XX asrda kommunizm ba'zi musulmon olimlari orasida juda mashhur edi. Bu musulmonlarning nazarida kommunizm adolatning eng yuqori cho'qqisini ifodalardi. U dunyoviy tsivilizatsiyaning eng yuksak darajasini aks ettirardi, chunki o'sha paytda SSSR yuksalish cho'qqisida edi. Shu sababli bu musulmon olimlari kommunizmni qabul qilish musulmonlar uchun zarurligi va haqiqiy Islom o'zining mohiyatiga ko'ra kommunistik ekanligi haqida qizg'in yozdilar. Ular Qur'on va hadisni shu nuqtai nazardan talqin qilib, zakot va sadaqa haqidagi oyatlarni xususiy mulkka qarshi ilohiy ko'rsatmalar sifatida ko'rsatdilar.

In the twentieth century, communism was very popular with a group of academic Muslims. For these Muslims, communism represented the peak of justice. It represented the peak of worldly civilization, as the USSR at that time was ascendant. So these Muslim academics wrote fervently about how Muslims needed to adopt communism and how true Islam was communist at its heart. They interpreted the Quran and hadith in that light, pointing to verses about zakat and sadaqa as divine directives against private property.

Albatta, islom huquqining ko‘plab qismlari ma’lum mulkiy munosabatlarni o‘z-o‘zidan tan olgan edi, ammo bular kommunizm bilan ziddiyatga kelganligi sababli, musulmon kommunistlar fiqhga hujum qildilar, uni orqada qolgan va adolatsiz, Xudoning haqiqiy dinining kapitalistik buzilishidan boshqa narsa emas deb atadilar. Ularning fikricha, klassik ulamo mulk egalari sifatida o‘z manfaatlarini ko‘zlagan, shuning uchun ular fiqhni burjua maqsadlarini ilgari surish va ishchi sinfni ezish uchun yaratgan edilar.

Of course, there were many parts of Islamic law that take certain property relations for granted, but since these conflicted with communism, the Muslim communists attacked the fiqh, called it backwards, unjust, and nothing but a capitalistic distortion of God’s true religion. According to them, the classical ulama were obviously just serving their own interests as property owners, so they created fiqh to advance their bourgeois agenda and oppress the working class.

Boshqa musulmonlar o‘sha davrda bunga qarshi chiqdilar, ularning dalillaridagi kamchiliklarni ochib berdilar va ulamolarni ularning tuhmatlaridan himoya qildilar. Ilmiy va jamoat darajasida rad etilgan bu musulmonlar asta-sekin yanada ekstremistik qarashlarga o‘tdilar, oxir-oqibat esa islomni butunlay tark etishga qaror qildilar. Marks din xalq uchun afyun deganmedi? Bu an’anaviy musulmonlar kommunizmning aniq adolatini va tarixiy materializm xulosalarini rad etmadilarmi? Demak, muammo islomning o‘zida bo‘lsa kerak.

Other Muslims of the day pushed back against this, poked holes in their arguments, and defended the ulama from their smears. Having been rebuffed intellectually and communally, these Muslims became more extreme little by little until they decided to leave Islam entirely. Didn’t Marx say that religion was the opiate of the people? Didn’t these traditional Muslims reject the clear justice of communism and the insights of historical materialism? It must be Islam itself that is the problem.

Shunday qilib ular murtad bo‘lib, ko‘r-ko‘rona ergashgan musulmon qo‘ylari bilan birga Islomdan voz kechdilar. Shunga qaramay, yaqin kelajakda kommunizm nuri islom an’anasining zulmatini yengib, butun musulmon olami ularning ortidan ma’rifat sari ergashadi, degan katta umidlari bor edi.

So they became apostates and denounced Islam along with the Muslim sheep who followed it blindly. Despite it all, they had high hopes that in the near future the light of communism would overcome the darkness of the Islamic tradition and the entire Muslim world would follow them into enlightenment.

Shundan so'ng kommunizm modadan chiqib ketdi. SSSR qulab tushdi. Yigirmanchi asr oxiriga kelib, bu odamlarning yozgan yoki targ'ib qilgan narsalarini hech kim eslamas edi. Ularning harakati tarix hojatxonasiga oqizib yuborildi.

Soon thereafter communism went out of vogue. The USSR fell. By the end of the twentieth century, no one remembered anything these people had written or advocated for. Their movement was flushed down the toilet of history.

Bugungi ijtimoiy adolat tarafdori bo‘lgan, liberal musulmonlar — ochiqchasiga, qat’iy ravishda fahshga va itoatsizlikka da’vat qilayotganlar, ulamolarni beandishalik bilan tuhmat qilayotganlar hamda musulmonlarning qalbiga shubha urug‘ini sepayotganlar — aynan o‘sha yo‘ldan bormoqdalar. Alloh ularning oqibatini tezlashtirsin!

Today’s social justice, liberal Muslims — openly, militantly calling people to fahisha and disobedience, brazenly slandering the ulama and sowing the seeds of confusion in Muslims’ hearts — are on the exact same path. May Allah expedite their fate!