Can We Understand Every Verse of Quran?

     I found it a huge undertaking for anyone to try to understand all verses of Quran one after another.  The main reason ,I believe, is the fact that Quran has been transcended upon situations of life in a certain period of time.  That is to say as certain events were developed which lead to specific instruction or clarifications from God to guide the believers through the on going circumstances at the time. Therefore, we can clearly realize from direct reading of Quran that this is a contextual text. Traditionally , this has always meant that in order to understand Quran you are required to know the historical events surrounding the time of descend of each verse, 

  While it certainly helps to know the history behind the verses, history has always been very controversial and in many cases contradictory. Besides, if there are some prerequisites such as knowing history or some other humanly developed knowledge, then Quran cannot be a guide for every one. You have to know this and that, you have to be qualified as .....  I found this contradictory to the fact that God's message must be of a nature that can reach any one and can be understood by everyone.  

   This will follow with a question; if we do not have a reliable means to relate to the situations for which verses of Quran have been descended, how can we understand such contextual concepts?    The answer could be; all those situations are for ever repeating in life -commonly believed as "history repeats itself"- meaning all life events come down to making choices between right and wrong, good and bad.  This also implies as we are moving through different stages of our lives we will encounter situations when we feel as if a specific verse of Quran is precisely talking to us, addressing our specific question or situation that we are in.  That is why we can make sense of some of the verses easier than others some of which we can barely relate to.  In my opinion, they are hard to conceive due to the fact that we have not yet been in the relevant context to be able to make sense of those words of God.  This is also the reason why many verses appear to be merely of historical value at the first glance but on a closer inspection they start to enlighten us if we found our self in a similar position.   

   Therefore as we are accumulating more experience throughout our unique journey of life we can probably understand more and more of Quran in a way that is very personal. It will be a custom guide because each of us is in a unique circumstances resulting in unique questions and needs. That said, it is also absolutely possible for every one to wish to understand more of natural world as God's work or similarly more of Quran as God's words.  In this sense, Quran is no different than any other faces of existence or maybe we can call them signs of God.  In other words, we can embark on an intellectual quest to comprehend God ,by the way of examining his creations, as much as the concentration, dedication and persistence we put in, no matter whether our quest for truth is in physical realm or in the metaphysical side of the world.

   Upon reading this, skeptics may strongly argue that how studying nature ,which involves empirical evidence can ever have any thing to do with exploring abstract aspects of the world which entails intuition and inspiration for the most part.  I believe the following quote from Einstein is properly addressing their concern. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, it is the source of all true art and all science."

   Finally, the main reason I started this post was to tell you in advance that there are going to be verses or many verses that I will probably wont understand and will not have any clue what they mean. Based on the above argument, I do not expect my self to be able to comprehend Quran Entirely.  I thought, perhaps you shouldn't either. Nevertheless, we shall never be disappointed and move on tracing the light in our heart as closely as we can. After all if there is a God, which I firmly believe in, there is always hope and light that will guide us through the darkest routs and times in life.

    On a separate note, for the sake of giving this blog a regular pace, I have re-joined a Quran reading group which will hopefully help me post my thoughts here once a week covering about one page every time.  In order to pick up where the group is reading I will have to skip the first 4 Sura up to the verse # 65 of the 5th Sura "Al-Maeda".  Although I usually feel truly inspired when reading Quran in a group , the views and thoughts posted here are strictly personal and a matter of opinion.