Shaikh ul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullaah) said, "It is obligatory to punish everyone who ascribes himself to them – the people of innovation – or who defends them, or who praises them, or who reveres their books, or who detests that they should be talked about, or who begins to make excuses for them by saying he does not understand what these words mean or by saying that this person also authored another book and what is similar to these types of excuses, which are not made except by an ignoramus or a hypocrite. Rather, it is obligatory to punish everyone who knows of their condition and did not assist in repelling their evil, for repelling their evil is one of the greatest of obligations." Majmoo ul-Fataawaa (2/132)

Shaikh ul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah also said: "And in the face of those who perform takfir in falsehood are a people who do not know the aqidah of Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah as it truly should be known, or they know some of it but are ignorant of some of it. Yet whatever they do know of it, they do not always explain it to the people but conceal it. And they do not forbid the innovations that oppose the Book and the Sunnah, nor do they rebuke the People of Innovations and neither do they punish them. In fact, they may even criticise absolutely any talk of the Sunnah and the fundamental principles of the religion [i.e. Tawhid etc.]. Or they may accommodate everyone, with all their varying madhhabs… This approach has overcome many of the Murji’ah, some of the Jurists, Sufis and Philosophers. And both of these two approaches (i.e. that of the Takfiris and the Murji’ah and those with them) are deviant, and outside the [confines of the] Book and the Sunnah." Majmu’ ul-Fatawa (16/427)

Epilogue

Beware O Brother and Sister Muslim from this sect – may Allaah sever it - which accuses the Imaam and Muhaddith, Imaam of Ahl us-Sunnah and Shaikh ul-Islaam, Muhammad Nasir ud-Deen al-Albani with the Irjaa’ of Jahm Ibn Safwaan – and may Allaah free him from this mghty slander and exonerate him – and know that this sect itself wallows in the extremes of Irjaa, for when, according to its own teachings and principles, takfir ought to be performed, it refrains from it and instead makes excuses and pleas of justification for the statements of kufr and apostasy that emanate from its leading founders and mentors, and from Allaah is the refuge. And it hates and detests that its mentors and leaders and their statements of kufr and apostasy are exposed, refuted and demolished!!

And know that anyone who promotes the books of Sayyid Qutb, portraying him as a Scholar and Imaam, equal to the likes of Shaikh ul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah (!!) and Shaikh ul-Islaam Muhammad bin Abdul-Wahhaab(!!) and Shaikh ul-Islaam Ibn Baaz(!!) and one worthy to be followed in his Khariji methodology[*], then know that either he is an ignoramus with compound ignorance or he is a person of desires, who feigns the gown of Salafiyyah, deceives the common-folk and who stands at the gates of Hellfire, inviting you to become one of its inhabitants, and from Allaah is the refuge.

[*] "And it was in this period that the books of the Shaheed, Sayyid Qutb appeared, the books that represented his final thoughts (in ideology, before his death). Those which justified the takfir of (whole) societies… the breaking of all sentimental attachments to society, breaking off ties with others, and the announcement of a destructive jihad against the whole of mankind. And showing contempt against the du’at who call for lenience and softness, accusing them of idiocy, and being defeatist. [Saying all of this], in front of the western civilisation. He made this manifest, in the most clear manner in the tafsir, "Fee Zilaal il-Qur’aan", in the 2^nd edition and in ‘Ma’alim fit-Tariq’ (Milestones), and the bulk of it is taken from ‘Zilal’ and ‘Al-Islam wa Mushkilat al-Hadaarah’ and others…"Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the Leaders of Ikhwan, in ‘Priorities of the Islamic Movement (p.110)’