西方的建立基于一种观念：将宗教（deen）与生活相分离。

The West is built on the idea of the separation of the deen from life.

根据这一思想或基础,西方将宗教(deen)的一切影响从人们的生活中驱逐出去。其关于人生的观念开始以此为基础来加以评判。依此,西方人从这一基础出发,发展出与这一根本思想同类的种种思想。于是,民主的观念使人自己成为自己的主宰,而不是使这种主宰权归于安拉 􀀬。于是,利益成为他们行为的准则,而他们对幸福的定义变成了获取尽可能多的快乐。正是对个人的神圣化,导致了对自由的神圣化。西方依据这些思想建立了一个社会,同时反对任何与之相悖的思想。这些思想的结果是,西方人经历了苦难,而非他们所追求的幸福。这是必然的,因为人是有缺陷的,因而既不能为自己立法,也不能为他人立法。在一个自私盛行、自由至上的社会里,这样的社会只能是兽性的,丛林法则至高无上。

According to this idea or basis, The West banished every effect of the deen from the people’s lives. Its concepts about life began to be judged by this basis. In accordance with this, westerners developed thoughts from this basis, of the same type as this fundamental thought. Thus, the idea of Democracy made man the master over himself instead of making that mastery for Allah 􀀬. Thus, the idea of benefit became the criterion for their actions, and their definition of happiness became to attain the greatest amount of pleasure possible. It was the idea of sanctification of the individual, which led to the idea of sanctification of freedoms. The West established a society based on these thoughts, and at the same time, were opposed to any thought that contradicted it. The result of these thoughts was that the western people experienced misery, instead of the happiness they sought. This is natural, since man is deficient, thus is not able to legislate for himself or for others. The society in which selfishness prevails and freedoms dominate, such a society can only be animalistic, where the law of the jungle reigns supreme.

然后，西方给予思想充分的自由。人们去探索、去发明，于是取得了巨大的科学和技术突破。西方掌握了权力的手段，借助这些手段以权力的逻辑而非真理的逻辑支配世界。接着，它开始将自身强加于世界，先是在物质层面，然后是在思想层面。换言之，在控制一个国家之后，它便扶植符合其利益的统治者，并推行适合于它的制度。传媒和教育课程也被设立起来，用以为西方、为它的思想和生活方式制造宣传。它试图让世界相信，它之所以强大，是因为它对生活的看法。

Then The West gave free reign to the mind. They went to discover and invent things, thus it made huge scientific and technological breakthroughs. It managed to get hold of the means of power that enabled it to dominate the world by the logic of power and not logic of truth. Then it started to impose itself on the world, first materially and then intellectually. In other words, after controlling the country, it used to establish rulers who would serve its interests and impose the systems that suited it. The media and education curricula were established to create propaganda for The West, its thought and its way of life. It tried to convince them that the reason for its power is its viewpoint about life.

然后，它按照自身利益的需要划分了世界。于是出现了这样一些国家：工业化、生产力强、实力雄厚、占据主导地位且奉行殖民主义，西方称它们为进步和先进的；另一些国家则贫穷、依赖消费、软弱且受制于人，西方称它们为落后的。它致力于巩固这种划分，并阻止这些国家的处境发生任何改变，也阻止任何对现状的异议。

Then it divided the world in a manner that suited its interests. So you have states that are industrialised, producers, powerful, dominant and colonialist, which The West describes as progressive and advanced. Other states are poor, consumers, weak and controlled, and The West calls them backward. It worked to concentrate this division, and prevented any change in the circumstances of these states or disagreement with the status quo.

