People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
人民首先关心满足自己的基本需要；只有后来，他们才会追求更高的需求。
Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.
宗教禁止我们扮演上帝般的角色。在政治和政府中尤其如此，在政治和政府中，限制国家权力、分权和制衡原则的确立是为了防止权力的积累可能导致这种神圣的主张。
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
在人们所做的许多事情中，他们自己是关注的中心，但他们在自己的旗帜上刻下了一些其他的名字。
People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
人们应该知道他们想要什么，而不仅仅是他们不想要什么。
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
我们创造概念，并用它们来分析和解释自然和社会。但我们似乎中途忘记了这些概念是我们自己的概念，并开始将它们与现实等同起来。
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
能量是物理学家创造的一个概念。在任何地方都没有所谓的能观测到的东西。
We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
我们必须把问题分解成可消化的小块。我们必须定义我们使用的概念，并解释它们由什么组成。我们必须解决小问题。
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
如果一群人觉得自己被羞辱了，自己的荣誉被践踏了，他们就会想表达自己的身份，这种身份的表达会有不同的形态和形式。
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
在真理的伊斯兰教和作为身份的伊斯兰教之间建立平衡是宗教知识分子最困难的任务之一。
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
由于意识和意识的衰退，一个民族或伊斯兰身份的意识和意识也应运而生。