The Minister of Endowments thanks President Sisi for sponsoring the International Holy Quran Competition
Professor Dr. opened Osama Al-Azhari, Minister of Endowments – As a representative of His Excellency the Prime Minister, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, the 31st International Holy Quran Competition at the Grand Mosque of Egypt, in the presence of Professor Dr. Muhammad Abdel Rahman Al-Duwaini, Undersecretary of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, as a representative of His Eminence the Grand Imam, Prof. Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Sheikh of Al-Azhar; Professor Dr. Nazir Ayyad, Mufti of Egypt; Sheikh Abdul Hadi Al-Qasabi, the sheikh of the sheikhs of the Sufi orders; Mr. Mahmoud Al-Sharif, Captain of the Noble Gentlemen’s Syndicate; Dr. Ibrahim Saber, Governor of Cairo; The guest of honor from outside Egypt is Dr. Moamen Hassan Berri, Minister of Islamic Affairs and Endowments in Djibouti; valley. Ali Gomaa, former Mufti – Member of the Council of Senior Scholars at Al-Azhar Al-Sharif; Dr. Youssef Amer, Chairman of the Senate Religious Affairs and Endowments Committee; valley. Shawqi Allam, former Grand Mufti of Egypt; Dr. Muhammad Mustafa Al-Yaqouti, former Sudanese Minister of Endowments and Guidance; The guest of honor from inside Egypt is Mrs. Hana Hussein Muhammad Rifaat – the granddaughter of the harp of heaven, our venerable Lord Muhammad Rifaat, to whom the thirty-first competition has the honor of naming; Dr. Muhammad Al-Bashari, Secretary General of the World Council of Muslim Communities in the Emirates; Professor Dr. Muhammad Abdel Dayem Al-Jundi, Secretary-General of the Islamic Research Academy; Professor Dr. Ahmed Omar Hashem, member of the Council of Senior Scholars at Al-Azhar Al-Sharif; Professor Dr. Muhammad Abd al-Rahim al-Bayoumi, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs; Professor Dr. Sami Al-Sharif, Secretary General of the Association of Islamic Universities; Sheikh Khaled Khadr, head of the religious sector, leaders of the Ministry of Endowments, and a large number of journalists, media professionals and specialized channels, in the presence of arbitrators and contestants from all over the world.
In his speech, the Minister of Endowments welcomed Dear all, attending, confirming that the competition has been prepared over months of preparation and planning, and attracting talents from all over the world. To stimulate the spirit of competition to memorize, understand, recite, and recite the Holy Qur’an, in the presence of contestants and arbitrators of famous Qur’anic scholars in the world, and His Excellency conveyed the greetings of the Prime Minister, his sincere support, and his invitations to the attendees and to the competitors for success, progress, and prosperity.
The Minister affirmed Endowments that Egypt was linked to the Holy Qur’an before the creation of creation, for God Almighty was eternal and before the creation of the universe and in His Great Qur’an. His ancient speech honored Egypt by mentioning it in his honorable speech five times, explicitly by name, and more than forty times by allusion and allusion, in addition to the fact that entire surahs of the Holy Qur’an were all set in the land of Egypt, even if the Qur’an did not state their name or did not refer to it, then Surah Yusuf is all set in the land of Egypt. Egypt, and all of Surat Taha took place in the land of Egypt, and most of the events of Surat Al-A’raf, Surat Al-Qasas, Surat Al-Shu’ara’, and Surat Al-Naml took place in the land of Egypt, and this is the most amazing thing possible, as The Qur’an did not take care of any other spot on the face of the earth after Mecca as it did Egypt. Rather, the Holy Qur’an only described three specific places as safe. It is the Holy Mecca, when he said in the Sacred Mosque: “You will enter the Sacred Mosque, God willing, secure,” and Egypt, when he said there: “And He said, “Enter Egypt, God willing, secure,” and the Gardens of Bliss, when he said therein: "Indeed, the righteous will be in gardens and springs. By serving the Holy Qur’an with love, faith, recitation, intonation, and performance And memorization, interpretation, work, application, decoration and engraving, until it became widespread among the people of knowledge to say: The Holy Qur’an was revealed in Mecca, and was read in Egypt, so there are countless pictures of Egypt’s service to the Holy Qur’an, its sciences, the arts of performing it, and competing in its love and service, adding that God – the Almighty – has enabled it to attract the people of The Qur’an throughout history. Imam Abu Saeed Othman bin Saeed, famous for the title of Warsh, the student of Imam Nafi, buried the land of Egypt, and Imam Abu Muhammad Al-Qasim bin Fayrah – Al-Shatibi – ended up with the leadership of the recitations in Egypt, and he died and was buried there, and Sheikh Al-Islam Zakaria is the source of the sources of the reciters, and Imam Al-Mutawali is the final investigator in these sciences, and Muhammad Khalaf Al-Husseini, Ali Muhammad Al-Dabaa, Amer Al-Sayyid Othman, Rizq Khalil Habba, and Abd al-Hakim Abd al-Latif. And dozens and hundreds of others.
