Egypt’s ‘State of Recitation’ Enters Final Stage
In this stage, 16 participants compete in 4 groups of four, with some participants perform joint recitations for the competition, and eventually one person leaves the competition.
This episode also featured the participants in Dawlet El Telawa program meeting with Egypt’s minister of Awqaf.
Friday’s program was broadcast at 9 pm local time on Al-Hayat, CBS and Al-Nas networks, in which four capable reciters with exceptional voices competed with each other, and the judging committee faced a tough challenge to select the top performers.
Finally, Muhammad Abu al-Alaa was eliminated from this round of the competition. He wrote on Facebook after the competition: “In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Today my participation in the State of Recitation has ended; but this does not mean the end of the work, but rather the completion of an experience in which I witnessed how the Quran is preserved when its people take care of it and how the reciter is honored when he is placed in his rightful place.”
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Referring to his meeting with the Egyptian Awqaf minister, he said, “In this meeting, before I saw an official, I saw a human being and a father who understands that the reciter of the Quran needs support, not competition, and that souls do not cultivate purity unless they are nourished with compassion and mercy.”
The Egyptian qari expressed his gratitude to the judging committee, the Awqaf ministry, and Al-Mutahida Company, saying: “I left the State of Recitation while I am certain that Egyptian recitation is not just a vocal school. Rather, it is a legacy of understanding and etiquette, and a recitation based on knowledge, adorned with honesty and sincerity, and ending with humility.”
Also during this episode, Ayyah Abdel Rahman, host of the State of Recitation program, introduced the Egyptian Dar-ol-Quran Center, which is located in the country’s new administrative capital, describing it as a unique religious and cultural building that depicts the greatness of the Book of God.
“The Quran is engraved letter by letter inside the Dar-ol-Quran, and this center has 30 halls, each of which tells a part of the word of God and the history of Quran recitation in different eras.”
Abdel Rahman added, “It houses a special museum of senior Egyptian reciters, which provides visitors with the opportunity to hear the voices of these reciters, as if they were alive and present.”
She said, “One of the most important works in the Dar-ol-Quran is a large Ottoman manuscript with Kufic script, which weighs 80 kilograms and is considered a rare piece that reflects the beauty of Islamic art and the precision and beauty of Arabic calligraphy.”
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According to the report, Osama Al-Azhari, the Egyptian Awqaf minister, received the participants of the State of Recitation program.
The meeting was held at the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Egypt, and the participants, along with the Awqaf minister, watched this part of the program on the screens of the United Media Services Company.
Al-Azhari stated in this meeting that choosing among the stars of the State of Recitation is difficult, but inevitable because this is the nature of the competition.
He added, “They are all my children and I am happy to meet them, we must all support this group.”
The State of Recitation program is produced in cooperation with the Ministry of Awqaf and the United Media Services Company in Egypt, with the aim of identifying talents and outstanding reciters from different provinces of the country.
This program is broadcast on the satellite channels Al-Hayat, CBC, Al-Nas, Misr Al-Quran Al-Karim, and the “watch it” platform, and the broadcast time of this program is 9 pm on Fridays and Saturdays every week.
It offers a total prize pool of LE 3.5 million. The first-place winners in both the recitation and intonation categories will each receive one million pounds, in addition, they will have the entire Quran recorded in their voices and broadcast on the “Misr Quran Karim” channel.
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They will even be given the honor of leading the Taraweeh prayers at the Hussein Mosque during the upcoming month of Ramadan.
The program features a high-level judging panel comprised of prominent religious and scholarly figures from the Islamic world: Hassan Abdel-Nabi, Taha Abdel-Wahab, Mostafa Hosny, Taha Al-Nuamani.
It also includes a number of special guests: Osama al-Azhari, Nazir Mohamed Ayyad, Ali Gomaa, Ahmed Nuaina, Abdel-Fattah al-Tarouti, Jaber al-Baghdadi, the British scholar Muhammad Ayoub Asif, and Morocco’s Omar al-Qazabri.
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