Charter for Developing Quran Culture Gave New Identity to Culture Ministry
The Charter for Developing the Quranic Culture gave a new identity to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.
The ministry’s Quran and Etrat Deputy Hojat-ol-Islam Hamid Mohammadi made the remark on Saturday, July 20, in a forum held at the 21st International Holy Quran Exhibition to investigate the achievements of the charter.
He added that with the introduction of the charter, the ministry has seen structural developments and will see more such developments in the future.
Hojat-ol-Islam Mohamamdi described the charter as the 30-year demand of the country’s Quranic and scientific community and said it is a document that guides implementation of Quranic activities in the country.
“It took a 20-year process to complete in 2009 and it is the outcome of 20 research studies,” he stated.
The cleric noted that with the approval of the charter, it was expected that all duplications and divergences in Quranic planning would come to an end and that has happened since the charter was put into practice.
The deputy culture minister further rejected the idea that the charter will cause Quranic activities to concentrate in government bodies, saying that there are now over 2000 Quranic institutes in the culture ministry, 2000 more in the Dar-ol-Quran Organization and over 2200 grassroots Quranic institutes in the country.
He said with the introduction of the charter, the country’s Quranic budget has risen to 6000 billion rials, adding that this is not even enough yet and should continue to grow.
He referred to the plans for training 10 million Quran memorizers in the country and said some 150,000 billion rials is needed for realizing the objective of the plan.
Hojat-ol-Islam Mohammadi went on to say that previously, most of Quranic activities were limited to memorization and recitation but the charter has revived activities in the area of promoting and propagating the teachings of the Quran.
A number of other cultural and Quranic officials including Hossein Hojabri, Education Ministry’s cultural deputy, and Hojat-ol-Islam Bahmani, head of the Council for Development of the Quranic Culture were also present at the forum to investigate the achievements of the charter.
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He added that with the introduction of the charter, the ministry has seen structural developments and will see more such developments in the future.
Hojat-ol-Islam Mohamamdi described the charter as the 30-year demand of the country’s Quranic and scientific community and said it is a document that guides implementation of Quranic activities in the country.
“It took a 20-year process to complete in 2009 and it is the outcome of 20 research studies,” he stated.
The cleric noted that with the approval of the charter, it was expected that all duplications and divergences in Quranic planning would come to an end and that has happened since the charter was put into practice.
The deputy culture minister further rejected the idea that the charter will cause Quranic activities to concentrate in government bodies, saying that there are now over 2000 Quranic institutes in the culture ministry, 2000 more in the Dar-ol-Quran Organization and over 2200 grassroots Quranic institutes in the country.
He said with the introduction of the charter, the country’s Quranic budget has risen to 6000 billion rials, adding that this is not even enough yet and should continue to grow.
He referred to the plans for training 10 million Quran memorizers in the country and said some 150,000 billion rials is needed for realizing the objective of the plan.
Hojat-ol-Islam Mohammadi went on to say that previously, most of Quranic activities were limited to memorization and recitation but the charter has revived activities in the area of promoting and propagating the teachings of the Quran.
A number of other cultural and Quranic officials including Hossein Hojabri, Education Ministry’s cultural deputy, and Hojat-ol-Islam Bahmani, head of the Council for Development of the Quranic Culture were also present at the forum to investigate the achievements of the charter.
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