穆斯林世界一直以失败、分裂、流血、压迫和落后为特征。目前，世界上没有任何一个穆斯林国家能够理直气壮地宣称自己在人类活动的任何领域处于领先地位。事实上，东方和西方的非穆斯林如今正在为穆斯林乌玛规定社会、经济和政治议程。

The Muslim world has been characterised by failure, disunity, bloodshed, oppression and backwardness. At present, no Muslim country in the world can rightly claim to be a leader in any field of human activity. Indeed, the non-Muslims of the East and the West now dictate the social, economic and political agenda for the Muslim Ummah.

此外,穆斯林自认为是土耳其人、阿拉伯人、非洲人和巴基斯坦人。

Furthermore, the Muslims identify themselves as Turkish, Arab, African and Pakistani.

如果这还不够，穆斯林在各个国家或大洲内部又进一步被细分。

If this is not enough, Muslims are further sub-divided within each country or continent.

例如，在巴基斯坦，人们被划分为旁遮普人、信德人、俾路支人和普什图人。

For example, in Pakistan people are classed as Punjabis, Sindhis, Balauchis and Pathans.

穆斯林乌玛在过去伊斯兰统治时期从未面临过这样的困境。他们从未饱受分裂之苦、普遍的压迫、科学与技术的停滞，当然也不曾经历我们本世纪所目睹的那种内部冲突，例如两伊战争。那么，本世纪穆斯林究竟出了什么问题？

The Muslim Ummah was never faced with such a dilemma in the past during Islamic rule. They never suffered from disunity, widespread oppression, stagnation in science and technology and certainly not from the internal conflicts that we have witnessed this century like the Iran-Iraq war. So what has gone wrong with the Muslims this century?

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Why are there so many feuds between them and why are they seen to be fighting each other? What has caused their weakness and how will they ever recover from the present stagnation?

当前局面的形成有诸多因素，但主要有以下几点：放弃阿拉伯语这一正确理解伊斯兰并进行伊吉提哈德（独立判断）的语言；吸收外来文化，如希腊、波斯和印度的哲学；中央权威对一些行省的逐渐丧失；以及19世纪以来民族主义的兴起。

There are many factors that contributed to the present state of affairs, but the main ones are the abandoning of the Arabic language as the language of understanding Islam correctly and performing ijtihad, the absorption of foreign cultures such as the philosophies of the Greeks, Persian and the Hindus, the gradual loss of central authority over some of the provinces, and the rise of nationalism since the 19th Century.

本书聚焦于穆斯林世界民族主义的起源。民族主义并非自然而然地在穆斯林世界中产生,也不是因民众所遭受的苦难而兴起,更不是因为工业革命之后欧洲开始主宰世界,穆斯林心中生出挫败感而产生的。恰恰相反,民族主义是欧洲列强在武力摧毁伊斯兰国家失败之后,经过周密谋划,被植入穆斯林心中的。本书还阐述了伊斯兰教对民族主义的裁决,以及可以采取的切实步骤,以便从穆斯林乌玛中根除民族主义这一顽疾,使其重现昔日的荣光。

This book focuses on the origins of nationalism in the Muslim world. Nationalism did not arise in the Muslim world naturally, nor did it came about in response to any hardships faced by the people, nor due to the frustration they felt when Europe started to dominate the world after the industrial revolution. Rather, nationalism was implanted in the minds of the Muslims through a well thought out scheme by the European powers, after their failure to destroy the Islamic State by force. The book also presents the Islamic verdict on nationalism and practical steps that can be taken to eradicate the disease of nationalism from the Muslim Ummah so as to restore it back to its former glory.