然后它给予本国人民自由，使那里的人民享有政治稳定。它使人民能够保障基本需求，并以不均衡的方式享受一些奢侈品。与此同时，它阻止贫穷国家发展，扣留了科学，而科学本可为它们提供物质力量。它阻止这些国家建立初级工业，使它们始终极度依赖其产品。它使这些国家陷入贫困，并使其成为其商品的市场。它剥夺了这些国家人民的政治稳定与安全。这是因为富裕的工业国家为了殖民贫穷国家而彼此争斗。这种争斗已不再是直接的，即相互宣战的战争。相反，这种争斗通过使人民互相争斗，或在其不能控制的国家中挑起革命与动乱而进行。于是安全与稳定受到扰乱，人民之间的仇恨随之燃起。更不用说在一国人民之间煽动种族主义、部落主义和民族主义了。

Then it gave free reign to the freedoms in its country and made the people there enjoy political stability. It enabled the people to ensure their basic needs and enjoy some of the luxuries, in a disparate manner. At the same time it prohibited the poor countries from advancing, when it withheld science from them, which would provide them with the material power. It prevented them from establishing primary industries, so they stay in dire need of them. It imporverished such countries and made them a market for its goods. It deprived their people from having political stability and security. That is because the rich industrial nations struggled amongst themselves to colonise the poor nations. This struggle is no longer direct, where wars are declared on each other. Rather the struggle takes place by making the people fight amongst each other, or by initiating revolutions and disturbances in the country that it does not control. Thus the security and stability is disturbed, and hatred flares up between the people. Not to mention inciting racism, tribalism and nationalism amongst the people of a country themselves.

同样，西方国家为其民众提供了社会保障，例如医疗、教育、失业救济金和老年养老金，而在其他国家，民众却被禁止享有这些保障。

Likewise the western state has provided for its people social security such as medicine, education, unemployment benefit and pensions in old age, while people have been forbidden that in other nations.

它还通过多样化其殖民手段，建立了国际法院、联合国安全理事会、世界银行和国际特赦组织等世界性机构。它组建了不同国籍的部队，以介入制止其他国家之间的冲突，或保护向贫穷国家提供的援助。它还设立了各种组织和机构，以隐蔽的方式干预贫穷国家的事务，并收买其效忠，例如"救助儿童会"援助组织和"无国界医生"组织（即"无国界的医生"）。

It has also established, by way of diversifying its means of colonisation, world bodies such as the International Court of Justice, United Nations Security Council, World Bank and the Amnesty International. It established forces of different nationalities to intervene in stopping struggles taking place between other nations or to protect aid given to poor nations. It established organisations and bodies to intervene in a covert manner in the affairs of poor nations and to buy allegiance, such as Save The Children aid organisation and Medicins Sans Frontiers (doctors without frontiers).

事实上,将宗教与生活分离、以及由此产生的功利观念,导致了西方的殖民主义思想。然而,这种殖民主义不再以其过去的原始面貌出现。相反,它的思想、手段和方式不断发展,已成为一种隐蔽的殖民主义。表面上它是一种恩惠,内里却是一种折磨。如此一来,西方开始歪曲事实,装扮成理想的范例,让人们争相效仿,让穆斯林朝拜的麦加(qiblah),即穆斯林应当面向的方向。没有什么欺骗和虚伪比这更大了:他们声称自己所施的恩惠来自民主和自由的理念。他们是那些想要生活在其天堂般环境中的人的庇护所和援助者。与此同时,他们掩盖了殖民主义的真实本质:剥削各民族、掠夺其资源、使其贫困、在技术和经济上使其落后,并将其维持为自身资源和贸易的永久市场,这正是其控制世界的原因所在。西方及其殖民主义的故事很长;我们这里只简要叙述其中与我们的讨论有关的部分。

Indeed, the idea of separating the deen from life and the notion of benefit, which arises from it, has led to the idea of colonisation in the west. However, this colonisation does not appear in its primitive image, as it was in the past. Rather, its thoughts, means and styles have developed and have become a hidden colonialism. On the surface it is a mercy, but inside it is torture. In this way, The West began to falsify the facts and appear as if it is the ideal example that the people should aspire to emulate, and it is the qiblah towards which the Muslims should turn their faces. There can be no greater deception and hypocrisy than to claim that the favour they have comes from Democracy and the idea of freedoms. They are the refuge and help to the one who wants to live in the like of their paradise. They, at the same time, concealed the true nature of colonialism; exploiting peoples and usurping their resources, impoverishing them, keeping them backwards technically and economically, and keeping them as a permanent market for its resources and trade, and the reason of its control over the world. The story of The West and its colonialism is long; we just mentioned a brief account of it that benefits our discussion.

