真正导致安达卢斯遭入侵的原因，是欧洲自十字军战争中遭受屈辱性失败以来一直渴望的复仇。在穆斯林给予他们沉重打击，并被逐出穆斯林土地之后，西方人便对穆斯林怀恨在心。他们的内心充满了对穆斯林的仇恨与恶意。他们不敢在东方重演其冒险，因为他们知道穆斯林能够击退那里的任何进攻。他们认为在安达卢斯更容易获得复仇。随着时间推移，欧洲将其攻势指向安达卢斯，并以断头台和焚尸炉残酷地撕裂了这片土地，对其居民施以暴行。这种暴行比野兽更加残忍，是西方所犯下的诸多可耻行径中最卑劣的一桩。然而，穆斯林在支持安达卢斯方面的疏忽，却助长了他们的气焰。

The real cause behind the invasion of Andalus was the revenge which Europe yearned for ever since their humiliating defeat in the crusader wars. After the crushing blow they were dealt by the Muslims, and after they had been chased away from Muslim lands, the Westerners carried a grudge against the Muslims. Their hearts were filled with hatred and malice towards the Muslims. They would not dare repeat their venture in the East, for they knew that the Muslims would be able to repel any offensive there. They thought that revenge would be easier to obtain in Andalus. In time, Europe directed its onslaught to Andalus and savagely ripped it apart using guillotines and crematoriums on its inhabitants. It was more savage than by beasts, being one of the most despicable of many shameful acts carried out by the West. Nevertheless, they were encouraged by the neglect of the Muslims in supporting Andalus.

当时穆斯林足够强大,也有能力在军事上援助那一省(Wilayah),抵御其西方敌人。然而,穆斯林松懈下来,使安达卢斯成为了容易到手的猎物。这助长了西方进一步思谋复仇的念头,若非穆斯林的强大,尤其是奥斯曼国家的强大,那些袭扰本会迅速而猛烈地波及穆斯林其余的土地。正是穆斯林的雄厚实力,以及奥斯曼人征服欧洲大片土地,使西方人深感恐惧,迫使他们在贸然对穆斯林发动任何冒险之前三思而行,以免像十字军东征时那样惨遭失败。

The Muslims were strong enough at the time and in a position to militarily assist that Wilayah (province) against its Western foes. However, the Muslims slackened and left Andalus an easy prey. This encouraged the West to think even further about revenge and had it not been for the might of the Muslims, especially the ‘Uthmani State, the raids would have come strong and fast on the rest of the Muslim lands. It was the sheer might of the Muslims and the conquest of large parts of Europe by the invading ‘Uthmanis which caused great fright among the Westerners and pressed them to think twice about embarking on any rash venture against the Muslims lest they get defeated in the style of the crusades.

西方的入侵不得不推迟到十八世纪下半叶才发生。直到那时,停滞才降临到伊斯兰世界。于是,穆斯林放弃了在国际上传播伊斯兰讯息,伊斯兰在他们心中和思想中的热忱也已衰退,正是在这时,他们的威严与力量在敌人眼中才开始衰落。此后,对伊斯兰世界的文化入侵和传教入侵愈演愈烈,随之而来的是瓜分穆斯林土地的政治入侵。

The Western invasion had to be delayed until the second half of the eighteenth century. Only then had stagnation hit the Islamic world. Thus, with the Muslims abandoning the conveyance of the Islamic message internationally and with the fervor of Islam having waned in their hearts and minds it was only then that their grandeur and might diminished in the eyes of their enemies. Following this, the cultural and missionary invasions of the Islamic world intensified, accompanied by the political invasion that carved up the Muslim lands.

在叶卡捷琳娜二世统治时期（1762—1796年），俄罗斯与奥斯曼人作战并将其击败。在此过程中，奥斯曼帝国的大片领土被割让出去。俄罗斯人夺取了亚速城和克里米亚半岛（al-Qaram半岛），以及黑海整个北岸。他们在克里米亚半岛建立了塞瓦斯托波尔城作为军事基地，并在乌克兰南部黑海沿岸修建了商业港口敖德萨。俄罗斯通过取得对罗马尼亚公国的宗主权，并自视为奥斯曼国境内基督教的保护者，成为奥斯曼国家对外政策中的一大关注点。

During the rule of Catherine (1762-1796), Russia fought the ‘Uthmanis and defeated them. In the process, a large area was sliced off of their land. The Russians took the city of Azov and the al-Qaram Peninsula (the Crimea), as well as the whole of the Northern coast of the Black sea. They founded the city of Sevastopol as a military base in the Peninsula and built the commercial port of Odessa on the Black Sea in the South of the Ukraine. Russia became a major concern for the foreign policy of the ‘Uthmani State by assuming sovereignty over the Roman emirates and considering herself the protector of Christianity within the ‘Uthmani State.

