今天穆斯林的处境与他们光辉的过去形成鲜明对比。我们必须理解这种局面是如何以及为何出现的。实际上，这正是我们复兴的关键。为此，有必要认真研究伊斯兰的历史，从先知ﷺ的国家时期，到随之而来的伊斯兰文明与影响的时代，直至今日，以便我们找出导致我们衰弱的主要因素。

The situation of Muslims today lies in stark contrast with their glorious past. It is important for us to understand how and why such a state of affairs has arisen. Indeed this is a key to our revival. To this end, it becomes necessary to study carefully the history of Islam, from the time of the Prophet’s (saw) State and the period of Islamic civilisation and influence that followed it, until today, in order that we may identify the main factors of our weakness.

这项研究的结果表明，主要因素是穆斯林对其宗教（deen）的理解，在思想层面上出现了逐渐的衰退。

The result of such a study shows that the main factor is a gradual intellectual decline in the minds of the Muslims with regards to their understanding of their deen.

在这一背景下,伊斯兰的敌人抓住了它们在与伊斯兰国的斗争中所获得的机会,动用了一切可用的手段来战胜它,并将其及其所有资源置于它们的控制之下。在本节中,我们将概述这场异教徒对伊斯兰发动的攻势背后的一些历史,以及他们所采用的诡计和阴谋手段。

In this background, the enemies of Islam were able to exploit the oppportunity presented to them in their battle against the Islamic State, and utilised all the means at their disposal to overcome it and subjugate it and all its resources to their control. In this section, we will outline some of the history behind this attack of the kuffar against Islam, and the devious means and machinations they employed.

伊斯兰教自诞生以来在军事、文化和宗教上所展现的巨大力量与影响，是西方从未真正完全理解的事情；数十年来，伊斯兰教如何能在如此短的时间内征服世界上如此广大的地区，这一问题一直困扰着西方人的思想。自公元632年起，波斯、叙利亚、埃及、土耳其和北非相继落入穆斯林军队之手，时间在八、九世纪。伊斯兰教的统治西至印度、印度尼西亚，东至中国。对基督教的西方而言，哈里发国始终是一种持续的危险与威胁，到了十五世纪，欧洲的思想家们已清楚地认识到，必须对伊斯兰教采取某些行动。

The enormous power and influence of Islam, militarily, culturally, and religiously since its beginning is something that the West has never fully understood; the question of how, in so short a time, Islam could conquer such vast areas of the world has troubled the Western mind for decades. From 632 CE onwards Persia, Syria, Egypt, Turkey and North Africa fell to the Muslim armies, in the 8th and 9th centuries. Islam ruled as far east as India, Indonesia and China. To the Christian West the Khilafah represented a constant danger and threat and by the 15th century it became apparent to European thinkers that something would have to be done about Islam.

为了应对伊斯兰及其信徒所构成的威胁，欧洲的思想家们认识到，首先必须理解伊斯兰。他们很快发现，穆斯林的力量在于其作为一个国家的组织形式，这种组织将他们团结起来，保护他们，并协调他们的努力以称霸世界。他们得出结论：必须入侵伊斯兰国家，占有它，并最终以一种不那么具有攻击性的形式将其重新塑造。为这种侵略立场所提供的辩解，无论是对西方人还是对穆斯林而言，都是：伊斯兰是基督教的一个误入歧途的版本，它使一个曾经伟大的地区沦为野蛮状态，因而需要借助现代西方的文明化影响加以复兴。

To overcome the threat of Islam and its adherents the European thinkers recognised that it first needed to be understood. It soon became clear to them that the strength of the Muslims lay in their organisation as a state, which unified them, protected them and co-ordinated their efforts to dominate the world. They concluded that the Islamic State must be invaded, possessed and finally re-created in a less offensive form. The justification that was provided for this aggressive stance, to both the Westerner and the Muslim, was that Islam was a misguided version of Christianity which had caused a once great region to fall into barbarism and which needed to be revived through the civilising influences of the modern West.

