Besides Fadia Abdelghani, stars considered Al-Shaarawy a "refuge" for their crises

The talk of the Egyptian star, Fadia Abdel Ghani, topped the Google search engine trend, after she talked about her meeting with her fellow citizen, the late Sheikh Muhammad Metwally Al-Shaarawy, explaining that she sought refuge with him and visited him in his home to find a solution for her mother’s severe illness, and the artist suffered from depression because of it.

Fadia Abdel Ghani talks about Al-Shaarawy The artist explained: “I visited him at his home and asked him what to do when my mother is sick. He told me to get closer to God. He gave me a copy of the Qur’an to place under my mother’s head and a bottle of water with the Holy Qur’an recited on it. He told me to drink from it and that happened and she was cured.”

She concluded that during her visit to Sheikh Muhammad Metwally Al-Shaarawy, she was wearing a scarf because she was not veiled and she felt embarrassed, so he said to her, “Why are you wearing a scarf when you are not veiled? I told him out of respect for you, and he said to me, ‘You respect me and are afraid of me, but you do not take God into account.’”

Madiha Kamel and Al-Shaarawy While there was also a story of the late Egyptian star Madiha Kamel, where she secluded herself and wore the hijab before her death and completely stayed away from the spotlight.

Al-Shaarawy was the reason for her retirement, as she approached him and visited him during Ramadan in 1992, and asked him how to learn my religion? He told her: Religion is taught in 5 minutes, but there are personal efforts that a person must do on his own, such as readings and religious education.

After his words, she started crying and decided to retire. At the time, she was filming the movie “Doors of Satan.” She surprised director Adel Al-Aasar with her decision to retire and said, “I have retired without return.” The late Sheikh supported her.

Hassan Youssef and Liqa Al-Shaarawy Also, the artist Hassan Youssef explained in one of his previous interviews with the media figure Dr. Amr Al-Leithy, on the program “One of the People,” that when he went to perform the Umrah rituals in 1981, he was surprised by the atmosphere and spirituality.

There he met the sons of Sheikh Abdullah Salam, and they invited him to an Iftar party they organized in honor of Sheikh Muhammad Metwally Al-Shaarawy. The artist continued: “We were attached to Sheikh Al-Shaarawy, from television, and God be praised, this man was inside me, and when I met him, he called me, ‘Come on, Mr. Hassan,’ and the word ‘Mr.’ was a must for him when calling, and I grabbed his cloak and told him I wanted to talk to you, and he actually gave me his phone number.”

He continued: “Once, I felt confused, am I right or wrong? So I went to ask him, I told him, ‘Sir, I am confused, what I am doing is forbidden or permissible.’ The artist continued: “Sheikh Al-Shaarawy never gives you a straightforward answer. He has to tell you a story and you can conclude from it what suits your heart. So he said to me, ‘What is the cup in front of you holding?’ I told him, ‘Tea.’ He said, ‘There is another person in the world who drinks alcohol in it, so what is the cup’s fault?’” The artist indicated, “He said to me, ‘This is art. You can put alcohol or tea in it.’ He was silent. He said, ‘Just like you appear in the movies in a car that dazzles girls, teach the young men something that will benefit them.’”

Shadia's retirement As for Shadia’s retirement and her meeting with Al-Shaarawy, she said that it started with her being lazy, then the play “Raya and Sakina” came to revive her from that state, but after that she felt disturbed, so she spoke with Al-Shaarawy and asked to meet him.

She added in a rare audio recording presented by Mona El-Shazly on the “With You” program, “I told him, ‘I promised God that I would sing religious songs to thank Him for making me successful and protecting me, but now I am unable to sing. I want to wear the hijab and retire.’ I asked him, ‘Am I thus breaking my promise?’ He said, ‘What you are doing is a million times better, but be persistent.’” The late Egyptian artist is described as having “left him and gone down the stairs like a 16-year-old girl, running and feeling that the world and I were something else. I had never felt this happy. After that, the light appeared.”