Saudi Arabia's King Salman Urges Universities To Help Ummah Regain Prowess

KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 (Bernama) -- Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has urged universities in the Islamic world to ensure the readiness and qualification of the young generation to help the Muslim ummah regain its prowess. The Saudi Arabian Monarch said the knowledge gleaned could be shared for the benefit of the wider world community. Youths, he noted, were the beacon of hope and the future of the Muslim community. "Universities in the Islamic world have a great responsibility to take care of, and prepare them for the challenging tasks ahead," he said. King Salman said this in his acceptance speech after being conferred the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science (Islam and Wasatiyyah) and Lifetime Outstanding Achievement Award by the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) at a special convocation here Tuesday night. They were presented to him by the Sultan of Pahang Sultan Ahmad Shah, who is the Constitutional Head of the university. King Salman said that Islam had the right tools to enable the ummah to rise again as a civilisation. "Education is a means to achieve our visions of progress and civilisational development in the fields of knowledge and sciences," he added. The conferment was the monarch's final official engagement of his four-day state visit to Malaysia at the invitation of Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Muhammad V. The visit ends today. -- BERNAMA