导言
Introduction
安拉(SWT)降示了伊斯兰的使命,并将其建立在坚定的信仰"除安拉外没有应受崇拜的主,穆罕默德是安拉的使者"这一塔wḥīd(认主独一)的信条之上。这是一个普遍而全面的使命,被派降给全人类。它决定着生活的一切事务以及一切关系,无论过去、现在还是未来。这一使命为人类的一切问题提供解决方案,并在任何时间、任何地点,确定人与其创造者的关系、人与自身的关系,以及人与同类之间的关系。
Allah (swt) has revealed the Message of Islam, and based it on the ‘aqeedah of Tawheed, which is the belief in “there is no God but Allah, Muhammad (swt) is the Messenger of Allah.” It is a general and comprehensive Message sent to all mankind. It determines all life’s affairs and all relationships, past, present and future. The Message offers the solutions to all the human problems, and determines man’s relationship with his Creator, with himself, and with his fellow human beings, at all times and places.
伊斯兰的讯息对于真主(subhanahu wa ta'ala,SWT)与宇宙、与人类以及与整个生命之间的关系,提供了解答。它论及了创造及其掌管、生与死、引导与迷误、给养与援助,以及与真主相关的其他一切属性,例如全能、完美、绝对的掌控、自由的主宰、对一切受造物的至高知识,以及对一切可能性的自由意志。
The Islamic Message has provided answers regarding the relationship of Allah (swt) with the universe, with human beings and with life as a whole. It has dealt with issues of creation and its control, life and death, guidance and misguidance, provision and help, and all the other powers associated with Allah (swt), such as omnipotence, perfection, absolute control, free disposition, supreme knowledge over all creatures and free will over all possibilities.
伊斯兰的讯息也解答了人类与其所过生活同造物主安拉(SWT)之间的关系问题,强调应当唯独崇拜安拉(SWT),不以任何事物与祂并列,唯独遵行祂(SWT)的律例而不遵从其他一切,执行祂(SWT)的命令并远离祂(SWT)的禁令。它还强调,应当唯独追随安拉的使者穆罕默德ﷺ,服从他并奉行他的教导,而不遵从其他任何人。
The Islamic Message has also provided answers regarding the relationship of human beings and lives that they lead, with Allah (swt), the Creator, emphasising the obligation of worshipping Him (swt) alone and associating none with Him (swt), abiding only by His (swt) Decrees to the exclusion of all others, and executing His (swt) commands and avoiding His (swt) prohibitions. It also emphasised the obligation of following only the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad (pbuh), obeying him and adopting his teachings to the exclusion of all other people.
伊斯兰的使命带来了明确而坚定的理念,这些理念进而缔造了一种卓越的文明(hadharah)。通过这一文明,伊斯兰勾勒出关于生命的完整观念,并使皈依者的认知在该文明的框架之内得以凝练和定型。这一使命提供了一种关于生活的观点,即合法(Halal)与非法(Haram)之分,以及一种特定的生活方式。它建立起一个在观念、情感、规范以及个体人格上都独具特色的社会。
The Islamic Message has brought specific and determined concepts that in turn created a distinguished civilization (hadharah) by which it outlined the whole concept about life and crystallised the perceptions of those who embraced it within the framework of that civilisation. This Message has provided a viewpoint about life, which is the Halal and the Haram, and a specific way of living. It has established a society distinct in its concepts, emotions, rules and the personalities of its individuals.
伊斯兰讯息带来了一套完整的立法体系,它规定了国家与社会之间的关系,无论这些关系涉及统治、经济、社会、教育、家庭政策与对外政策,还是涉及国家与其臣民之间、国家与其他国家和民族之间的公共关系,无论是在战争时期还是和平时期。它也规定了社会中个人之间的私人关系。
The Islamic Message has brought a complete legislative system that determines the relationships of the state with society, whether regarding ruling, economics, social, educational, domestic and foreign policy, or whether those relationships relate to the public relationships between the state and its subjects or the state and other states and nations, in times of war or peace. It also determined the private relationships between individuals in society.
因此,它是一套完整而全面的体系,是为全人类设计的。伊斯兰教规定穆斯林必须实施并执行这一体系,并使之在一个具有特定形态的国家中落实,这一形态就是哈里发(Khilafah)制度。
It is therefore a complete and comprehensive system, designed for mankind, which made it obligatory on Muslims to implement and execute it in a state that takes a specific shape, represented by the system of Khilafah.