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My friend and my sister have been recommending me Nouman Ali Khan’s explanation videos for months but I’ve been silly not going checking it. I think it’s important to go through the Quran’s translation on its own then believing the whole life because others. I had made my mind but when I saw Lesly Hazleton’s Ted Talk (I’ve shared it in a previous post), it became urgent to read. So I started by surat Fatihah. There’s a 3h long explanation of Nouman Ali Khan on youtube and believe me you don’t see the time running. His explanation is easy to understand and complete at the same time. So now that I know who is in front of me, I recommend him too, if you have such projects of understanding Quran on your own.

All rights reserved by TED. 0:11 You may have heard   about the Koran's idea of paradise   being 72 virgins,   and I promise I will come back to those virgins.   But in fact, here in the northwest,   we're living very close   to the real Koranic idea of paradise,   defined 36 times   as "gardens watered by running streams."   Since I live on a houseboat on the running stream of Lake Union,   this makes perfect sense to me.   But the thing is, how come it's news to most people?   I know many well-intentioned non-Muslims   who've begun reading the Koran, but given up, disconcerted by its "otherness."   The historian Thomas Carlyle   considered Muhammad one of the world's greatest heroes,   yet even he called the Koran   "as toilsome reading as I ever undertook,   a wearisome, confused jumble." 1:04 (Laughter) 1:06 Part of the problem, I think,   is that we imagine that the Koran ca...