Quote of the day
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
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