Reading the Qur’an

Posted under Quran, thinkers by rahma

 By Tariq Ramadan

Far from being a prison, or a constraint, revelation is an invitation to mankind to reconcile itself with its deepest essence, and to find there both the recognition of its limitations and the extraordinary potential of its intelligence and its imagination. To submit ourselves to the order of the Just One and of his eternity is to understand that we are free and fully authorized to reform the injustices that lie at the heart of the order or disorder of all that is temporally human.

I’d been searching for something to recommend to those interested in an introduction to the Qur’an, and now in a span of 2 days, I’ve found 2 things:  this article and Farid Esack’s The Qur’an, a user’s guide.  Awesomeness