西方处理这一问题的方式,或许给穆斯林乌玛造成了最大的伤害,因为它打击的正是实施伊斯兰制度的那个机制。

The manner in which the West addressed this issue perhaps inflicted the greatest damage upon the Muslim Ummah because it struck at the very mechanism which implements the Islamic system.

在中世纪，西方国家因其所实行的神权制度而遭受了巨大的苦难。西方所经历的压迫引发了强烈的反弹，导致一些群体甚至完全否认宗教。为了化解这一对立，西方提出了一种折中方案，将宗教（Deen）与世俗事务分离，这一方案后来成为西方资本主义社会的世俗基础。随着政教分离以及随后资本主义的采纳，欧洲进入了快速发展的阶段。因此，宗教与政治无法共存、二者混合即意味着落后与衰退的观念，成为西方政治思想的基石。

During the Middle Ages, the Western nations suffered tremendously as a result of the theocratic systems imposed upon them. A severe backlash erupted as a result of the oppression that the West experienced, which caused some groups to deny religion altogether. In order to resolve this confrontation, the West formulated a compromise solution which separated the Deen from the life affairs, and this solution became the Secular basis of Western Capitalist societies. With the separation of Church and State and the subsequent adoption of Capitalism, Europe entered a phase of rapid progress. Thus, the notion that religion and politics cannot coexist and that mixing the two is synonymous with backwardness and decline became a cornerstone in Western political thought.

西方将这一观念输出给穆斯林,并且巧妙地欺骗了穆斯林,使他们以为西方所经历的历史经验是一种普遍适用的经验,适用于包括伊斯兰在内的每一种宗教或教义。结果,穆斯林开始用看待政治与宗教相混合的眼光来看待伊斯兰政治,将其视为致命的鸡尾酒。正如西方认为他们的衰落是宗教与政治相混合的结果一样,穆斯林也开始认为自己的衰落正是将伊斯兰应用于生活事务的直接结果。

The West exported this notion to the Muslims and brilliantly deceived the Muslims into thinking that the historical experiences which the West encountered was a universal one which applied to every religion or Deen, including Islam. As a result, the Muslims began to view Islamic politics in the same light as the West viewed politics mixed with the Deen as a lethal cocktail. And just as the West perceived their decline as the result of mixing religion with politics, the Muslims began to perceive their own decline as the direct result of implementing Islam in the life affairs.

如果穆斯林能够认识到，西方的经历是西方特有的，并且源于某些因素，那么这样的问题本可以轻易缓解。这些因素包括：基督教教义因原始教义掺杂了人为的观念和创新，而无法应对生活事务；神职人员的喜好和意见，而非基督教教义本身，被用作统治的依据；以及欧洲人解决其智识困境的方式不正确，产生了一个本身即自相矛盾的错误方案。这些因素都不能推广到穆斯林世界，因为伊斯兰的经文已被证明是正确的，且从未被污染，这使伊斯兰能够在任何时间、任何地点应对生活事务。而且，与当时欧洲现存的基督教教义不同，伊斯兰在智识上是确凿的，它引导人类依据理性的方法建立其信仰（’Aqeedah）。此外，伊斯兰信仰本身是全面的，由它衍生出一套全面的生活制度。因此，从理性推导出的现实与伊斯兰信仰之间从未存在冲突。伊斯兰制度涵盖生活的各个方面，没有任何生活事务得不到解答。正因为伊斯兰信仰所具有的这些独特属性，穆斯林从未经历西方所经历的“黑暗时代”。穆斯林当时所经历的衰落，是由于对伊斯兰的误解，而这种误解源于多种因素的累积，其中没有任何一个与导致欧洲黑暗时代的因素有关。然而，西方利用了穆斯林的衰落和他们的智识混乱，误导他们相信伊斯兰在政治领域的存在是其衰落的根本原因。 因此，穆斯林在看待自身衰落与复兴问题时，被引向以西方为模式，结果他们呼吁将伊斯兰与生活事务分离，并认为放弃伊斯兰政治制度是复兴穆斯林的必要条件。

