Humbleness, Ikhlas Prominent in Muhammad Sidiq Minshawi’s Recitation
This is how Ridha Abdul Salam, head of the Cairo Quran Radio, described the legendary qari.
In a post on Facebook, he wrote that the secret to popularity of Muhammad Sidiq Minshawi’s recitations lies in his Ikhlas and Khushu before God, Egypt Today reported.
Abdul Salam said that is why his recitations touched the listeners’ hearts and created a wave of pity, satisfaction and certainty in them based on the divine verses.
He said he would regularly listen to the prominent qari’s Quran recitations broadcast on Egypt’s Quran Radio every night.
He highlighted Minshawi’s recitation of verses from Surah Ibrahim, including the one that portrays the moment believers enter paradise: “As for those who believe and do good works, they shall be admitted to gardens underneath which rivers flow in which, by the permission of their Lord, they shall live for ever. Their greeting shall be: ‘Peace!’” (Verse 23)
Born on January 20, 1920 in the city of Al Minshah in Sohag Governorate of Egypt, Minshawi was raised in a family of Quran reciters.
He learned the entire Quran by heart at the age of 8 and a year later began learning Quran recitation.
Minshawi soon became a prominent qari both in the styles of Tahqiq and Tarteel.
He traveled to many countries, including Indonesia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Sudan, for Quran recitation.
Minshawi died in 1969 at the age of 49.
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