是的，西方歪曲了事实，颠倒了是非，并以他们希望人们看到的东西遮蔽了人们对真相的正确认知。于是，一些错误的普遍观念在生活中被确立起来，其中"强权即真理"的观念十分盛行。这一口号所依据的原则是："强者的论点是强有力的，弱者的论点是软弱无力的。"意识形态团体或政党的作用正在于此：使事物回归其本来面貌，纠正人们的观点，并制止这种欺骗。如果该团体受到这种现实的影响，它就会失去正确的认知，并提出其敌人所提出的解决方案。然而，如果它达到了对现实的真正理解，并以正确的方式参照沙里亚来寻求解决方案，那么它就能向人们提供真正的解决之道，并能够带领人们脱离西方思想的不公，走向伊斯兰的公正。

Yes, The West has twisted the facts, turned matters upside down and obscured the true perception of people with things that they wanted them to see. So false general thoughts have been established in life, in which the concept of might is right, is prevalent. This slogan is based on the principle: ‘the argument of the strong is strong and the argument of the weak is weak.’ The role of the ideological group or party comes here, to return matters to their original state, correct the viewpoint and stop the deception. If the group is affected by this reality, then it will lose the correct perception and it will propose the solutions its enemies are proposing. However, if it reached the true understanding of the reality and referred to the Shar’eeah in the correct manner in order to find the solution, then it will bring the true solution to the people, and become able to take the people away from the injustice of the western thought to the justice of Islam.

从这段引言可以看出，西方之所以拥有唯一的权力，是因为它在科学和技术领域给予了理智完全的自由，同时又阻止其他民族掌握物质力量的手段。实际上，他们所拥有的过多财富，源于殖民主义、对不同民族鲜血的浇灌以及对其资源的掠夺，而不是源于民主。

From this introduction, we can see that the reason The West has the sole power is because it gave complete freedom to the intellect in science and technology, whilst at the same time it prevented other peoples from possessing the means of material power. Indeed, the excessive wealth that they have is due to colonialism, spilling the blood of different peoples, and the plundering of their resources; it is not due to Democracy.

至于民主是什么，以及它实施后的结果如何，那是另一个话题。

As for what Democracy is and what the results of its implementation; that is another story.

“将宗教与生活分离”的观念在西方出现，是在教会干预人们生活事务所造成的苦难之后。这种干预是以宗教的名义进行的，但宗教本身实际上与此无关。这是因为在基督教中，并没有规范世俗事务的律法。教士们以宗教之名制定压迫性的法律，由此引发了两种反应：第一种反应是完全拒绝宗教。另一种反应是承认宗教，但主张它必须与生活分离。基于第一种观点，产生了一些思想，进而催生了被称为社会主义国家的政权；这些政权在实行了数十年、人民在其统治下饱受苦难之后便告崩溃。基于第二种观点，产生了另一些思想，进而催生了被称为资本主义国家的政权，而它们正走向衰亡。思想与现实都表明了这一点。

The idea of ‘separating religion from life’ came about in The West after the suffering that was caused by the Church’s interference in life’s affairs of people. The interference took place in the name of religion, though their religion was actually innocent of this. This is because in the Christian religion, there is no legislation for worldly matters. The clergy, in the name of religion, were legislating oppressive laws that led to certain reactions; the first reaction was to reject religion altogether. The other reaction was to recognize the religion, but that it had to be separated from life. On the basis of the first idea, thoughts were established that gave rise to regimes known as the Socialist States, which collapsed after some decades had passed and the people had suffered under their implementation. On the basis of the second idea, thoughts were established that gave rise to regimes known as the Capitalist States, which are on the way to ruin. This is indicated by the thought and the reality.

