IRD, IIU has organized a lecture of Grand Mufti of Bosnia, Prof Dr. Mustafa Cheric on “Islam Religion to Live” at the International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) on 20th  February, 2010 in collaboration with Iqbal Academy, Lahore. Mr. Hamid Saeed Kazmi, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs was Chief Guest while Professor Fateh Muhammad Malik, Rector IIUI also spoke on the occasion.

In his speech Dr. Mustafa said: Islam is a faith, Knowledge and morality. He added that Islam gave a unique faith to human beings supported by knowledge and moral values. He however said that present day Muslims are lagging far behind of the world due to their ignorance of their faith, knowledge and morality. He gave some facts to strengthen his view point.
It is in the debate about the kind of secularization of the Muslim history and the method of (re)isalmization of the Muslim mind that we may recognize the problem of the modern Muslim identity. The idea of secularization did not come to Muslims as a result of their own experience. It has always been felt by the majority of Muslim Ulama (scholars) and some Muslim intellectuals as well that the idea of secularization of the Muslim societies has come from the west by a sort of political and sometimes even by military pressure. This is one of the reasons why the secularization of the Muslim history, except perhaps in Turkey and Tunisia, has failed and this is why the drive for a kind of reislamiation of the Muslim mind is taking place. This have refused to give up the idea of a universal community of Islam (The Ummah) even if it means, at least for the time being, a utopia. To the Muslims, who believe in the concept of the islamization, secularism is nothing more than an ethnic, racial and national conception of cultural identity.

Nevertheless, the Muslims did accept the concept of nation state identity for whatever reasons and thus are aware of the concept of a multiple identities. It is in the idea of multiple identities that one can find a satisfaction for a universal identity such as an Islamic identity in a presumable Non-Islamic state. And it is here that I see the reason for our question: is there an identity of European Muslims? Hamid Saeed Kazmi and Professor Fateh M. Mailk in their speeches appreciated role of the Bosnian Muslims in the world. They said that Bosnians by their sacrifices revived Muslim glory in the world arena. The Grand Mufti presented copies of the Holy Quran printed in Bosnia to Hamid Saeed Kami & Fateh Muhammad Malik whereas Professor Malik presented IIUI crest to the Grand Mufti