The Muslim Brotherhood In The Correct Historical Perspectives
In Saudi Arabia
[A Must Read]
Praise be to Allah the Lord of the worlds and may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon the noble Prophet Muhammad and his household and Companions all together.
To proceed:
I have read an article written by one Abu Mazeedah; this article is full of facts that have been distorted and twisted to support the deviant aqeedah and methodology of the writer. Yes, there is no denying the fact that the relationship between the Saudi authority and the Brotherhood was very smooth from the fifties during the reign of Saudi bn AbdulAziz, and later during the reign of Faisal bn Abdulaziz in the sixties.
A lot of the leading figures of the Brotherhood were given asylum in the fifties when they were being persecuted by the Nasser’s regime. Mannaa’ al-Qattan a leading Ikhwaani scholar was given political and religious asylum in 1953 in Saudi and he later rose to high academic positions in Saudi Arabia. He headed alMa’had al-‘Aa’li lil-Qada, the institute that trains the judges. He occupied a lot of academic positions in some of the Saudi universities. Abdul Qaadir Awdah was executed in 1954 because of his involvement in the protest against Gamal Abdel Nasser’s government and the attempt to assassinate Abdel Nasser in the incident of AlManshiyyah. Sayyid Qutb and some ikhwanis from the Secret Apparatus were accused of planning to topple Abdel Naasser‘s government in 1965; consequently they were tried and found guilty and were hanged by Abdel Nasser’s government in 1966. His younger brother, Muhammad Qutb succeeded in fleeing Egypt for Saudi Arabia after the execution of his elder brother in 1966. He was employed as lecturer in Umm al-Qura University. He supervised the Master’s project of Dr Safar al-Hawaali (al-Almaaniyyah) likewise his doctorate thesis (Dhaairat-Al-Irjaa) .
In addition, Muhammad Surur , another Ikhwani from Syria who had also read the works of Sayyid Qutb such as the Milestones, In the Shade of the Quran and other works of his that incite the youths against the rulers, also left Syria in 1965 for Saudi Arabia. In Buraidah in Saudi Arabia he was employed to teach Mathematics in one of the secondary schools called Alma’had al-ilmi where he met Salman AlAwdah as a student according to the narration of AlAwdah himself in an interview. He influenced the students with his evil ideology and planted in them the seed of activism which Saudi Arabia later suffered from in the nineties. Muhammad Surur was later exiled from Saudi Arabia after about eight years when Manna’ al-Qattan, the Egyptian Ikhwaani who arrived Saudi Arabia in 1953 ,used his influence to convince the authority to chase him out of Saudi Arabia. According to an interview granted by Muhammad Surur he said alQattan was responsible for his expulsion. Why this? This is because al-Qattan felt threatened with the presence of Muhammad Surur in Saudi Arabia as his approach to the issue of leadership was too harsh which could make the existence of the Brotherhood in the Kingdom short lived. Al-Qattan believed in scheming; on the other hand Muhammad Surur believed in inciting and confrontation based on the teachings of Sayyid Qutb in the Mile Stone and the Dhilal. Even in Egypt that method preached by Sayyid Qutb, and before him, used by the Secret Apparatus (a secret body formed by Hasan alBanna for the execution of evil acts originally against the non muslims occupying Egypt and later used against their political opponents)landed them in trouble and led to the killing of a lot of their members. This eventually led the then Murshid, Hasan al-Hudaybi to write a book titled “Duaa’t Laa Qudaat “ which was a rejoinder to the Milestones and Fi Dhilal respectively both written by Sayyid Qutb. AlQardaawi mentioned this in an interview where he also said the works of Sayyid is the genesis of Takfeer in the modern time.
In addition, the works of Muhammad Qutb such as واقعنا المعاصر ,هل نحن مسلمون ,جاهلية القرن العشرين are corroborations of the works of his elder brother Sayyid Qutb.
The question that comes up is , was n’t the Saudi Government aware of this ? Were n’t the Saudi scholars aware of this?
The blunt truth is that Saudi government was deceived by the surface as the people were shouting “shariah shariah” الإسلام هو الحل “ Islam is the solution.“ Consequently they preferred them to those who were championing and calling for ”Arab Nationalism” people like Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Ba’thists. This was the reason why they gave them political and religious asylum. Prince Naaif pointed to this in an interview with a Kuwaiti News paper in 2002 lamenting the way the Brotherhood paid them back with evil as they incited and trained their youth against them; this was apparent in what transpired in the early nineties when the youths in the sixties such as Salman AlAwdah, Safar al-Hawaali, Naasir al-Umar , ‘Aaid al-Qarni and many others became the Mashayikh as-Sahwah in the nineties. The speeches and works of these evil mashayikh and their teachers mentioned earlier led eventually to the formation of groups such as al-Qaa’idah, Isis, Boko Haram etc as the leaders of these deviant groups often qoute from their works and also see them as their role model and this is what has affected Abu Mazeedah himself.
As for the scholars they initially were also deceived by the apparent call of these evil Ikhwani scholars as they did not have enough time to busy themselves with the reading of these people’s write- ups as they had in front of them the works of people like Imam Malik, Imam Ahmad , As-shafee’, AlBukhari, Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Qayyim and many others.However, some scholars such as Shaikh Muhammad Amaan al-Jaami was quick to detect this in the nineties and did a lot of refutations of the Brotherhood and all its affiliates such as Qutbiyyah, Sururiyyah, Bannaiyyah. This is because these groups were only interested in power which the Sunnah of the Prophet warns us against struggling for in many ahadith and the Sunnah also tells how to relate with the rulers even if they are unjust. All these ahadith mean nothing to the Ikhwanis both the card carrying members and those that have fallen for them through their works and lectures such as Abu Mazeedah. It is not something that is far-fetched as there a lot of people who are following Abu Mazeedah and defending him because they are ignorant of the evils he committed in Olodi Apapa which led to the death of his movement then.
