The idea of establishing the International Islamic Council for Call and Relief came during the eleventh conference of the Islamic Research Academy in Cairo in 1988, under the auspices of His Excellency President / Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, as he stated in his speech to the meeting.
“The Islamic da’wah is required to turn, in an essential part of its activity, outside the Islamic world, in order to familiarize that outside world with true Islam, its values, its lofty teachings, and its sublime human civilization - and what the da’wah must be based on and what it must do is the correct preparation of those who will take charge of it. and spread its message and specialize in it.”
“The Islamic da’wah is required to turn, in an essential part of its activity, outside the Islamic world, in order to familiarize that outside world with true Islam, its values, its lofty teachings, and its sublime human civilization - and what the da’wah must be based on and what it must do is the correct preparation of those who will take charge of it. and spread its message and specialize in it.”
The Grand Imam Sheikh / Gad Al-Haq Ali Gad Al-Haq - Sheikh of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif - may God have mercy on him - presented and defined the idea of establishing the council, and in his speech to the conference, where he indicated the need to develop methods of da’wah that “no longer deliver sermons, or a surah from the Qur’an is recited, Or a religious lesson that is broadcast, or books that are published, but its means and issues have developed and the arena is crowded with preachers and pretenders, and it has become for scholars - in particular, and other Muslims, rulers and rulers in general, to abide by God’s judgment in His saying: “And their order is a consultation among themselves.”
Then his eminence, may God have mercy on him, concluded by specifying some points before the conference on major topics, all of which are:
- Coordination between the activities of the bodies that offer the Islamic call
- Coordination between the activities of the bodies that carry out relief work
- Integration between advocacy and relief activities
- The Sanctity of the Two Holy Mosques and Al-Aqsa Mosque
- Muslim minorities and the responsibility of Muslims towards them
- Contemporary issues of the Islamic Ummah
Thus, His Eminence the Great Imam, His Eminence Sheikh Jad Al-Haq Ali Jad Al-Haq (may God have mercy on him), crystallized the idea of the International Islamic Council for Call and Relief, in front of all the participants in the eleventh conference of the Islamic Research Academy, which included a number of heads of international Islamic organizations working in the fields of advocacy and relief.
Rather, he set his goals in coordination, cooperation, and integration, and in paying attention to the cause of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the contemporary issues of the Islamic nation.
Accordingly, the conference issued a decision on the necessity of forming a coordinating council, comprising organizations and institutions that work in the field of advocacy and relief, and whose activities extend beyond the borders of the headquarters state - and the decision specified the functions of the council in planning, coordination, cooperation and follow-up - and it consists of three specialized sub-departments:
Relief Administration: It includes agencies working in the field of relief.
Department of preparing and training preachers: It includes the bodies working in this type of education and training.
Funding Department: It includes the entities involved in financing advocacy and relief.
Provided that Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, in cooperation with the Muslim World League in Makkah Al-Mukarramah and the International Islamic Charitable Organization in Kuwait, will call for a founding meeting to formulate the statute and regulations for this council and its branches.
Thus, the International Islamic Council for Call and Relief held its first founding meeting, where the decision on the statute was issued on September 22, 1988 AD, which included defining the main headquarters of the Council in Cairo, and set the objectives of the Council - as well as the founding members identified:
- Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, Egypt
- Saudi Muslim World League
- Organization of the People's Islamic Conference, Iraq
- International Islamic Charitable Organization Kuwait
- Sudan Islamic Call Organization
- Kuwait African Muslims Committee
- The General Presidency of the Departments of Scientific Research, Call and Guidance in Saudi Arabia
- Association of Islamic Universities of Morocco
- Association of Scholars of Morocco and Senegal Morocco
- Saudi Arabia Organization of the Islamic Conference
- International Federation of Saudi Islamic Banks
- Zakat House Kuwait
- Saudi International Islamic Relief Organization
- Saudi Islamic Relief Agency
- Kuwait Relief Committee Kuwait
- Saudi Arabian Red Crescent Federation
- The General Islamic Conference of Jerusalem, Jordan
- Iqra Charity Foundation Saudi Arabia
Representatives of the ministries of endowments and Islamic affairs departments whose activities in advocacy and relief matters extend outside their homeland, and which are established in the following countries:
Education and Advocacy Committee
Public Relief Committee
Finance and Investment Committee
Information and follow-up committee
Publication and Media Committee