Madinah forum to benefit 50m people in 20 languages

Sheikh Abdulrahman Al-Sudais, president of religious affairs at the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque, launched a project on Saturday to translate the second Fatwa Symposium into 20 languages.

The forum will be held at the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah on Tuesday, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

The translation aims to ensure that the symposium’s message, objectives and outcomes are effectively communicated to Muslims worldwide.

Al-Sudais said that 50 million people were expected to benefit from the initiative, SPA reported.

He highlighted the importance of this step as a reflection of the Saudi leadership’s support for the presidency of religious affairs.

Al-Sudais emphasized the need to make the symposium’s outcomes accessible to the global Muslim community and said that translations enhanced the experience of visitors to the Two Holy Mosques.

The effort aligns with Vision 2030, which seeks to modernize religious services.

Translations into English, French, Indonesian, Urdu, Persian, Spanish, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Bengali, Chinese, Turkish, Hausa, Amharic, Italian, Swahili, German, Filipino, Bosnian and Malayalam will be available via a mobile app, the presidency’s website and the Manarat Al-Haramain platform.