{"id":88506,"date":"2020-08-20T12:48:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T04:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=88506"},"modified":"2020-08-20T12:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T04:48:47","slug":"syeikh-al-azhar-expresses-gratitude-for-international-tokoh-maal-hijrah-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=88506","title":{"rendered":"Syeikh Al-Azhar expresses gratitude for International Tokoh Maal Hijrah Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 19: Malaysia’s King, His Majesty Sultan Abdullah Ri\u0092ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah (centre) with the recipients of the Tokoh Maal Hijrah namely Director General of Health Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (left), Egypt’s Ambassador to Malaysia Gamal Abdel Rahim Mohamed Metwally (right) who represented International Tokoh Maal Hijrah Sheikh Al-Azhar Al-Syarif Sheikh Prof Dr Ahmad Tayyib at the Maal Hijrah or Islamic New Year of 1442 Hijrah\/ 2020 celebration held at the National Mosque on Wednesday. Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (second, left) and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Senator Datuk Seri Dr Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri (second, right) were also at the event. Photo courtesy of BERNAMA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 20 (NNN-BERNAMA) —\u00a0Sheikh Al-Azhar Al-Syarif, Sheikh Prof Dr Ahmad Tayyib thanked the Malaysian government for conferring him the International Maal Hijrah award for 1442H\/2020\u00a0yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheikh Ahmad, through Al-Azhar University’s official Facebook page, expressed his appreciation especially to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin for bestowing the award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the award reflected Malaysia\u2019s recognition and high regard for the Al-Azhar University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that he would be visiting Malaysia soon at the invitation of the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Tokoh Maal Hijrah Award for the year 2020 is a special recognition to me as it is an award from a model Islamic state which is a pioneer in promoting development and fostering harmony,\u201d he wrote in Arabic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn fact, the award is in recognition of the Al-Azhar institution, its scholars and students. I offer my sincere gratitude to His Majesty the King, the Prime Minister and the people of Malaysia,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheikh Ahmad said the close relationship between Al-Azhar University and Malaysia, which had long been established had seen collaborations in various fields including religious, cultural and scholarly affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the National Level Maal Hijrah celebration, themed ‘Ummah Rabbani Negara Harmoni’ yesterday, the ceremony saw  Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah announced as this year\u2019s national level Maal Hijrah Personality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement was made by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) Senator Datuk Seri Dr Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Zulkifli the two public figures were selected based on their outstanding contributions in upholding Islam at the national and international levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 20 (NNN-BERNAMA) —\u00a0Sheikh Al-Azhar Al-Syarif, Sheikh Prof Dr Ahmad Tayyib thanked the Malaysian government for conferring him the International Maal Hijrah award for 1442H\/2020\u00a0yesterday. Sheikh Ahmad, through Al-Azhar University’s official Facebook page, expressed his appreciation especially to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":88508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88506"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}