He has been serving as a professor at the Umm al-Qura University in Makkah since 1995, and has been named the dean of the faculty of 'Shari'ah and Islamic Studies'. Further to this, he was approved and made to teach in the Holy Masjid al-Haram.
A year after that, he was appointed judge in the High court of Makkah. In 1991, he was made a prayer leader and Friday preacher at the Grand Mosque by the order of King Fahd.