起初，西方试图以军事手段击败伊斯兰，发动了一场被称为十字军东征的大规模军事行动，去对抗哈里发的穆斯林军队。然而，对于中世纪的西方人来说，很快就清楚了，指望通过军事手段击败伊斯兰是徒劳的。穆斯林为主道而战，为伊斯兰而战；以他们对伊斯兰作为一种意识形态的理解，他们绝不可能被刀剑的力量击败。每个穆斯林都知道，与异教徒作战的结果只有两种：胜利，或殉道而进入乐园。因此，对死亡的恐惧对他们毫无约束力，他们会心甘情愿地为伊斯兰献出生命。这一点对异教徒的军队来说变得显而易见，而相比之下，他们不太愿意为一项总体上对自身并无真正意义的事业牺牲自己。于是，他们密谋以发动一场针对穆斯林的思想运动来击败穆斯林，攻击伊斯兰的关键概念，并以虚假的观念取而代之。

Initially, the West attempted to defeat Islam militarily, with the launching of a vast military campaign against the Muslim army of the Khilafah known as the Crusades, yet for the medieval Westerner it soon became clear that any hope of defeating Islam militarily was fruitless. The Muslims were fighting in the way of Allah; they were fighting for Islam and with their understanding of Islam as an ideology they simply could not be defeated by the power of the sword. Every Muslim knew that there could only be two results of a battle with the kuffar : victory or martyrdom and paradise. Fear of death therefore had no sway on them, and they would gladly give up their lives for the sake of Islam. As this became obvious to the armies of the kuffar, who in comparison were not so willing to sacrifice themselves for a cause which by and large had no real meaning for them, they conspired to defeat the Muslims through the waging of an intellectual campaign against them by attacking the key Islamic concepts and implanting false ideas in their place.

这一计划以惊人的效率得到实施,直接针对穆斯林的信仰与宗教实践,旨在使穆斯林对伊斯兰的生活方式,以及它能否在快速变化的世界中永远得到施行,产生怀疑。此外,人们不断强调,凡是仍然如此信仰伊斯兰的人,必然落后、堕落,并且不如西方的同类人。

This plan was carried out with devastating efficiency, directly attacking the Muslim beliefs and practices with the aim of casting doubt into the minds of the Muslims about the Islamic way of life and its ability to be implemented for all time in a rapidly changing world. Furthermore it was constantly emphasised that anyone who did believe in Islam as such must be backward, degenerate and inferior to their Western counterparts.

这场攻击在整个乌玛的各个战线同时展开：在讲土耳其语和阿拉伯语的地区，穿过次大陆，直到东南亚；攻击的议题也多种多样。哈里发制度被描绘成专制独裁；圣战被说成是对所有人的侵略；一夫多妻被描绘成野蛮落后，或是对女性的冒犯；离婚被说成是一种背叛；对天命与前定的信仰被斥为非理性的宿命论；《古兰经》被说成只是一部精彩的诗化文字，仅仅宣扬某些道德价值，而不是人类规则与法律的根基；穆罕默德ﷺ被描绘成一个诡计多端的天才，欺骗了民众，而不是一位先知；虔诚的穆斯林则被描绘成极度谦卑、贫穷、不过问世俗事务、以清真寺为居所的人。

The attack was waged on all fronts throughout the Ummah; in the Turkish and Arab speaking lands, through the sub-continent and South East Asia; and it came on many matters. The Khilafah was portrayed as despotic and a dictatorship; Jihad an aggression against all people; polygamy was portrayed as uncivilised or savage, or an affront against women; divorce was a betrayal; belief in divine fate and destiny was dismissed as irrational fatalism; the Qur’an was a brilliant piece of poetic writing merely promoting certain moral values, not a basis of rules and laws for mankind; Muhammad (saw) was portrayed as a devious genius who had fooled the people, not a prophet; the pious Muslim was a man of great humbleness, poor and not involved with worldly matters, and the inhabitant of the mosque.

