H.E. Prof. Koutoub Moustapha Sano, Secretary General of the Academy, chaired the thirty-fourth monthly meeting of the Academy’s employees, on Sunday 03 Rabi’ al-Awal 1445, corresponding to September 17, 2023, at the headquarters of the Secretariat General in Jeddah.

At the beginning of the meeting, His Excellency welcomed the attendees, thanked them for participating in the meeting, and spoke about the importance of these meetings in coordinating, completing, and following up on the team work. His Excellency also spoke about the necessity of reviewing what has been accomplished and what has not been accomplished during the past three years, and knowing the obstacles and their causes, and the impediments to achieve it.

His Excellency spoke about the importance of discipline and time management, the necessity of respecting time, and that our religion is a religion of discipline, starting with prayer, which is the pillar of religion, as it is performed according to specific times of the day and night in order to enable the Muslim to mannage his time during the day and night, and God, Glory be to Him, is truthful: { Indeed, prayer has been decreed upon the believers a decree of specified times.}

As is customary in such meetings, His Excellency paved the way for the Academy’s employees to express their opinions and observations about work in the Academy. He listened with great interest and focus to the observations and proposals, and then the meeting took several decisions, the most important of which were:

• Repairing the lighting of the Academy’s exterior facade, as part of it was broken.
• Spraying the building with pesticides and disinfectants.
• Publishing the Academy’s documentary directly on the Academy’s website without the viewer having to go back to YouTube.
• Emptying the warehouse before the next monthly meeting, provided that a weekly report is submitted to the Secretary-General of the Academy in this regard.
• The Gifts Committee should distribute the “Jurisprudence Rules Manual” to members of the Council of Senior Scholars, Saudi universities, and universities affiliated with the OIC.
• Sending a copy of the Academy’s magazine and any available publications from the Academy to the delegation of scholars that visited Afghanistan, and some universities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Niger, Nigeria, Guinea, Kuwait, Qatar, and other universities.
• Delivering annual reports to employees in a timely manner, and the importance of managers seeking justice, fairness, fear of God when preparing such report.