قصة أيامي: مذكرات الشيخ كشك

Abdul Hamid Kishk (1933 AD - 1996 AD). A blind Egyptian Islamic scholar and preacher, he is nicknamed the Knight of the Platforms and the lawyer of the Islamic movement. He is considered one of the most famous preachers of the twentieth century in the Arab and Islamic world. he has more than 2000 recorded lectures. He spoke for forty years without making a single mistake in the Arabic language. His life and education Abdul Hamid bin Abdul Aziz Kishk was born in Shubrakhit in the Beheira Governorate on Friday, Dhu al-Qa’dah 13, 1351 AH, corresponding to March 10, 1933 AD. As well as in the Azhar secondary certificate and was ranked first in the Republic, then joined the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion at Al-Azhar University. He was the first on the faculty throughout the years of study, and during university studies, the professors explained the subjects in public lectures to students commissioned by his professors, many of whom used to present his scientific material to him before explaining it to the students, especially grammar and morphology. Abdel Hamid Kishk was appointed as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion at Al-Azhar University in Cairo in 1957 AD, but he only gave one lecture to the students, after which he decided to leave the teaching profession at the university, as his soul was attached to the pulpits that he had been ascending since the age of twelve, and he does not forget that sermon that he ascended It includes the pulpit of the mosque in his village at such a young age when the mosque preacher was absent, and how he was brave above the level of his young age, and how he demanded equality and compassion among people, and even how he demanded medicine and clothing for the people of the village, which drew people’s attention to him and gathered around him. After graduating from the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion, he obtained a teaching license with distinction, and represented Al-Azhar on the Flag Day in 1961 AD, then worked as an imam and preacher at Al-Tahhan Mosque in the Sharabeya district of Cairo. Then he moved to the Menoufi Mosque in Sharabeya as well, and in 1962 he took over the imamate and oratory at Ain Al-Hayat Mosque, on Misr and Sudan Street in the Hadayek Al-Qubba area in Cairo. That mosque in which he had been preaching for nearly twenty years, his death before his death, and it was on a Friday, and before he could perform the ritual prayer, he told his wife and children a dream, which is the vision of the Prophet Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and Umar ibn al-Khattab in a dream, when he saw in a dream the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, who said to him: Peace be upon Omar.” He greeted him, then fell on the ground dead, and the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, washed him with his hands. His wife said to him: - And she is the one who narrated this dream - She taught us the hadith of the Prophet that whoever sees a dream that he hates, he should not tell it. Sheikh Kishk said: And who told you that I hate this dream, by God, I hope that the matter will be as it was. Then he went and performed ablution in his house for Friday prayer, and as usual, he began to perform rak’ahs before going to the mosque, so he entered the prayer and prayed one rak’ah, and in the second rak’ah, he prostrated the first prostration and raised it and then prostrated the second prostration and in it he died. That was on Friday, Rajab 25, 1417 AH, corresponding to December 6, 1996 AD. He used to supplicate to God before he died in prostration, and he had what he wanted.