/lit/ - Literature

>>16013921
If you want to be islamic, don't read the Quran. It's not a book to be read. It's just a token. Allah wrote that thing to Muhammad so that it wouldn't make any sense. It's there as a book while it shouldn't be. You need to read everything else, and for that I would recommend the 40 Hadith first, then the words, letters and aphorisms of Ali. This is core Islam. Later, move to Rabia, Ansari and Omar Khayyam. This is the second phase, that will create the mystic cosmology of Islam in your head. Now, go for epistemic knowledge with Averrois, Tufayl and Attar. They'll expand your wisdom. Now you can try some poetry because the aesthetics of Islam is mostly derived from rhymes. Read Rumi. Now you're a worthy man and must become a sufi. Read the Hikam from Ata'iyya and Sirdar Ali Shah. Ok. You're a sufi. This is the ultimate goal. But there're external doubts regarding the rule of government. Read Al Farabi. You're a wise man and leader. There's nothing else to learn until you discovered Ibn Arabi's text. Read all. This is the appex. There's nothing else to learn but you can try to learn more of the history of Islam. Read Martin Ling's book about Muhammad. That's it. This is the end. You can die happy as an islamic sage. But you're curious. Then you decide to read the Quran. Well... now you the fatal truth. You can't go back and unread It. You'll have to deal with the fact that all of the great wisdom of Islam started with an unworthy book written by Allah Himself and truly bellow any of the entirety of the wisest texts of islamic knowledge that you read during you whole life. The Quran is a token, is symbolic, it's not made to be read. Treat it as such.