“将宗教与生活分离”的观念，赋予了人类立法的权利，并使宗教失去了这一权利。他们虽然承认真主的存在，却把信仰变成了一种个人的观念，与社会毫无关系，对社会也没有任何影响。在他们看来，无论所信奉的神是安拉、耶稣、佛陀，还是其他任何人，都没有什么问题；持有一种不属于任何宗教的信仰，也没有什么问题。然而，始终只有人类在管理世间的事务。

The idea of ‘separating religion from life’ has given man the right to legislate and prevented religion from having that right. Though they recognize the existence of God they turned it into an individual notion that has nothing to do with society and has no effect on it. For them, there is nothing wrong if the deity is Allah, Jesus, Buddha or any other person. There is nothing wrong with having a belief that is not from any religion. But all the time man is the only one who manages the affairs.

对他们而言,这一观念没有商量或诠释的余地。在他们看来,人是管理自身事务、主持并安排本能欲望满足的人。正是由此诞生了民主的观念,这一观念的含义是"民有、民治、民享"。"民有、民治"的意思是人民自己做自己的主人,即

For them, this idea is not open to negotiation or interpretation. Man in their view is the one who manages his affairs, administers them and organizes the satisfaction of his instincts. It was owing to this that the idea of Democracy was born, an idea which means, ‘the rule of the people, by the people and for the people.’ ‘The rule of the people’ means the people are their own masters, i.e.

他们才是制定法律的人，也就是说，他们才是立法者。

they are the ones who enact laws i.e. they are the ones who legislate.

“由人民”意味着人民是依照其所制定的法律来统治的人。

‘By the people’ means that people are the ones who rule by what they have legislated.

“而‘对于人民而言’，指的是人民受其所制定的法律所统治。”

And ‘for the people’ means that it is the people who are ruled by what they have legislated.

在他们看来，这便意味着三种权威。

This, in their view translates into three authorities.

1 - 立法权。它是制定法律和条例、修改、废除这些法律和条例，并监督其执行的权力。

1 - The legislative authority. It is the authority that legislates laws and canons, amends them, abolishes them and monitors their execution.

2 - 行政权力。它是执行一般法律、人民的普遍意志以及立法权所制定的法律的机构。

2 - The executive authority. It is the body that executes the general law or the general will of the people and the laws legislated by the legislative authority.

3 - 司法权力。它是依照立法权力所颁布的法律和条例，对呈交其面前的一切事务进行裁决的机构。

3 - The judicial authority. It is the body that judges everything presented before it according to the laws and canons issued by the legislative authority.

这些是民主制度的基本特征。可以说，凡是具备这些基本属性的制度，都可称为民主制度；缺少其中任何一项属性的制度，则不被称为民主制度。在这些特征中最为突出的，是人民主权的概念。它被视为民主思想的主要支柱，也是民主制度的核心。

These are the fundamental characteristics of Democracy. It is possible to say that every system that distinguishes itself by these basic attributes is a democratic system. Any system that lacks a single attribute from these is not called a democratic system. The most prominent of these characteristics is the concept of the sovereignty of people. It is considered the primary support of the democratic thought and backbone of the democratic systems.

所以，伊斯兰教中有民主吗？民主的这一实质是否存在于伊斯兰教中？如果民主的这一实质存在于伊斯兰教中，那么我们可以说“民主源自伊斯兰教”，“正统哈里发是最早实行民主的人”，以及“民主是我们失而复得的财产”。如果这一实质并不存在，那么民主根本不源自伊斯兰教。因此，我们必须了解伊斯兰教对民主的看法。

So, is there Democracy in Islam? Is this reality of Democracy present in Islam? If this reality of Democracy is present in Islam, then we can say that ‘Democracy is from Islam’ and ‘the Righteous Khulafah were the first to apply Democracy’ and that ‘Democracy is our lost property, which has been returned to us.’ If this reality is not present, then it is not from Islam at all. Consequently we must know Islam’s opinion regarding Democracy.