Such a problem could have been easily alleviated if the Muslims realized that the experiences of the West were specific to the West and stemmed from certain factors, such as: The inability of the Christian doctrine to address the life affairs because of the original doctrine being mixed with manmade ideas and innovations; the fact that the whims and opinions of the clergy, and not even the Christian doctrine itself, was used as a basis for rule; and the incorrectness of the manner in which the Europeans attempted to resolve their intellectual dilemma, which produced an incorrect solution that inherently contradicted itself. None of these factors could be generalized to the Muslim World because the Islamic text is proven correct and was never polluted, which made Islam capable of addressing the life affairs at any time or place. And Islam, unlike the existing Christian doctrine in Europe at the time, is intellectually conclusive and directs the human being to build his Aqeedah based on the intellectual method. Furthermore, the Islamic Aqeedah is comprehensive in its nature, and from it emanates a comprehensive system of life. Therefore, there was never a conflict between the reality deduced from the intellect and the Islamic Aqeedah. And the Islamic System addresses all aspects of life, leaving no aspect of the life affairs unanswered. Because of these attributes that were unique to the Islamic Aqeedah, the Muslims never had a "Dark Ages" which the West experienced. The decline which the Muslims were undergoing was a result of misunderstanding Islam, which resulted from the accumulation of several factors, none of which had any relation to the factors contributing to the European Dark Ages. However, the West capitalized upon the decline of the Muslims and their intellectual confusion by misleading them to believe that the presence of Islam in the political arena was the central cause of their decline. As a result, the Muslims were diverted into perceiving their decline as well as the issue of revival using the West as a model, which caused them to call for the separation of Islam from the life affairs and abandoning the Islamic political system as necessary to revive the Muslims.

今天，伊斯兰与政治的分离在穆斯林大众中，尤其是在穆斯林政治家和知识分子中，已根深蒂固。此外，近来有两个因素使这一问题更加严重。首先，西方殖民者制定的教育课程，穆斯林接受的正是这类教育，这些课程把哈里发制度下的伊斯兰历史描绘成一个残酷野蛮的时代：在圣门弟子时代之后，穆斯林世界便陷入冲突、动荡与无休止的杀戮之中。哈里发们大多被刻画成嗜血的独裁者，沉溺于奢华与女色。这样的形象被成功地植入穆斯林的脑海，以至于他们开始羞于看待自己的历史，认为哈里发制度玷污了伊斯兰的形象。此外，穆斯林世界中一些自称伊斯兰的政权，以及穆斯林政党和个人的行为，也助长了这种印象，他们所从事的肮脏政治与西方政治如出一辙。这些政权实质上不过是世俗政权，只是采用了伊斯兰的部分内容，却仍然对伊斯兰呈现出非常负面的形象。由于大多数穆斯林无法分辨伊斯兰国家与那些自称伊斯兰的现存国家之间的区别，也无法区分基于伊斯兰的政治与“以伊斯兰之名的政治”，这些政权和个人进一步动摇了穆斯林对伊斯兰能够处理生活事务的信心。

Today, the separation of Islam and politics has become deeply rooted among the Muslims in general and among Muslim politicians and intellectuals in particular. In addition, two recent factors compound the problem. First, the educational curricula laid down by the Western Colonialists which the Muslims were exposed to depicted the Islamic history under the Khilafah as a ruthless and barbaric era in which the Muslim world was engulfed in conflicts, instability, and endless killings immediately following the Era of the Sahabah. The Khulafaa were presented for the most part as bloodthirsty dictators preoccupied with lavishness and women. Such images were so successfully implanted in the minds of the Muslims that they began to view their history with shame, thinking that the Khilafah was something that spoiled the image of Islam. Added to the history books are the existence of some regimes in the Muslim world which claim themselves as Islamic, as well as the behavior of Muslim political parties and individuals who play the same dirty politics characteristic of Western politics. Such regimes, although they are nothing more than Secular regimes which apply fragments of Islam, nevertheless present a very negative portrayal of Islam. Because of the inability of most Muslims to distinguish between what constitutes an Islamic state and the existing states which claim themselves as Islamic, and their inability to differentiate between politics practiced based on Islam and "Politics in the name of Islam," such regimes and individuals further shatter the confidence of Muslims in Islam's ability to address the life's affairs.

因此，许多穆斯林出于绝望和沮丧，选择了容易的道路，把伊斯兰与政治完全分开。

As a result, many Muslims, out of despair and frustration, take the easy path and separate Islam from politics altogether.