The 2nd Edition of the Gauteng Chapter of the SAQU-AWQAF SA International Qira’ah Recital Award (IQRA) will be held at the Bosmont Masjid, Maraisburg Road, Johannesburg, Gauteng on the 6th June 2015 (18 Shabaan 1436). The programme will commence after Thuhr Salaat.
A total of 74 entries were received for the 2nd edition of the Gauteng International Qira’ah Recital Award, including 11 females. A total of 38 males qualified to participate, coordinators Hfz Muhammad Zein Cajee and Ml Anis Kara announced at the weekend. The Gauteng Chapter accommodates participants from the Gauteng, North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape provinces. A Kwa-Zulu Natal regional leg is also included in the overall competition. A panel of esteemed judges will adjudicate and also provide score sheets and feedback to our budding Qaaris and Qaariyahs. Several competitors from other countries including Malawi, Tanzania, Somalia, Mozambique, Yemen, Egypt and France will also participate.
Winners from each region will gain automatic entrance to the International Qur’aan Recital Award (IQRA) competition that will be held in Cape Town during September 2015. The 2014 edition of this event boasted around 60 competitors of more than 10 nationalities. Successful reciters from the IQRA event are recommended by SAQU to represent South Africa on international platforms throughout the world. SAQU has hosted a national Qiraa’ah (Qur’aan recital) competition in Cape Town for the last decade. The mother city is set to once again host this year’s event which will see the biggest gathering of Qur’aan reciters of its kind in the country. The event is recognised worldwide and is administered according to the international standards.
This landmark initiative is an attempt to honour the efforts of students and teachers of the Holy Qur’aan throughout the world. It serves as an added encouragement for individuals to improve, and hence the aim of the competition is to promote and maintain high levels of Qur’anic learning and service, as well as to train and earmark successful (local) candidates for other international platforms.
All are welcome to attend. Accommodation for sisters.
Watch the competition live on www.livestream.com/channel4sa
For more information including the rules and participant guidelines, please visit awqafsa.org.za Alternatively, contact Ml. Anees Kara (South African Qur’aan Union) on 074 786 8866, or Hf. Muhammad Zein Cajee (Awqaf SA) on 076 587 3971.
NB: Entries closed on 5 May 2015 for the male Junior Category, and on 22 May 2015 for all other applicants.
