Participants in Semi-Final Stage of Al-Kawthar Quran Competition Announced

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The 16 top participants in the preliminary stage of Al-Kawthar TV network's 9th international Quran competition, who made it to the semi-final stage, were announced.

According to the relations and international cooperation office of the network, the fourth round of the preliminary stage was held with the participation of Quran reciters from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Turkey, The Netherlands, Germany and Australia.

Hadi Fasihi from Afghanistan, Muhammad Zalif from Iraq, Hamze Oudezade from Iran and Muhammad Reza Ruhollahi from Germany, who respectively scored 89, 86.5, 85.5 and 85, were the four top Qaris in this round of the competition.

It was supervised by Seyyed Abbas Anjam from Iran, Rezwan Darwish from Syria, Ahmad Abdul Hakim from Egypt and Hussein Hamdan from Lebanon, who are experts in the categories of Lahn, Sowt, Waqf and Ibtida and Tajweed principles.

The phone-in Quran competition titled "Inna lil-Muttaqina Mafaza” (Indeed, for the righteous is attainment- Holy Quran, 78:31) began on the first night of the holy month of Ramadan.

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