前言
1 Preface
西方思想的体系在19世纪完成。此后,它从其创立者的种种观念与理论,转变为一套完整的意识形态,拥有自身的教义与体系。这些内容连同文明与文化层面的看法,共同被称为资本主义意识形态。西欧国家采纳了它,并借殖民扩张的方式将其传播到世界各地,包括伊斯兰世界。在当时的超级大国英国的带领下,西方国家得以动摇伊斯兰哈里发(奥斯曼哈里发)的根基。哈里发的文化发展陷入停滞,其穆斯林民众也不再进行富有成效的思考。于是,伊斯兰哈里发的部分领土落入占领者之手,其全球政治影响力也日渐衰落,直至它被称为“病夫”,人们只等着宣布它的死亡。这一结局在20世纪初(伊斯兰历14世纪)到来,即公元1924年,伊斯兰哈里发国家被正式废除。随着它的灭亡,伊斯兰不再作为一种由国家承载的意识形态出现在全球政治舞台上,尽管它仍然存在于世界之中,由个人和民族所承载。
The construct of Western thought was completed in the nineteenth century CE. It transformed then from mere ideas and theories of its originators, into a comprehensive ideology, with its own doctrine and system. These along with civilizational and cultural perceptions, collectively came to be known as the capitalist ideology. It was adopted by Western European nations, who carried it to the world, including the Islamic World, through the method of colonialization. Headed by the superpower of the time, Britain, the Western nations were able to destabilize the Islamic Khilafah (the Ottoman Caliphate). The Khilafah’s cultural development had stagnated and its Muslim citizens ceased to think productively. Thus, parts of the Islamic Khilafah were lost to occupation, whilst its global political influence waned, until it was called the “Sick Old Man,” who was waiting for the world to announce his death. This came to be at the beginning of the twentieth century CE (fourteenth century AH), that is, in the year 1924 CE, when the Islamic Khilafah state was officially abolished. With its fall, Islam is no longer present in the global political arena as an ideology, carried by a state, although it remains existent in the world, carried by individuals and peoples.
二十世纪末,公元纪年,不仅见证了一个伟大强权的陨落,即伊斯兰哈里发的倒下,也见证了另一个主要强权的兴起。这一强权建立在一种与资本主义意识形态相悖的意识形态之上,无论在其教义还是体系上皆是如此,尽管它实际上源自西方思想的核心本身。它诞生于西方思想的唯物主义启蒙之胎,在其文化氛围中成长与培育。可叹的是,共产主义意识形态便是如此,其实质也不过如此。公元1917年,苏联建立于马克思主义社会主义的理念之上。于是,共产主义作为一种由国家承载的意识形态,出现在全球政治舞台上。国际冲突被限定为共产主义与资本主义两种意识形态之间的冲突。然而,共产主义并未延续多久,在公元二十世纪末,具体而言在1989年即柏林墙倒塌之年,它走向了崩溃。随着共产主义作为国家与意识形态的双重瓦解,西方资本主义,此时以美国为首,欣喜若狂且过度自信地宣布自由资本主义战胜了马克思主义社会主义。它宣告“历史的终结”,并以“全球化”之名,通过新殖民主义强加其意识形态与生活方式。事实上,历史尚未终结。一方面,作为个人、政党、团体以及乌玛的伊斯兰,与另一方面,作为拥有各种形式权力与权威的国家的资本主义,两者之间的思想冲突依然存在。在伊斯兰哈里发蒙安拉(SWT)允许建立之后,这一冲突将很快加剧为文明与国际层面的冲突。哈里发的建立之临近,西方比穆斯林更清楚。
The end of the twentieth century CE did not just witness the fall of a great power i.e. the fall of the Islamic Khilafah. It also witnessed the emergence of another major power established upon an ideology that contradicts capitalist ideology, both in its doctrine and system, even though it is, in fact, emergent from within the core of Western thought itself. It was born of the womb of Western thought’s materialistic enlightenment, raised and groomed within its cultural atmosphere. Alas, such was the communist ideology, much as it was. In the year 1917 CE, the Soviet Union was established upon the idea of Marxist socialism. Thus communism appeared on the global political arena, as an ideology, carried by a state. The international conflict was restricted to a conflict between two ideologies, communism and capitalism. Communism did not last long, however, collapsing towards the end of twentieth century CE, specifically within the year 1989, the year of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. With the fall of communism as both a state and ideology, Western capitalism, now led by the United States, declared ecstatically and over-confidently the victory of liberal capitalism over Marxist socialism. It announced ‘the end of history’ and imposed its ideology and way of life through neo-colonialism under the banner of ‘globalization.’ In fact, history has not ended yet. There remains an intellectual conflict between Islam as individuals, parties, groups and an Ummah, on the one hand, and capitalism as a state, possessing power and authority of all types and forms, on the other hand. This conflict will intensify soon into a civilizational and international conflict, after the establishment of the Islamic Khilafah, by the permission of Allah (swt), whose closeness to establishment is known well to the West, even ahead of the Muslims.
