Muhammad Qutb

Muhammad Qutb (Arabic: محمد قطب‎;‎ born in Egypt 1919 – April 4, 2014) was an Egyptian Muslim author, scholar and teacher, best known as the younger brother of the Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb.

Quotes

Islam: the Misunderstood Religion

Published by IIFSO (2006)

• Western psychologists accuse religion of repressing the vital energy of man and rendering his life quite miserable as a result of the sense of guilt which especially obsesses the religious people and makes them imagine that all their actions are sinful and can only be expiated through abstention from enjoying the pleasures of life. Those psychologists add that Europe lived in the darkness of ignorance as long as it adhered to its religion but once it freed itself from the fetters of religion, its emotions were liberated and accordingly it achieved wonders in the field of production.
  • Chapter 11, Islam and Sexual Repression, p. 207.

• What is, however, expected of intellect is that it should show a most proper way to achieve its end, be it the hunting of a beast, inventing of an instrument, laying down the foundations of a new system of economy, setting up a new form or government, kindling a war, or making peace. All these activities of man depend upon his intellectual ability. Emotions creeping in will only spoil them.
  • Chapter 7, p. 146.

• This in short is the case of the progressives who talk about freedom of thought. For them freedom of thought is synonymous to freedom of disowning one's God. This is, however, not freedom of thought but freedom of atheism.
  • Chapter 12, p. 214.

See also

• Sayyid Qutb