His answer about suffering was so humbling. I've also always had that question, but never had it answered in this way,(reply>), @cspace1234nz So in other words you just don’t want to read it. Which is fine. We are just two strangers on the internet engaging in dialog. You will never understand religion with an ignorant mindset. God doesn’t guide the ignorant. Again you put forward your own view on religion. One that suits your wants and desires. However humans need guidance. Religion especially Islam offers great guidance. In how to treat and respect your fellow human. It teaches us to be good to our  parents and to give to charity. You won’t find these teachings in the man made laws. Which is all about selfishness, greed and materialism. Religion teaches you to be the opposite of that. 🙏🏽 God views you on your character he doesn’t care about your race and social status.,(reply>), @A I ....that's a fair question given what I wrote.  As mentioned above in another response, perhaps had I been born into a Muslim community I would likely have studied Islam. I was not, in fact, in my country till recent years the Muslim community was very small, highlighted only in recent years by the Christchurch mosque shootings, one of those mosques literally being across the park from me. Interestingly, that event, horrific as it was and stsill is, brought a city (and country) together around the local muslim community.<br>That aside, I was drawn to other traditions into which I delved very deeply over some decades. So it's not that I would have been adverse to the teachings of islam and the Quran, it just wasn't on my radar, so to speak, in the same way as the Judaism wasn't, nor was Book of Mormon or Scientology or whatever. It is a grave mistake to think, as the Christians do, that you are the only ones who have the truth, that yours was the only 'real prophet'. Believe whatever you want as a belief is only a mental construct, brought about in the imagination of man in order to make sense of that which can't possibly be made sense of. As they say in Taoism....'The Tao that can be soken of is not the Tao'. That can be applied to all religious teachings which are ultimately all on the level of the mind. So in answer to your question, I have no need to read any religious teachings, not just of the Quaran but any of them. There's only so muvh reading and studying you can do before you ultimately have to completely surrender to God regardless and if you get hung up on 'which God' or 'whose teachings' then you are still stuck on the level of the mind. It all ultimately has to ge given up and if you are not ready to understand what's being written here then I would say you too have some ways to go. I always say....'it is good to be born into a church, not good to die in one', which can just as easily applied to mosque, synogogue or temple. We absolutely must go beyond the level of the mind in order to know God and that is ultimatyely the true teaching of all religions and having stsudied Sufi Mysticism for some years I have no doubt that's also what Islam teaches at it's core. <br>Make of that what you will.,(reply>), @cspace1234nz So if your so open to read many different religious scriptures. Why aren’t you open to read the Koran? You say it’s not necessary why? Because you have a perception on Islam? Perception and reality are two different things. How can you have an opinion on something without study it? I thought similar to you at one point. I was ignorant to religion even to Islam. However when I decided to study all religions I started learning things that society doesn’t share with us. I wanted to find the truth. You can’t get the benefits of religion. if your not willing to read the scriptures with an open heart.,(reply>), @M. M ...yes that is correct, the mystical branch of Islam, though what I studied was more connected with the lesser known Hindu Sufism. My understanding this had come about in India as a way of both Muslims and Hindus finding a way to worship together, which is interesting.,(reply>), @cspace1234nz Sufi traditions stem from Islam, they're based in it