Consider
23-02-05, 09:42 PM
Sayid Qutb says:
"When the Sahaba were shown the meaning of ignorance and then that of Islam, they abandoned ignorance completely. This was the effect that the formative influence of the Qur'an had and their personal contact with the Prophet had on them.
They were the greatest generation in the history of this mission. What was the secret of this grandeur about which we have all heard and read so much? Their legendary stature seems dreamlike compared to the abysmal depths to which we have now sunk.
These people threw out everything from the ignorance of the past when they entered Islam.
They had embarked on an epic journey, leaving behind them a short-sighted, feeble minded world - a world filled with opression, humiliation and the worship of money - for a life full of possibilities, shining with the light of Allaah; for a world of profound insight and vision that gave men the confidence to rise above the worship of created things, and to worship only Allaah."
Sayid Qutb, Milestones, p. 16, Arabic Edition, Shorouk
"When the Sahaba were shown the meaning of ignorance and then that of Islam, they abandoned ignorance completely. This was the effect that the formative influence of the Qur'an had and their personal contact with the Prophet had on them.
They were the greatest generation in the history of this mission. What was the secret of this grandeur about which we have all heard and read so much? Their legendary stature seems dreamlike compared to the abysmal depths to which we have now sunk.
These people threw out everything from the ignorance of the past when they entered Islam.
They had embarked on an epic journey, leaving behind them a short-sighted, feeble minded world - a world filled with opression, humiliation and the worship of money - for a life full of possibilities, shining with the light of Allaah; for a world of profound insight and vision that gave men the confidence to rise above the worship of created things, and to worship only Allaah."
Sayid Qutb, Milestones, p. 16, Arabic Edition, Shorouk