1884年，俄国将整个突厥斯坦从伊斯兰国中割裂出去，随后完成了对高加索全境的占领。然而，挑战奥斯曼人的并非只有俄国，西方列强的其他国家也这样做了。1798年7月1日，拿破仑进攻埃及并迅速占领了它。1799年2月，他进攻沙姆南部的港口，夺取了加扎、拉姆拉和雅法。他驻扎在阿卡要塞附近（该要塞在十字军东征中以阿克尔之名著称），但他的进攻受挫，于是撤回埃及，随后返回法国，这场行动最终于1801年失败。然而，尽管他的战役未能成功且以失败告终，它却深刻地影响了奥斯曼国家。在其余波之中，欧洲大多数国家争相进攻伊斯兰世界，并占领其部分土地。法国于1830年占领阿尔及利亚，并致力于占领突尼斯，直至1881年得手。1912年，他们占领了马拉喀什。意大利人于1911年占领了的黎波里，这标志着北非与奥斯曼国家的分离：北非不再处于伊斯兰统治之下，而是落入不信道者之手，并被他们直接殖民。

In 1884, Russia cut the whole of Turkistan from the Islamic State, and then completed its occupation of all of Qafqas. However, Russia was not the only state to challenge the ‘Uthmanis, the rest of the Western powers did so too. On July 1st, 1798, Napoleon attacked Egypt and quickly occupied her. In February, 1799, he attacked the southern port of al-Sham and seized Gazza, al-Ramlah and Yafa. He stood near the fort of Akka (famous in the crusades as Acre), but his onslaught faltered and so he returned to Egypt, then to France and his venture finally failed in 1801. However, despite the fact that his campaign proved unsuccessful and abortive, it deeply affected the ‘Uthmani State. In its aftermath, most of the countries of Europe queued up to attack the Islamic world and occupy parts of its land. The French occupied Algeria in 1830, and worked towards occupying Tunisia until they did so in 1881. They occupied Marrakesh in 1912. The Italians occupied Tripoli in 1911 and this marked the separation of North Africa, which was no longer under Islamic rule, from the ‘Uthmani State. It came to be ruled by the disbelievers and was directly colonized by them.

西方人并没有就此止步,而是继续完成对国家其余地区的占领巩固。英国于1839年占领亚丁,并将其盟约扩展至拉希季以及从也门南部边境延伸至半岛东部的另外九个保护国。此前很久,英国就已占领印度,从而剥夺了穆斯林对印度的统治权。他们尤其将压迫集中在曾掌握印度统治权的穆斯林身上,英国人因此夺取了这一统治权并殖民了印度。随后,他们开始推行一项旨在削弱穆斯林整体地位的进程。

The Westerners did not stop there but continued to complete the consolidation of their occupation of the remaining parts of the State. Britain occupied Aden in 1839 and expanded its covenant to include the Lahaj and the other nine Protectorates which spread from the Southern Yemeni border to the East of the Peninsula. The British had long before seized India, therefore, stripping the Muslims from their authority over it in the process. They specifically concentrated their oppression on the Muslims, who had been the people in authority in India, the British thus seized that authority and colonized India. Then they began a process aimed at weakening the Muslim stand in general.

1882年，英国占领了埃及，1898年又占领了苏丹。与此同时，荷兰占领了东印度群岛；阿富汗和伊朗也受到英俄两国的压力。西方对伊斯兰世界的侵袭愈演愈烈，以至于人们感到整个伊斯兰世界即将全面沦入西方的霸权之下，十字军东征似乎已经重新展开，并且接连取得胜利。于是人们采取措施，抵抗这种西方的入侵，并尽量减轻其沉重的压力。多地爆发了抵抗运动。阿尔及利亚爆发了革命，中国的穆斯林武装起义，苏丹的马赫迪运动也是如此。赛努西运动也爆发了。这实际上证明，尽管伊斯兰世界衰落而孱弱，其内部仍残存着某种活力。然而，所有这些努力都彻底失败了，它们始终未能挽救伊斯兰世界。

In 1882, Britain seized Egypt and in 1898 Sudan. Meanwhile, Holland occupied the East Indies; Afghanistan was put under Anglo-Russian pressure and so was Iran. The Western onslaught on the Islamic world intensified until it was felt that it was about to fall under Western hegemony altogether and that the crusaders’ campaign had been resumed and was achieving success after success. Steps were taken to resist this Western invasion and to minimize its heavy pressure. Resistance movements broke out in several places. A revolution erupted in Algeria, the Muslims of China rose up in arms, as did the Mahdyyun in Sudan. The Sanusyya revolution also erupted. This actually proved that there was still some kind of vitality left within the Islamic world despite its decline and weakness. However, all these attempts completely failed and they never did manage to salvage the Islamic world.

