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A distinguished man in a distinguished age
Published in Alriyadh on 21 - 08 - 2011

Every step comes out planned, then making the decision of approval, we find King Abdullah is the main origin when the ideas changed to huge projects every where, and Mecca that gained a special exception in changing it into a modern city in everything and the expansion of the Holy Mosque, in addition to the approval of the establishing King's Wakf - may Allah have mercy on him-, as well as the train, and the reforming the structure and building the neighborhood to draw a new path for the holiest city on earth.
The expansion is considered to be the biggest in history, and choosing the time of Ramadan to put the foundation stone is not iconic, but rather it is an objective option, meaning that the holiness of the Holy Mosque matches the glory of the holy month. Those fast steps come following other steps that made King Abdullah the biggest stepper in building the general national project with the great establishments and general development in education, health, roads, factories and others, which reflects positively on the long-term future, which means that the tool of total development is the line of no going back in creating bases in it's continuity and building it for the coming generations.
Mecca that contains the holy places, and the Qibla of Muslims, and the word Qibla in its self means the direction towards this holy area by more than one trillion and three hundred Muslims in this world, and thus what the kingdom contributed starting from the great establisher, and all of his sons made the holy capital the center of attention, and what is wonderful in this case is that all the executed projects and the ones under execution are developed from the Kingdom's own resources so that it don't burden the Islamic countries by cutting of money that they need the most in Mecca projects.
But the biggest work came in the history of the active and important man, because King Abdullah is leading us to the age of knowledge and qualification with the world with the conscious of the big father, and his distinguish is not by the attention to the structure of building establishments, but to the mechanism of those moving and managing it of the generations that will take its roles in the moving cycle.
We are going through a new history in our interaction with the developed world through the technical and scientific communication in giving all the opportunities for the youth generation, which started competing with time in his education whether in the local or outside universities, and they might not realize those developments in the tangible way, but the inspecting observer can see and understand its positive reactions on the social life through the nature that the progressive development is going on.
When trust gathers with the will of change in gaining time, and when the leadership meets the citizens in a healthy and interactive work environment, achievements form, and King Abdulla gave us those achievements because he reflects the conscience, and we are witnesses of his spontaneous and simple choosing of words when he draws our future in launching or creating a new base in development that reflects his modesty manifestations to the extinct of cohesion with his people and citizens.
The speed in building, whether in Mecca or other, remained a concern for King Abdullah, because cutting the day to one hour and the year to a month is not easy, but he chose the time that confirmed that this speed in the projects of King Abdullah's University and Princes Nora's University as well as the Jamarat bridge, the Holy Mosques train and a lot others in the building sites and achievements that cut the road in a time faster than what is planned.
We see a foundation stone for new projects everywhere, but the foundation stone of the Holy Mosque expansion projects may exceeded the others, because the ambition of King Abdulla is that reaching the greatest number of Muslim pilgrims will be achieved after this great project is done.


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