He criticized the Islamic preacher Habib Ali al-Jifri campaigns to distort and demolish symbols in various fields, stressing during a telephone conversation with the media Amr Adib in the story of the program on "MBC Egypt" that Sheikh Sharawi is subjected to systematic and successive campaigns, not because of intellectual criticism of specific views, but within a directed To demolish the icons. He added: "We have been living for years in the challenge of symbols, did not leave Bukhari, nor symbols such as Salah al-Din," stressing the need to respond to these is not cursing or assault, and the need to distinguish between criticism and veto (against any demolition).
These statements came in the wake of the controversy witnessed in the social networking sites over the past two days, about the fatwas of Sheikh Mohamed Metwalli Shaarawy, especially after the crisis of Asma Sharif Mounir, which described the views of the late Egyptian scientist words that many considered unfit for the establishment of a great interpreter.
Habib Ali al-Jifri, who considers himself one of Sha'rawi's disciples, wrote on his Twitter account: "I am enough to mock you." The more foolish people reach your higher place, the deeper your love will be.
He added, commenting on a picture of him in front of the tomb of His Thoughts of the Holy Quran: "A moment of illumination for the poor in front of our Shaykh Imam Muhammad Metwalli al-Shaarawi in his hometown of Dakdous while traveling to Mansoura to participate in the Youth Symposium."