A Love Letter to the Holy Book (Take 2)
Lesson 11: Don't stop learning
Given that Ramadan is the month of the Quran, I wanted to rewrite one of my favorite essays from last year titled “A Love Letter to the Holy Book.”
First, a shout-out to my newest paid member
. Thank you so much for supporting my creative work! Writing is a labor of love (and a business) and having people believe in me allows me to keep going, especially when I am sick, and want to sleep instead of write.My teacher and friend said “When you want to speak to God, you raise your hands in supplication; when God wants to speak to you, you read the Quran.”
Hazel grew up Catholic. She was the first person to frame the Quran as a love letter. The Quran is not a book, or bound pieces of paper. The word for book is “mushaf” in Arabic. The Quran means something entirely different. Quran means “the thing that which is recited.” It’s like a conversation, a dialogue between the Creator and His created beings - us- and the story of angels, prophets, peoples, emotions, and humankind... There is so …