The Truth Refuses To Be Confined To A Geographical Location

Sayyid Qutb said:

“Islamic jihaad seeks to replace the dominance of non-Islamic systems. This revolution is not territorial but international, though as a starter the members of the Muslim party, wherever they live, should focus on that place.

Their eventual goal should, however, be a world revolution for the simple reason that any revolutionary ideology, which is humanity specific and seeking universal welfare, cannot reduce itself to a particular state or nation. It is innate in its nature to embrace the whole world, for the truth refuses to be confined to geography. For it, truth is indivisible: if it is truth on one side of the river, it is the same truth on the other side a well.”

[Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], by Sayyid Qutb, 7/36]

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The Kuffaar Will Continue To Attack Islaam

Ash-Shaheed Sayyid Qutb said:

“They spend their money, concentrate their efforts and use all their ability to turn people away from the path of Allaah. They set up obstacles to impede the progress of this religion and to suppress the Muslim community everywhere and at all times.

This war against Islaam will not stop. Hostile forces will not leave this religion alone. They will not allow its followers any time of peace and security.

Hence, the method of this religion is to move forward to attack jaahiliyyah.

It is the duty of its followers to take pre-emptive measures to smash the ability of jaahiliyyah to wage aggression, and then to raise Allaah’s banner high, immune from attacks by its enemies.”

[Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/131]

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Is Islaam Just Theoretical?

“This religion is not a theory that people learn from a book to enjoy its intellectual subtleties and to boast about their knowledge. Nor is it a negative faith that is confined to a relationship between human beings and their Lord. On the other hand, it is not merely a set of worship practices which people offer to their Lord.

This religion is a general declaration for the liberation of mankind. It takes a realistic and practical approach that employs suitable means to confront any human situation. When it is impeded by obstacles of understanding, it speaks out, making its message absolutely clear.

But when it faces the impediments of social systems and tyrannical authorities, it confronts them with a physical struggle, launching a campaign of jiahd to destroy all tyranny and establish Allaah’s authority in its place. (1)”

[Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], by Sayyid Qutb, 7/135]

Footnotes:

(1) This last paragraph may seem odd to some non-Muslims. To make it easier to understand, I will add my explanation to his speech here: “But when it faces the impediments of social systems and tyrannical authorities,” meaning, when the Muslims are being abused and tortured unjustly, ”it confronts them with a physical struggle,” as any other human being would do when he is being abused or physical threatened, “launching a campaign of jiahd” i.e, to strive and struggle, ”to destroy all tyranny” as no country, whether Musim or non-Muslim, is safe and peaceful if its rulers are tyrannical and unjust, “and establish Allaah’s authority in its place.” Meaning, to replace the unjust and barbaric laws of the tyrant who abuses its citizens, and to replace them with the laws of God, giving justice to all its citizens.

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Quotes From Sayyid Qutb

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Sayyid Qutb said:

“Legislation is a most fundamental attribute of Godhead (Lordship). Any human being who claims the right to decree laws of his own for a community of people actually and practically claim Godhead (Lordship), even though he may not put such a claim in words. Anyone who recognises such an authority as belonging to a human being admits that Godhead (Lordship) belongs to that human being, whether he calls it as such or not.” [Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/24]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“A heart that does not turn in its totality to Allaah, fearing to incur His anger and seeking to earn his pleasure, will never be able to get rid of the temptation of worldly comforts and riches.” [Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/74]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“It is not possible for any person to have true faith in Allaah as the only Lord in the universe and yet rely on someone other than Him. Those who find themselves relying on someone other than Allaah must for of all search in their own hearts to discover whether they truly believe in Allaah.” [Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/78]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“Whenever a Muslim community takes active steps to establish the principle of tawheed (Allaah’s oneness) and to implement His message, it will be granted victory against any enemy that opposes it in defiance of Allaah and His Messenger.” [Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/95]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“He makes you a means to accomplish His purpose when He is certain that you are dedicated to His cause.” [Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/102]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“To abandon the duties Allaah has assigned to the Muslim community is betrayal of Allaah and His Messenger.” [Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/113]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“When Islaam makes it declaration for the liberation of mankind on earth, so that they may only serve God alone, those who usurp God’s authority try to silence it. They will never tolerate it or leave it in peace. Islaam will not sit idle either. It will move to deprive them of their power so that people can be freed of their shackles. This is the permanent state of affairs which necessitates the continuity of jihaad until all submission is made to God alone.” [Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/15]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“We must not be intimidated by the Orientalists’ attacks on the concept of Islamic jihaad, or allow the pressure of world political powers to weigh heavily on us, so as to seek justification for jihaad that do not fit with the nature of Islaam.” [Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/21]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“Islaam means submission to Allaah. This is not merely a verbal statement, but a complete code of living that must be implemented, even though such an implementation faces numerous obstacles and difficulties.” [Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/114]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“The truth itself may not be lost to human nature because Allaah has made this nature responsive to the truth. But people’s desires may force a separation between the truth and human nature. It is such desires that cloud people’s vision and cause them to lose their way. People’s desires are not overcome by argument, but by a sense of fearing Allaah.” [Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/116]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“Unlike what some kind and sincere people who wish to be Muslims may think, Islaam is not confined to this (mere beliefs and worship rituals). Islaam is a positive movement that accompanies this declaration. It requires its followers to dissociate themselves from jaahiliyyah society, its conceptual beliefs, values, leadership, laws and authority. It also requires its followers to acknowledge loyalty only to the Muslim leadership which wants to bring Islaam into practice.” [Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/125]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“We acknowledge allegiance only to an Islamic leadership that strives to re-establish Islaam in practical life, dissociating ourselves from all other types of society and leadership.” [Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/143]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“Those who think that this religion will confine itself to preaching and to the explanation of its message when the forces of evil try to put every type of impediment in its way have little understanding of its true nature.” [Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/182]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“We must guard against adopting a defeatist attitude which puts Islam on the defensive when it is a faith that is meant to govern and regulate people’s lives.” [Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan [English trans.], 7/193]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“All efforts should first be directed to establish the hard core of true believers, who withstand trials and cannot be shaken. They need further education in the faith so as to grow in strength and awareness. Extreme caution should be exercised in order to guard against horizontal expansion before this hard core comes into being; solidly committed and having profound insight.” [Fee Zilaal Al-Quraan, 8/19]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“The Islamic approach does not resort to the use of verbal arguments when confronting material power. Nor does it ever resort to compulsion and coercion in order to force its beliefs on people. Both are equally alien to the Islamic approach as it seeks to liberate people from subjugation so that they may serve God alone.” [Fee Zilaal Al-Quraan, 8/23]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“Its (Jihaad’s) aim is to destroy tyrannical forces and regimes which force people to submit to a rule different from that of God, and apply a law other than His own.” [Fee Zilaal Al-Quraan, 8/26]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“Its (Islaam’s) advocates must not be ashamed of declaring that their ultimate goal is to destroy all forces that stand in its way of liberating mankind from any shackle that prevents the free choice of adopting Islaam.” [Fee Zilaal Al-Quraan, 8/28]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“There can be no permanent peaceful coexistence between a community implementing God’s law and other communities.” [Fee Zilaal Al-Quraan, 8/44]

