《黄牛》章 [Q2:13]

Al-Baqarah [Q2:13]

如今有许多人称信士为愚昧之人。真主告诉我们，毫无疑问，确凿无疑，这些人才是真正的愚昧之人，而他们自己对此毫无察觉，也不知道真相。遗憾的是，许多穆斯林也没有意识到这一点。他们不但不把那些拒绝和否认信仰的人看作愚昧之人，反而常常将其视为受人尊敬的专家、学者、知识分子等，甚至在穆斯林中大力宣扬他们的著作，以至于穆斯林开始修改和编辑自己的信仰，使之迎合那些明确而坚决地拒绝信仰之人的理论和思想。而许多穆斯林对此并不觉得有任何矛盾。

There are many people who call the believers fools in this day and age. Allah tells us that unquestionably, undoubtedly these people are the real fools and they themselves are unaware of this and do not know the truth. Unfortunately, many Muslims do not realize this either. Instead of seeing the rejectors and deniers as fools, they are often seen as respected experts, scholars, intelligentsia, etc., and their work is even promoted among the Muslims to such an extent that Muslims start modifying and editing their beliefs to conform to the theories and ideologies of those who have very explicitly and adamantly rejected iman. And many Muslims don’t see any contradiction in this.

这里最令人悲哀、最令人痛心的是，一些穆斯林敬仰这些人，并因为对他们的崇拜和尊敬，开始贬低自己的学者，称呼乌玛的伟大学者为愚人，说他们智力有限，只是凭个人好恶和私欲发言，并不真正理解《古兰经》和圣训的含义，诸如此类。

And where it gets really sad and really pitiful is when Muslims look up to these people and because of their admiration and respect for them, they start denouncing their own scholars, calling the great ulama of the Ummah as essentially fools, who had limited intellects, were just speaking out of whim and desire, did not truly understand the meaning of the Quran and Sunnah, etc.

这种情况的原因是什么？主要因素之一是，这些穆斯林被一些他们并不完全理解的观点所迷惑。当一个人对某事物没有完全理解时，他有两种选择。他可以直接拒绝它（即使他并不知道自己为何拒绝）。或者他可以根据表象来判断其价值。这看起来合法吗？这听起来是出自有学问的人之口吗？是否有声望的人在认可它？大众是否接受它？它是否流行？简言之，只要某种东西具备知识的一切表象，就足以让人接受。当今穆斯林对这些各种现代主义思潮的接受，很大程度上正是基于这种方式。确实也有少数人不论如何都会拒绝这些东西。那是较为稳妥的道路，但它无助于整个乌玛。因此，所需要的是充分理解这些思潮。我的经验和我的主张是，当人们做到这一点时，它们是多么愚蠢和可鄙，将会非常明显。那时我们将毋庸置疑地知道，谁才是真正的愚人。

What is the cause of this? One of the main factors is that these Muslims have been enchanted with ideas that they do not fully understand. When you do not fully understand something, you have two options. You can just outright reject it (even when you don’t know why you are rejecting it). Or you can judge its value according to appearances. Does this look like something legitimate? Does this sound like it is coming from a learned place? Are reputable people endorsing this? Do the masses accept this? Is it popular? Basically, if something has all the appearances of knowledge, then that is good enough to accept it. Much of what Muslims today accept of these various modernist ideologies are done on this basis. You do have a handful who will just reject things regardless. That is the safer path, but it does not help the wider Ummah. Therefore, what is needed is to fully understand these ideologies. My experience is and my claim is that when that happens, it will be very obvious how foolish and contemptible they are. And then we will know indubitably and unquestionably who are the true fools.