Muhammad Abdo

"Among those who looked with their eyes at the light after the middle of the nineteenth century, and in fact at the forefront of those who looked with insight into the realities of their time, was our rural genius, Al-Azhar, who knew the science of certainty, and even believed in the solid faith of religion, that "modern progress" depends on sciences of ours that we have neglected and abandoned, and sciences Our aggressors preceded us in it and we did not catch up with them in more than a few of them. It is an axiom of our days after the middle of the twentieth century, but our rural Al-Azhar genius - Muhammad Abdou - was establishing it after the middle of the nineteenth century, and he found before him those who addressed them with the same article that he wrote in Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper. And he was careful to write it in his experienced style between the ancient and the modern, and he said: "I wish I could see if this were our situation with respect to sciences that have suckled the breast of Islam, been nourished by its milk, been raised in its lap, and been imitated in its home for more than a thousand years... So what is our situation with regard to new sciences? Are they useful necessities for our lives in these times? We must acquire them and put in the effort to seek them.