Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Sayyid Qutb
Born: October 9, 1906
Died: August 29, 1966 (aged 59)
Bio: Sayyid Qutb was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamic theorist, poet, and the leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s.
Known for:
- Fi Zilal al-Quran
- Milestones (1964)
- Social justice in Islam (1949)
- This religion of Islam
- A child from the village