Thoughts and impressions from a period that Sayyid Qutb lived in the shadow of the Qur’an, which he recorded

Thoughts and impressions from the period that Sayyid Qutb lived in the shadow of the Qur’an, he recorded them in these six volumes, starting from the eternal truth, which is that the Qur’an is a reality with a continuous existence like the universe itself. That they both exist to function.

The universe in all its aspects is still moving and performing its role that its Creator destined for it, and the Qur’an has also performed its role for humanity, and it is still the same, and man is still the same in his reality and in the origin of his nature. This Qur’an is God’s speech to this human being, to those whom God has addressed with it. It is a speech that does not change. It addresses him at the origin of his nature and at the origin of his reality. Therefore, it was necessary to look more carefully to realize the meanings intended by its surahs and verses, and to realize the latent vitality in it to receive the guidance stored from it. For the Muslim community in every generation, through Sayyed Qutb’s contemplation of the existence of the first Muslim community that was addressed by this Qur’an for the first time to live with it to represent it in its true humanity, in its real life, and in its human problems, and by contemplating the leadership of the Qur’an that has direct leadership in its daily affairs and goals. College alike, and he sees how he takes the Qur’an into its hands step by step, then moves to the Islamic community today being addressed by the Qur’an in the same way as the first group was addressed to it. Humanity, with all its known characteristics, has the ability to respond to the Qur’an and benefit from its leadership in the same path.

With this view, Sayyid Qutb saw that the Qur’an is alive and working in the life of the first Muslim woman, and that it can work in the lives of Muslims today, and that the Qur’an is with them today as well as tomorrow, and that it is not merely devotional hymns far from the specific reality of Muslims, just as it is not history that has been written and passed, and its effectiveness and interaction with life has been nullified. Humanity.

From this standpoint, Sayyid Qutb goes into the shadows of the Qur’an, discovering its meanings, interpreting its verses in a manner far removed from the methods of the advanced imams of interpretation, adhering to the spirit and essence of their interpretations, to imitate minds that differed in their methodology, way of thinking, and theorizing of matters and facts from the minds of the contemporaries of the advanced imams of interpretation. Where he lists the surah, identifying it and the number of its verses, and whether it is Meccan or Medinan, which is more correct according to him.