卡尔·马克思曾如此说。自那以后，伊斯兰东方的共产主义宣传者不仅忠实地重复这一谬论，他们甚至还试图将其套用到伊斯兰教上。

Karl Marx said so. The communist propagandists in tile Islamic Orient have not only faithfully repeated this fallacy ever since but they even attempt to apply it to Islam as well.

可以说,卡尔·马克思和其他共产主义先驱,鉴于当时欧洲的特殊情况,对宗教和教会人士的反叛至少是有其借口的。当时,封建制度在欧洲扮演着最为残暴的角色,尤其是在俄国,那里每年都有成千上万的人被饿死,数以百万计的人死于肺病和其他疾病,而严寒每个冬天也同样夺去了无数人的生命。然而,封建领主仍然踩着劳动人民的鲜血过活,过着荒淫奢侈的生活,享受着一切可以想象的享乐。

It might well be said that Karl Marx and other communist pioneers in view of the peculiar circumstances obtaining in Europe at the time, had at least an excuse for revolting against their religion and churchmen. At that time feudalism played a most monstrous role in Europe and particularly in Russia where thousands of people were starved to death every year and millions of people died of consumption and other diseases while cold killed an equal number of people every winter. But the feudal lords still wallowed in the blood of the working people and led a life of licentious luxury enjoying all imaginable kinds of pleasures.

但凡劳动人民稍有念头想要抗议，甚至只是感受到自己所遭受的赤裸裸的不公，神职人员便会匆忙告诫他们："有人打你的右脸，连左脸也转过来由他打；有人要拿你的外衣，连里衣也由他拿去。"

But if the working people ever thought of protesting or even tried to feel the gross injustice to which they were subjected, the clergy would hastily tell them: "Whoever beats you on your right cheek turn the left cheek for him; whoever takes a part of your garment give him the rest of your clothes".