Shin Musulunci yana da muhimmanci? Ta yaya Musulunci yake da muhimmanci a rayuwata?

Is Islam relevant? How is Islam relevant to my life?

Waɗannan tambayoyi ne da aka yi mini kwanan nan. Na ba da amsa ta fuskar yadda Musulunci ke ba rayuwa manufa, inda fahimtar duniya ta rashin imani da kallon abin duniya kawai ba ta bayar da ita ba, da kuma yadda rashin manufa ke bayyana a yawan ɓacin rai da kashe kai da ke addabar duniyar zamani ta bayan addini.

These are questions I was asked recently. I proceeded to give an answer in terms of how Islam gives life purpose where an atheistic, materialistic understanding of the world does not and how the negative impact of lacking purpose can be seen in the rates of depression and suicide affecting the secular, post-religious world of today.

Amma wannan amsar ba ta gamsar da mai tambaya ba. Bayan na yi tunani na ɗan lokaci, na fahimci matsalar. (Kun gani, wani lokaci idan aka yi maka tambaya ba daidai ba, kusan dole ne ka ba da amsa ba daidai ba.)

But this answer wasn’t really adequate for or convincing to the questioner. After thinking about it for a moment, I realized the problem. (You see, sometimes if you are asked a wrong question, you are all but forced to give a wrong answer.)

Don haka, Musulunci ba dole ne ya dace da rayuwarka ta kanka ba. Gaskiya ba ta bukatar a tabbatar da ita ta hanyar amfaninta ga rayuwar mutum guda. Gaskiya, ta yanayinta, tana da muhimmanci, ma'ana, ita ce kawai abin da yake da muhimmanci.

So, Islam doesn’t have to be relevant to you. The Truth does not need to be validated by its utility to your personal, individual life. The Truth by its very nature is relevant — in fact, it is the only thing that is relevant.

Ina ma'aunin dacewa muke aiki a kai, da gaske? Shin wasannin motsa jiki na ƙwararru suna da dacewa? Shin al'adun jama'a, waƙoƙi da fina-finai suna da dacewa? Shin muhawarar siyasa da abubuwan da ke faruwa a duniya suna da dacewa? Don me? Idan wannan ita ce ma'aunin dacewa, to tabbas Musulunci ba zai bayyana da dacewa ba, domin sabanin waɗancan abubuwa, Musulunci yana da ma'ana, yana kan wani abu, kuma yana da muhimmanci na gaskiya, mai dorewa.

Honestly, what is the standard of relevance we’re operating under? Are professional sports relevant? Are popular culture, music, and movies relevant? Are political debates and world events relevant? Why? If that’s our standard of relevance, then of course Islam will not seem relevant because, unlike those other things, Islam actually means something and is about something and has true, lasting significance.

Saboda haka, matsalar da muke fuskanta ta ninku biyu ce. Da farko, muna da ma'auni mara daidai na abin da ya dace da muhimmanci. Na biyu kuma, muna auna muhimmanci ne da farko bisa amfanin kanmu. Muna tsara duniya bisa tsarin son zuciya wanda ke ba da daraja gwargwadon: "Me ya fi kyau a gani, me ya fi daɗi a ji, me ya fi kyau a ji a kunnena?" A takaice, mun sanya son kanmu a tsakiya. Sai a cikin wannan yanayi ne tambayar "Shin wannan yana da dacewa?" take da ma'ana.

Thus, the problem for us is two-fold. We have a mis-calibrated standard of relevance on the one hand. On the other, we judge importance on the basis of personal utility in the first place. We order the world according to a subjective framework that assigns value according to: “What looks good, feels good, sounds good to me?” In other words, we have put our egos at the center. That’s the only context in which the question “Is it relevant?” makes any sense.

Babu wanda ke tambaya ko ilimin halittu (biology) yana da muhimmanci, ko ilimin nukiliya (nuclear physics), ko ilimin tattalin arziki (economics), ko wani abu makamancin haka da ya shafi ilimomi ko bincike na ilimi. A waɗannan fannoni, tambayar ko suna da muhimmanci ba ta da ma'ana. Tabbas, waɗannan darussa ne da muke ɗauka cewa suna damuwa da gaskiya, kuma saboda haka ba sa dangantaka da ra'ayin ko son zuciyar kowane mutum.

No one asks if biology is relevant, or nuclear physics, or economics, or anything else related to the sciences or academic investigation. In those domains, the question of relevance has no sense. Of course, those are subjects we assume to be concerned with truth and, as such, are not attached to any individual’s personal feelings.

To jagorarka, Ubangijinka shi ne Al-Haqq: Gaskiya mafi girma. Miƙa kai gare Shi, watau Musulunci, ya kamata ya zama tsakiyar tsarin tunaninmu. Ta wajen wannan tushe ne za mu iya auna dacewa ko rashin dacewar kowane abu.

Well, your Maker is al-Haqq: the Highest Truth. Submission to Him, i.e., Islam, should be at the center of our paradigm. With respect to that core, we can judge the (ir)relevance of everything else.