The KORAN is not a book to be read but a book to be sung…OSHO

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The KORAN is not a book to be read but a book to be sung...

 

Eleventh, and the last in the series: Hazrat Mohammed's KORAN. The KORAN is not a book to be read but a book to be sung. If you read it you will miss it. If you sing it you may God willing perhaps find it.

 

The KORAN was not written by a scholar or a philosopher. Mohammed was absolutely illiterate, he could not even sign his own name, but he was possessed by the spirit of God. Because of his innocence he was chosen and started the song, and that song is the KORAN.

 

I don't understand Arabic, but I understand the KORAN because I can understand the rhythm and the beauty of the rhythm, of the Arabic sounds. Who cares about the meaning! When you see a flower do you ask, "What does it mean?" The flower is enough. When you see a flame, do you ask, "What does it mean?" A flame is enough. Its beauty is its meaning. Its very meaninglessness, if rhythmic, is meaningful.

 

So is the KORAN, and I am thankful that I am allowed by God — and remember, there is no God, this is only an expression. Nobody is allowing me. Inshallah, thank God I am allowed to end this series with the KORAN, the most beautiful, the most meaningless, the most significant but yet the most illogical book in the whole history of humanity.

 

OSHO

from : Books I Have Loved..CH. 5