这类观念之所以广为流传,往往是因为异教徒争取到了伊斯兰学者和知识分子的支持。拿破仑入侵埃及(十八世纪末)便是一例。通过利用学者,拿破仑得以发动一场极为温和、有选择性的反伊斯兰运动。当拿破仑意识到自己的兵力不足以强行统治埃及人时,他试图让当地的伊玛目、卡迪、穆夫提和乌里玛按照"大军"的利益来解释《古兰经》,并就他在该地区的意图欺骗他们。这一手段,加上对爱资哈尔学者的奉承和拉拢,奏效了,很快开罗的民众似乎已不再对占领者心存戒备。拿破仑离开后,又给他的副手下达严格指示:今后统治埃及,要依靠东方学家以及他们能够争取过来的宗教领袖,其他策略都被视为代价高昂且愚蠢。此类政策直到今天仍在延续,穆斯林国家中所谓的"官方学者"便是例证。他们始终按照西方的意愿作出所谓"伊斯兰"的裁决,从而助力西方实现其目标,即让伊斯兰只留在穆斯林生活的边缘。

Such ideas were all too often given weight by the winning over of scholars and learned men of Islam by the kuffar; one such example being that of Napoleon when he invaded Egypt in the late eighteenth century. Through his use of the scholars Napoleon was able to wage a uniquely benign and selective campaign against Islam. When it became obvious to Napoleon that his force was too small to impose itself on the Egyptians he tried to make the local imams, qadis, muftis and ulema interpret the Qur’an in favour of the ‘Grande Armée,’ by deceiveing them about his intentions in the area. This along with the flattering and cajoling of the scholars of al-Azhar worked, and soon the population of Cairo seemed to have lost its distrust of the occupiers. Napoleon later gave his deputy strict instructions after he left always to administer Egypt through the Orientalists and religious Islamic leaders whom they could win over; any other strategies were seen as too expensive and foolish. Such policies continue to this very day with the likes of ‘government scholars’ in the Muslim countries, who consistently produce so-called ‘Islamic’ judgements in accordance with the wishes of the West, thereby facilitating the West’s objectives of keeping Islam only in the backgrounds of Muslim’s lives.

为了助长穆斯林信仰与对伊斯兰理解的这种削弱,欧洲各国,尤其是英国发挥了领导作用,致力于在穆斯林世界内部建立一些能够瓦解伊斯兰、分裂穆斯林的运动。为此目的,起初建立了一套复杂的机构,其形式包括各类传教组织,例如基督教知识促进会(1698年)、海外福音传播会(1701年)、教会传教会(1799年)、英国及海外圣经公会(1804年)等等。

To encourage this weakening of the Muslims’ belief and understanding of Islam, the European states, with Britain playing a leading role, worked to establish movements within the Muslim world which could work to bring down Islam and divide Muslims. A complex apparatus for tending this purpose was established initially in the form of missionaries such as the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (1698), the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (1701), the Church Missionary Society (1799), the British and Foreign Bible Society (1804) and so on.

此外，还涌入了大批贸易社团、学术团体、地理探险基金会、翻译基金会，并设立了外国学校、领事馆、工厂，有时甚至形成了规模较大的欧洲侨民社区。所有这些使西方对该地区的利益日益增长，而这些利益最终又因保护此类利益的需要，为西方在这些土地上更直接的存在赢得了合法性。与此同时，这些机构也成为了像开罗的穆罕默德·阿里和叙利亚的易卜拉欣帕夏那样的人物的庇护所，他们被招募到了西方的事业之中。

In addition there was to be an influx of trading societies, learned societies, geographical exploration funds, translation funds, as well as the implantation of foreign schools, consular offices, factories and sometimes even large European communities. All gave the West increasing interests in the area which would eventually gain legitimacy for their more physical presence in these lands, due to the need to protect such interests. In the meantime such institutions were havens for men like Muhammad ‘Ali in Cairo and Ibrahim Pasha in Syria who were recruited to the Western cause.

