是否有必要对所谓的改革派/进步派穆斯林进行反驳？未必如此。如果你试图与他们辩论，那是徒劳的，因为他们没有usul（原则）。他们没有清晰、明确的原则来推导出他们提出的那些奇怪而分歧的观点。所以，如果你想让他们坚持某一点，他们很快就会转向别的东西，谈话便毫无结果。我这是有经验之谈……而且是大量令人扶额的经验……但你不必与改革派/进步派穆斯林交锋，也能彻底驳倒他们所主张的一切。你可以从攻击其意识形态的根源入手：自由主义和现代主义思想。这才是值得你花时间去做的事。请看下面的例子。

Is it necessary to provide a rebuttal to so-called reformist/ progressive Muslims? Not really. If you try to engage in debate with them, it is a fruitless exercise because they have no usul. They have no clear, explicit principles they use to derive all the strange, divergent opinions they come up with. So if you try to hold them to something, they quickly pivot to something else and the conversation goes nowhere. I speak from experience… A lot of face-palming experience… But you don’t need to engage reformist/progressive Muslims in order to completely debunk everything they stand for. You do this by attacking the root of their ideology: liberal, modernist thought. That is something worth spending your time on. Consider this example.

改革派对头巾和男女分隔问题大做文章，总体上认为这些做法是压迫性的、父权制的，等等。较为老练的改革派会从各种历史文本中择取有利于己的材料，再大量借用“基于maqasid（目的）的推理”来为其立场辩护。有人固然愿意亲自下场，指出他们对文本的误读，以及对maqasid、maslaha等教法原则的曲解。这种努力本身值得称道。但遗憾的是，改革派往往只是转换论证的方向，换一组文本、换一套论据。这就像与神话中的九头蛇搏斗：你砍掉一个头，就会在原处长出两个。

Reformists make a big deal about hijab and gender separation in general and how it is oppressive, patriarchal, etc., etc. The more sophisticated reformists will cherry pick from different historical texts and trot out a generous helping of “maqasid-based reasoning” to make their case. Some people might certainly want to get their hands dirty and point out all the things they get wrong about the texts and their bastardization of maqasid, maslaha, and other fiqh principles. And this is an admirable endeavor in its own right. But unfortunately the reformists will just shift the argument and use another set of texts and another set of arguments. Like fighting a mythological Hydra: You cut off one head and two more grow in its place.

"与其逐一应对，更有效的路径是直击九头蛇的心脏，批判现代主义者关于着装、压迫、父权制、性别角色等方面的预设。通过驳斥这些观念，就能抽走改革派的风帆。而且，由于这些改革派中绝大多数都是思想肤浅的人，他们通常从未反思过自身意识形态的根源，看看它们是否经得起哪怕最低限度的审视。实在令人痛心，人们竟然以这类站不住脚的哲学为基础，毁掉自己的信仰、试图改变宗教，而这些哲学之所以有影响力，仅仅因为它们在当下正时髦，除此之外并无任何值得称道的理智或道德价值。"

A more efficient route is to just stab the Hydra in the heart by critiquing the modernist assumptions about dress, oppression, patriarchy, gender roles, etc. By debunking these notions, you take the wind out of the reformist’s sails. And since the vast majority of these reformists are such shallow thinkers, they usually haven’t even reflected on the roots of their own ideology to see if they are sound or hold up to the least amount of scrutiny. It is quite sad actually that people destroy their iman and try to change the religion on the basis of such flimsy philosophies that are relevant only because they are trendy at this point in time, but otherwise have no redeeming intellectual or moral quality.