This is only a small selection of the quotations from the Ulamaa which number
around 25 or so. All of the above quotations are found in the cassette "Aqwaal
ul-Ulamaa Fee Sayyid Qutb", published by Tasjeelaat Minhaaj us-Sunnah of
Riyaadh.
Summary
Shaikh ul-Islaam Ibn Baaz (rahimahullaah) was asked, "The one who praises Ahl
ul-Bid’ah, is he to be counted amongst them?" So he replied, "Yes, there is
no doubt about this, the one who praises them is one who actually calls to
them". [Cassette: Aqwaal ul-Ulamaa Fee Sayyid Qutb]
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
So dear brother and sister for the sake of Allaah, flee from the books of
Sayyid Qutb and flee from those who promote or recommend his books and flee
also from those who defend and promote those who defend and promote the books of
Sayyid Qutb – fearing for your religion and your aqidah and your manhaj and the repugnant Irjaa that has overcome many of the Qutubiyyah.
And if a Qutubi Revivalist comes to you and says, "Shaikh al-Albani
encouraged everyone to read a chapter in Milestones", then reply to such a
one:
"O Qutubi! This is a very old saying, uttered when the true nature and extent
of Qutb’s deviations and heresies were not known to Shaikh al-Albani (save the
affair of Wahdat ul-Wujood). And then the Noble Shaikh Rabee’ bin Haadee exposed
the affair of Sayyid Qutb, - giving sincerity of purpose to Allaah, His
Messenger and the Muslims in all of that – and so when the affair became
abundantly clear – and especially in more recent times - the Noble Imaam,
al-Albani made the statement above to Shaikh Rabee’ "Everything with which
you have refuted Sayyid Qutb is the truth (haqq) and is correct (sawab)… So
may Allaah reward you with the best of reward, O brother Rabee’ for
fulfilling the obligation of explaining and uncovering his ignorance and
deviation from Islaam". And are you ignorant or merely
pretending to be ignorant of the principle of al-Jarh wat-Ta’deel that the
specific criticism takes precedence over the general praise!! And O
Qutubi, would you like us to become blind-followers of men and abandon researching the
proofs and evidences? And O Qutubi, has not your fraud become uncovered already
in that Al-Karaabeesee and al-Muhaasibee were more superior and knowledgeable
than Sayyid Qutb and they had works that contained "admonitions and lessons"
more powerful and far reaching than the sentimental writings of Qutb, but
alongside that Imaam Ahmad forbade them severely, with great harshness and
reprimanded the one who tried to argue that they contain benefit?! So may Allaah
restrain you O Qutubi, we are people of evidence and proof and implementers of
the manhaj of the Salaf – by the permission and praise of Allaah and not merely
blind-followers of individuals and personalities. Salaaman!!"
The Heresies of Sayyid Qutb in Light of the Statements of the Ulamaa (Part 1)
