The 42nd foundation-day of MQI celebrated

The central ceremony marking the 42nd foundation-day of Minhaj-ul-Quran International was held at the central secretariat. Chairman MQI Supreme Council Dr Hassan Mohi-ud-Din Qadri, President MQI Dr Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri, Secretary General Khurram Nawaz Gandapur attended the ceremony on a special invitation.

The members of the first Executive Council of MQI, namely Al-Haj Muhammad Siddique Qadri, Sheikh Muhammad Aslam Qadri, Muhammad Iqbal Mustafavi, Sayyid Altaf Hussain Shah, Sheikh Muhammad Farooq, Haji Muhammad Saleem Qadri, Saleem Khan, G.M Malik, and Haji Muhammad Tufail were particularly invited to grace the occasion as special guests.

Special tribute was presented to the late members of the first Executive Council Haji Jamil Ahmad, Haji Shafi Sarfraz, Al-Haj Amir-ud-Din, Mirza Nazir Ahmad, Haji Muhammad Siddique and Haji Muzaffar.

In his keynote speech on the occasion, Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said that he founded MQI keeping in view the need for reforming Muslim community, propagating the Islamic message of peace, love and interfaith harmony and the revival of Islam. He said that the idea was to impart moral, spiritual, ideological and organizational training to the members of society. He said that all through the four decades, MQI has worked hard, day in and day out, to present the practical, intellectual and spiritual message of Islam to a wide array of people.

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri said that it was 42 years ago that MQI came into being with a grand mission, adding that we bow our heads before the Almighty that with His Support, MQI has been able to make a tangible difference in the lives of the people in the pursuit of its stated aims and objectives.

Shaykh-ul-Islam told the gathering that he wrote the first constitution of MQI with his own hands and vowed never to intervene in the financial matters of MQI, adding that a finance committee will be responsible for the money matters.

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri said that with the last Prophet of Allah (pbuh), the process of prophethood came to an end. He said that Allah gave the responsibility of guiding the Umma and preaching the message of Islam to the revivalists, adding that MQI has done this duty in the current century. He said that MQI is heir to Islam’s 1400-year old intellectual, spiritual and scholarly history of Islam. He congratulated millions of people associated with MQI for their support, association and bonding over the last 42 years. He also lauded the role of MQI Secretary General Khurram Nawaz Gandapur and his team for organizing the Conference to celebrate the occasion most befittingly.

Khurram Nawaz Gandapur, Rana Nafees Hussain Qadri, Engineer Muhammad Rafique Najam, Mazhar Mahmood Alvi, Chaudhry Irfan Yousaf, Sidra Karamat, and Arif Chaudhry also addressed the foundation-day ceremony.

Among the people who attended the programme included Raja Zahid Mahmood, Noorullah Siddiqui, Jawwad Hamid, Mian Rehan Maqbool, Faisal Hussain Mash’hadi, Umm-e-Habiba Ismail, Anila Ilyas Dogar, Sohail Raza, Haji Ishaq, Shahzad Rasool Chaudhry, Hafiz Ghulam Farid, Shahid Latif as well as heads and office-bearers of the various directorates and branches of the central secretariat.