Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz ordered the distribution of 3.5 million copies of the Holy Quran and its explication in 17 languages, including English, Urdu, German, French, Tamil, Malabari, Indonesian Turkish, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, Russian, Albanian and Bosnian, within Saudi Arabia and abroad.
The copies of the Holy Quran will be distributed to branches of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance, Centres of Islamic Call in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, departments of communities, cooperative offices for call and guidance, charitable societies for Holy Quran memorization throughout the Kingdom, a number of Saudi embassies and consulates, and governmental and non-governmental authorities in the Kingdom and abroad.
The copies of the Holy Quran are printed at the Madinah-based King Fahd Holy Quran Printing Complex.
The announcement regarding distribution of the Quran copies was made by the Minister of Islamic Affaires, Endowments, Call and Guidance and Supervisor General of the Complex, Sheikh Saleh Al Al-Sheikh, who reiterated the determination of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to fulfil its responsibility of service of the Holy Quran.
Al Al-Sheikh said that, in accordance with the King’s directives, the Royal Protocol, the General Intelligence, King Saud University, Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), the Office of the Yemeni Military Attaché in Riyadh, SABIC, the Saudi Embassies and Consulates in Bombay, Islamabad and Tunis, the Islamic Centre in London, the Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs in Comoros, King Faisal University in Chad, Al-Tawheed Mosque in Sanaa, personnel of the Armed Forces in Yemen, and the Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and Arts will be provided with copies of the Holy Quran and its explication.
Source: SPA
