Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
peace.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
peace.Power of Self Deception is like seeing Caliban's reflection in the mirror and pretending that it is not there!
Regards,
