Sayyid Qutb Quotes
... a Muslim has no relatives except those who share the belief in God ... A Muslim has no relationship with his mother, father, brother, wife and other family members except through their relationship with the Creator.
The import of this principle is that if a member of the family is not a good Muslim, then that member is no longer to be treated as and is not a relative any longer. Qutb cites the example of Abdullah bin Abdullah bin Ubayy, a contemporary of the Prophet’s whose father had opposed Islam and therefore must be punished. He quotes the man as telling the Prophet: ‘if it is the pleasure of God and His Prophet that I cut off my father’s head, then I shall do so.’
Sayyid Qutb, 1906-1966, Egyptian Salafi Philosopher and Writer (Moslem Brotherhood), Quoted in Elmer Swenson, Sayyid Qutb's Milestones
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This sura has justified major discrimination against non-Muslims so that they should never appear “preeminent” over the faithful. See for example, {617157} and {617160}.
This is the type of person who suicide bomber recruiters seek out.
The irony of his lecturing the Russians was that the revolutionary regime he founded in Iran, which had faith in God, was terribly unpopular with the Iranian people precisely because of the lack of private ownership and freedom and a moribund economy. The ruling religious elite in the Iranian theocracy had to ban popular leaders from standing for election in order to maintain control of a country where most people preferred the very things that Khomeini and the other Ayatollahs advised were unimportant.
Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb, known popularly as Sayyid Qutb, was an Egyptian author, educator, revolutionary, Jihadist ideologue, poet, and a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, he was convicted of plotting the assassination of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and was executed by hanging. Sayyid Qutb is considered as "the Father of Salafi-Jihadism", the religio-political doctrine that underpins the ideological roots of Global Jihadist organisations such as Al Qaeda and Daesh.
