"I'm returning from the boxing ring with cuts and they're returning from the library with books!"

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On returning to Egypt, Qutb wrote a series of books, many from prison, denouncing jahiliyya (ignorance), a state of affairs he categorised as the domination of man over man, or rather subservience to man rather than to Allah.

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If there is no soul, then the emotional energy they generated in their lives, and recorded in their books and actions, died with them, returning to natural repose in nature.

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After returning to Amsterdam, he became a dealer, first in rare books and later paintings from the region.

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