Mustafa Mahmoud, is an Egyptian philosopher, physician and writer, born in December 27, 1921, .Menoufia Governorate, Egypt, He has authored 89 books, including scientific, religious, philosophical, social and political books, in addition to tales, plays and travel stories. His style is attractive with depth and simplicity.
Dr. Mostafa Mahmoud is considered one of the personalities who influenced the cultural and scientific life in Egypt, and he is also one of the most prominent Egyptian personalities.
Mustafa Kamal Mahmoud Hussein Al Mahfouz, one of the nobles, and his lineage ends with Ali Zain Al-Abidin, he studied medicine and graduated in 1953, specializing in chest diseases, but he devoted himself to writing and research in 1960, He married in 1961 and the marriage ended in divorce in 1973. He had two sons, "Amal" and "Adham". He remarried in 1983 to Mrs. Zainab Hamdi, and this marriage also ended in divorce in 1987.
Mustafa Mahmoud was the presenter of more than 400 episodes of his famous TV program (Al-Ilm wa Al-Iman). In 1979, he established his mosque in Cairo, known as "Mostafa Mahmoud Mosque". It has three medical centers concerned with treating people with limited income. And he formed convoys of mercy from sixteen doctors, and the center includes four astronomical observatories, and a geology museum, on which specialized professors are based. The museum includes a collection of granite rocks, mummified butterflies in various shapes and some marine creatures. An asteroid was named (296753) Mustafa Mahmoud in his honor.
It took thirty years of immersion in books, thousands of nights of solitude and contemplation with one's self, and turning the mind on every face to cut the thorny paths, from God and man to the mystery of life and death, to what I write today on the path of certainty.
Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud excelled in many arts, including thought and literature, philosophy and mysticism, and sometimes his ideas and articles provoke widespread controversy through newspapers and the media.
The late doctor wrote a range of literary forms between novels, theater, and short stories, and they were embodied in works such as Shalat Al-Anas, Al-Ankabut, Al-Istaheel, and others.
"Shelt Al-Anas" is a short story collection published in 1962, featuring realistic, popular characters who meet every day at the time of Al-Asari, smoke molasses and walnuts, and talk about art and inventions. The novel was turned into a movie of the same name in 1976,
Then the book "The Spider", one of his most famous novels, published in 1965. It is a philosophical novel that is not without a touch of science fiction and discusses the idea of the fate of the soul and its connection to man and what happens after death, and then the novel was presented in the 1973 series.
Mustafa Mahmoud published the novel "The Impossible" in 1960, then it was turned into a movie with the same name in 1965. In 1965 he wrote the movie "The Bitter Grape", which was taken from one of his famous stories, and then in 1968 he wrote the dialogue for the movie "The Fire of Love".
Thirty years of suffering, doubt, denial and proof, thirty years of searching for God! He read about Buddhism, Brahmanism, Zoroastrianism and practiced Hindu mysticism.
What is proven is that during his period of doubt, he did not atheist, as he did not completely deny the existence of God; But he was incapable of realizing it, he was incapable of recognizing the correct conception of God. Undoubtedly, this experience strongly melted him and made him a creative religious thinker, the spiritual ordeal that every thinker who seeks the truth goes through.
Thirty years he finished with his most wonderful and deepest books (Dialogue with my atheist friend), (My Journey from Doubt to Faith), (The Torah), (The Mystery of Death), (The Mystery of Life), and other very deep books in this thorny region.
He was subjected to many intellectual crises, the first of which was when he was brought to trial because of his book (God and Man) and Abdel Nasser himself requested that he be brought to trial at the request of Al-Azhar, considering it a case of blasphemy!..but the court was satisfied with confiscating the book, after which President Sadat informed him that he admired the book and decided to print it again !. He was a personal friend of President Sadat, and he did not grieve for anyone as he grieved for his death, And when Sadat offered him the cabinet, he refused, saying: "I failed to run the smallest institution, which is the family.. I am divorced.. How can I run an entire ministry..!!??". Mustafa Mahmoud refused the ministry.
Mustafa Mahmoud employed 9 books he issued, as well as his articles during the 1990s to explain the danger of Zionism. Mustafa Mahmoud touched on many Zionist plans, including distorting Islam through the use and support of what he called extremist Islamists to destroy Islamic civilization from within, calling for the need for Muslims to deal With the new data of the era and criticism of the ancient heritage.
He added that Israel plans to control the sources of the Nile by controlling the Great Lakes region, and inciting wars and sectarian and racist strife between the Christians of the south and the Muslims of the north in Sudan, which is afflicted by conspiracy from all the neighboring African countries.
Adham, son of Dr. Mustafa Mahmoud, said that the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak prevented his father's articles from being published in the mid-1990s.
:His words
The successful one is the one who screams from his birth “I came into the world to disagree with him” and does not stop raising his hand in the innocence of childhood to destroy with it all injustice and all falsehood.
“The letter will not be able to realize the purpose of its existence unless it realizes the role it plays in the line that shares its letters, and only if it realizes the meaning indicated by the line within the article, and the article within the book.”
Keeping the distance in human relations is like keeping the distance between vehicles while walking, it is the necessary prevention from fatal collisions.
“Happiness is in its only possible meaning: it is the reconciliation between the outward and the inward, it is the reconciliation between a person and himself.”
Honor him
His novel "A Man Below Zero" won the State Prize for 1970. The poet Faisal Akram wrote an article in the weekly edition of (Al Jazeera) newspaper entitled (A memory called the mystery of life..a memory named Mustafa Mahmoud). In July 2008, the newspaper issued the special issue of (Al Jazeera Cultural). He was talking from cover to cover about Mustafa Mahmoud,
His death
Mustafa Mahmoud died on October 31, 2009, after a treatment journey that lasted for several months, at the age of 87
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