The present Bait al-Hikmah symbolises a wooded transfusion to the Muslim's traditional love for learning and scholarship.

Hakim Said collected significant Islamic manuscripts from around the world and gave them to the Bait al-Hikmah.

[6] The library has many facilities available, like microfilms and microfiche, photocopying, telefax, telex, e-mail and internet.

Projector for films and slides, study rooms and special cubicles and sections for local and foreign research scholars and students are also available.

[3] At present Bait al-Hikmah Library has more than 477 thousand books, 1,700+ manuscripts and more than three-and-a-half million clippings.