Quran An Easy Book.
Yes, intention to seek truth, but not necessarily to believe . First of all, I don’t understand Arabic, so I read it in English. I couldn’t understand many things in it, and the things I read, were confusing. Also, some of the verses were not at all clear to me because that required associated context, as most of them were to address issues in Prophet’s time, and without reading the associated history, they didn’t make sense on their own. In my humble opinion, many verses I found to be suiting Prophet Muhammad’s personal desires, indicating to me that the verses were created by himself.
There’s absolutely no ambiguity in the final word of God. In fact the Quran starts with this claim in no uncertain terms. Quran 2:2-3 THIS DIVINE WRIT – let there be no doubt about it is [meant to be] a guidance for all the God-conscious. Who believe in [the existence of] that which is beyond the reach of human perception, and are constant in prayer, and spend on others out of what We provide for them as sustenance; It’s true that the word of God has been mistranslated in the past, but that most certainly is human error. Such errors have taken place in understanding the work of God (the universe) as well, and have persisted for thousands of years in human history. Quran itself is very clear in claiming it’s own authority as the meezan (scale) and furqan (criterion). There’s not a single tafseer/translation that one can find outside of the Farahi approach that has given Quran it’s due authority. If people chose to understand Quran through the lens of hadith, history, or science, among other things, then I think the blame can’t be passed on to God. As for the doubt regarding whether or not Quran is really the word of the Creator, I think it’s an extremely healthy doubt. But that’s something which can be established rather quickly and with very little effort.