Understanding The Quran
For common people, Quran is not difficult to understand at all for the message that it is meant to communicate. It is a book of guidance and that’s what it should be read for. The problem arises when we try to read it as a book of science or anything else for that matter. If you do that with any book in the world you will certainly be confused. If in the past people understood verse 71:19 to imagine earth as being flat, it was because of their lack of scientific knowledge about the shape of the earth. That kind of knowledge is dependent upon our observation of this physical world – not the Quran. Quran clearly speaks in human language that was most easy to understand for its direct addressees, and it communicates its message in no uncertain terms. Even today we use words in our everyday language like sunrise and sunset even though we know that the sun neither rises not sets. I suggest that you watch the playlist shared by Ahsan sahab above for some context and then read a good translation of the entire Quran from cover to cover. In Urdu I prefer Ghamidi sahab’s translation and in English I use Muhammad Asad’s translation. You can pick any translation that you find easy to understand. I’m pretty certain that after reading the entire Quran translation most of your confusion will be subsided in this regard.