Islam's Reformers .pdf

them to their disastrous destination. As a matter of fact,thousands of Egyptian youngsters enraptured by Sayyid Qutb’swritings were led to torments in this world and the next. Andnow, with the apprehension that young people, who thirst forIslamic knowledge, may fall for those heretical and aberrantwritings, -or for their all the more exacerbated mistranslationsfudged by some false men of religion-, we feel deep pity andsorrow for them.A strange malady is rife among ignorant and incompetentpeople: maligning the past and animadverting on the ancestry.Wahhâbîs and Sayyid Qutb evince the terminal cases of thismalady. “After as-Sahâba, for many centuries Muslims madeundestructible barricades between the Qur’ân and life. TheQur’ân became melodies at mihrâb and prayers at graves.Eventually, laying his finger on this great problem of Islam,Sayyid Qutb has written his book Fî dilâl al-Qur’ân,” they say.We would ask them: Who established those Islamic universitieswhich spread the teachings and the light of the Qur’ân over theworld and which founded the home of today’s civilization? Ourancestors adapted their lives to the Qur’ân perfectly inknowledge, in jihâd, in science and in morals. Hundreds ofthousands of books which they wrote and various Islamiccivilizations which they established have been praised in world’sannals. Sayyid Qutb’s followers who make fun of our ancestors’reciting the Qur’ân for the dead should know well that ourProphet (’alaihi ’s-salâm) commanded to visit graves and torecite the Qur’ân for the dead, and also he himself did so. Ourancestors, in order to obey this command, this sunna, visitedthe dead and recited the Qur’ân for their souls. Thus they heldfast to the Qur’ân and to the Sunna in everything they did.Those who say, “Sayyid Qutb’s book is not a series ofnarrations,” think that they praise him, while in fact they betrayhis disgrace, for a religious teaching which is not narrated(riwâya) from Rasûlullah (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) or fromas Sahâbat al-kirâm is called a “bida’”. It is declared in a hadîthsherîf, “All religious teachings which are not narrated fromus but which have been fabled later are bida’.” Anotherhadîth declares, “No worship of the inventors of bida’ isacceptable. They will go to Hell.” These hadîths clearly showthat the followers of Sayyid Qutb are very wrong and that onlyAhl as-Sunna will be rescued, for Sayyid Qutb refuses the- 238 -