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*They looked to the Qur'an for orders to obey, not as "learning and information" or solutions to problems.{{sfn|Qutb|1981|p=17-18}}
Following these principles the vanguard will fight Jahiliyyah with a twofold approach: preaching, and "the movement" (''jama'at''). Preaching will persuade people to become true Muslims, while the movement will abolish "the organizations and authorities of the Jahili system"{{sfn|Qutb|1981|p=55}} by "physical power and [[Jihad|Jihaad]]".{{sfn|Qutb|1981|p=55}} Foremost amongst these organizations and people to be removed is the "political power" which rests on a complex, "interrelated ideological, racial, class, social and economic support,"{{sfn|Qutb|1981|p=59}} but ultimately includes not only "the power of the state, the social system and traditions", but "the whole human environment."{{sfn|Qutb|1981|p=72}} Force is necessary, Qutb explains, because it is [[Naivety|naive]] to expect "those who have usurped the authority of God" to give up their power without a fight.{{sfn|Qutb|1981|p=58-9}}
Remaining aloof from Jahiliyyah and its values and culture, but preaching and forcibly abolishing authority within it, the vanguard will travel the road, gradually growing from a cell of "three individuals" to ten, from ten to a hundred, until there are thousands, and blossom into a truly Islamic community. The community may start in the homeland of Islam but this is by no means "the ultimate objective of the Islamic movement of Jihad."{{sfn|Qutb|1981|p=72}} Jihad can not merely be defensive, it must be offensive,{{sfn|Qutb|1981|p=62}} and its objective must be to carry Islam "throughout the earth to the whole of mankind".{{sfn|Qutb|1981|p=72}} This is not aggression, as Orientalists would lead you to believe, but necessary because "truth and falsehood cannot coexist on this Earth".{{sfn|Qutb|1981|p=65}}
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