Eminent Visitors

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

The number of distinguished personalities who have so far visited, seen and appreciated the educational, research-oriented, literary and social welfare activities of the Centre and its allied institutions, runs into thousands. These include:
  • Presidency of Islamic Research, Ifta and Propagation, Riyadh, KSA
  • World Muslim League, Makkah al-Mukarramah
  • International Islamic Relief Organization, Jedda
  • International Islamic Charitable Organization, Kuwait
  • Dar Albir Society, Dubai,
  • Kuwait Revival of Islamic Heritage
  • World Assembly of Muslim Youth, Riyadh
  • Islamic University, Madinah al-Munawwarah
  • Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh
  • King Saud University, Riyadh
  • Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah Al Mukarramah
  • Al-Azhar University, Cairo
  • University of Algiers
  • Zaytuna University, Tunisia
  • Qarawiyin University, Morocco
Other dignified office bearers who visited the Centre and some of the institutions include Chairman Bangladesh UGC, Office bearers of Aligarh Muslim University, Bombay University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi University, Patna University, Lucknow University, Jamia Salafia Banaras, Jamiat Al-Falah Balerya Ganj, Darul Ulum Deoband, Mazahirul Uloom Saharanpur, Darus Salam Umarabad Tamil Nadu, Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama Lucknow, Jamia FaizAam Mau, Jamia Darul Hadith Mau, and so on.

Also worth mentioning are the names of some of the eminent and widely respected personalities that visited our institutions. They are as follows:
  • Shaikh Muhammad Abdullah As-Subayyil, Imam of the Holy Mosque at Makkah al-Mukarramah
  • Dr. Shaikh Ali Abdur Rahman al-Hudhaifi, Imam of the Prophet's Mosque, Madinah Munawwarah
  • Shaikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, Imam of the Holy Mosque at Makkah al-Mukarramah
  • Dr. Abdullah Abdul Muhsin al-Turkey, Secretary General World Muslim League Makkah al-Mukarramah, formerly Rector Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, and former Minister of Auqaf Islamia wa ad-Da'wah wa al-Irshad, Saudi Arabia
  • Shaikh Yusuf Jasim al-Hijji, Chairman International Islamic Charitable Organization, Kuwait
  • H.E. Shaikh Saleh Abdur Rahman Al-Husayyen ex-Minister, Saudi Arabia
  • Shaikh Abdullah Hamad Jalali, President of the Two Holy Mosques
  • Shaikh Muhammad Sulaiman al-Husaini, former Imam and Khateeb Masjid Aba al-Khail Barida al-Qaseem
  • Dr. Zaid al-Husain, General Secretary King Faisal Center for Research & Islamic Studies, Riyadh
  • Fawad Sadiq Mufti Safeer Custodian of the Two holy Mosques, Saudi Ambassador to India
  • Shaikh Abdur Rahim Abu Auf Officiating Ambassador of Saudi Arabia
  • Ustadh Jasim Abu Ashbah al-Khalidi Officiating Ambassador of Saudi Arabia
  • Dr. Abdullah Umar Naseef, former Secretary General World Muslim League and ex-Deputy Chairman Consultative Assembly, Saudi Arabia
  • Dr. Mane Jahini, World Assembly of Muslim Youth
  • Late Ahmed Ibn Hajar Al Abu Tami, Chief Justice Shariah Court, Qatar
  • Ustadh Jasim Al Aun
  • H.E. Yusuf Jasim al-Hijji, Former Minister of Auqaf, Kuwait
  • Ustadh Abdul Aziz Nasser al-Hamd, Kuwait
  • H.E. Dirar Razuqi, Ambassador of Kuwait
  • Ustadh Mubarak Rashid Al Buiyin, Ambassador of Qatar
  • Ustadh Nasser Muhammed Luri, Bahrain
  • Vice-Chancellor Hamdard University, New Delhi
Some other prominent personalities that honoured the Centre with their visit are the Minister of Education and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of India. Besides this, several members of parliament and of state assemblies of the country as well as other notable figures of the Muslim community and representatives of several schools, centres and universities also visited our institutions and lauded the services to Islam and the community rendered by these institutions.

Similarly, hundreds of prominent personalities of the world of Islam have extended their congratulations and appreciation for the Centre's commendable activities and achievements. Most prominent among them are: Sheikh Abdul-Aziz bin Abdullah bin Baz, President of Presidency of Islamic Research, Ifta, and Propagation, Riyadh, KSA.

Some of the internationally known Islamic figures not only lauded the praiseworthy efforts rendered by the Centre in the field of research, Da'wah and education but also recorded their impressions in black and white. With a view to avoiding further details we reproduce below in English the translation of the comments of His Eminence Shaikh Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Rashid Al Qa'ud, Director General of Da'wah for Foreign Countries a subsidiary department of the Presidency of Islamic Research, Ifta, and Propagation, Riyadh, KSA:

"I visited the Abul Kalam Azad Islamic Awakening Centre, New Delhi and carefully surveyed its various branches and institutions. What I saw is undoubtedly a tremendous achievement obtained in a short span of time, such as would not have been possible except by Allah's Graciousness and the untiring effort of a large team of office bearers, especially that of the eminent scholar Shaikh Abdul Hameed Rahmani.

On seeing the wide-ranging activities and getting myself acquainted with the Centre, established and run with the help and cooperation of the people, and with the massive plans of the future I see in it the same massiveness of scale, depth and grandeur as is evidenced in the institutions established with the help and limitless power and resources of established governments.

I do hope that the day is not far off when the Centre's educational, Da'wah and constructive programs will attain their fullest fruition, and it will establish itself as a strong fortress of knowledge and the loftiest tower of research, Da'wah and propagation (of Islam), In Shaa Allah." (March 1987)