Mohamed Farid Wagdy

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Mohamed Farid Wagdy
Born	1878
19541954
🏳️ Nationality	Egypt
🏫 Education	Al Azhar University
💼 Occupation	Scientist

Mohammed Farid Wagdy (1878 - 1954) was an Egyptian Islamic writer of Circassian origin. He was born in the city of Alexandria in Egypt in the year 1878 AD / 1295 AH and died in Cairo in the year 1954 AD / 1373 AH. He worked on editing Al-Azhar magazine for a few and ten years. He has many books of a religious and documentary nature. Among his most important books are the Treasure of Science and Language book and the Book of Encyclopedia of the fourteenth century AH and the twentieth century AD. It is located in ten volumes. Many times, and he has a wonderful book on the biography called the Muhammadiyah Biography in the light of science and philosophy, and he has a book explaining the principles of Islam and refuting suspicions about it, whose name is Islam, a public religion that is immortal.

Among his important books is also: Islam in the Age of Science, a good book in which he demonstrated the compatibility between science and religion, and also his solid scientific response to (pre-Islamic poetry) by Taha Hussein. The International Arab Encyclopedia dated his birth and death thus [1875 - 1948]. Al-Akkad said about him in his book Men I Knew: “He is unique in his time, undefended…”.

His activity was not limited to religion only, but he had a clear political activity, as the national leader, Mustafa Kamel, opposed going to France after the Dinshaway incident in 1906 AD, and he believed that travel should not be limited to France only, but to many European countries. One of his most talented students was Dr. Muhammad Ragab al-Bayoumi, the former Dean of the Faculty of Arabic Language - Al-Azhar University, and he was the one who collected a number of his books for him, as a large part of his books were written in the form of articles.

Dr. Abdel Halim Mahmoud, Sheikh of Al-Azhar, previously mentioned the extent to which he benefited from the councils of Farid Wagdy, who used to lead her and his visitors at his home every day after the Maghrib prayer...until Dr. benefited from them. Abdel Halim in identifying the different trends and also opened the doors of topics that occupy the supporters of the Islamic idea to throw more light and discussion and then to be a material for scientific research when transferred from seminars to magazines and books.

Dr. Rajab Al-Bayoumi believes that it is a pleasant path to find (3) Arab Muslim scholars whose books have been translated into most of the languages of the sons of Islam, namely: Farid Wajdi, Tantawi Jawhari, Rashid Rida.

Stories about him

Dr. Rajab Al-Bayoumi narrates this story himself and says: I accompanied the professor and my grandfather and sat with him, and I saw in his high morals an inspiring prophet, and what do you think of a person standing up for his servant if he entered upon him, no matter how many times he entered!! If you ask him about that, he likes to ask about the difference between him and the visiting guests.

Once, following a discussion between Farid and my grandfather and Rasheed Rida Rashid Rida accused Professor Wagdy of being ignorant, and when the professor and my grandfather did not discuss him except as he discusses the friend of the friend.. He was asked about that, he said: (We both fight on one front... which is the Islamic front, and if we are trying to be gentle with the opponents of Islam, we will entice them to hear what we say, since kindness towards the people of one direction is more necessary and necessary) And the truth is that it is a sane viewpoint that I have rarely seen people take. A Christian postal worker sent Mr. Wagdy (and he was chief editor of Al-Azhar magazine) with ten long letters, one letter exceeding six pages in length. Mr. Wagdy replied to him on the private mail of the Christian worker........ Some of them requested that Mr. Farid collect these responses And the articles together in a separate book, his response was: (He sent this man a reply full of false ideas, after I wrote an article on Islam and Christianity in Al-Azhar magazine and was afraid to publish it, followed by his refutation, so that the publication would cause confusion among our Christian brothers, which I do not accept. In a separate book I sent it to him, but he went too far and moved from topic to topic, so my conscience prompted me to respond to him and he repeated the comment, and I repeated the response, hoping that the discussion would end at a limit, so that if my patience ran out, I apologized after ten letters. Then he said humbly and politely: (The thought is a trust, and the owner of the pen is not always given the choice in what he writes, but he is sometimes surprised by what there is no way to be silent about, so he carries his guard - his pen - just as the mujahid carries his weapon in the midst of fighting, and God is All-Knowing of the soul.)

It is said that Professor Wajdi responded to Qasim Amin with the book The Muslim Woman, which was the first resource for anyone who wants to see Islam in this issue..He continued his articles until I came across an article by one of the preachers who became angry with Professor Wagdy. Wajdi Farid described what was not in it, reckless and exaggerated in his words. A unique and serious individual on the content of the preacher’s words and did not talk about the abuse that was directed at him, so the preacher increased his arrogance very, very until some of the students of Professor Wagdy became angry and Dr. Out of his arrogance... Professor Wajdi said a word recorded in letters of light for those who are sensible. He said: (The issue is not my case nor his case, but it is the case of the discerning reader, and this reader will recite the opinion and its opposite and then incline to what is right.

