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The Man Who Designed The Two Holy Mosques, Dr. Muhammad Kamal Isma’eel (1908 – 2008)

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"uEBDyq51" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"LMOlkFia" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>He was an Egyptian engineer and architect who preferred to be away from public limelights&comma; unknown to many&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dr&period; Muhammad Kamal Isma’eel<&sol;p><div class&equals;"lrLCk9aC" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;1908 &&num;8211&semi; 2008&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was the youngest person in the history of Egypt to obtain high school &lpar;certificate&rpar;&comma; the youngest to get enrolled in the first Royal School of Engineering and the youngest to graduate from it&comma; the youngest to be sent to Europe to obtain three doctorate degrees in Islamic Architecture&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was also the youngest to obtain the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nile” scarf and the rank of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Iron” from the king&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was the first engineer who undertook the planning and implementation of the &lpar;Haramain&rpar; Makkah and Madinah mosques expansion project&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He refused to receive any payment for his engineering design and architectural supervision&comma; despite efforts by King Fahad and Bin Laden Company&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When he returned a cheque of millions he told Bakar Bin Ladan&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Why should I accept money &lpar;for my work&rpar; at the two sacred mosques&comma; how will I face Allah &lpar;on the Day of Judgement&quest;&rpar;&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;16&sol;ex-burkina-fasos-president-to-be-tried-over-assassination-of-thomas-sankara&sol;">Ex Burkina Faso’s  President To Be Tried Over Assassination Of Thomas Sankara<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He married at age of 44 years&comma; his wife gave birth to a son&comma; and died&period; And thereafter he remained single and devoted his full-time in worshiping Allah until he died&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He exceeded hundred years which he spent in the service of the two holy mosques&comma; far from the mass media limelight&comma; fame and money&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This genius has an amazing story in regards to the marble &lpar;work&rpar; of Haram Shareef &lpar;Holy mosque&rpar;&comma; as he wanted to cover the floor of the Haram mosque for those making &OpenCurlyQuote;tawaf’&period; And marble in particular to absorb heat&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This marble was only available in a small mountain in Greece&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He travelled to Greece and signed a contract buying sufficient quantity for haram &lpar;marbling&rpar;&semi; almost half of the mountain&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;98 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He signed the deal and returned &lpar;to Makkah&rpar; and the white marble came &lpar;in stock&rpar;&period; And indeed the placement of the marble on the floor of the Holy mosque in Makkah was completed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After 15 years&comma; the Saudi government asked him to place similar type of marble in the Holy mosque in Madinah&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Engineer Muhammad Kamal said&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When the King asked him to cover the Prophet’s ï·º mosque too with the same marble&comma; I got very confused&comma; because there was only one place on the earth to get this type of marble&comma; that was Greece&comma; and I have already bought half of the then available&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kamal said that he went to the same company in Greece and met the CEO&comma; and asked him about the quantity that remains&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The CEO said that it had been sold immediately after you left 15 years ago&period; Kamal became very sad&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kamal left the meeting and while leaving their office&comma; he met the office secretary and requested her to please share the where abouts of the person who purchased the rest of the marble quantity&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She replied that it would be hard to know from such old records&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Upon Kamal’s request&comma; she promised to search in the old records&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kamal gave her hotel address &amp&semi; number&comma; and promised to revisit her next day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kamal said that while leaving Office&comma; he thought&semi; why do I want to know who bought &lpar;it&rpar;&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Soliloquising to myself&comma; Allah will make something wonderful to happen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the next day&comma; few hours before leaving to airport&comma; Kamal received a phone call from the secretary saying that she had found the address of the buyer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kamal went to their office in slow pace thinking what would I do with the address of the buyer&comma; as many years had passed&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kamal reached to office and the secretary gave him the<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;ng-check&period;com&sol;tony-marble-nigeria&sol;2330356&period;html"> address of the company who bought the rest of the marble&period;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kamal said that his heart pulsated and pumped deeply the moment he discovered that the company which bought the marble was a Saudi company&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kamal flew to Saudi Arabia the same day and upon arrival&comma; he went straight to the office of the company who bought the marble and met the Director Admin&comma; and asked him what he had done with the marble he purchased many years ago from Greece&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&comma; I can’t remember&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He contacted the stock room &lpar;of the company&rpar; and asked them about the white marble from Greece and they told him that all the quantity is available&semi; was never used&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kamal started crying like a baby&comma; and further narrated the full story to the owner of the company&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kamal gave the owner a blank cheque&comma; and asked him write the amount you want&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When the owner came to know that the marble is for the mosque of the Holy Prophet ï·º&comma; he said I will not accept even one Riyal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Allah made me to purchase this marble and to forget about it&comma; it was meant to be used for the mosque of the Holy Prophet ï·º&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>May Allah bless Kamal the Highest place in &OpenCurlyQuote;Jannah’ – Ameen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 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