An Explanation of What Sayyid Qutb Fell Into Regarding the Doctrine of the Unity of Existence!

The Shaykh : And I said to the man: This is our position. He said: Fine; what did Sayyid Qutb say? We said: Bring us "Tafsir al-Dhala'il." So we brought two volumes, one of which I think was on the interpretation of Surat al-Hadid, and the other on . We read it; one of those present read it. There, we must be aware of what he said. The apparent meaning of his words is entirely that "there is no existence except the existence of the Truth," and this is exactly what the proponents of the Unity of Existence say: "Everything you see with your eye is Allah." And these creatures, which the people of the apparent meaning call creatures, are not anything other than Allah. And on this basis come some reports that detail this great misguidance, from what is narrated from some of the early Sufis, one of whom used to say: "My glory, my glory! How great is my status!!" and the other who used to say: "There is nothing in the robe but Allah!!" I say that all this speech in these places in the tafsir, perhaps Sayyid Qutb (may Allah have mercy on him) read some of these Sufi writings and was influenced by them. He was a man of literature, so he wove them into the tafsir, and this speech came out of him. Because in reality, in other places, the majority of Muslims, meaning the people of the Sunnah and the correct creed, affirm the difference between the Creator and the created, contrary to the creed of the Unity of Existence. So I said to the man: This speech, my brother, this speech is disbelief (kufr). It is not permissible to approve of it, and it is not permissible to leave it as is. And in my belief, and since religion is sincere advice, if this book is printed by the group themselves, the Muslim Brotherhood, it is obligatory upon them—not that I say they must change the phrase itself—but that they add a commentary to it so that some of those who have no knowledge of the correct Islamic creed do not get entangled by it. As for remaining silent about it, that is not permissible, as is well known in the science of jurisprudence.
The summary: The man researched and rearranged things, but he could not find a meaning for those phrases other than this apparent meaning. However, he moved to other well-known places where he explicitly states that there is a Creator, there is the created, and the created is other than the Creator. And these things, praise be to Allah, are from the innate disposition (fitrah) of all Muslims.
So the point is: They established that unjust decision based on a mere word that reached them, and the least that can be said about it is what has been said since ancient times: "The only defect in news is its narrators!"
Finally: When I settled here, strange and very odd rumors began, and we do not know in reality where they originate from. But—regrettably—we suspect that some of the enthusiastic individuals from the Muslim Brotherhood are the ones spreading these words. All these things are rumors, and I give them no weight, to the extent that I was surprised by your magazine "Al-Mujtama'" which was being published and still is. It used to honor us by sending us what I can sometimes say... because it used to come to me sometimes, or in a regular manner, but there it is stolen or its entry is prevented, or for whatever reason. At the time when the magazine seemed to have a spiritual and moral connection existing between me and it, indicated by the fact that it presents this magazine to us as a gift in a continuous manner, we were surprised by a discussion they conducted with a brother of ours from "Ansar al-Sunnah" in Sudan, whose name might be Abdul Qadir, "Abdul Qadir Hasan," yes. And here the magazine prints what we hear here about the Shaykh Al-Albani being against the Muslim Brotherhood. Perhaps they also—mistakenly—mentioned that I declare people disbelievers (takfir) or misguide them, or similar words. I said: Glory be to Allah! We were living in unrecorded news, and then it was recorded and in a circulating magazine...
... meaning: your hearts. And the meaning of this hadith is that the disagreement of Muslims in interpretation --
I say, in summary of what has preceded and briefly: I do not oppose the Muslim Brotherhood. Rather, I consider them to be those who paved the way for the Salafi call and prepared individuals to accept this call. And I have felt this throughout my life, which is not less than fifty years in the call; I know this truth.