Earlier this week I posted a write up I did on what the Qur’an says, based on my first reading of the Qur’an (That I might have better titled, “My First Reading of the Qur’an”).  You can read that HERE. The post sparked a conversation on Facebook with one of

You can’t understand Islam (meaning ‘devotion to God’) without understanding the Qur’an (meaning ‘reading’ or ‘reciting’) and they say that the best way to understand a book is to read it – so that is what I did.  I wanted to know what it said, not what people said it