The Quran calls its adherents.

It is a matter of grave concern and reflection that among the revealed or unrevealed books, the Quran is becoming rapidly the book that is read without ever trying to understand it. Not even its literal meaning is ever bothered to understand, let alone reading between its lines, and that too by its adherents for whom it has been sent for guidance by the Divine, and it is the book whereby they boast of being the best of peoples on this earth since the advent of Islam.

We love to read the best seller books by the best seller authors. Has any one of us ever read a book in a language that we don't understand? For it, we either learn the language or read the book's translation in the language we are well conversant with. Mostly we opt for the latter. But why don't we follow the same route for the best of the best books, written by the Creator of the universe?

Some might put a lame excuse of shortage of time but they easily spare time for watching sports matches or movies without having a pricking of conscience for not reading and understanding the Quran. We don't mean to sound evangelical, the aim is to explode some intellectual fallacies of our excessive puritanism and liberalism.

The puritanical scholars are also equally responsible as they have made the reading of the Quran surreal and hence difficult. They recommend special etiquette for its reading. Rather, the Quran should be read just like any other book. We can underline or highlight its text to suit our convenience and purpose. But we have made it too sacrosanct by wrapping it in thick cloth covers and placing it on high shelves as a souvenir of the past. By confining its reading to strict time and space, we have distanced our youth from it. However, internet and android phone have made it easier to read or listen to its translation defying all the limitations of time, space and its etiquette. One can also gain contextual understanding of its text vicariously from video lectures of scholars like Javed Ahmed Ghamdi and Professor Ahmed Rafique Akhtar.

Isn't it embryology and genetics when the Quran says in its unit Alaq: 'We have...