Anyone who reads the original of the Quran aloud feels as if it is not he himself who utters the words of the Holy Scripture, but someone else reads them to you. You hear the verses of the Koran as if not from your own lips, but from the lips of the Prophet Mohammed, who fourteen centuries ago read them to his first companions. The Arabian desert, Mecca - a narrow city located among volcanic mountains, and a house in the center of this city, where the first lines of the Koran sounded: “Read! In the name of God, who created man from a clot. Read it! In the name of God, who taught people with his kalam knowledge. And man is not grateful, he rises, believing that he is independent of God. But the return will take place!"
How could the prophet - this great man who can neither read nor write - know about the clot from which we are born, about the planets that revolve around the Sun, about tectonic displacements in the depths of the Earth? Where did he get the knowledge about an insurmountable barrier that does not allow the fresh waters of rivers and salty waters of the seas to mix? Allah with His Kalam taught the prophet the knowledge of these things, and Mohammed expounded it to people.
The mysteries of the Quran are not limited to its mesmerizing sounds, nor even its wisdom. One of his secrets is that he was able to penetrate the hearts of wild pagans, far from piety and morality. In those days, they could bury a newborn child in the desert for fear of not feeding him, they whistled and clapped their hands, running naked around a pagan temple, the strong could easily take away the home of the weak. Prophet Mohammed managed to unite these tribes, always at war with each other, into a single state. And then Islam conquered the hearts of more than a billion people on Earth. However, as we can see from the very first words of the Quran, Mohammed foresaw that man would often be ungrateful to the God who created him.
And here we come to the tragic mystery of the Quran. He became a life textbook for more than a billion people on Earth. Muslims, wherever they live, five times a day turn to face Mecca, perform namaz in the same way, read the same Koran. However, Muslims are very different.
Many of us have hearts filled with love for people, purity and kindness. But there are those who have the disease of hatred in their hearts. Many people read the Quran with reverence, hearing notes of goodness in it. And some seek in him a justification for their evil deeds. Many have a sincere respect for the image of the great Mohammed. But others do not take into account his covenants, and honor him only in words.
One night Mohammed went to the mosque and began to pray. Next to him was a guard named Habab. He silently looked at the prophet, and after Mohammed was silent, he asked: O Messenger of Allah, what did you remember, why you pray at night, what happened? Mohammed replied: I needed to get an answer from Allah to three questions that torment me. The Lord answered “no” to two questions, and “yes” to the third. Habab asked what were these questions that awakened the prophet in the middle of the night. Mohammed said: I asked the Lord if He will destroy us, how sinful nations were destroyed? The Lord replied: no. Then he asked if our faith will die after my death? Allah replied: no. And finally, I asked Allah: will there be a split among Muslims into separate warring groups after my death? Allah answered yes.
Having said this, Mohammed got up heavily from the rug on which he had been praying and walked towards the exit. The next morning he, having gathered people in the mosque and standing behind the minbar, said loudly: “Let it not be so that after my death you will break into piles and raise your swords against each other! Can you all hear me? Who hears - tell those who did not hear! " Then he asked twice: "Do you understand me?"
To understand, we understood him, but disobeyed. Immediately after the death of the prophet, the Muslim community split into parts, some of Mohammed's relatives went to war against his other relatives, and this split still takes dozens and hundreds of Muslims' lives every day. The adherents of Islam are divided into sects, madhhabs, tariqas. Muslims are at war with Muslims with weapons in their hands and with their tongues, and the favorite accusation has become the expression "You are not a Muslim," although the prophet also prohibited such an accusation.
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The prophet's covenants are often broken. Mohammed said: "One man took his own life, and then Allah said:" My Servant outstripped Me of his own free will, and therefore I made paradise forbidden for him. " Suicide in Islam is considered a sinful act, an impermissible interference with the will of Allah. Who then came up with the idea that women, tying themselves with bombs, blowing themselves up together with the people around them, would go to heaven?
