文明（حضارة，haDarah）与物质进步（مدنية，madaniyyah）之间存在差别。文明包括关于生活的全部观念，而物质进步指的是生活事务中所使用的、可感知之物的物质形式。文明具有特定性，取决于对生活的看法；而物质进步既可以是特定的，也可以是普遍的。因此，属于文明产物的事物，例如雕像，是特定的。而由科学及其进步、工业及其发展所产生的物质方面则是普遍的，因此不为某一特定民族所独有，而是具有普遍性，例如工业和科学。

There is a difference between the haDarah (civilisation) and the madaniyyah (material progress). The haDarah constitutes the whole concepts about life, whereas the madaniyyah means the material forms of sensed objects used in life's affairs. The haDarah is specific based on the point of view towards life, while the madaniyyah can be specific or general. So objects that are product of haDarah such as statues, are specific. While material aspects produced by science and its progress, industry and its evolution are general and thus are not particular to a specific nation, rather they are universal, like industry and science.

必须注意“哈达拉”（Hadarah，文明/文化之本体）与“马丹尼亚”（madaniyyah，文明的成果或形态）之间的区别。还必须注意，源自哈达拉的马丹尼亚形态与源自科学和工业的马丹尼亚形态之间的区别。这一点很有必要，使得在吸收马丹尼亚时，其形态之间的区分，以及它与哈达拉之间的区别，都清晰明了。吸收源自科学、工业等的西方马丹尼亚并无异议。然而，源自西方哈达拉的西方马丹尼亚，无论如何都不可采纳，因为我们不被允许采纳西方哈达拉，它从其所建立的根基、其生活观点以及对人类幸福含义的理解上，都与伊斯兰哈达拉相矛盾。

This distinction between Hadarah and madaniyyah must always be noted. One must also note the distinction between the madaniyyah forms resulting from haDarah and the madaniyyah forms resulting from science and industry. This is necessary, so that when taking madaniyyah, a distinction between its forms and differentiation between it and haDarah must be clear. There should be no objection in acquiring the Western madaniyyah resulting from science, industry, etc. However, Western madaniyyah resulting from the Western haDarah must not be adopted on any account, because we are not allowed to adopt the Western haDarah, for it contradicts the Islamic haDarah from the very basis upon which it is established, its point of view of life, and its understanding of the meaning of human happiness.