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Is Islam relevant? How is Islam relevant to my life?

这些是我最近被问到的问题。随后我便作答：伊斯兰如何赋予生命以意义，而无神论、唯物主义的世界观却做不到；并指出缺乏人生意义所造成的负面影响，可以从当今后宗教世界中抑郁和自杀率的上升看出来。

These are questions I was asked recently. I proceeded to give an answer in terms of how Islam gives life purpose where an atheistic, materialistic understanding of the world does not and how the negative impact of lacking purpose can be seen in the rates of depression and suicide affecting the secular, post-religious world of today.

但是这个回答对提问者来说并不充分，也没有说服力。想了一会儿之后，我意识到了问题所在。（你看，有时候如果被问到一个错误的问题，你几乎不得不给出一个错误的答案。）

But this answer wasn’t really adequate for or convincing to the questioner. After thinking about it for a moment, I realized the problem. (You see, sometimes if you are asked a wrong question, you are all but forced to give a wrong answer.)

所以，伊斯兰不必与你个人的生活相关。真理不需要通过它对你个人生活的实用性来获得认可。真理本质上就是相关的——事实上，它是唯一相关的东西。

So, Islam doesn’t have to be relevant to you. The Truth does not need to be validated by its utility to your personal, individual life. The Truth by its very nature is relevant — in fact, it is the only thing that is relevant.

“老实说，我们所依据的相关性标准是什么？职业体育算不算相关？流行文化、音乐和电影算不算相关？政治辩论和世界大事算不算相关？为什么？如果我们的相关性标准是这样，那么伊斯兰教当然显得不相关，因为与那些事物不同，伊斯兰教确实有其意义，关乎某种真实的主题，并具有真正而持久的重要性。”

Honestly, what is the standard of relevance we’re operating under? Are professional sports relevant? Are popular culture, music, and movies relevant? Are political debates and world events relevant? Why? If that’s our standard of relevance, then of course Islam will not seem relevant because, unlike those other things, Islam actually means something and is about something and has true, lasting significance.

因此，我们面临的问题有两个方面。一方面，我们的相关性标准出现了偏差。另一方面，我们首先依据个人的功用来判断重要性。我们依据一个主观的框架来安排世界，这一框架根据“我觉得什么好看、什么舒服、什么悦耳？”来赋予价值。换言之，我们把自我放在了中心。只有在这样的背景下，“它是否相关？”这个问题才有意义。

Thus, the problem for us is two-fold. We have a mis-calibrated standard of relevance on the one hand. On the other, we judge importance on the basis of personal utility in the first place. We order the world according to a subjective framework that assigns value according to: “What looks good, feels good, sounds good to me?” In other words, we have put our egos at the center. That’s the only context in which the question “Is it relevant?” makes any sense.

没有人会问生物学、核物理学、经济学，或其他任何科学与学术研究领域是否“有关联”。在这些领域，“相关性”的问题毫无意义。当然，这些学科是我们默认关注真理的，因此不依附于任何个人的主观感受。

No one asks if biology is relevant, or nuclear physics, or economics, or anything else related to the sciences or academic investigation. In those domains, the question of relevance has no sense. Of course, those are subjects we assume to be concerned with truth and, as such, are not attached to any individual’s personal feelings.

你的主是至高的真理（al-Haqq）。顺从祂，即伊斯兰，应当成为我们世界观的核心。以此为核心，我们便可以判断其他一切事物的相关与否。

Well, your Maker is al-Haqq: the Highest Truth. Submission to Him, i.e., Islam, should be at the center of our paradigm. With respect to that core, we can judge the (ir)relevance of everything else.