Understanding the Quran Through Listening

I want to share with my friends how I came to these thoughts.

Go ahead, go ahead. We had been taught about religion through fear since childhood.

My parents weren't very involved with religion but there was always this fear, um, God, the Quran, the holy book, you know, “God will turn you to stone. We'll burn.”

So we grew up with that kind of, um, Anatolian culture.

Yes. Then, um, one day I got really curious, um, about the Holy Quran. I wanted to read it.

Even though I had a university degree, I could barely get through two or three pages.

I couldn't understand it. I was reading, but it wouldn't sink in because the sentences didn't flow.

I mean, or I'd forget what I'd read. What could I do, what could I do?

While browsing YouTube, I found an audio version of the Holy Quran.

It was 23 or 24 hours long. So one person, um, was reading the Holy Quran aloud.

I liked it better this way. At first, I would perform ablution, cover my head, like this, and even put my phone up high, and listen like this, reverently.

I was deeply moved by the first surahs. I listened in the order they were revealed.

Later, something strange started to stir in me— I mean, as I kept listening, I began to sense inconsistencies.

Um, I went on like this for two or three hours a day, sometimes an hour.

Because I couldn't finish that much. As each day passed, I noticed I was starting to uncover my head.

Then I noticed I was starting not to perform ablution.

And then, um, as I saw the contradictions, it lost its sacredness to me.

I mean, as I saw contradictions in it, I kept going, saying, "No, this can't be the word of God, this can't be Allah's word." And so I continued. Mm-hmm.

I finished it this way. And after that, I ran into you right then.

I mean, I— I mean, no one uh, looks up “contradictions in the Quran” for no reason.

First, they read it, then since that person will wake up to it anyway, they go on to research it.

Unless people read, research, and learn, uh, they see people who make videos like you as slanderers, people who insult others, uh, and bad people.

They need to understand and realize it for themselves first.

But then— I still couldn't be completely sure.

A year later, I started again. I read it all again. In Turkish, though.

This time, I was sure. I mean, people who definitely haven't read it, when they visit pages like yours, will always insult you and won't believe you.

First, if they can't read, their capacity— The Quran really is written to be incomprehensible.

I can't understa— As a university graduate, I can't understand the sentences.

It's very confusing. Mm-hmm. There's no sentence structure, no subject-verb relationship.

A story is different when you hear it— I mean, listening makes it easier. That could be why.

So, by listening— we can recommend this.

So, if there are people who are very curious, the translated version of it takes 23 or 24 hours.

It's like watching a TV series. Just like that.

If people did this for two hours, they'd become more aware.