The Minister of Endowments added that the suns of the state of recitation shone with Sheikh Muhammad. Refaat, Sheikh Mustafa Ismail, Sheikh Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hosari, Sheikh Abdel Basset Abdel Samad, Sheikh Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi, Sheikh Mahmoud Ali Al-Banna, Sheikhs Ali Mahmoud, Abdel Fattah Al-Shasha’i, Kamel Youssef Al-Bahtimi, Abu Al-Ainin Sha’isha’i, Mansour Shami Al-Damanhouri, and Abdel Azim Zaher. , Muhammad Farid Al-Sindyouni, Muhammad Mahmoud Al-Tablawi, and Mahmoud Ahmed Abdel-Hakam, Ragheb Mustafa Ghaloush, Muhammad Al-Shahat Anwar, and hundreds of others; Pointing out that Mr. Mahmoud Al-Saadani wrote his book: Melodies of Heaven, Mr. Osama Abdel Rahman wrote: Famous Qur’an Reciters in Egypt, Abdel Hamid Dasho wrote the book: A Dictionary of Great Reciters in Egypt, and Abu Talib Mahmoud wrote his book: The Qur’an in the Voice of Egypt: A Dictionary of Egyptian Reciters.
The Minister of Endowments added that giants of singers and supplicants emerged alongside the masters of reciters and geniuses of recitation, such as Sheikh Ali Mahmoud and Al-Sheikh. Taha Al-Fashni, Sheikh Nasr Al-Din Tobar, Sheikh Sayyed Al-Naqshbandi, Muhammad Al-Toukhi, and most of them combined recitation of the Holy Qur’an with the masterpieces of chanting, praise, and invocation of the love of God and His Messenger, describing them as shining suns in the sky of recitation, with good talent, a wonderful voice, and a beautiful, dazzling, heavenly, spiritual, and dazzling performance. He expressed the Egyptian school of recitation and chanting as the authentic and ancient Egyptian school in the arts of recitation of the Holy Qur’an, which resonated with the Qur’an, filling the ear of the world with beauty, taste, joy, mirth, and familiarity with God and His Messenger.
The Minister of Endowments confirmed that the Egyptian school of recitation and chanting is history. A long history, an honorable present, and a bright and promising future, adding that on this day we see an image of the brilliance of the Egyptian school. In the service of the Holy Qur’an, it is represented by the Ministry of Endowments’ announcement of the Katateeb Return Program project, which started from the village of Kafr El-Sheikh Shehata in the Tala Center in the Menoufia Governorate in northern Egypt. A large and busy bookstore was opened there, along with a bakery to serve the people of the honorable village. His Excellency added: I called for All villages and cities in Egypt should adopt this initiative, engage in it, and emulate it, because the kataeb are not just places for memorizing the Holy Qur’an, but rather they are educational and pedagogical edifices. It cultivates noble values, preserves identity, and builds the Egyptian person on high morals, a deep understanding of the meanings of religion, sincere belonging to the homeland, and revives the sound Arabic language in the souls of new generations, as it is the language of the Holy Qur’an, in a way that protects future generations from both terrorism and atheism.
The minister added that the Ministry of Endowments serves the Book of God by holding a series of competitions, the most prominent of which is today’s competition: the Thirty-First International Holy Quran Competition, which receives the attention of the Egyptian state and the patronage of His Excellency President Abdel Fattah. Al-Sisi, as Egypt receives its guests from various countries of the world, and allows them an atmosphere of competition and competition by highlighting their talents in memorizing the Holy Qur’an, understanding it, and serving it, with which we send a message to the two billion Muslims on the face of the earth and then to the eight billion people on the face of the earth: Egypt is the destination of Islamic sciences, and the flag is raised. Arabism, the home of Sharia sciences, the country of the honorable Al-Azhar, and the example of tolerance and the call for peace. No country in this world has served Islam and the Qur’an as Egypt has done, and history does not. He denies, and the reality does not deny, stressing that the competition today is a message of appreciation and respect for all the people of the Qur’an and for every memorizer of it and those related to it on the face of the earth.
The Minister of Endowments continued that from Egypt the springs of the Qur’an have erupted throughout history and will not be depleted, and from here its lights shine. It will not fade away. From here, the sciences of Sharia have flowed and will continue to flow. From here, the genius voices and golden throats have echoed and will continue to echo, be born and shine.
The Professor Dr. pointed out Osama Al-Azhari pointed out the symbolism of the place where the competition is held, saying: It is the Islamic Cultural Center of Egypt, the Grand Mosque of Egypt, and the unique and unparalleled House of the Qur’an, adding that it is in this global edifice that today’s competition will be launched, and dozens and hundreds of events will soon be launched that will fill the world with light. It fulfills the mission of the Egyptian Cultural Center and enlightens the world with the sciences of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif and its solid and enlightening curricula, adding that we will quote from the Qur’an the cup of wisdom through which we discover talents, and with it we will give birth to new generations of Geniuses of recitation and chanting. We will train imams. We will create scholars. We will preserve, protect, and develop our homeland. We will extend our hand to our sister countries and countries with goodness, support, generosity, giving, and light. We will go to the world with high values and upright morals. We will build bridges between us and different cultures, civilizations, and philosophies. We will help the world protect… The environment, preserving childhood, achieving sustainability, maximizing the benefit of artificial intelligence, and creating civilization, adding, “We will face our challenges.” And our crises, and we inject hope into souls, and remove from them all the rubble of confusion, sadness, and doubt. We will cross our country to safety, and participate with humanity in overcoming its worries, and we seek God and walk to Him with insight, and we carry the inheritances of prophecy. This is Egypt if it decides to act and set out.
The minister concluded his speech by affirming Egypt’s firm, right, sober, and courageous position, that there is no solution to the region’s crises, nor calm, nor security, except by restoring rights to its people, and establishing a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with its capital. Jerusalem Sharif.
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