A Journey Through Shari'a Law: Justifying Jihad and Punishment

... Muslims must follow Shari’a and Shari'a alone. Obeying means worshipping to Qutb, and if a Muslim obeys anyone but God he fails to worship God exclusively. This tenet entrenched in Sayiid Qutb’s book “Milestones” that guided the Muslim Brotherhood for many years translated into the rejection of any authority but Islam. But the most toxic teaching in Qutb’s Milestones was that about jahiliyyah (ignorance), the word that denotes the pre-Islamic period in the Arab world. In Qutb’s view when each Muslim embraced Islam at the time of Prophet Muhammad, ...