Exert from No god but God - Reza Aslan

I already love this book. He is amazing writer.

Prologue pg 26

Still, we must never forget that as dispensable and historically valuable as the Qur'an and the traditions of the Prophet may be, they are nevertheless grounded in mythology. It is a shame that this word myth, which originally signified nothing more than stories of the supernatural, has come to be regarded as synonymous with falsehood, when if fact myths are always true. By their very nature, myths inhere both legitimacy and credibility. Whatever truths they convey have little to do with historical fact. To ask whether Moses actually parted the Red Sea, or whether Jesus truly raised Lazarus from the dead, or whether the word of God indeed poured through the lips of Muhammad, is to ask totally irrelevant questions. The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is "What do the stories mean?"