Shaykh Abdul-Azeez Bin Baz on Mockery of Prophet Moses and the Ta'weel of the Jahmiyyah
As well as in the book above, it is also recorded. You can download the audio recording here, it is in the second half.
Shaykh Abdul-Aziz bin Baz (rahimahullaah), when asked about the speech of Sayyid Qutb concerning the saying of Allah - the Most High - "ar-Rahmanu 'alal Arsh istawa", Sayyid Qutb said in az-Zilal (4/2328 & 6/3408 - 12th edition, 1406H, Daar ul-'Ilm):
As for al-Istiwaa upon the Throne, then we are able to say: It is a metaphor for His mastery over the creation.
So the Shaikh replied:
This is all a futile saying - that this means His mastery. He has not affirmed 'al-Istiwaa. - which means a denial of Istiwaa, which is known and means His ascension upon the throne. [What he has said] is futile and shows that he is destitute with regard to tafseer and lost in that regard.
Then one of those present mentioned that some people always advise that this book should be read, so he said:
That which he says is an error. No! An error. That which he says is an error. We will soon write in that regard - if Allah wills.
Then in the same lesson some parts of the book of Sayyid Qutb, at-Tasweer al-Fannee fil-Qur'aan were read to him such as his speech about Moosaa -(alayhis salaam) upon whom he said:
Let us take Moosaa - as the example of the leader of excitable nature - and this excitable impulse quickly passes away and he regains his composure, as is the case with the excitable folk.
Then he said with regard to the Saying of Allah - the Most High - "He remained in the city fearful...(28:18), in at-Tasweer al-Fannee fil-Qur'aan: p.200, 201, 203. 13th edition)
This is the description of a well known state: the restlessness or fear of one expecting evil at every turn - and this is the characteristic of the excitable folk.
So the Shaikh replied to this:
Mockery of the Prophets is apostasy in its own.
And is was said to him that Shaikh Rabee' al-Madhkhalee has written a refutation of Sayyid Qutb, so the Shaikh said:
Rebuttal of him is good.
Source: During a lesson of Shaikh Abdul-Azeez Ibn Baaz (rahimahullaah) in his house in Riyaadh: 1413H, Minhaaj us-Sunnah tapes of Riyaadh.
Al-Manaawee said in Fayd ul-Qadeer (6/147):
من سب الأنبياء قتل لانتهاكه حرمة من أرسلهم واستخفافه بحقه وذلك كفر قال القيصري: إيذاء الأنبياء بسب أو غيره كعيب شيء منهم كفر حتى من قال في النبي ثوبه وسخ يريد بذلك عيبه قتل كفرا لا حدا ولا تقبل توبته عند جمع من العلماء وقبلها الشافعية.
Whoever reviled the Prophets is to be killed for violating the sanctity of the one who sent them, and his belittling of his right, and that is kufr. Al-Qusayree said,
Harming the Prophets with revilement or other than it such as criticising anything from them is kufr, until even the one who said regarding the Prophet 'His thawb is dirty', desiring by that to find fault with him, is to be killed for kufr, not as a hadd punishment. And his repentance is not accepted in the view of a group of the Scholars, but the Shaafi'iyyah accepted it (the tawbah).
Whether Qutb wrote these things in his early days or not, the prohibition of revilement and Mockery of the Prophets is known by necessity in the religion, and it is for this reason you see the above types of viewpoints amongst the Fuquhaa. However, the problem is not with Qutb, for he has passed away, and his affair is between him and His Lord, and we ask Allaah to show mercy upon him for what he fell into, but it is the Ghullaat who are the problem who describe him as "an Imaam of Guidance" and who propagandize for his methodology which is nothing but what he acquired from Leninist Marxism, and their defence of him is for no other reason except that that they wish to nurture the people upon his revolutionary ideologies.