在二十世纪，共产主义在一些有学术背景的穆斯林群体中颇为流行。对这些穆斯林而言，共产主义代表着正义的顶峰，也代表着世俗文明的巅峰，因为当时苏联正处于上升期。于是，这些穆斯林学者热情洋溢地撰文，主张穆斯林必须接受共产主义，并宣称真正的伊斯兰本质上就是共产主义。他们以此来解读《古兰经》和圣训，指出关于天课和沙德盖（施舍）的经文是反对私有财产的神圣指令。

In the twentieth century, communism was very popular with a group of academic Muslims. For these Muslims, communism represented the peak of justice. It represented the peak of worldly civilization, as the USSR at that time was ascendant. So these Muslim academics wrote fervently about how Muslims needed to adopt communism and how true Islam was communist at its heart. They interpreted the Quran and hadith in that light, pointing to verses about zakat and sadaqa as divine directives against private property.

当然，伊斯兰教法中有许多条款都以某些财产关系为前提，但由于这些条款与共产主义相抵触，穆斯林共产主义者便攻击教法，称其落后、不公，只是对真正的主之宗教的资本主义扭曲。按照他们的说法，古典乌理玛显然是在维护自身作为财产所有者的利益，因此制定教法来推进其资产阶级议程，压迫工人阶级。

Of course, there were many parts of Islamic law that take certain property relations for granted, but since these conflicted with communism, the Muslim communists attacked the fiqh, called it backwards, unjust, and nothing but a capitalistic distortion of God’s true religion. According to them, the classical ulama were obviously just serving their own interests as property owners, so they created fiqh to advance their bourgeois agenda and oppress the working class.