Sayyid Qutb famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive.
-- Sayyid Qutb

#People #Alive #Happy Person
Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.
-- Sayyid Qutb

#Heart #Thinking #Roots
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 amongst the hearts that are dead, bringing them to life as well.
-- Sayyid Qutb

#Spring #Heart #Passion
Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.
-- Sayyid Qutb

#Opportunity #Justice #Long
A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.
-- Sayyid Qutb

#Bears #Martyr #Valuable
Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyya [separated from God].
-- Sayyid Qutb

#Islam #Half #Accepting
Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of the tyrant
-- Sayyid Qutb

#Prayer #Writing #Tyrants
It may happen that the enemies of Islam may consider it expedient not to take any action against Islam, if Islam leaves them alone in their geographical boundaries to continue the lordship of some men over others and does not extend its message and its declaration of universal freedom within their domain. But Islam cannot agree to this unless they submit to its authority by paying Jizyah, which will be a guarantee that they have opened their doors for the preaching of Islam and will not put any obstacle in its way through the power of the state.
-- Sayyid Qutb

#Men #Doors #Enemy
Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.
-- Sayyid Qutb

#America #Desire #Noise

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him
The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.
I'm the most carefree, happy person you'll meet.
All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive.

Sayyid Qutb famous quotes

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