# Sheikh Abu Sari Shrine in Suez: A Calf’s Head and a Dispute Over Offerings - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117160555261665325 - Source account: [@7usaini7](https://x.com/7usaini7) - Source language: Arabic - Target language: English - Duration: 2:55 - Published: 2026-11-02 - Machine translated. 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For forty years, it had been a destination for the Bedouin tribespeople. [0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=13) They went there to make votive offerings, hoping to receive blessings and have their needs fulfilled. [0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=21) The money given by visitors to the shrine of Sheikh Abu Saree was collected in the votive- offering box and was estimated at one million pounds a year. [0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=30) And that is where the dispute began between two tribes in the region over which of them had the right to look after the shrine and collect the offerings. The dispute ended in a clash and confrontation. [0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=44) The two tribes turned to a customary mediation session to settle their dispute. The arbitration concluded with moving the shrine to another place, far from both tribes. When the tomb was opened to retrieve the remains and move them, everyone was shocked to find that the remains were not those of a person or a sheikh, but the head of [1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=65) a calf. The shrine was demolished, and its pieces scattered, scattering with them the ideas and superstitions, and the ignorance that had dominated people’s minds for nearly forty years. [1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=79) For forty years, people have directed prayers and worship and vows and sacrifices to an animal's head, and raised millions in its name. [1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=89) You might think it's a joke, but it's a terrifying truth aired by an Egyptian state-run channel. [1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=95) Brothers, Islam came to connect the servant directly to his Creator without an intermediary. And if My servants ask you about Me, I am near. Does someone who is near need an intermediary? If this Quran were near me on the table, I wouldn't need an intermediary to pick it up directly. But if it were on top of [1:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=117) a cupboard, or somewhere high, I might need help. [2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=120) I'd need a ladder. And God is far above such comparisons. [2:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=124) God Almighty is near. He needs no shrine, no grave, no human being, no saint, no righteous person. [2:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=131) Those caretakers around these shrines are just deceiving you to steal what's in your pockets. [2:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=138) Worse still, they're stealing your faith and your religion. [2:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=146) So when will you wake up? God knows how many shrines are visited and circumambulated today, with people asking them for help, when all their graves contain is the remains of an animal. [2:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=159) Reason is a blessing and monotheism is salvation. Whoever entrusts their needs to God has enough, but whoever clings to another… [2:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CMEssZv6vQ4K/en/sheikh-abu-sari-shrine-in-suez-a-calf-s-head-and-a-dispute-over-offerings?t=169) God entrusted him to the remains of a calf or the head of a donkey.