Suddenly, Sayyed Qutb placed himself very close to the new power, [the officers of] the July Revolution, and forgot or ignored his fierce defense of the workers and the poor which continued from 1949 till 1951.


It is astonishing that Sayyed Qutb forgot about his call for social justice, yet, it is more astonishing that he totally changed his liberal attitude and his artistic taste. Qutb who once praised the love poetry of Hafiz Sherazi, went the distance in attacking Muhammad Abdel Wahab and Um Kalthoum and demanded their songs to be banned.