Notes

These principles come into effect when it is established, through textual evidences, that what a person has fallen into of statement and action, is indeed something that is major kufr. For the Takfiris, they very often make Takfir based upon things that are not even major kufr, such as trade relations, and treaties and agreements made between Muslim states and non-Muslim states, the presence of major sins (like usury, prostitution, gambling) in an organized way in Muslim lands, which they consider to be making istihlaal of these sins, and again, these doubts will be covered in future articles.

Also, Ahl us-Sunnah distinguish as is clear from the above, between declaring a saying or action to be kufr, which is referred to as "takfir ul-qawl wal-fi'l" (takfir of the saying and action), "takfir bil-wasf" (takfir through a description or quality), "takfir bil-itlaaq" (takfir in generalized, unrestricted terms) and between a person being judged a kaafir which is referred to as "takfir bil-ayn", "takfir al-mu'ayyan", both referring to Takfir of a specific individual.

And also, the preventative barrier of "jahl" (ignorance) does not apply to all forms of major kufr, or in all occurrences of major kufr from individuals, and its application may also be determined by other factors such as if a person was new to Islam, or if people are living in a time in which there is great jahl (ignorance) and the reality of the deen of the Messengers has not been sufficiently propagated such that they know they are in opposition to it. So in short, the barrier of "jahl" is not absolute and has further details to it and that will be covered in further articles inshaa'Allaah.

Meanwhile Here's the Qutbiyyah ...

On 2nd January 2010, we published the following article, take note of the article title, which is based upon what is established with Ahl us-Sunnah that they distinguish between Takfir upon a saying or action and Takfir of a specific indvidual:

Shaykh Ibn Jibreen Makes Takfir Upon the Saying of Sayyid Qutb That Islam Is a Mixture of Communism and Christianity - (see here)
Thus, in compliance with these principles we wrote "takfir upon the saying" in the title to make clear this is takfir bil-wasf, takfir ul-qawl, takfir bil-itlaaq, so as not to leave any impression whatsoever that Takfir of a specific individual is being made, otherwise the Qutbiyyah would have ran, sailed and flown with that for a couple of years, as is typical of them, and even to this day, they are desperate to get a statement of "Takfir" which they can then use as part of their pro-qutb propaganda.

As for the view of the Scholars, then a number of them have highlighted the statements of kufr made by Sayyid Qutb - but they have said that they excuse him due to his ignorance, and that if he was alive he would have been ordered to repent and would have had the hujjah established upon him, but as that is not the case, then the Scholars, out of wara' (awe, fear of Allaah) do not hasten to make Takfir of him, and leave his affair with Allaah.