King, MWL hailed for serving cause of Islam

ISLAMABAD: Jamia Ashrafiya President Sheikh Fahad Rahim has lauded the role of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman as well as the Muslim World League (MWL) in serving the cause of Islam and uniting Muslims around the world.
He was speaking during a religious conference organized by Jamia Ashrafiya in Islamabad on Thursday night, and attended by MWL Secretary-General Abdullah bin Abdul Mohsin Al-Turki, SPA reported on Friday.
Sheikh Fahad Rahim said that Al-Turki’s patronage to the event, in which a large number of Islamic scholars from different parts of Pakistan gathered, is a source of pride to the Islamic university, one of the biggest in the Indian subcontinent.
Prominent Pakistani scholar Mufti Taqi Osmani, who is also a member of the MWL’s Islamic Jurisprudence Council, and Pakistan’s Minister of Religious Affairs Sardar Mohammed Yousaf addressed the conference and urged more efforts by MWL in the field of unifying Muslims.
Meanwhile, Al-Turki visited the MWL’s regional office in Islamabad. He was briefed by the director of the office, Abdu bin Mohammed Otain, on the tasks and efforts being carried out by the body since its inception in 1979 to achieve the goals of MWL.
Al-Turki thanked the director and personnel of the branch office and urged them to continue the efforts and work within the framework of the noble goals sought by MWL in the service of Islam and Muslims.