From the sayings of Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud

Mustafa Mahmoud

Mustafa Kamal Mahmoud Hussein Al Mahfouz is one of the most famous Arab writers and thinkers. He has a philosophical vision of life. He is considered one of the most influential figures among Muslim youth, as he presented nearly 400 episodes of his famous television program (Science and Faith), and he has many novels and books that... It is concerned with the mind and thinking of a monotheist Muslim.

His beginnings

Mustafa Mahmoud lived next to the famous “Al Mahatta” Mosque, which is considered one of the famous Sufi shrines in Egypt and which left a clear impact on his ideas and trends. Mustafa Mahmoud excelled in studies from the beginning of his life, to the point that one day an Arabic language teacher beat him. This led to him stopping his studies for three years until this teacher moved to another school, so Mustafa Mahmoud returned to continue studying.

Mustafa Mahmoud established a small laboratory in his father’s house to make soap and insecticides in order to kill insects, then dissect them. When he joined the Faculty of Medicine, he became known as “Al-Mushrahji” because he stood all day in front of the bodies of the dead, asking questions about the secret of life, death, and what comes after them.

his death

Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud died at half past seven in the morning on Saturday, October 31, 2009, after a treatment trip that lasted several months, at the age of 88. The funeral took place from his mosque in Mohandiseen, and no celebrities or officials visited him, and the media spoke only little about him. This frustrated his family.

