What book are you reading right now?
The Quran in English Translation..
“When you read the Qur’an with understanding, you are not just learning the words of Allah, you are launching the greatest start-up of all, the rebuilding of your soul.”
When someone casually asks,
“What book are you reading right now?”
They expect a title, a genre, maybe a plot. But when the answer is..
“I am reading the Holy Qur’an in English translation,”
It changes the entire weight of the question, because this is not just reading, it is returning to the origin of my soul.
Reading the Qur’an is a journey that involves every layer of me, my mind that seeks meaning, my heart that seeks comfort, and my soul that seeks its Creator. It is the only book that reads me as I read it. Each verse is a mirror held to my inner world. I do not approach it as a student alone, I approach it as someone being spoken to.
The translation opens doors, but the message enters deeper. English gives me access to meaning, but the Qur’an gives me access to myself. You begin to understand that the Qur’an is not a book of stories, it is a book of states. The states my heart moves through in life, fear, hope, confusion, longing, trust, loss, rebirth. And I start seeing my own struggles written across its pages.
When I read, “And We are closer to him than his jugular vein,” this makes realise that this is not poetry. It is a reminder that I am never unseen, never unheard, never abandoned, even on days when my heart feels heavy, or days when nothing around me makes sense.
Coming across, “Indeed, with hardship comes ease,” I am not just reading a promise, I am reading the timeline of my destiny. Hardship does not close a door, it prepares the opening.
Reading the Qur’an with understanding also teaches me a kind of spiritual honesty. It exposes the habits we hide, the weaknesses we excuse, the doubts we bury. But it exposes them with mercy, not shame. The Qur’an never breaks me without also showing me how to rebuild. It gives warnings, but wrapped in invitations. It corrects, but through love.
And perhaps the most powerful transformation comes the moment I realise that the Qur’an is not here to impress me, it is here to guide me. It does not comfort my ego, it comforts my soul. It does not validate the world, it liberates me from it.
As I read the translation, I begin to understand that every command has wisdom, every story has a lesson, every supplication has a doorway. I see how Allah teaches through rhythm, through repetition, through emphasis, through silence. I have witnessed how a single verse can shift the direction of my day.
But reading the Qur’an is not only learning, it is responding. Every understanding asks me to reflect. Every reflection asks me to change. And every change brings me closer to the person Allah always designed me to become.
So when I say, “I am reading the Holy Qur’an, English Translation,” I am not telling someone about the book in my hand.
I am telling them about the journey my soul is taking, a journey of meaning, awakening, remembrance, and return.
And the more I understand of the Qur’an, the more I understand of myself.