Iranian Qari Comes Third in Tanzania Int’l Quran Contest
The competition’s closing ceremony, where the winners were announced and awarded, was held on the weekend.
According to the panel of arbiters, Ilyas al-Mahyawi from Morocco bagged the top prize and the runner-up was Shihab Ahmed from Egypt.
The third rank prize went to the Iranian qari, Mohsen Qassemi.
The Julius Nyerere International Convention Center host the international Quranic event.
Quran reciters from the host country as well as Egypt, Turkey, South Africa, Morocco, Palestine, Kenya, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Greenland, Iran, Mozambique, and the Comoros Islands competed for the top prize.
The panel of judges comprised internationally-known Quran experts such as Sheikh Othman al-Hiwari and Sheikh Ali al-Shamisi from Egypt, Sheikh Muti al-Rahman al-Miskari from Morocco, Sheikh Abdul Wahab al-Sirari from Yemen, Sayid Salih al-Ahdal from Kenya, Sheikh Ismail Lunt from South Africa, and Sheikh Abullah al-Munzari and Abdul Mannan Muhammad from Tanzania.
Qassemi traveled to Tanzania to take part in the contest in coordination with the Iranian Cultural Center in the East African country.
The special guest at the closing ceremony was Hussein Mwinyi, the president of Zanzibar, who highlighted the Hadith from the Holy Prophet (PBUH) about the Quran, “The best among you (Muslims) are those who learn the Quran and teach it.”
He described Quran competitions as the best programs for Muslims and also highlighted the importance of efforts to enhance Islamic unity.
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Tanzania is a country in East Africa where Islam is the religion of about 35 percent of the population.
On the mainland, Muslim communities are concentrated in coastal areas, with some large Muslim majorities also in inland urban areas especially and along the former caravan routes. More than 99 percent of the population of the Zanzibar archipelago is Muslim.
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