Sayyid Qutb’s magisterial work Ma’alim fi’l-tareeq, or Milestones, captures the imagination of the true believer. He calls for a new Quranic generation like the one the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) raised up in Mecca during the Meccan period of the Quran. Qutb points out that hearers and readers of the Quran during these first...