No, the publicist will not be able to convey the whole tragedy of this deception, he will have to resort to the help of a writer. “Wait! - I shouted to the suicides, who thought that by killing themselves, killing innocent people, they would go to heaven. - No, you will not go to heaven, deceived by their leaders-devils, but to hell, to hell, to fiery hell!.. I screamed until hoarse and burning in my throat, but who listened to me? - writes the outstanding writer Chingiz Huseynov in his book "Prevent water from spilling out of an overturned jug."
Even in the very first sura, which Allah revealed, it is said: “… a person is not grateful, he rises, believing that he is independent of God. But the return will take place! The extreme currents of Islam rebelled against Allah. They distorted Islam for the sake of their immediate interests. They approve of suicide, hatred, lies, hypocrisy, they justify their evil deeds by saying that the prophet did the same.
The Koran describes the struggle of the first Muslims for survival on many pages. Not everything in this struggle was accomplished, as they would say now, with white gloves. But, as Rafael Khakimov, a well-known Tatar political scientist, writes, “It should be borne in mind that in Medina the prophet found himself in a situation where it was necessary to solve specific problems of the formation of a new state, and the Middle Ages was far from the most humane period of human history. The prophet's actions were influenced by the need for a fierce struggle for the survival of the Muslim community."
But today is a different time, and it is foolish to justify today's terrorist acts by those old events. It all depends on who and how reads the Quran. In it you can see the theses “there is no coercion in religion”, “you have your own faith, we have our own,” or, having seen the idea of the need to dissociate from the “infidels,” you can say that this is for all times.
Everyone knows that in the Bible - say, in Deuteronomy, in the Book of Joshua - there are many terrible, cruel scenes. In terms of its cruelty, the Qur'an is not comparable to these scriptures. However, today Christians and Jews do not talk about the need to repeat the actions of Moses and Joshua. But among the Muslims, there are those who dictate the need to imitate the prophet in everything.
R. Khakimov in his work “Think over the transitory and eternal in the Koran” writes: “Islam will not do without the reformation, which began with the Kursavi in 1804 and was continued by the Jadids. Reading the works of the Muslim thinker Musa Bigiev (1875-1949), a lot is revealed to the modern Muslim. The question is in the interpretation of the Quran in accordance with the time. The verses of the Medina period must be left for history, without transferring their meaning to the modern state of humanity. The verses sent down in Mecca are the enduring truths. There is the letter of the Koran, which often bears the imprint of the thinking of a medieval man, and there is the eternal spirit of the Holy Book."
What is the spirit of the Quran? Does he have a covenant to terrorize and kill "infidels"? No, on the contrary, it is said that the murder of a peaceful person is a sin, that anyone who encroaches on the life of even one person encroaches on all of humanity. Does the Qur'an say that a Muslim should not think and obey the Basayevs and Bin Ladens without looking back? No, the Qur'an repeats twenty times that a true Muslim must meditate, think. Does the Qur'an proclaim anger and hatred? No, on the contrary - kindness, love for people, forgiveness.
Our opponent will say: but the Qur'an tells about the battles in the Badr valley, near Mount Uhud, about operations against the Jews in Medina and Khaybar, about the struggle of the first Muslims against idolaters, how is it - wasn't there cruelty in those days? Yes, there was, Muslims should not embellish history, if only because the Koran forbids lying. But the prophet did not instruct us to thoughtlessly repeat everything that happened in those days. A Muslim today does not ride a camel, does not write in kalam, even the Forbidden Mosque has air conditioning. So why should our thinking remain at the level of the 7th century?
There are phrases in the Quran: “When you meet infidels in battle, you will be struck with a sword on the neck. When they surrender, fasten the chains of the captives. " These words are often cited by critics of Islam as evidence of the cruelty of Muslims towards "infidels." But in this case we are talking exclusively about Arab idolaters. Now they are gone. However, some Muslims consider these words to be applicable to non-Muslims in general, at all times. The battles of the first Muslims, medieval customs can in no way serve as an example for terror, extremism, captivity of people in our time.
The holy duty of the Muslim intelligentsia is to reveal the tragic secret of the Koran, which is that it provides a path for good, and evil people see in it a path to hatred. The solution to this mystery lies in the fact that the Qur'an contains the transitory and the eternal, and an insurmountable barrier must be placed between them, as between fresh and salt water.