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Quran, then knowing its literal meaning will suffice. To find the deeper meaning of the Quran, besides developing a seeking spirit and sincerity, we need to contemplate its verses. Then we must extract principles of life from these verses and apply them in our daily life. How can we apply the Quran in daily life? If we read the Quran, we will feel that God Almighty directly addresses man in it, saying: ‘O man! This is your God addressing you. Listen to Me and follow it. This is the path of success for you.’ It is as if at any moment, we as readers of the Quran can consult its Writer—God Almighty—put our questions to Him and receive answers. As man’s Creator, God directly hears and answers man’s call. When we connect with God, we develop a live attachment to the Book of God. The Quran becomes a source of inspiration and spiritual nourishment in our lives. All our thoughts and actions spring from the Quran. The Quran becomes the very life and soul of our existence. It is the way of applying the Quran in our daily life. What is the importance of reading the Quran in the morning? The Quran says that the recitation of the Quran at the dawn prayer “is indeed witnessed”. (17: 78) “Witnessed” here means validated by the angels. We learn from a Hadith that the early morning is a time especially favourable for God-realization, when in peace and solitude the angels in great numbers become witnesses to the recitation of the believer. When, in the morning, a person reflects upon the message of God in the peaceful environment of nature, he starts feeling the presence of God. Then he has that state induced in him which has been thus expressed in an injunction in a hadith: “Worship God as if you are seeing Him.” What is the spiritual interpretation of the Quran? Quranic spirituality is the spirituality of the positive kind. It means living in the world and trying to derive spiritual food from material things as an intellectual discipline. It means to control rather than kill one’s desires. The formula for Quranic spirituality is expressed as: Be devoted servants of God. (3: 79) Becoming a devoted servant of God means adopting a God-oriented life. The God-oriented way of life is a complete way of life. It calls for the use of all human faculties. It means God-oriented thinking, speech, behaviour, morality, etc.