As the great Persian mystic Rumi wrote, Quran is like a bride. She lifts her veil only for her husband. We are not like fundamentalists who claim, Everything is in the Torah, everything is in the Bible, everything is in the Quran. The fundamentalist position really is, Everything is in this book, but you have to agree with me about what you find here. This is not the way to deal with holy scripture.
Holy scripture is the most subtle of the subtle.
Our Sheikh Muzaffer used to say that to study Quran is the highest mystical study. It should only be undertaken far into one s spiritual development, and it should be pursued under the guidance of one s sheikh, one s mystic guide. Quran study should never be undertaken merely from a scholarly standpoint, although scholarship about Quran, both in Islam and in the modern academic world, is very extensive and its findings are valid. But the mystical study of the Holy Quran should not be made through scholarship. It should be made through what we call unveiling.