诚然,民主这一理念与其根基相契合,而其根基便是政教分离、宗教与生活相分离。民主由此而生,并遵循同样的准则。因为它是一个被否定的根基的分支,而信奉它的人被视为卡菲尔(kaafir,不信者)。众所周知,政教分离的理念与穆斯林的根本理念相悖,而穆斯林的根本理念便是“万物非主,唯有真主,穆罕默德是真主的使者”。从穆斯林的信仰(‘Aqeedah)中衍生出并与之相契合的理念是:

Indeed, the idea of Democracy is one that is in harmony with the idea of its basis, which is the separation of religion from life. It is born from it, and it takes the same rule. This is because it is a branch of a rejected basis, and the one who believes in it is considered a kaafir. It is known that the idea of separating religion from life contradicts the fundamental idea of the Muslims, which is ‘Laa ilaaha illallahu muhammadur rasoolullah.’ The idea that emanates from and is in harmony with the ‘Aqeedah of the Muslims is:

“认定裁决（胡克姆）的权力唯独属于真主。祂命令你们除祂之外不要崇拜任何人，这才是正直的宗教，但大多数人并不知晓。”（古兰经 12:40）

“Indeed, the Hukm is only for Allah. He has commanded that you worship none but Him, that is the (true) straight religion, but most men know not.” [TMQ 12:40].

他 􀀬 所说的“……但大多数人并不知道。”，意思是：在真主（万世的主）的裁决上，不应考虑大多数人的意见；立法只能属于真主 􀀬。因此，在伊斯兰制度中，最终的决定权属于真主 􀀬。命令、禁止、允许与不允许，都是属于至高、至大、全知、全晓的那一位，而不属于任何受造物。在真主 􀀬 之外，无论个人还是团体，在立法上都没有丝毫的份。

His 􀀬 saying; “…but most men know not.”, means that there is no consideration for the majority’s opinion as regards the decision of the Lord of the Worlds, and that legislation should be only for Allah 􀀬. Thus, in the Islamic system the final word is for Allah 􀀬. The order, prohibition, allowing and forbidding is for the One Who is Most High, Most Great, the All- Knowing, All-Informed and NOT for any creation. No individual or group has the slightest share in legislation beside Allah 􀀬.

唯有真主才有裁决的权力;"除真主外,没有任何人有权裁决。"[TMQ 12:40]。没有人有权废除真主的裁决;"没有人能够撤销他的判决。"[TMQ 13:41]。那么,民主的黑暗之夜,怎能与伊斯兰的光明白昼相提并论呢?真主在祂明确的经文中清楚地说:"如果你服从世上的大多数人,他们会使你偏离真主的正道。他们所遵循的只是臆测,他们所做的只是撒谎。"[TMQ 6:116]。祂还说:"你们可能厌恶某件事,而它对你们有益;你们可能喜爱某件事,而它对你们有害。真主知道,你们却不知道。"[TMQ 2:216]。

Allah is the only One Who gives judgment; “Indeed, the Hukm is only for Allah.” [TMQ 12:40]. No one has the right to put back Allah’s judgment; “And there is none to put back His Judgment.” [TMQ 13:41] So how can the dark night of Democracy be compared with the shining day of Islam? Allah 􀀬 states clearly in his explicit ayaat; “And if you obey most of those on earth, they will mislead you far away from Allah’s Path. They follow nothing but conjectures, and they do nothing but lie.” [TMQ 6:116]. He 􀀬 says; “…and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allah knows but you know not.” [TMQ 2:216].