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The Quran is the word of the Ever-Living God; it has been sent down to guide humans for all times to come. No book can be like it. As you come to the Quran, God speaks to you. To read the Quran is to hear Him, to converse with Him, and to walk in His ways. It is the encounter of life with the Life-giver
(God—there is no god but He, the Ever-living, the Self-Subsisting (by whom all subsist). He has sent down upon you the Book with the Truth) (3:2-3) For those who heard it for the first time from the lips of the Prophet Muhammad, the Quran was a living reality. They had absolutely no doubt that, through him, Allah was speaking to them. Their hearts and minds were therefore seized by it. Their eyes overflowed with tears and their bodies shivered. They found each word of it deeply relevant to their concerns and experiences, and integrated it fully into their lives. They were completely transformed by it both as individuals and as a corporate body into a totally new, alive, and life-giving entity. Those who grazed sheep, herded camels, and traded petty merchandise became the leaders of mankind. Today we have the same Quran with us. Millions of copies of it are in circulation. Day and night, it is ceaselessly recited in homes, in mosques, and from pulpits
To put it frankly, only by entering the world of the Quran as if God was speaking to us now and today and by fulfilling the necessary conditions for such an encounter. First, we must realize what the Quran as the word of God is and means to us, and bring all the reverence, love, longing, and will to act that this realization demands. Secondly, we must read it as it asks to be read, as Prophet Muhammad instructed us, as he and his Companions read it. Thirdly, we must bring each word of the Quran to bear upon our own realities and concerns by transcending the barriers of time, culture, and change
Once you realize these truths and follow them, once you come to the Quran as the first believers did, it may reveal to you as it did to them, make partners of you as it did of them. And only then, instead of being a mere revered book, a sacred fossil, or a source of magic-like blessing, it will change into a mighty force, impinging, stirring, moving and guiding us to deeper and higher achievements, just as it did before
