Deviating from main goal

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No government agency has been criticized, defamed, and its senior employees referred to the prosecution, as happened with the Public Authority to take care of the printing and publication of the Noble Quran and the Sunnah and their sciences.

Despite the fact that approximately 3,650 days have passed since the establishment of the authority, it failed to print one copy of the Quran which is its main goal and tens of millions of dinars were wasted on salaries, committee remuneration, travel, inspection and supervision costs, studying the purchase of printing presses and so on, and the matter ended after ten years with change in the officials and referrals to the Prosecution and suspicion of embezzlement.

The most obvious evidence of the above is what Mr Fahd Al-Daihani, the third or fourth director general of the authority stated to the press that he had requested, or an amount of 14 million dinars had been allocated to establish the “Great Kuwait Printing Press” on 27,000 square meters area to print the Holy Quran.

Mr Al-Daihani was appointed two years ago, and I do not think that he has done much, and I, as well as others, was provoked by his statement at a time when the state suffers from shortage of resources, knowing that I own a printing press that can print tens of thousands of copies of any book, without a single type of even if the word count exceeds ten million, as long as the text is carefully written on a flash memory.

The area of the printing press is 1,000 square meters, and the price of the machines is up to 500,000 dinars. What is the need to spend 14 million for 27,000 square meters? Moreover, the government has a big printing press capable of providing all the needs of the authority. Also, the land claimed by Mr. Al-Daihani is sufficient to build a huge complex that can provide decent housing for thousands of Kuwaiti families.

In conjunction with brother Al-Daihani’s statement, I received a call the same week from the Bait Al Eman , “House of Faith” association, which is undoubtedly a well-known entity, and has a website and Instagram, and I have all its phone numbers, in which the caller offered me personally to buy any number of copies of the Holy Quran at a price of one dinar a copy to give it to whomever wants, and they will deliver the copies inside and outside Kuwait for free, as gifts.

If a Kuwaiti association can provide copies of the Qur’an at this price, then why does the government not buy its needs from it at a reasonable discount price and provide tens or even hundreds of millions of dinars to build and manage a huge complex and an army of employees at a time when Saudi Arabia did not fail to provide us with all our needs for authenticated copies of the Holy Quran. Also, the Daihani authority itself had bought 70,000 copies of the Qur’an from an institution in the Emirates some time ago.

We wish the new Minister of Awqaf, His Excellency Issa Al-Kandari will intervene and stop this sluggishness, cancel the authority and continue relying on sister countries’ printing presses to obtain copies of the Qur’an we need, and stop this partisan struggle over an authority from which we have not seen any real benefit.

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By Ahmad Alsarraf

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