Shaykh Muhammad Mitwalli Al Sharawi
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From the pen of the late, famous scholar
Shaykh Muhammad Mitwalli al-Sha’rawi. The question of the end of the
world is a topic which has captured the interest of all, including
scientists and the pseudo-scientists who offer theoretical predictions
about how the world will come to an end. Such theories change on a
regular basis because they are not based on true knowledge, which is to
be found only in Allah’s Revelation. In this book Shaykh Al Sha’rawi
points out the contrast between the changing perspective of the human
being and immutable universe in which he lives and which provides the
human being with evidence of his Creator. He also points out how the
apparent stability of the universe can delude someone lacking belief in
the Creator so that he fails to realise the true nature of existence,
the transience of the human being and the necessity of awakening from
the delusion of his own power before death forces him to wake up.
Shaykh Muhammad Mitwalli ash-Sha’rawi was
born in a middle class family in the village of Daqadus in Egypt.
Educated at the famours Al Azhar University where Scholars where
scholars such contributed Shaykh Ahmad Yusuf Nagati, Shaykh Ahmad
`Imara, Shaykh Ibrahim Hamrush, Saykh Muhammad Mustafa al Maraghi.
Shaykh al-Sha’rawi mentions other non-Azharites whose knowledge he
benefited from including Imam Hassan al-Banna who had a unique mythology
of lecturing.
Shaykh al-Sha’rawi started his Azharite
teaching work in Tanta’s institute of religious studies. He was then
transferred to equivalent institutes in al-Zaqaziq, Alexandria and King
Abd al-Aziz al-Sa’ud university in Makkah.
He retired from the Azharite career in
1976. In the same year he was appointed by president Sadat as a minister
of Waqf. He stayed in that position for two years.
In 1980 he started his famous Friday
lessons on the Egyptian television. His speaches in Qur’an
interpretation (Tafsir) attracted a massive audience that is probably
unparalleled by any contemporary Azharite.
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