One reason it's important to learn Arabic is so that you can engage with the Qur'an more. You're not just going through a recital of lines, but the words read create meanings within you. And when those meanings don't add up, you become curious. Why did Allah say X in this way?

So you'll open up a tafsir of the verse. And you read what the scholars said about it, because they will have spoken on how that specific thing affects the meaning. So a new perspective comes to exist in your mind. One you'd never get by just reading the English.

You'll realise that when you're reading translations of the Qur'an, the translator translated the verse from one perspective, one specific meaning he believed was most apparent, or sounded nicer in English.

But there may be 5-6 different ways to look at a verse.

When you learn Arabic, you're able to appreciate the multiple dimensions of the Qur'an. I thought I'd read a quick page for a day. During my recitation, I saw a word and felt weird about the way it was recited.

Let me check what the scholars said about it...

Next thing you know, you're in this ocean, spending 30 mins going from book to book to see what they aid, and the ways they approached the verse. Why is it this way, not that way? Then, something else catches your attention, and you keep reading,

and it just becomes this wonderful - absolutely wonderful - path of learning, of getting to know more, of appreciating the Qur'an's inner dimensions. Things you'd never have thought of.

It all starts with that little bit of Arabic you had learnt. Curiosity did the rest.