西方在进行军事入侵的同时,还着手从文化和政治上分裂伊斯兰世界,继而肢解伊斯兰世界的其他部分,并锲而不舍地致力于摧毁奥斯曼国家,因为它是代表全世界穆斯林的伊斯兰国家。为此,西方建立了种族和民族主义团体。起初,他们于1804年煽动巴尔干地区的民众起义。此类起义由西方出资资助,最终于1878年促使巴尔干地区获得独立。

The West, in addition to its military invasion, set about dividing the Islamic world culturally and politically, and went on to sever other parts of the Islamic world and worked tenaciously towards destroying the ‘Uthmani State, for this was the Islamic State that represented the Muslims world-wide. With this purpose in mind the West established ethnic and nationalist groups. To begin with, they incited the people of the Balkans to rebel in 1804. Such rebellions as these were financed by the West and they eventually led in 1878 to the Balkans gaining their independence.

外国势力还在1821年煽动希腊起义，直至这场起义在它们的干预下，于1830年以希腊从奥斯曼国家获得独立而告终。此后，巴尔干地区纷纷效仿，直到奥斯曼国家的阴影不再笼罩克里特、塞浦路斯以及它曾经统治过的大部分地中海岛屿。这些地方的大多数居民随后因异教徒的野蛮行径而被驱逐出家园，被迫逃离。他们前往仍属穆斯林土地、仍是伊斯兰国家一部分的阿拉伯国家寻求庇护。切尔克斯人、波什尼亚克人、车臣人以及其他民族，正是那些拒绝屈服于异教徒统治、带着自己的宗教逃往伊斯兰家园和伊斯兰统治之下的英雄的后裔。

The foreign powers also incited Greece to rebel in 1821 until this rebellion, thanks to their intervention, ended in Greece gaining its independence from the ‘Uthmani State in 1830. It was at this stage then that the Balkans followed suit, until the shadow of the ‘Uthmani State no longer engulfed Crete, Cyprus and most of the Mediterranean Islands which it had once governed over. Most of the inhabitants of these places were subsequently expelled from their homes and forced to flee due to the savagery of the disbelievers. They sought refuge in the Arab countries which were still Muslim land and remained part of the Islamic State. The Circassians, the Bushnaks, the Chechens and others are the sons of those heroes who refused to yield to the rule of the disbelievers and fled with their Deen to the safety of the Islamic household and Islamic rule.

西方人走得更远，他们还暗中鼓动并支持穆斯林内部在国家之内的分裂运动，即阿拉伯人与土耳其人之间的分裂。他们支持民族主义运动，并帮助建立土耳其和阿拉伯的政党，例如“土耳其青年党”（Turkyya al-Fatah Party，即青年土耳其党）、“联合进步党”、“阿拉伯独立党”以及“盟约（Al-A’hd）党”等。结果，国家的躯体从内部遭到猛烈震动并开始崩溃，加上外国的入侵。不信道的势力发现，将其攻势指向伊斯兰世界、夺取其余的土地并将伊斯兰国家从世上抹去，是大有希望的。这发生在第一次世界大战爆发之初，奥斯曼国被迫卷入这场战争，最终以战败告终。协约国成为胜利者，并把伊斯兰世界作为战利品在它们之间瓜分。伊斯兰国家所剩下的只有土耳其的领土，即后来被称为土耳其的地方。1918年战争结束时，它仍处于西方势力的支配之下，直到1921年，土耳其才在向协约国保证将放弃伊斯兰政治制度之后，设法从它们手中获得独立。

The Westerners went even further and secretly encouraged and supported separatist movements among the Muslims themselves within the State, i.e. between Arabs and Turks. They backed the nationalist movements and helped to establish Turkish and Arab political parties such as the “Turkyya al-Fatah Party” (Young Turks), the “Union and Progress Party”, the “Arab Independence Party”, and the “Covenant (Al-A’hd) Party”, amongst others. This resulted in the State’s body being violently shaken from within and it began to crumble, coupled with foreign invasions. The disbelieving forces found it very promising to direct their onslaught against the Islamic world, seizing the rest of its land and destroying the Islamic State by wiping it out of existence. This was at the start of the First World War which the ‘Uthmani State was forced into and which ended in its defeat. The allies emerged as the victors and they divided the Islamic world between them as war booty. All that remained of the Islamic State was Turkish land which came to be known as Turkey and which remained at the end of the war in 1918 at the mercy of the Western forces until 1921, when she in turn managed to gain her independence from them after giving the allies guarantees that she would abandon the Islamic system of government.