Seven Reasons to read the Qur'an

I. Inimitable

It dares you to disprove it. How? It says that humans cannot write a book like this even if they pooled all their resources together and got help also from the spirits. The Quran said this fourteen hundred years ago and yet no one has been able to disprove it. Billions of books have been written -but not another one like the Quran.

2. Incorruptible

It is the only religious sacred writing which has been in circulation for such a long time and yet remains as pure as it was in the beginning. The Quran was kept intact. Nothing was added to it: nothing was changed in it; and nothing was taken away from it ever since it was completely revealed 1400 years ago.

3. Unsurpassable

The Quran is God's final revelation to humankind. God revealed the Torah to Moses, the Psalms to David, the Gospel to Jesus, and finally the Quran to Muhammad. Peace be upon Moses, David, Jesus and Muhammad. No other book will come from God to surpass his final revelation.

4. Indisputable

The Qur'an withstands the test of time and scrutiny. No one can dispute the truth of this book. It speaks about past history and turns out right, It speaks about the future in prophecies and it turns out right, It mentions details of physical phenomena which were not known to people at the time; yet later scientific discoveries confirm that the Quran was right all along. Every other book needs to be revised to accord with modern knowledge. The Quran alone is never contradicted by a modern discovery.

5. Your Roadmap for Life and Afterlife

The Quran is the best guidebook on how to structure your life. No other book presents such a comprehensive system involving all aspects of human life and endeavour. The Quran also points out the way to secure everlasting happiness in the afterlife. It is your roadmap showing how to get to Paradise.

6. God's Gift of Guidance

God has not left you alone. You were made for a reason. God tells you why he made you, what he demands from you, and what he has in store for you. If you operate a machine contrary to it's manufacture specification you will ruin that machine. What about you? Do you have an owner's manual for you? The Quran is from your maker. It is a gift for you to make sure you function for success lest you fail to function. It is a healing mercy from God. It satisfies the soul, and cleans the heart. It removes doubts and brings peace.

7. Your Calling Card to Communicate with your God

Humans are social creatures. We love to communicate with other intelligent life. The Qur'an tells us how to communicate with the source of all intelligence and the source of all life - the One God. The Qur'an tells us who God is, by what name we should address God, and the way in which to communicate with God.

Are these not seven sufficient reasons for reading the Qur'an?

Verses from the Quran

It is He Who created

The night and the day,

And the sun and the moon:

All (the celestial bodies)

Swim along, each in its

Rounded course. (21:33)

Do they not travel

Through the earth and see

What was the end

Of those before them?

They were superior to them

In strength: they tilled

The soil and populated it

In greater numbers than these

Have done: there came to them

Their apostles with clear (signs),

(which they rejected, to their

own destruction): it was not

God who wronged them, but

They wronged their own souls. (30:9)

Do they not look

At the sky above them? ---

How We have made it

And adorned it,

And there are no

Flaws in it?

And the earth ---

We have spread it out,

And set thereon mountains

Standing firm, and produced

Therein every kind of

Beautiful growth (in pairs)

To be observed

And commemorated

By every devotee

Turning (to God).

And We send down

From the sky rain

Charged with blessings,

And We produce therewith

Gardens and grain for harvests;

And tall (and stately)

Palm-trees, with shoots

Of fruit-stalks, piled

One over another ---

As sustenance for

(God’s servants) ---

and We give (new) life

therewith to land that is

dead: thus will be

the Resurrection. (50:6-11)

Do they not look

At the camels,

How they are made? ---

And at the sky,

How it is raised high? ---

And at the mountains,

How they are fixed firm? ---

And at the earth,

How it is spread out.........