4 Wazo la Ustaarabu Mbadala
4 The Idea of the Alternative Civilisation
Na kinachokamilisha jambo ni kauli yao kwamba lengo la mazungumzo baina ya ustaarabu ni mwingiliano wa kuunda ustaarabu mbadala ulio bora zaidi, kwa njia ya kutafuta yale yanayofanana baina ya ustaarabu hizo. Hilo, nalo, huleta maendeleo, ustawi, na kueneza amani. Ni jinsi gani ilivyo mbaya hitimisho la dhana hii kwa mtu anayetumia kauli yake ﷺ.
What caps the matter is their saying that the objective of dialogue between civilizations is interaction to create an alternative superior civilization through the method of seeking to find what is common between the civilizations. This, in turn, leads to progress, flourishing, and spreading peace. How bad is the deduction of this concept by someone using His ﷺ saying.
"Sema: 'Enyi watu wa Kitabu. Njoni kwenye neno lililo sawa baina yetu na yenu. Kwamba tusiabudu isipokuwa Allah, wala tusimshirikishe chochote, wala baadhi yetu wasiwafanye wengine kuwa waungu badala ya Allah.'" [TMQ Al-Imran: 64]. Kwa hiyo anasema: "Huu ni mazungumzo na wengine kutoka katika nafasi ya usawa." Kisha anafasiri kauli Yake ﷺ: "Kwenye neno lililo sawa" kuwa ni "neno la pamoja (mushtarake) baina yetu," na "hatusemi kwamba tunazungumza ili (kufikia) neno letu." Ufahamu huu wa aya ni kumzulia Allah uongo, kwa kuwa maana ya 'sawa' ni 'haki' ('adl), yaani neno la haki ambalo aya inalifafanua baadaye. Hakuna chochote katika aya, si katika matamshi yake wala maana yake, kinachoonyesha kwamba tunawaalika kwenye neno la pamoja. Hakika hakukusudia kwamba tushirikiane katika neno la haki kwa dalili ya kauli yake: "Hatusemi kwamba tunazungumza ili (kufikia) neno letu," kwa hiyo hakuna lililobaki isipokuwa kwamba tunataka ustaarabu wa pamoja. Wito wa mwingiliano na kutafuta yanayofanana baina ya ustaarabu ni kuchanganya haki na batili; Allah aliwakataza Watu wa Kitabu jambo hili, na pia Waislamu kwa sababu kubwa zaidi. Alisema (SWTH) ta'ala:
"Say: 'O People of the Book. Come to a just word between us. That we worship none but Allah nor associate anything with Him nor some of us taking each other as lords.'" [TMQ Al-Imran: 64]. So he says: "This is a dialogue with others from a position of equality." Then he interprets His ﷺ saying: "To a just word" into the word "common (mushtarake) between us" and "we do not say we dialogue to (reach) to our word." This understanding of the ayah is slandering upon Allah, as the meaning of 'sawa' is just ('adl'), i.e., a just word which the ayah explains subsequently. There is nothing in the ayah, whether in its wording or its meaning, that indicates we invite them to a common word. He definitely did not intend that we associate in a just word by the evidence of his saying: "We do not say that we dialogue to our word" so nothing remains except that we want the common civilization. The call to interaction and seeking to find what is common between the civilizations is mixing the truth with falsehood; Allah prohibited the People of the Book from this, and also Muslims by greater reason. He (SWTH) ta'ala said:
"Enyi watu wa Kitabu, kwa nini mnachanganya haki na batili na hali mnajua?" [TMQ Al-Imran: 71]
"O People of the Book, why do you mix the truth with falsehood while you know?" [TMQ Al-Imran: 71]
Baada ya kufafanua nia yao kutokana na mazungumzo kati ya dini na mazungumzo kati ya ustaarabu, pamoja na lengo lake, sasa tunahamia kwenye suala la mgongano katika aina zake mbalimbali: wa kiuchumi, wa kifikra, wa kijeshi na wa kisiasa.
After we have clarified their intention from the dialogue between religions and dialogue between civilizations, and their objective from this, we now move onto the issue of clash in its various types, economic, intellectual, military and political.