另一方面，不断宣扬西方优越、穆斯林低劣的观念，促使许多穆斯林远赴欧洲，坐在异教徒（kuffar）的脚下接受他们的教育，然后回到自己的国家，教导同胞如何变得“文明”和“现代”，即便这意味着接受西方的意识形态，包括接受民主、世俗主义、男女混杂、自由等观念，而这些都与伊斯兰的观点相矛盾。

On another level the constant pushing of the idea of Western superiority and Muslim inferiority encouraged many Muslims to make a pilgrimage to Europe to sit at the feet of and be educated by the kuffar, then return to their homelands in order to teach their fellows how to become ‘civilised’ and ‘modern’, even though it meant adopting the ideology of the West, including its acceptance of ideas like democracy, secularism, free mixing, freedom etc., which all contradict the Islamic viewpoint.

这些思想对穆斯林的心态产生了巨大影响，使乌玛中的许多人迷恋于非伊斯兰的生活方式。即使在今天，这种态度在乌玛的某些群体中仍然明显可见。

These ideas had a dramatic affect on the Muslim mindset, causing many in the Ummah to be enchanted by non-Islamic ways of life. Even today this attitude is manifest in some sections of the Ummah.

然而,没有什么比植入"阿色比亚"(民族主义)更能成功地挑动穆斯林彼此对立、使他们远离伊斯兰了。正是这种民族主义和爱国主义情绪,极其严重地割裂了穆斯林之间的关系,并最终导致了哈里发制度的覆灭。这些思想和情绪,是通过伊斯兰国逐步被占领并分裂为各个独立国家而被助长的,每个国家都有各自的民族利益和目标,从而加剧了穆斯林之间的分裂,直到今天,我们至少有55个不同的国家,而我们却把自己视为巴基斯坦人、约旦人和埃及人,而不是穆斯林。这类观念至今仍残留在许多乌玛成员之中,如同一种顽疾,只应被远远地隔开。穆罕默德ﷺ说:"不是我们一类的人,是那号召阿色比亚的人;不是我们一类的人,是为阿色比亚而战的人;不是我们一类的人,是为阿色比亚而死的人。"(艾布·达五德) 英国、法国和俄国这些旧时的帝国主义列强,在成功地削弱了穆斯林之后,又进一步阴谋给穆斯林致命一击:摧毁伊斯兰国,瓜分其领土,废除哈里发及其所代表的制度,制造人为的国家,并将乌玛庞大的资源交到少数亲西方的家族手中。

However nothing has been more successful in the work to bring Muslim against Muslim and distancing them from Islam than the implantation of assabiyah (nationalism). It was such feelings of nationalism and patriotism that so devastatingly severed the Muslims from each other and eventually led to the destruction of the Khilafah. Such ideas and feelings were encouraged through the gradual occupation and division of the Islamic State into separate states, each with their own individual national interests and objectives thereby increasing the disunity amongst the Muslims, until today when we have at least 55 different states, and we see ourselves as Pakistani, Jordanian and Egyptian rather than Muslims. Such concepts remain amongst many in the Ummah today, lingering like a disease fit only to be kept at a distance; Muhammad (saw) said, “He is not one of us who calls for assabiyah, and he is not one of us who fights for assabiyah, and he is not one of us who dies for assabiyah.” Abu Daud Having successfully crippled the Muslims by waging such an attack upon their understanding of Islam and the introduction of corrupted and false concepts, the old imperialist powers of Britain, France and Russia went on to conspire to strike the final blow against the Muslims by destroying the Islamic State; to break up its territories, to abolish the Khaleefah and the system he represented, to create artificial states and to place the enormous resources of the Ummah into the hands of tiny pro-Western families.

事实上,整个19世纪,异教徒(kuffar)通过夺取领土、在其境内的民众中煽动分裂,不断蚕食哈里发国的统一。与此同时,他们竭力清除土耳其统治中伊斯兰法的一切痕迹。1855年,在英国的施压下,以拉希德帕夏(Rasheed Pasha)等代理人为推手,推动制定一部新宪法,使伊斯兰不再是国家的律法,而只是国家的“官方宗教”。

In fact, throughout the 1800’s the kuffar chipped away at the unity of the State by taking territories, and inciting division amongst the people that lived within it. At the same time they fought hard to remove all traces of Islamic Law from ruling in Turkey. In 1855 pressure was applied from Britain and carried by agents like Rasheed Pasha for the establishment of a new constitution in which Islam would no longer be the code of the State but simply the ‘official religion’ of the State.

