Does anybody just read the Quran? I listened to some comparative religion lectures by Huston Smith where he said basically it's impossible to just read. He tried it and didn't understand it. It's a book that is very hard to get into without an existing knowledge of Islam that comes from somewhere other than reading the Quran. Eventually he began to understand it after a lot of background reading from the Sufis.
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