Dadam doim juda epchil odam bo'lgan va uy ishlarini o'zi qilishni yaxshi ko'radi, mashaAllah. Men yosh bo'lganimda, u meni unga yordam berishga undardi, lekin bu menga hech qachon yoqmasdi, shunga qaramay ko'p narsani o'rgandim.

My dad has always been a very handy person and loves to take on home projects mashaAllah. When I was young, he would try to get me to help him and I never really enjoyed it, but I still ended up learning a lot.

U unga erta paytda o'rgatgan narsalaridan biri shu bo'ldi: loyihani boshlashdan oldin toza va mustahkam asos bilan ish boshlash kerak. Masalan, uy devorini qayta bo'yamoqchi bo'lsangiz, avval eski bo'yoqni tozalash, chirigan yog'ochni olib tashlash va shunga o'xshash ishlarni bajarish lozim. Barcha tayyorgarlik ishlari tugagandan keyingina haqiqiy bo'yash boshlanadi. Tayyorgarlikni tashlab, yangi bo'yoqni eski narsa ustiga surtish mumkin, lekin qisqa vaqt ichida yangi bo'yoq yorila boshlaydi va ahvol avvalgidan ham yomonlashadi.

One of the things he taught me early on is that when you start a project, you have to make sure you are working on a clean, solid site. For example, if you want to re-paint the side of your house, you first have to clean off any old paint, take off any rotting wood, etc. Only after all that prep work is done can you actually start painting. You can always just forget the prep work and put new paint on top of the old stuff, but within a short period of time, the new paint will start to crack and peel and things will be even worse than before.

Xuddi shu tamoyil beton quyish yoki yangi terrasa o'rnatishga ham tegishli. Birinchi qadam juda muhim. Eski inshootni demontaj qilish, buzish va kerak bo'lsa butunlay yo'q qilish, chiqindilarni olib tashlash kerak. Faqat joy tozalangan va tekis bo'lgandan keyingina mustahkam va uzoq xizmat qiladigan narsa qurish mumkin. Oldingi inshootning sinchli qoldiqlari ustiga qurish ham befoyda, ham ahmoqona bo'lardi, chunki yakuniy mahsulot, qanchalik yaxshi qurilgan bo'lmasin, asl inshoot kabi beqaror bo'lib, qulash va yemirilishga moyil bo'ladi. Shuningdek, agar eski inshoot qoldiqlari ustiga qurmoqchi bo'lsangiz, qurayotgan narsangizga moslashish uchun o'zgartirishlar va tuzatishlar kiritishingiz kerak bo'ladi. O'zingizning xohish va ehtiyojlaringizga ko'ra qurish o'rniga, endi mavjud inshootga mos keladigan va uni hisobga oladigan narsa qurishingiz kerak bo'ladi.

The same principle applies to pouring concrete or installing a new deck. The first step is very crucial. You have to disassemble, deconstruct, and, if needed, destroy the old structure and remove the debris. Only once the site is clear and level, can you build something that is solid and will last in the long run. It would be counterproductive and quite silly to try to build something on the shaky remains of the previous structure because the final product, no matter how well-built it otherwise is, will likely be just as shaky and prone to collapse and dilapidation as the original. Also if you are trying to build on the remains of the original structure, you will have to make adjustments and compensations to accommodate what you are building on. Rather than build something according to your own preferences and needs, you now have to build something which suits and takes into account the extant structure upon which you are building.

Bu butun narsa zamonaviy ulamolarning zamonaviy masalalar nuqtayi nazaridan ilmiy ishlari davomida duch keladigan vaziyat uchun metafora xolos. Bu metaforada eski bo'yoq yoki eskirgan, yemirilgan inshoot modernizm va unga hamroh bo'lgan -izmlardir: liberalizm, saintizm, feminizm, sekulyarizm va boshqalar. Aynan shu narsalarni yo'q qilib, butunlay tozalab tashlash kerak, chunki agar olim shu asos ustiga qursa, hatto qurgan narsasi eng yuqori sifatli va eng mustahkam ilmga ega bo'lsa ham, natija yana notekis, beqaror va qulashga moyil bo'ladi. Ammo chirigan qismlar qirib tashlanib, chiqarib yuborilsa va toza, tekis qurilish maydoni qolsa, o'shanda alim bi idhnillah haqiqiy va barqaror durdona bino qurishi mumkin bo'ladi.