到世纪之交时,哈里发国已被称为"欧洲病夫",欧洲列强密谋彻底消灭这一国家。许多国家都在策划使其覆灭,例如1915年俄罗斯驻伦敦大使致俄罗斯外交大臣的这份电报所详述的那样:

By the turn of the century, the Khilafah had become known as the ‘sick man of Europe’, and the European powers laid plans to kill the State off irrevocably. Many countries conspired to bring its downfall, for example as this telegram from the Russian ambassador in London to the Russian Foreign Minister in 1915 details :

“意大利政府支持俄罗斯政府的观点，即必须将拟在汉志建立的伊斯兰政府与哈里发制度分离，并将其置于英国的绝对控制之下。意大利政府全力支持从土耳其人手中夺取哈里发制度，并在必要时予以废除。”在西方傀儡的帮助下，例如土耳其的穆斯塔法·凯末尔——这位“屈辱之父”——伊斯兰教被系统性地从穆斯林土地上一切生活事务中剔除：哈里发制度被摧毁；阿拉伯语被地方语言和方言所取代；清真寺被关闭，妇女的希贾卜（伊斯兰女性服饰）被禁止；曾经实行安拉（SWT）之宗教的全球超级强国哈里发，沦为欧洲边缘一个弱小的国家。与此同时，大多数穆斯林却沉默地旁观这场背叛，这表明民族主义和世俗主义团体在扭曲穆斯林对其信仰以及信仰安拉（SWT）所要求的责任的理解方面取得了成功。

“The Italian government supports the Russian government’s opinion of the necessity of separating the Islamic government, which is to be established in Hijaz, from the Khilafah, and to put it under the absolute control of Britain. The Italian government wholeheartedly supports wresting the Khilafah from the Turks and abolishing it if necessary.” With the help of the Western puppets, like Mustafa Kamal - the father of humiliation - in Turkey, Islam was systematically removed from all of lifes affairs within the Muslim lands - the Khilafah was destroyed; Arabic was replaced with regional languages and dialects, mosques were closed and the hijab (Islamic dress for women) was forbidden; the once global superpower of the Khilafah, implementing the deen of Allah (swt) was reduced to simply a weak country on the periphery of Europe. All the while the majority of the Muslims sat by in silence as they watched this treachery, indicating the success that the nationalist and secular groups enjoyed in warping the understanding of the Muslims of their creed and the duties that belief in Allah (swt) demand.

这场针对穆斯林的思想攻击所取得的成功令人震惊,其效果远比任何军事攻击都要强大。如今,许多穆斯林被民族主义这一顽疾所分化;他们转而向西方寻求知识,而把伊斯兰留在了清真寺的范围之内。这种成功背后的秘密,在于异教徒(kuffar)成功地让穆斯林把伊斯兰理解为一种简单的宗教,而非一种生活方式,也就是世俗主义。其关键在于古典阿拉伯语知识的衰落,这也导致穆斯林对《古兰经》和圣训(Sunnah)缺乏理解,进而对伊斯兰关于穆斯林一切事务的律法和规定也缺乏理解。其结果是,伊斯兰被贬降为只剩下礼拜毯上的事务。

The success of this intellectual attack upon the Muslims has been staggering, much more potent than any military attack could have been. Today so many Muslims are divided by the disease of nationalism; they turn to the West for their knowledge and they have left Islam to the realm of the mosque. The secret behind such success has been the ability of the kuffar to re-create the Muslims understanding of Islam as a simple religion and not a way of life, i.e. secularism. The key to this has been the decline in the knowledge of the classical Arabic language which ensured also the lack of understanding of both the Qur’an and the Sunnah, and hence the rules and laws of Islam regarding all affairs of the Muslim. The result has been the relegation of Islam to the prayer mat.

