Do People Read the Qur’an?

I just can’t stop wondering about this while I’m working.  I’ve seen so many comments and actions in TV, magazines, blogs (e.g. Indonesia Matters) on how and what moslem should do in cases.  And after reading the comments, do they ever open the Qur’an, at least, to see what is in it?

Qur’an is the ‘map’ to happiness on earth and after life.  A moslem should do things based on what is written in the Qur’an, NOT other books or writings, because nobody can write anything compared to the Qur’an, as being stated:

[2.23] And if you are in doubt as to that which We have revealed to Our servant, then produce a chapter like it and call on your witnesses besides Allah if you are truthful.
[2.24] But if you do (it) not and never shall you do (it), then be on your guard against the fire of which men and stones are the fuel; it is prepared for the unbelievers.

When I open up and try to read the Qur’an, I found out lots of things that those who say they are moslems do not do, and also found things that moslems do  but not written in the Qur’an.  That realy intrigues me, and shocked me at the moment.  The five times prayers and the way it is being done.  The 2.5% of zakat.  Sacrificing cows, sheep, etc.  Hajj.  Fasting.  All that has been given to me, totally became wrong when I relate it back to what I’ve read. 

The more I read it, the more I find controversy with how things has been done by the moslems in Indonesia and around the world.  How so many people mix what they call ’sharia’ with what has been told by God in the Qur’an.  The more I read it, the more I understand that Islam makes so much sense and it is the people that corrupt the teaching of Islam for their political benefit.  

How many people on earth, or say, in Jakarta that has the same thinking as I do?  I found a person who often writes in ‘Indonesia Matters’ who, I think, has the same opinion with me when it comes to Qur’an, and just the Qur’an for moslems.  But I really want to know how many people really embrace Islam as their way of life just purely based on the Qur’an, no hadits, no other books or tapes written by some ulama or pop-stars (pop stars like Aa Gym…he’s good, but to me, he is just a celebrity!).

People that only follow what has been said in the Qur’an are the true moslems, the fundamentalist.   Not those that bombs and terror others.  And so far, I haven’t seen many fundamentalists on earth!