Egyptian Girl Defying Her Disability by Memorizing Quran
Residing in a rural area near Qena, Ahmed is suffering from dawn syndrome and physical disabilities.
In a report, Elbalad lauded the girl as a manifestation of the will to challenge conditions that can make one’s life hard.
Like many other children with disabilities that live in rural areas, Neda has not gone to any school, but using a smartphone and internet, she has managed to learn reading and writing.
She has so far committed seven juzes of Quran to memory and says will continue the path to memorize the entire Quran. She aspires to perform Umrah and make a pilgrimage to the shrine of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Her father carries Neda every day to a Quranic center in their village, and Neda wishes to have a wheelchair so that she can go the center without being a burden to her father.
One of her other wishes is to meet with the Grand Imam of Egypt’s Al-Azhar Islamic Center Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb.
Neda is calling on the Egyptian government to pass laws so that individual with disabilities can continue their lives without verbal insult of others.
