# What do you think of Shaykh al-Sha'rawi?

*His thoughts on Shaykh al-Sha'rawi*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/12/
- Date: 2021-01-12 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (50:44–51:30)
- Status: a more recent answer exists: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tganlc0x_ii/s/1/; general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgHntbMPis&t=3044s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/

**Topics:** Views on contemporary scholars

**Question as asked:** What are your generally positive thoughts on Shaykh al-Sha'rawi?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** His thoughts on al-Sha'rawi are positive, though he says he has not been influenced by him.

## Longer summary

Asked, just before, for his generally positive thoughts on Shaykh al-Sha'rawi, Mufti Abu Layth says he cannot say he has been influenced by him. He says he has heard some of his material and read some of his lectures, including his tafsir of certain verses with a Sufi angle, and that his thoughts are positive.

## Sources and names cited

- Muhammad Mutawalli al-Sha'rawi

## Transcript (machine tier, 50:44–51:30)

[50:44] i can't say i've been influenced by him i have heard some of his things and read sometimes some uh lectures of his there are um you know certain things to do with when he's doing tafsir of certain ayat and and he had a very uh sufic um angle but yeah i mean my thoughts are a positive right adnan oct

[51:29] [Laughter] i have those of you that have known him in the past or his influence as harun yahya harun yahya to be fair uh really it's one of those things that like i mentioned before that not that how things which may be bad are not a hundred percent bad so he came at a time when muslims were suffering

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 1zgHntbMPis/s/12. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/1zghntbmpis/s/12/

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