The Bāṭinī Movements, Secret Orders, Freemasonry, al-Ikhwān, al-Qāidah and ISIS: Part 5 - Ashʿarī, Bāṭinī, Rāfiḍī Freemason: Sayyid Quṭb, Grandfather of 20th Century Takfīrī and Terrorist Ideology Though Ḥasan al-Bannā sowed the seeds for the Takfīrī mentality and spirit, it was Sayyid Quṭb who spelled it out thoroughly and and conveyed it explicitly, placing the dots on all the letters. Just as Ḥasan al-Bannā utilized terrorism through his secret apparatus and militia wing that partook in political assassinations and bombings in the 1940s, Sayyid Quṭb also atempted to mobilize a similar apparatus in the sixties to unleash terror in Cairo and other cities across Egypt which were inhabited by "apostate" societies who had allegedly thrown the yoke of Islām from their necks and "reverted to a jāhiliyyah more severe than the pre-Islāmic jāhiliyyah." It is from the ideologies of these Ṣūfī, Ashʿarī, Bāṭinī, Takfīrī extremists that the terrorism of al-Qaidah and ISIS derives its ideological basis and justification. There is no Salafism here. These extremist, terrorist ideologies are not found in the books of the Salaf, nor Ibn Taymiyyah nor Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, but they are found in the works of the people of fikr (thought) amongst the Ashʿarī, Ṣūfī tradition that came out of Egypt. Download Full PDF Document.