Summary Sayyid Qutb, an Egyptian novelist and literature teacher, was born in 1906 in the town of Musha, township of Qaha, in the territory of Assyout in Southern Egypt. In 1920, when he was 15, Sayyid was sent to Cairo to continue his schooling, where he received a Western-style education attending college at Dar al-Ulum University. It was there that he met Hasan al-Banna, who established the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928, an association that would turn into an imperative impact later in his life. Qutb began his career as a teacher in the Ministry of Education. During this time that he began to publish his writing works. In the mid-1940s Qutb’s writings began to show political overtones. And his writings became Islamist in 1948 wrote al-Adala al-ijtima`iyya fi-I-Islam(Social Justice in Islam).
When he was 43, the Egyptian Ministry of Education sent Qutb to America, where he worked
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It appears glaringly evident that Qutb, as to the measurements of advancement that worry procedures of change, rejects secularization and utilitarian separation. In his view the afflictions of mankind are human lordship, the man-made laws and the misinterpretation that Islam is noteworthy just as an individual conviction. The most vital inquiry Qutb delivers is the means by which to start the errand of restoring Islam and how to continue. He requires a vanguard to attempt this errand while walking through the immense sea of jahiliyyah which has included the whole world. Qutb includes that he considers this vanguard "a holding up reality going to be appeared. Qutb believes that for the most part, mankind as a whole has not denied God and His sovereignty, but rather erred either in not comprehending His attributes or in associating other gods with