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Today marks 52 years since Syed Qutb, the great Egyptian Muslim thinker, was hanged by the regime of Jamal Abdel Nasser. He preferred death and torture to renouncing what he had declared. It is to him that the powerful and profound statement is attributed: “The finger that testifies that there is no God but Allāh refuses to testify to other than Him.”

Whenever Khadīja (raḍiy Allāhu ʿanha) is mentioned what picture forms in your mind? Do you not picture how she sacrificed her comfort and livelihood for the cause of the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam)? How she would repeatedly embarked ...