Citações inspiradoras
Versículos particularmente reconfortantes, impregnados de amor, tolerância, paz, inteligência e elevação espiritual
Os fundadores deste reboot da saga abraâmica perceberam uma coisa: o carnal e o material vendem melhor do que o espiritual. Daí um paraíso muito mais bem abastecido do que o cristão, onde os ressuscitados «nem casam nem se dão em casamento» (Mateus 22:30). Difícil de vender. A versão islâmica oferece rios de vinho (47:15) e, sobretudo, virgens:
«Em ambos os Jardins haverá donzelas de olhar recatado, em quem nenhum humano ou jinn jamais tocou.»
Alcorão 55:56
O Alcorão não indica número algum: as famosas 72 virgens vêm de um hadith, como bónus para os mártires (Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1663). Uma perspetiva tentadora, admito, ainda que eu, pessoalmente, prefira mulheres experientes. A concorrência é feroz no mercado do além, por isso não vale a pena poupar nas promessas. Afinal, nenhum cliente voltou alguma vez para pedir o reembolso.
Ao contrário das outras religiões abraâmicas, o islão não se contenta em explorar as nossas angústias existenciais: joga também com as nossas hormonas. As dos seres humanos de pleno direito, claro. Não as dos seus subordinados, as mulheres, que, segundo o Profeta, constituem a maioria dos habitantes do inferno (Sahih al-Bukhari 29).
Também a sua inteligência é deficiente, e neste ponto Alá e o Seu Mensageiro estão de acordo. Alá exige duas mulheres para substituir uma testemunha masculina, para o caso de uma delas se esquecer (2:282), e descreve-as como «incapazes de se impor nas disputas» (43:18). O Profeta tira a conclusão: «Esta é a deficiência da sua inteligência» (Sahih al-Bukhari 304). E, de todas as provações que deixou atrás de si, nenhuma é «mais severa para os homens do que as mulheres» (Sahih al-Bukhari 5096).
Aconselho a ler estes versículos em várias sessões, distribuídas por um período bastante longo. Engolir tanta sabedoria e poesia divinas de uma só vez pode ser perigoso: o vosso cérebro poderia não sobreviver ao choque.
Os críticos ousados do islão objetarão que muitos outros versículos marcantes mereciam um lugar aqui. Sem dúvida. Mas o objetivo não é copiar o Alcorão inteiro: esta antologia de instruções do Criador de todas as coisas já é suficientemente picante e volumosa assim. Irá crescer com o tempo.
Para vos poupar tempo, coloquei a negrito as passagens-chave de cada versículo.
A tradução inglesa do significado dos versículos corânicos abaixo foi feita pelo Dr. Mustafa Khattab. Pode encontrar outras traduções dos versículos apresentados abaixo em quran.com.
Importa referir que alguns defensores de Alá afirmam que todas as traduções alteram profundamente o sentido dos versículos. Segundo vários ex-muçulmanos de língua árabe, as traduções são geralmente expurgadas e eufemizadas em relação à versão original em árabe. A versão original é, ao que parece, muitas vezes mais sombria do que as traduções.
Chega de conversa: vamos começar.
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“Surely those who reject Our signs, We will cast them into the Fire. Whenever their skin is burnt completely, We will replace it so they will constantly taste the punishment. Indeed, Allah is Almighty, All-Wise.”
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“They wish you would disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so you may all be alike. So do not take them as allies unless they emigrate in the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and do not take any of them as allies or helpers.”
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“O believers! When you rise up for prayer, wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows, wipe your heads, and wash your feet to the ankles. And if you are in a state of full impurity, then take a full bath. But if you are ill, on a journey, or have relieved yourselves, or have been intimate with your wives and cannot find water, then purify yourselves with clean earth by wiping your faces and hands. It is not Allah’s Will to burden you, but to purify you and complete His favour upon you, so perhaps you will be grateful.”
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“O believers! Take neither Jews nor Christians as guardians—they are guardians of each other. Whoever does so will be counted as one of them. Surely Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people.”
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“For those who are Jewish, We forbade every animal with undivided hoofs and the fat of oxen and sheep except what is joined to their backs or intestines or mixed with bone. In this way We rewarded them for their violations. And We are certainly truthful.”
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And remember when Lot scolded the men of his people, saying, “Do you commit a shameful deed that no man has ever done before? You lust after men instead of women! You are certainly transgressors.” But his people’s only response was to say, “Expel them from your land! They are a people who wish to remain chaste!” So We saved him and his family except his wife, who was one of the doomed. We poured upon them a rain of brimstone. See what was the end of the wicked!
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“If We had willed, We would have elevated him with Our signs, but he clung to this life—following his evil desires. His example is that of a dog: if you chase it away, it pants, and if you leave it, it still pants. This is the example of the people who deny Our signs. So narrate to them stories of the past, so perhaps they will reflect.”
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“Whoever Allah guides is truly guided. And whoever He leaves to stray, they are the true losers. Indeed, We have destined many jinn and humans for Hell. They have hearts they do not understand with, eyes they do not see with, and ears they do not hear with. They are like cattle. In fact, they are even less guided! Such people are entirely heedless.”
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“Remember, O believers, when Allah promised to give you the upper hand over either target, you wished to capture the unarmed party. But it was Allah’s Will to establish the truth by His Words and uproot the disbelievers;”
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Remember, O Prophet, when your Lord revealed to the angels, “I am with you. So make the believers stand firm. I will cast horror into the hearts of the disbelievers. So strike their necks and strike their fingertips.”
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“It was not you believers who killed them, but it was Allah Who did so. Nor was it you, O Prophet, who threw a handful of sand at the disbelievers, but it was Allah Who did so, rendering the believers a great favour. Surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.”
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“Tell the disbelievers that if they desist, their past will be forgiven. But if they persist, then they have an example in those destroyed before them. Fight against them until there is no more persecution—and your devotion will be entirely to Allah. But if they desist, then surely Allah is All-Seeing of what they do.”
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“Indeed, the worst of all beings in the sight of Allah are those who persist in disbelief, never to have faith—”
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“Do not let those disbelievers think they are not within reach. They will have no escape.”
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“Prepare against them what you believers can of military power and cavalry to deter Allah’s enemies and your enemies as well as other enemies unknown to you but known to Allah. Whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be paid to you in full and you will not be wronged.”
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“But once the Sacred Months have passed, kill the polytheists who violated their treaties wherever you find them, capture them, besiege them, and lie in wait for them on every way. But if they repent, perform prayers, and pay alms-tax, then set them free. Indeed, Allah is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
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“So fight them and Allah will punish them at your hands, put them to shame, help you overcome them, and soothe the hearts of the believers.”
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“O believers! Do not take your parents and siblings as trusted allies if they choose disbelief over belief. And whoever of you does so, they are the true wrongdoers.”
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“Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day, nor comply with what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth from among those who were given the Scripture, until they pay the tax, willingly submitting, fully humbled.”
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The Jews say, “Ezra is the son of Allah,” while the Christians say, “The Messiah is the son of Allah.” Such are their baseless assertions, only parroting the words of earlier disbelievers. May Allah condemn them! How can they be deluded from the truth?
