QSI: Seerah Of The Prophet (pbuh) #44 and WDM on Quranic Reading Excellence

"The revelation came in the age of darkness, about 1400 years or so ago and it awakened the intellectual sensitivities and ap­petites of the Arabs and others that embraced the faith. It caus­ed them to be the factor for bringing about the reawakening, the renaissance of scientists. These are facts of history.

The same book can do the same for us now if we would only read it for more than faith. The condition is faith, the substance is knowledge. When Muslims start to read the Qur'an not only for spiritual and moral guidance but guidance for their whole life for their future as people on this earth, then we will see the great advancement, we will see the great opportunities, we will see the great productivity that G'd has made possible for us as Muslims, but it won't come until we have that kind of approach to the Qur'an, and that kind of idea in our religion."  04-11-86 Imam Mohammed (ra) "The Muslim Strives For Excellence-Part 3"