I am currently reading Ma'alim fil tariq (Milestones) by Sayyid Qutb.I must say i am utterly amazed by the eloquence and understanding of Shaheed Sayyid Qutb. It would be a pleasure to write a review on it.
Milestones is a concise manual for the need and subsequent establishment of an Islamic state. It is important to note how the author draws parallels and beautifully explains the subtle implications of believing in Allah as the Creator of the heavens and the earth. One such implication is that to Allah belongs all sovereignty of the Heavens and the earth. The belief of a Muslim or a Mumin is not sound until and unless he feels that nothing else has a power to govern his/her life except the one who gave him this life-his Creator. And sovereignty in an explicit sense implies jurisprudence/law making. Hence the only one worthy of making laws governing human beings should be the Creator of the human beings and no one else. it is incumbent upon a Muslim to implement Sharia in his life and at least desire the day when the whole world will be freed from the servitude to humanity to be honoured by the servitude to Allah alone. This is the day Sharia will become a universal reality Inshallah.
Milestones is a concise manual for the need and subsequent establishment of an Islamic state. It is important to note how the author draws parallels and beautifully explains the subtle implications of believing in Allah as the Creator of the heavens and the earth. One such implication is that to Allah belongs all sovereignty of the Heavens and the earth. The belief of a Muslim or a Mumin is not sound until and unless he feels that nothing else has a power to govern his/her life except the one who gave him this life-his Creator. And sovereignty in an explicit sense implies jurisprudence/law making. Hence the only one worthy of making laws governing human beings should be the Creator of the human beings and no one else. it is incumbent upon a Muslim to implement Sharia in his life and at least desire the day when the whole world will be freed from the servitude to humanity to be honoured by the servitude to Allah alone. This is the day Sharia will become a universal reality Inshallah.
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