Jalaluddin Rumi (ks) compared the Book (Holy Quran) to a bride, unwilling to lift her veil before a rough and importunate lover; and most importunate of all are those who seek to plumb its depths without effort, patience, or humility. It is no mere figure of speech to say that those who wish to win the Quran must indeed woo it, and the illiterate man who wears a verse around his neck as a ‘talisman’, and who lovingly kisses the Book he cannot read, may be closer to the truth than is the casual reader.

(ref: Islam and the Destiny of Man, Eaton)