Imam Muhammad Mustafa Al-Maraghi, the former Sheikh of Al-Azhar, received a question about polytheism and its afterlife punishment. Al-Dajwi responded with a transfer approach, and Farid Wagdy answered with a rational philosophical approach, and the two articles appeared side by side in Al-Azhar magazine. He benefited from Sheikh Al-Dajwi’s article, which added something new to his opinion, and that he published it before his article with interest in it and celebration of the thoughts that the man gave the argument that touch the conscience of the Muslim and raise his level... The critic begged to return to Al-Dajwi’s article again, so the man became bored and preferred silence and then withdrawal.. After a while, some of the attendees criticized and belittled this critical man after he left and withdrew. Professor Wajdi said: (Who knows?? Perhaps he believed the correctness of what he said.. and I guided him to what he missed, and from his grace he read and weighed. first with our dignity)

Of his books

1. Civilization and Islam (written by him when he was twenty years old, it was written in French and then translated into Arabic and others).
2. The Encyclopedia of the Fourteenth Hijri Century and the Twentieth Century AD, 1st Edition 1910 - 1918 AD, in ten volumes and 8416 pages, composed over ten years.
3. One of the landmarks of Islam (a collection of articles written in Al-Azhar magazine and then collected as a book).
4. On the ruins of materialism, 3 parts, 1921 AD.
5. Al-Wujudiat (a book on the origins of dialogue).
6. The Muslim Woman, 1901 AD, written for the purpose of responding to the ideas of Qasim Amin, some of which contradicted the view of Islam.
7. The mission of Islam in the world (contains 24 topics).
8. Biography of the Prophet in the light of science and philosophy (contains 40 chapters).
9. Not from here to start.
10. In the battlefield of philosophies.
11. The future of Islam.
12. spare time.
13. Criticism of the pre-Islamic poetry book. He devoted it to responding to Dr. Taha Hussein's book entitled "On Pre-Islamic Poetry".
14. He has a brief book on the interpretation of the Qur’an called Safwat al-Irfan fi tafsir al-Qur’an, which was later known as the Mufsir al-Mufsir, 1st edition 1907 AD, reprinted several times and translated into many other languages.

• He was the editor-in-chief of Al-Azhar magazine and wrote many articles in it that might, if collected, form a good nucleus for several useful books in different fields.

About his thoughts

• The role of Al-Azhar magazine and the role of reformers

(Al-Azhar magazine has two great purposes:

1- Serving Islam in a manner that is compatible with the culture of the present era and accepted by the mentality of its people.

2- Serving the cause of religion in general against materialist philosophy, which dominated the European mentality for three centuries in a row, corrupting philosophical doctrines... and based on the materialistic aspect of science, thus making for itself dominion over the minds... and dropping from the power of the mind... being guided by the senses, thus losing on people the advantage of being guided by conscience. .

• Predicting the demise of communism:

(This heinous involvement that communism costs and maintains in a torrent of human blood in order to eradicate religion from their hearts is unreasonable for it to last..... Al-Azhar Journal, vol. (11) p. 101 in 1359 AH).

The outlines of the thought of the scholar Mohammed Farid Wagdy

Farid Wajdi's thought is focused on:

• Presentation of Islam to his children as it came down from certain pure.
• The purification of Islam from pseudo-enemies and haters and its presentation in a good manner acceptable to a free, attentive mind.
• When you read his books, you feel that this man revolves around this question (How do we understand Islam as a valid law for reform and governance???).
• Dye preachers of Islam scientific and philosophical dye.
• Fighting atheism and highlighting it as a scourge in the mind.

Wrote about him

• Mohammed Farid Wagdy: Pioneer of Reconciliation between Science and Religion, authored by Anwar El-Gendy, The Egyptian General Book Organization, Cairo, 1974 AD.

The compiler, Muhammad Rajab Bayoumi, stated in the introduction to the book “Islamic Translations and Historical Research” that he quoted from the book “Hours of My Life” by Professor Taher Al-Tanahi that Mohammed Farid Wajdy took great care of spiritual issues in his old age, and he believed that the soul exists separate from the body, and believes that It is possible to summon the souls of the dead, and he firmly believed in the immortality of the soul.

The outlines of the personality of the scholar Mohammed Farid Wagdy

Through his writings, as well as the opinion of his contemporaries and analysis of his thought, it is possible to identify some of the broad points on which this character is formed as follows:

1. self-confident
2. Sober, sober, halim..appreciates the feelings of others.
3. Unidentified soldier.
4. Great fate.
5. Organized..scientific..rational...(philosophical subtraction).
6. active.
7. Ambition.
8. My work...my reform...
9. objective.
10. Unique... and each one has a share of his name.

Lessons we learn from studying this character:

1. Great souls who are accompanied by pure instinct and a vigilant mind are similar in production and creativity (Farid Wagdy - Rashid Rida - Hassan Al-Banna - Muhammad Abu Zahra - - Muhammad Al-Ghazali - and others).
2. Great minds that cling to the constants of the nation inspire great ideas with which to reform the nation: they live by it and for it... Among these ideas (atheism is a scourge - religion is the basis of reform - religion is natural...)
3. The truthful preachers forget the harm in their persons and focus on their goals. For my life, if one of them turned to those who destroyed them, they would not have built a significant achievement, and for my life this is a place where the greatness of souls and the alertness of minds are tested.
4. We have seen scholars become silent and forgetful, but tomorrow the faithful will remember them from among the sons of their nation, and in the hereafter a beautiful reward.. God willing.

External links

• Mohammed Farid Wagdy on open library
• Books

References

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