Whoever says this, has no idea about the Quran. An Arab who is born linguistically in the proper environment does not know what is in the Quran! I have worked for 30 years of my life on understanding the background of the text, collecting literature, still I do so, and I have no overview on the Quran as a whole! Every time I read, I get a new meaning! If I take one verse out and interpret, it will have a different meaning if I project it on my own life, my society, or all of the creation. This is not a collection of stories what is an entertainment literature full of light humor and easy reading it in afternoon.

To understand the Quran is like to explain the infinite in such a way that we cannot experience the infinite. From the infinite we can see only the part that our brains know. We can only explain this part and do it even with many mistakes.
A ban gets different explanation in the past, present, and future, but the real reason is never known.The real reason is with Allah. The ban on pork was once in the past explained by the fact that a village from the people of Old Testament did not keep the Shabbat and the Lord turned them into monkeys and pigs. When science intervened the explanations, it became clear that pigs could become infected with parasites that are dangerous to humans. Then the high uric acid content of pork has been discovered. Later, with the advancement of genetics, the genetic similarity between humans and pigs and the possible use of certain organs such as stomach and heart for transplantation purposes have been recognized. But if another two hundred years will pass, there may be a whole new perspective and reason behind the explanation. But where is the truth? Only with Allah, nowhere else!
The legal attitude what is prescribed for people in the Quran, is also based on this logic. Only the principle is fixed, not the jurisprudence. It has to be in constant alignment with the changing world in which only God, so the principle, is constant!

Dream causes a lot of puzzles for humanity. In the past, the future was foreseen from dreams. In the present, different stages of dreams have been realized. There is the out of body experience, the conscious travel outside the body, in which the brain's electrical activity is active, the eye vibrates and the experience remains after returning to the body. Or a near-death experience, which gives you a state of passage through a tunnel, white light, and relaxation, while the brain does not show strong electrical activity. We've reached here today, while the Quran had brought us to the stage of the dream 1400 years ago, not by narratives but by simple summary statements. And what will happen in the future when, in a dream-like state, our brain activity may be capable of transmitting thoughts?
The Quran offers the potential for such an interpretation if science can explain this phenomenon. Thousands of other similar examples, phenomena are hidden in the text for those who think and analyze.
I also find those translations unserious that close the circle of Quranic interpretation and issue subjective statements as absolute certainties. Interpretations are closer to the truth of Quran that keep the text open in general and give cornerstones for a contemporary interpretation. However, those do not freeze the words of the Quran by saying that hey sheep! Here you are the explanation; you have to understand this way because I say it. The Quran is not narrative. It doesn't tell stories.
The Quran is a summary of texts whose narrative is always given by the events and conducts of a given age and place. And see the miracle! All ages and places are apt that Quran to give a guideline.

After that you, silly come and say that you read the Quran one day, which convinced you that in our primitive Islam a man's vote is equal to two women's, we humiliate women and we call for bloody Jihad. You just the essence didn't understand out of it: the constant change in human dimension and permanence of Divine dimension. You take out texts from their contexts and quote them without adjusting the meaning to the place, age, event, and not deducting from them the message the teaching, which is valid and eternal and overrides our everyday life. You are talking about a divine constitution what was in force at a time when empires, civilizations were flourishing based on it, while at the same time others were setting up bonfires, torturing tens of thousands in the name of Jesus, and later exterminating peoples also by his name! Are you talking about love? Your history is the history of sadism, ignorance and scandals! Situation was like that in the age when we were building a knowledge-based civilization.

True, we changed our places later. You went up and we went down. But notice that I am never talking about Scriptures, but about people! And you want always to blame the Quran! This will never work! If you criticize our Islamic thinking and intellectual decline today, it's okay, I have no objections. We also have reached to the darkness in which you were. But the Quran, I apologize, noone can set it as a comic in which the thoughts can be dealt with half-heartedly.

I do not know how many times I have read Quran while I stopped many times thinking on it a lot, and also was reading contemporary explanations. Once or twice a year, for sure. I am not aware of any new scientific discovery, new information about the universe, impact of men on the environment, and of his own destruction, which is inconsistent with the 1400 years of revelation. Of course, when these revelations reach to the hands of an illiterate brainwashed fool, he is unable to read anything from them, so the explanations remain fictions and the machine gun becomes a strong argument.
Before chips will be transplanted in our brains and those finally will take judgement over our millennial hostilities, it's time to respect each other. If we remain this way, it will actually be better if humanoids replace us because we, as humans, were unable to cope with our world, our fellow human beings, and ourselves. Our whole lives are confrontations, unrest, which we create ourselves, while we push the responsibility on to others. Is it good that way?

This Qur'an is not such as can be produced by other than Allah. on the contrary it is a confirmation of (revelations) that went before it, and a fuller explanation of the Book - wherein there is no doubt - from the Lord of the worlds. (Quran 10:37)

Had We sent down this Qur'an on a mountain, verily, thou wouldst have seen it humble itself and cleave asunder for fear of Allah. Such are the similitudes which We propound to men, that they may reflect. (Quran 59:21)

There are two ideas associated in men's minds with a mountain: • one is its height, • and the other that it is rocky, stony, hard, Now comes the metaphor. The Revelation of Allah is so sublime that even the highest mountains humble themselves before it. The Revelation is so powerful and convincing that even the hard rock splits asunder under it.