his sayings

The shrouds have no pockets.
Women tend to be embodied in love because they are originally the place of embodiment.
There are those who fight for freedom from slavery, and there are those who demand improvement in the conditions of slavery.
True beauty is the beauty of personality, the sweetness of traits, and the purity of the soul.
Television, radio, cinema, and magazine and newspaper pages compete over one dangerous thing: stealing a person from himself.
Why don't we get out of our personal concerns and take on the concerns of the greater nation and then move beyond the nation to the greater humanity?
Man rises above man by searching for meaning.
My life for the sake of eating and living has no meaning because it is merely a continuation.
I want a moment that gives my life meaning.
Love is the only reasonable madness in the world.
The rubbish bin into which we throw all our actions is the word “divide” and “share”.
A person is a person only if he can resist what he loves and endure what he hates.
The straw in the sea is moved by the current, the branch on the tree is moved by the wind, and man alone is moved by will.
What I learned most in the hospital bed.
Through pain, overcoming it, being patient with it, and struggling with it, the personality grows, the will increases in strength and determination, and the person becomes something other than animals and plants.
A diplomat is a man who talks to me and hates me, so I think he loves me.
If you have a nightmare of boredom, find someone who can get bored with you.
Let us read everything that comes to our hands with caution and with a critical mind, as there are many poisons that are planted in our hands that are intended to destroy us.
God is the greatest director of the drama of existence.
Religions are one of the reasons for confusion in the meaning of happiness... because they are the ones who said that adultery and alcohol are pleasures, and forbade them... so they turned these taboos into goals that simple and gullible people pursue as happiness, which is not happiness at all.
Honor for us means maintaining the reproductive organs.. So if you commit all the worldly sins and sins included in the dictionary of vices from A to Z. Your sanctuary remained protected. You are one hundred percent honorable.
True happiness cannot be screaming. Rather, it is a deep state of tranquility in which there is less need to talk and no desire to chatter. It is a state of joyful inner vision and a sense of reconciliation with oneself, the world, and God, a deep conviction in the justice inherent in all existence, and acceptance of all pains. Satisfied and smiling.
Love is the only reasonable madness in the world.
Do not associate with a jealous person, do not ask questions of an envious person, do not befriend an ignorant person, do not associate with a hypocritical person, do not keep company with a stingy person, and do not entrust your secret to anyone.
If a believer and an unbeliever go into the sea, only those who learn to swim will be saved. God does not favor the ignorant, as the ignorant Muslim will drown, while the educated unbeliever will be saved.
All the secrets of our hearts and consciences cannot disappear. All that matters is that they are obscured beneath the surface of awareness and accumulate in our subconscious mind to appear again in new forms.. in a slip of the tongue, a fit of anger, or a strange dream one night.
True fasting is not idleness, nor sleeping all day and staying up in front of the television all night.. It is not getting up lazily in the morning to work.. And it is not jitters, shortness of heart, and tension with people.. God is in need of such fasting, and He returns it to its owner and does not accept it, so he only suffers from it. hunger and thirst.
Smile when you sit with your family, there are those who wish for a family. Smile when you go to work, as many are still looking for a job. Smile because you are in good health. There are sick people who wish to buy it at the highest price. Smile because you are alive and provided. The dead wish for life so that they can do good deeds. Smile because you have a Lord whom you call upon and worship, while others prostrate to cows.. Smile because you are you and others wish to be you.. Oh God, praise be to You as it befits the majesty of Your face and the greatness of Your power.
Every moment presents a situation to a person and requires him to make a choice between alternatives. In every choice, he reveals the quality of himself, his rank, and his status, without him knowing it.
When God sent His Messenger Moses to Pharaoh, who was the mighty and deified murderer... He sent him with signs, honors, miracles and a call for goodness... and he said to Moses and his brother Aaron a gentle word to him, in the hope that he might remember or fear... and this is the lesson of the Qur’an in calling to God.
The most dangerous weapon of the twentieth century and the number one invention that changed the course of history is the media apparatus... the word, the chisel that shapes minds... the rivers of newspapers that wash the minds of readers... the banners, banners and slogans that lead demonstrations... television that empties the souls of viewers of their contents and then returns to fill them. Again, everything that is light and trivial.
The inner parts that we strive to hide are our truths, not the clothes we wear or the actions we perform. Look into your inner self, think, meditate, and know what you hide. Know where your place is in this world and where your place is in the afterlife.
There is no difference between love and hate. They are both fire. They are both intense interest and a warm connection between two hearts.
If they had contemplated death, they would not have been anxious about life. If they had mentioned the afterlife, they would have fled to the side of their Lord.
Most of the religiosity that we see around us is formal, and that is why it quickly turns into controversy, then quarrels, then fighting, and then it does to its followers what the left did to its followers... because it is not real religiosity, but rather formal decoration and empty slogans... and these are phenomena of backwardness and signs of civilizational childhood.
Islam is not riddles, it is not logarithms, and it does not need all these fatwas from us.. And the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, answered those who asked him about Islam, saying in a few eloquent words: Say there is no god but God, then be upright... Thus, simply put, all that is required is monotheism and uprightness in good morals. It is the instinct and intuition that we are born with and nothing more... to love your brother as you love yourself.
The best things you can give in your life: forgiveness for your enemy, patience with your opponent, loyalty to your friend, a good example for your child, kindness to your parents, respect for yourself, and love for all people.
Whenever I catch one of my states and say, “This is me,” this state quickly slips through my fingers and is replaced by another state, which is also me.
Try not to gloat, hate, grudge, envy, despair, or pessimism... and you will see for yourself the amazing result... you will see that you can actually be cured of your illnesses... it is an arduous experience that will require you to make continuous and persistent struggles with yourself, perhaps for years and years.
A human being is only a human being if he can resist what he loves and endure what he hates, and he is only a human being if his reason prevails over his animals and if his rationality prevails over his foolishness, and that is the first feature of humanity.
God is the only one who is truly beloved, and we only love in others His manifestations and lights. The beauty of faces is from His light and the tenderness of hearts is from His tenderness. We do not possess anything of ourselves except to the extent that our Master and Lord bestows upon us His lights and names.
Your attitude, full of love and optimism, turns your suffering into a delicious struggle, and turns your fight against evil into heroism and nobility.
Virtue is a human characteristic and is not limited to a particular religion, nor to a particular society, nor to a particular person, and it was never unique to us Muslims alone. We Muslims have those who fight virtue more than some of its advocates in the West. But we are certainly the first to do so.
Even if all I have left is sadness.. there is nothing more beautiful than to exchange it with you.. even boredom and despair will not be as deep as they are.. except with you.. and failure is the most wonderful thing that can be with you.. and misery will not be the greatest misery except with you.
Happiness in its only possible meaning is the state of reconciliation between the external and the internal

Between man, himself, and others, and between man and God, each of his external and internal aspects is poured into the other as if they were one unit, and the individual among us becomes as if he were the whole... as if all the birds were singing to him and speaking his language.

True beauty is the beauty of the personality, the sweetness of the attributes, and the purity of the soul. The chaste soul overflowing with compassion, affection, tenderness, and motherhood is the beautiful soul, the good, praiseworthy character, and the patient, gentle, and tolerant nature.
Hatred costs more than love... because it is an unnatural feeling... a reverse feeling, like the movement of objects against the Earth's gravity... it requires additional strength and consumes more fuel.
Why despair, and the image of the wonderful universe, with its beauty, order, wisdom, and balanced planning, suggests a just God whose balance does not err, who is generous and never stops giving? Why don’t we come out of our holes, break out of our shells, and look out with our heads to watch the world and contemplate?