Unfortunately, I was disappointed when I listened to al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb’s speech celebrating the birth of the Prophet (Mohamed) before President Sisi. The bottom line is that this trend is no different from other extremist currents that have no future. And all the danger lies in these thousands of graduates of Azhar schools and institutes, which are spread throughout the country without a real need and without a scientific study for actual needs. This is evident before our eyes in some mosques’ preachers and some who speak in the media, unaware of the seriousness of what they say, as recently mentioned by Saad al-Hilali in his article in Al-Ahram. He was thinking that he with this commemorates the Prophet’s noble birth, though they are all the messengers of Allah to the humankind.

Source: Egypt Independent November 28, 2018 14:48 UTC