Hassan al-Banna

thumb|Hassan al-Banna Hassan Ahmed Abdel Rahman Muhammed al-Banna (Arabic: حسن أحمد عبد الرحمن محمد البنا‎; 14 October 1906 – 12 February 1949), known as Hassan al-Banna, was an Egyptian schoolteacher and imam, best known for founding the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928. Quotes Brethren! God gives the ummah that is skilled in the practice of death and that knows how to die a noble death, an exalted life in this world and eternal felicity in the next. What is the fantasy that has reduced us to loving this world and hating death? If you gird yourselves for a lofty deed and yearn for death, life shall be given to you. Know then that death is inevitable, and that it can only happen once. If you suffer it in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the next. Five Tracts of Hasan Al-Banna: A Selection from the Majmu at Rasail al-Imam al-Shahid Hasan al-Banna University of California Press 156 translated and annotated by Charles Wendell. The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the whole world with the products of this science to its states and nations, is now bankrupt and in decline. Five Tracts of Hasan Al-Banna: A Selection from the Majmu at Rasail al-Imam al-Shahid Hasan al-Banna University of California Press 106 translated and annotated by Charles Wendell. If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea. AIM TO OUST JEWS PLEDGED BY SHEIKH, New York Times, August 02, 1948 If prisons are opened for you, and gallows are erected for you, then know that your call has begun to bear fruit. See also Muslim Brotherhood Islam Sayyid Qutb Mahdi Akef External links Category:Muslim Brotherhood members Category:Islamic scholars Category:1906 births Category:1949 deaths Category:Muslims from Egypt