过去三十年间,伊斯兰乌玛对自身的意识形态、文明与文化的觉醒日益增强。同时,乌玛也表现出强烈的愿望,要重新恢复伊斯兰的生活方式,即依照先知之道建立正统哈里发国(Khilafah Rashidah)。西方非常清楚这一点,正如它清楚自身固有的现实:其智识大厦上已出现深深的裂痕,这预示着它自身衰落的开端。若穆斯林在智识与政治的斗争中表现得足够出色,尤其是在其国家重建之后,西方资本主义文明的衰落就是必然之事。这既是由于资本主义意识形态所赖以建立的智识基础本身无效,也是由于从这一意识形态中产生的种种概念与治理方式已然败坏,这是自然的结果。因此,西方的文艺复兴既不是真正的复兴,也不是建立在开明的智识基础和积极的精神基础之上的。它只是由历经数百年形成的众多人类思想、哲学、倾向与观念杂糅而成。施与受、冲突、战争、经验主义与还原论共同构成了一种特定文明与文化的图景,按照其倡导者的说法,这种文明与文化将解放西方人并赋予他幸福。西方思想不仅成为西方苦难与束缚枷锁的根源,也成为了全世界苦难的根源。
The last three decades have witnessed growing awareness with the Islamic Ummah about its ideology, civilization and culture. They have also witnessed the deep desire of the Ummah to resume the Islamic way of life, by establishing the Rightly Guided Khilafah (Khilafah Rashidah) on the Method of Prophethood. The West is well aware of this matter, just as it is aware of its own innate reality, with the beginnings of its own decline, manifesting as deep cracks in its intellectual edifice. The fall of the Western capitalist civilization is an inevitable matter, if the Muslims engage in the intellectual and political conflict competently, particularly after the restoration of their state. It is the natural consequence due to both the invalidity of the intellectual basis, upon which the capitalist ideology was established, and the corruption of both concepts and treatments, that emerged from this ideology. Thus, Western Renaissance neither is true revival, nor is it based upon an enlightened intellectual basis and a positive spiritual basis. It is only based on a concoction of multiple human ideas, philosophies, tendencies and perceptions, that were formed over centuries. Give and take, conflict, war, empiricism and reductionism all formed a vision of a specific civilization and culture, which, according to the claim of its advocates, is to emancipate and grant happiness to the Western man. Western thought not only turned into a source of misery and binding shackles for the West, it became a source of misery for the entire world.
伊斯兰与西方之间的冲突,无论发生在当下还是未来,无论由个人还是国家参与,无论是否表现为物质行动,就其本质与实质而言,都是一场思想上的冲突。这是源自彼此不仅迥异、而且相互对立的意识形态、文明与文化的思想和观念之间的冲突。伊斯兰乌玛在准备重新担当其引领文明的角色之际,必须深入洞察其所要抗衡的西方思想之本质。乌玛必须自觉地理解西方思想的规则、基础、价值与方法。它必须装备上深刻而明澈的思想,与西方思想展开较量,揭示其软弱与谬误。
The conflict between Islam and the West, whether in the present or in the future, whether it is engaged in by individuals or states, whether it manifested as material actions or not, in its essence and reality, is an intellectual conflict. It is an intellectual conflict between thoughts and concepts emanating from ideologies, civilizations and cultures that are not only disparate, but are contradictory. As it prepares to resume its leading civilizational role, it has become obligatory upon the Islamic Ummah to deeply perceive the nature of Western thought which it is struggling against. The Ummah must consciously understand its rules, foundations, values and methods. It has to be armed with a deep, enlightened thought to wrestle with Western thought, exposing its weakness and invalidity.
在本书《驳斥资本主义西方思想》中,我们审视西方文明及其文化的实质,也审视资本主义意识形态在教义与制度层面的实质。我们阐明西方思维的根源,及其在知识、方法、思想与概念方面所产生的结果。我们以理性的论据,指出这一意识形态在整体上的无效与败坏。我们把正道与歧途并列划出,以便为每一位有理智的人厘清真理与迷误、光明与黑暗之别。
In this book, Refutation of the Capitalist Western Thought, we review the reality of the Western civilization and its culture, as well as the reality of capitalist ideology in terms of doctrine and system. We clarify the origin of Western thinking and its results in terms of knowledge, methods, thoughts and concepts. We draw attention to the invalidity and corruption of this ideology in its entirety, with rational evidence. We draw the straight line next to the crooked line to clarify, for every sane person, the truth from the misguidance and the light from the darkness.