“Best Quranic Research” Competition Planned in Karbala
According to Al-Kafeel website, the center’s main objective is to promote the noble Quranic culture based on Hadith Thaqalayn in society.
The themes of the competition include “the influence of Hadith Thaqalayn on Quran interpretation”, “narration of Hafs from Asim, the reasons of its popularity and Ahl-ul-Bayt’s (AS) view about the narration”, “negative results and consequences of interpreting Quran without referring to Hadiths of Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS)”, “a comparative study among Quran interpretations on the basis of Hadith Thaqalayn”, “Quranic recitations and their influence on understanding the Quranic meanings”, and “the script of Mushaf in the first Hijri century”.
Hadith of Thaqalayn (the two weighty things) is a famous and mutawatir (frequent) hadith from the Holy Prophet (PBUH), who said: "I leave after myself the book of Allah (Quran) and my 'Itra (family) among you, these two will never separate each other till the Judgment Day."
The hadith is accepted by all Muslims, both Sunni and Shia, and has come in the hadith books of all of Islamic sects.
The works sent for the competition should be written in at least 150 pages and should not have been published in Iraq or other countries.
The first to the third rank winners will be respectively awarded 8 million, 5 million and 3 million Iraqi dinars.