随着穆斯林的这种令人痛心的衰落，异教徒也不断地对伊斯兰教和穆斯林灌输负面形象：穆斯林被描绘成骑骆驼的恐怖分子、野蛮好色之徒，不但未完全开化，甚至不像人类，因而被视为对文明西方的冒犯。最终的结果是，伊斯兰世界如今在思想、政治、经济和文化上都成了西方列强的附庸。西方列强认为阿拉伯半岛是“一个巨大的战略力量来源，也是世界历史上最大的物质战利品”。美国尤其清楚，控制该地区的石油供应就是控制世界的杠杆，如今除少数国家外，该地区的大多数政权都处于美国或英国的直接控制之下。

Alongside this devastating decline of the Muslims came the constant bombardment by the kuffar of negative images of both Islam and Muslims; Muslims were camel riding terrorists, barbaric lechers who were not completely civilised nor indeed human, and they were thus shown to be an affront to the civilised west. The ultimate result is that the Islamic world is today an intellectual, political, economic and cultural satellite of the Western powers. The Arabian peninsula is considered by the Western powers to constitute “A stupendous source of strategic power and the greatest material prize in the world’s history.” The United States is especially aware that the control of the region’s oil supplies is a lever to control the world, and today with the exception of all but a few states most of the regions regimes are under direct US or British control.

不幸的是，这些阴谋与攻击的影响并未成为过去。今天，乌玛饱受疾病侵扰、日渐孱弱。由于我们忽视对伊斯兰的正确理解，那些败坏的观念渗入了我们的信仰与行为，如同一种吞噬一切的癌症，使我们日益虚弱，也让异教徒为我们的苦难而欢欣。我们已经忘记了自己是最优秀的乌玛，忘记了伊斯兰作为一种宗教所蕴含的力量与威能。我们也忘记了，不信道者在摧毁我们的宗教之前，是绝不会对我们感到满意的。我们应当牢记，伊斯兰是造物主、众世界的主所赐予的恩典，它应当为人类带来尊严与公正，而非屈辱。

Unfortunately the effects of these conspiracies and attacks are not a thing of the past, today the Ummah is disease ridden and weak, the corrupt concepts which have filtered into our belief and action through our neglect of understanding Islam are like an all-consuming cancer which keeps us weak and fills the kuffar with delight at our suffering. We have forgotten that we are the best Ummah, we have forgotten the strength and power of Islam as a deen. We have forgotten that the non-believers will never be satisfied with us until they have destroyed our deen. We should remember that Islam is a gift from the Creator of all the universe which should bring dignity and justice to mankind, not humiliation..

今天，穆斯林乌玛所面临的诸多问题——无论是战争、饥荒、腐败还是压迫——其唯一根源，就是缺失伊斯兰的生活方式，而这正体现在哈里发制度的缺位上。没有哈里发，我们的生命和尊严便得不到保护，异教徒可以肆意拷打、强奸、杀戮，而无所畏惧，也无需承担任何报应。我们的资源和土地，成了所有想要掠夺和剥削者的囊中之物。我们的思想遭受谎言、歪曲和对伊斯兰教的诽谤，却没有一种真理之声能以权威和力量站出来加以反驳。面对这一切问题，我们可以清楚地看到，重建哈里发制度是穆斯林乌玛至关重要的问题。

Today, the sole factor behind the many problems faced by the Ummah, whether it is wars, famine, corruption and oppression, is the absence of the Islamic way of life, manifested by the Khilafah. Without the Khilafah, our lives and honour have no protection, and the kuffar can torture, rape and kill, without any fear of retribution. Our resources and lands are easy prey for all who want to steal and exploit them. Our minds are subjected to lies, distortion and slander of the deen, with no voice of truth that can stand up in the face of this with authority and force. With all of these problems we can see clearly that the re-establishment of the Khilafah the vital issue for the Muslim Ummah.

我们必须摆脱因无知而陷入的腐败与不信之影响，重新回归伊斯兰，将其牢牢植根于我们每个人的心灵与思想之中，通过学习伊斯兰的律法与制度来充实自己。伊斯兰的律法与制度完美无缺，是安拉（SWT）的恩赐。

We must shake off the influence of corruption and disbelief which our ignorance has caused us to fall into and turn once again to Islam, planting it firmly in all our hearts and minds, by educating ourselves as to its laws and systems which are perfect in their entirety, a blessing from Allah (swt).