The mosque is a charitable trust, originally set up by the Glaswegian Bangladeshi community in the 1970s. It has since catered for university students from a multitude of different countries, school students, and the muslim communities in the west-end of Glasgow.

"Seest thou not how God sets forth a parable: A goodly word like a goodly tree, whose root is firmly fixed, and its branches (reaching) to the heavens.." (14:21)