What is your concern and your greatest ambition, and noblest intent, O Sheikh! You are the pioneer of knowledge, the pioneer of innovation, the pioneer of development, and the pioneer of doing good, as you are a pioneer of politics and economy, and knight fields;

Yes, this is what you do and we are witnessed by the two heavyweights, the martyrs of God in the earth, that you are the forerunner of every virtue, and the winner of the prize for all good, no matter how many writers or speaking speakers, this is short of the reality you have reached, as well as what you aspire to.

The Challenge of Reading, in which you have attracted thousands of your Arab nation, and inspired by young men and women to read; is one of your priorities that have never been before, will be written by history in your many white pages and durations; no one before you has ever imagined such a thing for its people. Nation, how great you are in our eyes, O Sheikh Leader of what you offer to this nation bereaved in its culture and knowledge, has been a pioneer of knowledge, and open the horizons for each art knowledge or experimental, became the poorest culture, the most backward, and the largest illiterate, and the greatest delay, industrial and technical and H Poverty has become a predominant feature, with the abundance of its riches and the abundance of environmental treasuries, and illiteracy has become a high proportion among them, with the many thousand predecessors .. A nation marked by the nation «Iqra», this divine commanded by the illiterate Prophet peace be upon him, to learn his nation Illiteracy is not intended for them, even if it is a miracle against their prophet, so that the message and knowledge that comes with it are free from the accusation of acquiring it, but it is by an knowledgeable expert, as if the speech was addressed to his nation, which he will call for the straight guidance, and will not know the guidance of the rosary only by reading.

As the nation's predecessor was aware of this divine command, the nations prevailed with knowledge and knowledge.

Here you are the sheikh of knowledge and the pioneer of the precedent to virtues sharpen the concerns of the nation «read» to return to the previous era in the cognitive and cultural leadership, and graduated from the ignorance, which camped on it led to the bottom.

Reading is life because it revives the dead hearts of ignorance and underdevelopment. It enlightens the path of a happy life, makes one live for his time and works for his future, and preaches his past, because reading expands perceptions, gives experiences, relaxes the soul, broadens the horizon, and makes one live with people, does not know Isolation, not restlessness, reading is the life in which you sweeten, socialize and delight, and reading is the spiritual food of thought and the heart, such as the food of the body with food and drink.

Yes, the nation that does not read is dead, because it can not build its present and do not plan for its future, and does not know the joy of living, so fighting illiteracy was the focus of development, stability and prosperity of the high-end countries and good rulers, who did not care to read did not concern himself or his nation, and this What is not in the dictionary of our elders and our wise government, and this program is only an episode in an ambitious series of Sheikh of the pioneering initiatives, and Sheikh of the rising knowledge, Mohammed bin Rashid, long shadow and lavish on his people and his nation ..

Here is the program in its fourth edition attracts more than 13 million Arab readers, a large proportion in the Arab world, and must achieve its goals to reach hundreds of millions of our Arab nation, so reading is a way of life for them, so they know their duty to life based on development and civilization ..

Will our sons and daughters benefit from this ambitious program, competing in reading useful books, benefiting useful science, and communicating their present with their past and future?

And what I advise you Shawki when I said:

I did not find me adequate but the book.

The owner of his game or not tired * is not present to the owner a fault.

Whenever I create it, I renew * and I am clothed in garments.

Thus says those who know the value of reading and the book, which is the best companion, as Mutanabi said, let us make reading curriculum and the book sociable, and let the Sheikh Makarem with all the best.

«Muftis senior director of the Department of Fatwa in Dubai»