Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) is one of the modern Egyptian thinkers whose work Tafsir Fī Zhīlāl al-Qur’ān has been published many times and translated into many languages in this world. His phenomenal work occupies a high position in the Qur'anic commentary world. The work is very famous and most highly respected. Sayyid Qutb is one of the personage who are victims of crimes his regime. Because his ideas are considered radical and do not want to be subject to leaders of his time, namely Gamal Abdul Nasser, Sayyid Qutb then arrested because accused wanted to overthrow the government. And finally he got sentenced to death.
The writer makes the work of Sayyid Qutb as a research study that focuses on first, the pattern of obedience to the government and second, the concept of good goverment and good governance. This study is library research and the method of analysis is content analysis. By analyzing the meaning contained in the whole idea of Sayyid Qutb in Tafsir Fī Ẓilāl Al-Qur’ān. The steps to be taken as follows, the first inventory of the main points of Sayyid Qutb's ideas, describe and assess relevant data, then identify and integrate the concepts it uses. After that, connect and compared with other ideas, and in the end make interpretations and conclusions as the author of his own reflection.
Obedience to the leader is obligatory. But people need to distinguish between obeying a good leader and a bad one. As long as he was told not contrary to God's law, then we are obligated to keep it. According to Sayyid Qutb, obedience to leader not because of their position, but because they implementing Islamic law in the life of the state. This is because obedience to the leader is part of obedience to Allah and His Messenger. The leader must be obeyed is the leader of the Islamic people themselves, who are qualified and restrictions in Islam as described in the Qur'an.