ISLAMABAD — ‏Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadees Secretary General Sheikh Dr. Abdulkarim Bakhsh has commended the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman Mosque project at the new campus of the International Islamic University (IIU) in Pakistan’s capital city, Islamabad.

Sheikh Dr. Bakhsh noted that the under-construction mosque is another gift from the Saudi leadership to the Pakistani people and will serve as another Islamic landmark and a symbol of Pakistani-Saudi friendship similar to King Faisal Mosque in Islamabad.

He also said that the mosque would have significant contributions to supporting the IIU's goals and ambitions.

For his part, Chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Sheikh Dr. Qibla Ayaz also expressed gratitude to the Saudi leadership for the King Salman Mosque project, underlying that the facility came to meet the growing need of the IIU, where academic staff and students were facing difficulty in performing prayers, especially Friday prayer, in the absence of a large mosque in the university campus.

Sheikh Dr. Ayaz also explained that building a large mosque according to international standards will enhance the IIU's global image and status and is a proof of the Kingdom's leadership's keenness on serving Muslims and Islam worldwide.

The President of the Lahore's Ashrafieh University and a member of CII Sheikh Hafez Fadl Rahim expressed his thanks and gratitude, on behalf of Pakistani scholars, to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman for the generous gesture to build the mosque with prestigious and highly artistic Islamic architecture in the IIU campus.

He added that the mosque would be a landmark Islamic monument in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Sheikh Rahim noted that the Saudi leadership since the time of the late King Abdulaziz has been always keen on building mosques all across the Islamic world and taking care of them, while expressing his sincerest wishes of prosperity and peace to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Director of External Relations of the Islamic University in Karachi, Pakistan, Dr. Saeed Khan Iskandar noted that building the King Salman Mosque in the university campus is a testimony of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's high care for Islam and Muslims and its keenness on spreading Islam and preserving Islamic rituals. — SPA