Quotes from Ma'alim fi'l-Tariq (Signposts on the Road, or Milestones) — Sayyid Qutb
1906–1966 Egypt
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It is not the intention of Islam to force its beliefs on people, but Islam is not merely ‘belief’. As we have pointed out, Islam is a declaration of the freedom of man from servitude to other men. Thus it strives from the beginning to abolish all those systems and governments which are based on the rule of man over men and the servitude of one human being to another. When Islam releases people from this political pressure and presents to them its spiritual message, appealing to their reason, it gives them complete freedom to accept or not to accept its beliefs.
Ma'alim fi'l-Tariq (Signposts on the Road, or Milestones) (1964)
Islam's way of life is unique, for in systems other than Islam, some people worship others in some form or another. Only in the Islamic way of life do all men become free from the servitude of some men to others and devote themselves to the worship of God alone, deriving guidance from Him alone, and bowing before him alone.
Ma'alim fi'l-Tariq (Signposts on the Road, or Milestones) (1964)