All this is just a metaphor for a situation our contemporary ulama have to deal with in the course of their scholarly work in light of modern issues. In this metaphor, the old paint or the old dilapidated structure is modernism and its concomitant -isms: liberalism, scientism, feminism, secularism, etc. This is the stuff that needs to be dismantled and thoroughly cleaned out because if a scholar builds on this, even if what he builds is of the highest quality and the most sound erudition, the end result is still going to be lopsided, shaky, and liable to collapse. But if the rot is scraped off and discarded, leaving a pristine, level work site, that is when the alim can build a true and lasting masterpiece bi idhnillah.

Shu sababli, bizning salaf olimlarimizda shunchalik tavfiq ko‘ramiz. Ular mustahkam zaminda bunyod etayotgan edilar. Ular o‘zlaridan oldingi olimlarning mustahkam ilmi ustiga qurardilar, bu ilmning o‘zi esa vahiy va Payg‘ambarimiz ﷺ sunnatining sarsonlanmas poydevoriga suyangan edi. Shu tariqa ular islom ilmlarining, ya’ni tengi yo‘q aql va ruh yutuqlarining bu buyuk yodgorligini yaratishga muvaffaq bo‘ldilar.

This is why we see so much tawfiq from our scholarly predecessors. They were building on solid ground. They were building on top of the solid scholarship of those before them, all of which was built on the unshakable foundation of revelation and the Prophet’s Sunnah صلى الله عليه وسلم. And that is how they were able to create this unmatched monument of intellectual and spiritual achievement that is the Islamic sciences.

Lekin zamonaviy davrning boshlarida, musulmonlar siyosiy hokimiyatni yo'qotib, Yevropa modernistik falsafasi dunyoda va musulmon jamiyatlarida tobora hukmron tafakkur shakliga aylangan paytda, ba'zi munozaralar va ilmiy izlanishlar reaktiv tus oldi. Birdan olimlar bu "izm"larga javob berishga yoki ular nuqtayi nazaridan o'z fikrlarini bayon etishga majbur bo'lishdi, buning sababi ijtimoiy bosim, siyosiy bosim yoki hatto mustamlakachilar va G'arb gegemonligining boshqa vakillari tomonidan to'g'ridan-to'g'ri zo'ravonlik bo'ldimi. Albatta, bu — ongli yoki ongsiz ravishda — o'sha ilmiy izlanishlarning mazmuniga ta'sir qildi. Natijada, ba'zi ilmiy merosning poydevori chirigan asosga qurildi.

But at the dawn of the modern period, as the Muslims lost political power and European modernist philosophy increasingly became the dominant mode of thought around the world and in Muslim societies as well, that’s when some of the discourse and some of the scholarship became reactive. All of a sudden, scholars are having to respond to these -isms and/or write their opinions in light of them, whether due to social pressure or political pressure or even outright coercion by colonizers and other agents of Western hegemony. And of course this — knowingly or unknowingly — affected the content of that scholarship. In effect, some of that scholarship ended up being built on rot.

Biz chirigni tozalashimiz kerak. Uni parchalab, tarqatib tashlashimiz va axlatni chiqarib yuborishimiz lozim. Shundan so‘ng biz o‘z ishonchimiz bilan, o‘z shartlarimiz asosida qurishni yana davom ettirishimiz mumkin va dunyoga bu dinning ulug‘vorligi va hayratga soladigan go‘zalligiga hech narsa teng kela olmasligini yana bir bor ko‘rsatamiz.

We need to clean out the rot. We need to deconstruct and dismantle it and discard the rubbish. Then we can resume building with confidence and on our own terms, once again showing the world that nothing can match the magnificence and awe-inspiring splendor of this deen.