Sayyid Qutb said:

“Jaahiliyyah, which is the name Islaam gives to any society that rejects God’s law, does not like to see Islaam establishing its solid presence when it contradicts the very basis of its existence and every detail of the programmes of such societies.” [Fee Zilaal Al-Quraan, 8/51]

The Sad Reality

“All those in the camp of Jaahiliyyah have the same objectives when it comes to dealing with Islaam and the Muslims. They pursue their goals with clear persistence that never fades with the passage of time, nor does it change as a result of changing circumstances.

Unless we understand this essential law that is inherent in the nature of the relationship between the Muslim community and the camp of Jaahiliyyah, we cannot understand the nature of Islamic Jihaad (striving and struggling), or the motives for that long struggle between the two. Nor can we, without such understanding of this law, comprehend the motives of the early Muslims, or the secrets of the Islamic conquests, or the war that has been waged against Islaam by hostile forces over the 14 centuries of Islamic history. It continues to be waged against the children of Muslim communities, despite the fact that these have sadly abandoned true Islaam, with its holistic approach to life, and are content to keep it in name only.

The war continues to be waged against those latter-day Muslim communities, even those living in the midst of hostile creeds such as communism and idolatry of all forms, whether in Russia, China, Yugoslavia, Albania, India, Kashmir, Ethiopia, Zanzibar, Cyprus, Kenya, South Africa or the United States.

All this comes on top of the brutal attempts to exterminate the advocates of Islamic revival in the Muslim world, or more accurately, the world which used to be Muslim.

Communism, idolatry, and other world powers collaborate with, and give active support to, the regimes that undertake such extermination efforts against the advocates of Islamic revival. They pour aid on these governments to the extent that they practically give them every type of help to ensure that they stay in power. Their support often takes the form of tacit or silent approval of what they are doing to those noble believers who seek to persuade people to believe in God and implement His law.”

[Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan, 8/51-52]

A Look At The Early Islamic Civilisation

“The bond of faith and ideology is a free one which human beings choose by their own free-will, after proper consideration and study. The other ties are not only more fitting for animals, but are also imposed on man and he has no say in them.

No human being can change his family descent or the race to which he belongs Nor does he have any choice of the colour of his skin. All these matters are settled before he is even born. The same applies to the land or the country of his birth and the language he speaks as a result of being raised within his particular community. Man has certain material interests and a common destiny with others, but these are also very difficult to change, because they apply to him as well as to his community. There is little room for man’s free-will in all these matters. For this reason, Islaam does not adopt any of these as the basic bond uniting its community.

Actualising Imaan In The West

“If a Muslim seeks to live in a non-Islamic ambience, his desire to live a Muslim life will be hard to actualize. This is due to the fact that the laws he considers defective, the taxes he considers wrong, the matters he considers illegitimate, the culture he considers ridden with immorality, the education system he considers horrible will be imposed upon him and his family, and he will not find a way out.

Thus a person or a group who believes in a value system is forced by the logic of its truth to seek its establishment in place of the opposing value system. If he does not become part of the effort to change the situation, he will prove himself to be false in his faith.”

[Fee Zhilaal Al-Quraan, by Sayyid Qutb, 7/35]