JEDDAH: The Jeddah-based Maulana Hifzur Rehman Seoharvi Academy and Haji Muhammad Ayoob Welfare Organization will distribute more than 12,000 prayer mats among the pilgrims this year.

Bahjat Najmi, the man behind this noble task, said that more than 12,000 prayer mats, 10,000 perfume bottles and souvenirs containing verses from the Holy Qur’an and other supplications will be given to pilgrims from India, as also among other pilgrims like those coming from Pakistan.

Both these organizations are engaged in distributing the gifts of spiritual values among Haj pilgrims as well as in the holy month of Ramadan continuously for the last six years.

“It’s only to earn Allah’s pleasure that the organizations serve the pilgrims in their own way,” said Najmi.

Besides distributing gifts, the academy is also engaged in other social works. This Ramadan, they distributed food packets to 50 needy families in Jeddah. The packets contained food, enough for a small family for a month.