MAKKAH, 26 August — Secretary-General of the Makkah-based Muslim World League (MWL) Dr. Abdullah Al-Turki will leave today for Kazakhstan to open a conference on Islam in central Asia, organized by MWL in cooperation with Kazakhstan-based Abaya University.
In a press statement, Dr. Turki said a number of Muslim dignitaries from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Russia and China will participate. The conference, he said, will shed light on the tolerant spirit of Islam as well as on its effective role in the progress and development of the individual and society.
Dr. Turki pointed out that the participants will exchange views on a number of topics including the role played by the ulema (Muslim scholars) of Central Asia in spreading the Islamic culture and sciences as well as the historical relations between the Muslims of Central Asia and the rest of the Muslim world.
Meanwhile, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) announced that it has built a mosque and dug a well in Kyrgyzstan at a cost of SR55,000.
Dr. Abdulwahab Noorwali, assistant secretary-general of WAMY said in a statement that as many as 20,000 citizens of the central Asian Republic would benefit from the mosque, which bears the name of ‘Umrayyan’ and the well, which is named Jamjoom well.
"The Makkah branch of WAMY has implemented since the beginning of this year a number of charitable projects in Kyrgyzstan costing over SR600,000. The projects included seven mosques, four educational youth camps, two medical caravans, distribution of Islamic headscarf among women, conducting of religious and training courses and serving free meals during the holy month of Ramadan, and distribution of sacrificial meat and Eid clothes to orphans and other needy people," he added. (SPA)
