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Tan Sri Mokhtar Al-Bukhary is one of the most prominent Malaysia entrepreneurs and is admired with his bigheartedness and charitable deeds for the society. He is also known for his down-to-earth attitude, and a guy who as much as potential, avoids publicity, cameras and interviews, which at times can be an overwhelming task, considering his status quo as one of the 10 richest men in the country.

With the involvement in vary business areas such as transportation and logistics, plantation, property development, defense and armory as well as engineering and power generation, his has a net worth estimated to be US$2.00 billion according to Forbes in 2007.

His generosity starts since his mother told him to give half of his first allowance (RM 750.00) as a director of Rice Company to his unfortunate neighbor. The other half of the allowances were kept by his mother. Other than that, his mother also kept telling him to send all the kerosene light to all the surau to lighten up the ways all over the fasting nite, especially in doing the terawih. Since then, the activities developed of the good personality and also the positive ways of thinking of him.

Frankly speaking, when he was merely 23 years old, he gave away half of his monthly income of RM 1500 to the unfortunate by donating it to the 15 poor families in his village. He never stopped giving since then. Since 1996 to 2006, his foundation has contributed almost RM 1 billion to charity.

Instead of the charities in all around Malaysia, he also has humanitarian projects in Asia ad Africa, including rebuilding the lives of Afghan refugees, Pakistan’s ear’s tsunami victims and now working to establish an AIDS hospital in Uganda.

Tan Sri is a patriotic person. It is proved when he drives a Perdana instead of driving other luxury cars such as BMW, Volvo or Mercedes. It is also been proved by his effort in supporting local student in pursuing their study by giving them a scholarship to a student to continue inside or outside the country. Tan Sri also a religious person. It is shown when he donated a lot of his profit to build a lot of mosque. Other than that, he also has donated toward orphan and people who needed help. He also has donated 1.25 Million Pound to Oxford Islamic Institute for research on Islam. He has also built Islamic Art Museum in Kuala Lumpur. The other characteristic that he got is he is a very hardworking person.

On the 10th of January 2008 or 1st Muharram 1429 Hijrah he was announced and awarded as "Tokoh Ma'al Hijrah" by The Yang Di Pertuan Agong of Malaysia in recognition of his contribution to nation building.