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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.”

Yesterday marked 53 years since the execution of Sayid Qutb. From a family of struggle and sacrifice, today we recall how Amina Qutb mourned her husband, martyred at the hands of the same despots...