"Western psychologists accuse religion of repressing the vital energy of man and rendering his life quite miserable as a result of the sense of guilt which especially obsesses the religious people and makes them imagine that all their actions are sinful and can only be expiated through abstention from enjoying the pleasures of life. Those psychologists add that Europe lived in the darkness of ignorance as long as it adhered to its religion but once it freed itself from the fetters of religion, its emotions were liberated and accordingly it achieved wonders in the field of production."
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Chapter 11, Islam and Sexual Repression, p. 207.
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Muhammad Qutb
Muhammad Qutb (Arabic: Ù…Øمد قطب‎;‎ born in Egypt 1919 – April 4, 2014) was an Egyptian Muslim author, scholar and teacher, best known as the younger brother of the Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb.
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