Islom sizning hayotingizga qanday aloqador? Islom sizning hayotingizga qanchalik dahldor?

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

Men yaqinda shunday savollar oldim. Men javob berdim: Islom hayotga ma'no berishi haqida, ateistik, materialistik dunyoqarash esa buni bera olmasligi haqida, shuningdek, maqsadsizlikning salbiy ta'siri bugungi dunyoviy, dindan keyingi jamiyatda depressiya va o'z joniga qasd qilish ko'rsatkichlarida ko'rinishi haqida.

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.

Lekin bu javob so'ragan kishiga yetarlicha to'g'ri yoki ishontirarli bo'lmadi. Bir oz o'ylab ko'rgach, muammoni angladim. (Ko'ryapsizmi, ba'zan noto'g'ri savol berilsa, noto'g'ri javob berishga deyarli majbur bo'lasiz.)

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.)

Demak, Islom sizning shaxsiy hayotingiz uchun foydali bo'lishi shart emas. Haqiqat o'zining shaxsiy, individual hayotingizga qanchalik foydali ekanligi bilan tasdiqlanishi shart emas. Haqiqat o'z mohiyatiga ko'ra dolzarbdir — aslida, u yagona dolzarb narsadir.

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.

Haqiqatan, biz qanday dolzarblik mezoni asosida ish yuritayapmiz? Professional sport dolzarbmi? Ommaviy madaniyat, musiqa va kinolar dolzarbmi? Siyosiy bahslar va jahon voqealari dolzarbmi? Nega? Agar dolzarblik mezoni shu bo'lsa, unda Islom dolzarb ko'rinmasligi tabiiy, chunki boshqa narsalardan farqli o'laroq, Islomning ma'nosi bor, u biror narsa haqida va haqiqiy, doimiy ahamiyatga ega.

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.

Shunday qilib, bizning muammomiz ikki qismdan iborat. Bir tomondan, bizda noto'g'ri sozlangan dolzarblik mezoni bor. Ikkinchi tomondan, biz ahamiyatni avvalo shaxsiy foydaga qarab baholaymiz. Biz dunyoni shunday sub'ektiv tizim bo'yicha tartibga solamiz, u qadrni shu asosda belgilaydi: "Bu menga yoqadimi, menga yaxshi ko'rinadimi, menga yaxshi eshitiladimi?" Boshqacha aytganda, biz o'z nafsimizni markazga qo'yganmiz. "Bu dolzarbmi?" degan savol faqat shu kontekstda ma'no kasb etadi.

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.

Hech kim biologiya, yadro fizikasi, iqtisodiyot yoki ilmiy va akademik tadqiqotga oid boshqa soha dolzarbmi, deb so'ramaydi. Bu sohalarda dolzarblik masalasining ma'nosi yo'q. Albatta, bular haqiqatga daxldor fanlar bo'lib, shu sababli biror kishining shaxsiy his-tuyg'ulariga bog'liq emas, deb hisoblanadi.

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.

Sizning Yaratguvchingiz al-Haqq: Eng Oliy Haqiqatdir. Unga bo'ysunish, ya'ni Islom, bizning dunyoqarashimizning markazida turishi kerak. Shu asosga tayangan holda, qolgan barcha narsaning (o'rinli yoki o'rinsiz) ekanligini baholashimiz mumkin.

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.