Re: Substance?

It would seem that the Qur’an is a difficult text to fully comprehend. In this light I believe that scholars such as al-Ghazali and Rumi brought lay-people to the texts while offering them interpretations of it. I dont think it is enough to draw people to a text without offering them guidance in its interpretations. Perhaps that is where my problem lies with people like Qutb, they draw people’s minds and hearts to places that they themselves have no idea how to achieve.

I know this is from last week’s lecture, but oh well.

You mentioned that perhaps hope is enough of a reason to justify what Qutb and al-Banna have written. But is hope a reason enough for political reformation and societal change. That might sound like enough, but what if the ‘inspired’ peoples decide to actually enact what Qutb and al-Banna have written. What if they took power on a hope that they could create a utopian society on earth similar to the Golden Age? If their numbers were great enough perhaps they could take power, but then what would they do? Since Qutb and al-Banna’s texts are filled with empty theories what would the realization of what they have written really look like?