Does not Sayyid Qutb's return to the Salafi call indicate that the old method of the Muslim Brotherhood is of no benefit, and that they must benefit from the experience of Sayyid Qutb?
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The questioner : So, O our Shaykh, the summary of Shaykh Sayyid Qutb's (may Allah have mercy on him) experience, after his suffering and adopting the initial ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, is that he returned to the Salafi call that you were advocating before. This also necessitates that the old method was of no benefit, and this is a clarification for them.
The Shaykh : There is no doubt that they must reconsider their previous style and the methodology they received from Hassan al-Banna, as it is no longer suitable to be adopted literally. The greatest proof of this is that more than half a century has passed since the call of the Muslim Brotherhood, and no scholar has been found among them.
The questioner : Glory be to Allah!
The Shaykh : Even though they number millions in the world, in the world of Islam they are counted in the millions, yet no scholar has been found among them. Nor has anything been found in them to offer to the Islamic world, whether as a group or as individuals. They have offered them nothing except this enthusiasm, which resulted in what our brother Abu Hamzah mentioned. Meanwhile, you find the opposite: the Salafi call has offered benefits in creed, worship, and morals in every place, even among the Muslim Brotherhood members themselves. Therefore, you find many of them as individuals to be Salafis. When we discuss with them and remind them of this fact—that their call has not yielded anything—they say to you: "So-and-so is a Salafi, and so-and-so is a Salafi," and so on. We say to them: Yes, but where did their Salafism come from? Did it come from their call, or from outside the call?
This is the reality. Therefore, all of this obligates them to reconsider, were it not for blind partisanship. May Allah be our helper.
The Shaykh : There is no doubt that they must reconsider their previous style and the methodology they received from Hassan al-Banna, as it is no longer suitable to be adopted literally. The greatest proof of this is that more than half a century has passed since the call of the Muslim Brotherhood, and no scholar has been found among them.
The questioner : Glory be to Allah!
The Shaykh : Even though they number millions in the world, in the world of Islam they are counted in the millions, yet no scholar has been found among them. Nor has anything been found in them to offer to the Islamic world, whether as a group or as individuals. They have offered them nothing except this enthusiasm, which resulted in what our brother Abu Hamzah mentioned. Meanwhile, you find the opposite: the Salafi call has offered benefits in creed, worship, and morals in every place, even among the Muslim Brotherhood members themselves. Therefore, you find many of them as individuals to be Salafis. When we discuss with them and remind them of this fact—that their call has not yielded anything—they say to you: "So-and-so is a Salafi, and so-and-so is a Salafi," and so on. We say to them: Yes, but where did their Salafism come from? Did it come from their call, or from outside the call?
This is the reality. Therefore, all of this obligates them to reconsider, were it not for blind partisanship. May Allah be our helper.