A baby is born, and his parents disagree as to what to name him. They eventually agree to register him under the name Muhammed in the birth certificate, but they call him Amin indoors. Sheikh Saber predicts that the boy will hail a milestone in the Islamic call (Dawa).
Amin goes to the Kuttab where his Sheikh nitpicks him and he reports this to his parents. The mayor's son dies.
The family faces a dilemma as the parents are trying to save money to travel for Hajj, and at the same time, they want to enroll their son in Al-Azhar Institute. Young Amin fakes an inability to read the Quran because he wants to get himself expelled to save money for his parents.
The director of the institute withholds Amin's results for the primary school due to the latter's prejudiced opinion of the tackling of the subject of the hadith. After he proves his point, Amin is given the certificate. Zaghloul incites Amin's father by claiming that Amin smokes cigarettes.
Amin marries Nabaweya, and he starts lecturing the people of his town on the hadith and the Quran. He is arrested and charged with distributing anti-colonialism publications inciting the people to overthrow the government.
The judge sentences Muhammad Metwali Al-Sha'raawi for one-month imprisonment, but he is released as he has already spent the said period in pretrial detention. Amin is expelled from the institute with no hope of re-enrolling him. Abo Domah is murdered.
Upon becoming the president of the Chamber, Mostafa El-Nahas brings back Al-Sha'raawi to the institute. Al-Sha'raawi resumes lecturing townspeople on the religious instructions. Bayadi Al-Qubaisi receives a devastating piece of news.
Muhammad Metwali Al-Sha'raawi graduates from the Faculty of Arabic language, Al-Azhar University, and he has his program "Religion Is in the Treatment of Others" aired on the radio.
Zaghloul sets a trap to Al-Sha'raawi to stop his show, so Zaghloul and the other conspirators call the program and publicly criticize Al-Sha'raawi's approach, and their plan achieves its targets as El-Mahdy informs Al-Sha'raawi that his program will be discontinued.
Zaghloul and Sheikh Al-Mahdi agree to send Al-Sha'raawi to Saudi Arabia on secondment. Al-Sha'raawi initially refuses the idea, but he eventually takes the opportunity to fulfill his parents' wish to go to Hajj.
Al-Sha'raawi objects to the idea of transferring Abraham's shrine, and he uses all proofs to dissuade the clergy in Saudi Arabia from the idea. The Saudi clergy encourages Al-Sha'raawi to consider Quranic exegesis, but he postpones the matter.
Al-Sha'raawi decides to interpret the Holy Quran after everyone encourages him to. Al-Sha'raawi's son is accidentally shot and he immediately dies.
Metwali Al-Sha'raawi decides to avenge the murder of his son Ibrahim, but Amin returns from Saudi Arabia and he tries to reconcile the two families. Al-Sha'raawi decides to go around Europe to give religious seminars and speeches.
Amin is saddened over the death of his father, and he decides to take his mother to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj. Amin returns to Egypt at a turning point as president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal and the tripartite aggression on Egypt takes place.
El-Sha'raawi objects to the new law that Al-Azhar enacts, and he refuses the interference of the Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council in the Azhar-related matters. He meets Sadat who assures him that his concerns will be taken into consideration.
Sheikh Zaghloul and the leaders of the town agree to refurbish the mosque. A burglar breaks into Al-Sha'raawi's apartment, and when he is arrested, he confesses the deed and Al-Sha'raawi forgives him.
Muhammed Al-Sha'raawi learns that Badreya has been deceiving him as she runs a casino and uses its money to finance the orphanage. He gets into a state of crippling depression, until one night while he is asleep, he dreams of a Sheikh who incites him to travel to Algeria.
After he gets extremely sick and consults the doctor, the doctor advises Al-Sha'raawi to take good care of his health. He travels to Algeria and he advises the people to perform the prayers of the drought so that God will send them good rainfalls.
Al-Sha'raawi returns to Egypt following the Six-Day War to lift the spirits of the soldiers, and he tries to teach people to be thankful to God the Almighty for the good times and the bad times.
Gamal Abdel Nasser's death saddens Al-Sha'raawi. Sadat summons Al-Sha'raawi and asks him to head the Egyptian mission to Saudi Arabia. The Egyptians win the October 1973 War. Badreya's son is martyred and before he dies, he encourages his mother to wholeheartedly repent and ask for God's forgiveness.
Muhammad Metwali Al-Sha'raawi mourns the deaths of his wife and his mother respectively, and he decides to travel abroad to give religious seminars and speeches in Europe.
President Anwar Sadat entrusts Al-Sha'raawi with the Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf), which causes Sheikh Zaghloul to resign, but Al-Sha'raawi rejects his resignation and promotes him instead.
Al-Sha'raawi gets into a conflict with an important official and he eventually files a lawsuit against Saeed El-Hout and wins it. On his death bed, Sheikh Al-Mahdi asks Al-Sha'raawi to look after his children after his death.
Al-Mahdi's children ask Al-Sha'raawi to advocate for them to get a loan from the Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf), but when he fails to grant them that, Al-Sha'raawi gives them from his own money.
Al-Sha'raawi opens a hostel in the Sayyida Nafisa area to help people and hold religious seminars.
In a TV interview, Al-Sha'raawi discusses the Jews' denunciation of their covenants, which stirs the anger of the Israeli delegation. Al-Sha'raawi falls ill and he is transferred to the hospital.
People mistakenly believe that Al-Sha'raawi's program was prohibited due to his statements about the Jews, but he assures them by broadcasting a video. He then gives a lecture at Cairo University to teach young students the right instructions of their religion and fight extremist ideologies.
Al-Sha'raawi and Tawfiq Al-Hakim clash as Al-Hakim writes an article entitled "A Conversation with God" and Al-Sha'raawi regards this a blasphemous act, so after many quarrels, Al-Hakim changes the title to "A Conversation with the Self."
The UAE honors Al-Sha'raawi for his unmatched dedication and his contributions to the interpretation of the Holy Quran. His son is appointed Secretary of Al Azhar's Islamic Research Academy.
Despite his children's sincere attempt to get Al-Sha'raawi the due treatment, he passes away after asking them to look after one another and follow in his footsteps.