QNA
Doha
Participants in the first symposium of the Green Tent activities of the ‘A Flower Each Spring’ programme have underscored the importance of developing endowment’s work to align with modern developments by ensuring its sustainability, while expanding its spending to support and enhance the quality of life.
The symposium’s participants stressed the role of endowments as a haven for Muslims throughout their history in facing economic challenges and noted the need to include information about endowments and their importance in school curricula.
The participants emphasised the importance of keeping pace with the rapid developments in communication, science and technology, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, automation, cybersecurity, supporting distance learning, establishing smart cities, training and qualifying workers, improving people’s lives and building a better society.
Head of A Flower Each Spring programme Dr Saif bin Ali Al Hajri pointed out that the 17th edition of the Green Tent aims to convey suggestions and recommendations to specialists to work on implementing them as they see fit, especially since the participants are a large group of scholars, thinkers and experts from different countries whose opinions, suggestions and experiences are useful.
He stressed the importance of the symposium’s topic since Islamic endowments have addressed many societal issues throughout history.
He highlighted the role of education in spreading the culture of endowment and raising awareness of the importance of the services they provide through school curricula, field visits, lectures and workshops, and media.
Secretary-General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars Dr Ali Mohiuddin Qara Daghi talked about the role of the Islamic endowment in the Islamic civilisation and directing it towards sustainable development.
He added that endowments were used to build most of the major American and European universities influenced by the approach used in Islamic universities such as Al-Azhar and Kairouan.
He highlighted the mechanisms of transforming the endowment into development institutions that help eliminate unemployment and assist small and medium enterprises, recalling the role of the endowment in the prosperity of Islamic civilisation and its coverage of all aspects of life.
