Reading Arabic: Between Yesterday and Today

In the early days of Arabic language; the Arabs used to read Arabic without writings the dots and Harakaat or the vowel signs.

Can you reading Arabic without the dots?

Link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Folio_from_a_Koran_%288th-9th_century%29.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/The_%E2%80%98Uthman_Qur%27an_-_Kufic.jpg/120px-The_%E2%80%98Uthman_Qur%27an_-_Kufic.jpg