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Contestants from 53 countries to demonstrate
Quran memorization skills
Saturday November 26, 2011 12:53:50 PM,
Agencies
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Riyadh:
The Ministry of Islamic
Affairs, Endowment, Call and Guidance of Saudi Arabia is organizing next month
in Makkah the
33rd King Abdul Aziz International Contest for Memorization of the
Holy Qur’an with the participation of contestants from 53
countries.
“The contest to be organized in Makkah aims at highlighting the
Kingdom’s interest in the memorization and recitation of the Holy
Qur’an. The Kingdom wants to promote learning of the Holy Qur’an
among the Muslim youth,” said the public relations director of the
contest Salman bin Muhammad Al-Amri in a statement to the Saudi
Press Agency on Thursday.
He said out of 161 contestants from 53
countries, 87 competitors will be sent by their governments while
66 will represent Islamic organizations.
The contest will have 10 judges. Four of them from the Kingdom.
They are Ibrahim Al-Dossary, Emad Zuhair Hafiz, Saud Al-Ghonaim
and Salim Al-Shenqiti, he said. The judges from outside the
Kingdom include Ahmad Al-Maasarawi from Egypt, Samih Al-Asaminah
from Jordan, Lamat Al-Ameen from Mauritania, Abdul Malik Lazim
from Malaysia, Muhammad Hakeem from Pakistan and Sadiq Zawiyah
from Nigeria, reported Arab News.
He added that the Kingdom spends annually more than SR100 million
for the contest without seeking any material motive.
The five items of contest include: Memorization of full text with
correct intonated recitation, commentary and meaning of words,
memorization of full text with intonated recitation, memorization
of 20 continuous juz (parts) with intonated recitation,
memorization of 10 continuous juz with intonated recitation and
the fifth item is reserved for organizations in non-Muslim
countries.
It involves memorization of five continuous juz (parts) with
intonated recitation. Winner of the first prize in the first
category will be given a cash award of SR100,000, the second
SR90,000, the third SR80,000, the fourth SR70,000 and the fifth
SR60,000.
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