Sayyid Qutb Quotes

“Sometimes slavery puts on the guise of freedom and appears to be a release from all chains, the chains of culture and tradition and the burdens of the human condition.

There is a fundamental difference between release from the chains of humiliation, oppression and weakness, and from the chains of humanity and its substrates. The first one is true freedom, while the second one is to abandon the foundations that make a human being a human being, foundations that have freed him from the chains of his animal nature.

“It is impossible for life to not affect faith, or for faith to have a separate existence away from life.

“The first duty of the Muslim man is to turn his home into a Muslim home, to direct his household toward performing the duties that connect them with God, so that they all have the same direction in life. How comforting is life in the shade of a home whose inhabitants all turn to God!

“Those who believe in God do not suffer from doubt in the truthfulness of His promise, and in the deep-rootedness of truth in the building of the cosmos and the systems that govern it, and in His support for Truth that He throws at falsehood an invalidates it. If God tests them by the victory of falsehood for a while, they know that it is a test, and they can sense that their Lord is training and mentoring them because of a weakness or shortcoming in them, and that He is preparing them for welcoming a triumphant Truth.

“This Quran does not bestow its treasures upon the one who does not approach it with this spirit: the spirit of knowledge that leads to action. The Quran hasn't just come to be a book for intellectual pleasure, or a book of literature and art, or a book of tales and history - even though it is all of these - rather, it has come to be a manual for life, a purely divine manual.

“There are people today who think that admitting God's absolute greatness decreases the value and importance of humans in the creation, as if God and mankind are rivals competing in greatness and power. Meanwhile I feel that whenever our perception of God's greatness increases, with it we become greater, because we are the creation of a great God.

“What is the difference between fantasy and reality? Both of them are a passing mirage throwing a shadow on the soul, only to disappear from the world of perception after a few moments.

“Don't fear, you are the superior one. With you is truth and with them is falsehood. With you is belief and with them is profession. With you is faith in what you are upon, and with them is worldly rewards. You are connected to the greatest power, while they serve a soon-to-be-gone human being regardless of how tyrannical and heartless he or she is.

“Every idea that has lived on has fed on a human's heart. The ideas that have not fed on this sacred food are stillborn and have not pushed humanity one step forward.

“When we touch the good side of people, we find that there is much good that the eyes may not see at first sight. I have experienced this, with many people, even those who at first seem like evil and corrupt people or those lacking feeling. There is something of emotion in them toward their crimes and errors, there is a something of true affection in them, something of genuine concern and care. You'll find a reservoir of goodness in their souls, when they give you their love and affection trust in return for the little of your self that you give to them, when you give it in truthfulness and sincerity.

“Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.

“When we stay away from someone because we feel we are purer of soul, or better at heart, or more accepting, or spiritually more advanced, we haven't done anything great; we have chosen the easier and less difficult path for ourselves.

“Life is not measured by the number of years, but the number of emotions, for life is nothing other than a human's perception of it.

“I know through experience that nothing in this life is equal to that radiant spiritual happiness that we find when we can enter comfort or contentment, certainty or hope or happiness into the souls of others.

“First believe in your idea, with a passionate belief. Only then others will believe in it, otherwise it will stay only a word on the tongue with no soul or life.

“When we live for the sake of something other than ourselves, when we live for the sake of an idea, life seems long and deep, beginning with the beginning of humanity and continuing long after we have left the face of the earth.

“Mankind today is on the brink of a precipice. Humanity is threatened not only by nuclear annihilation but by the absence of values. The West has lost its vitality and Marxism has failed. At this crucial and bewildering juncture, the turn of Islam and the Muslim community has arrived.

“…Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will suddenly spring to life and live on amongst the hearts that are dead, bringing them back to life as well..

“They want an All-American Islam: An Islam that's used as a reference for the intricacies of wudu' (ablution), but not referred to in the political and economic conditions of Muslims.

“[Regarding hardship and calamities] The lowest level of good manners toward God is for the human to accuse his own judgment regarding what is good for him instead of accusing God's decrees.

But true good manners is for one to not have any judgment of their own at all, for there to be only God's decrees, and to accept God's decrees with obedience and submission, in a state of contentment, trust, and tranquility.

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