Iranian Memorizer Happy to Have Opportunity to Partake in Mecca Int’l Quran Contest
Rezaei will compete in the category of memorization of 15 Juzes of the Holy Book while another Iranian memorizer, Mohammad Hossein Behzadfar, will represent the country in the memorization of the entire Quran category.
The 44th King Abdulaziz International Competition for the Memorization, Recitation, and Interpretation of the Quran is scheduled for early August in Mecca.
The competition is renowned for drawing participants worldwide and boasts a prize pool of SR4 million ($1.07 million).
Rezaei, who recently came second in the Quran competition between the armed forces of Iran and Oman, and won the top prize in the 28th Quran festival of Iran’s Ministry of Health, told IQNA that the Quran competition in Saudi Arabia is one of the most important Quranic events in the world.
He hoped that he would be a good representative for Iran and that he would manage to be a source of honor for the Iranian Quranic community at the Grand Mosque of Mecca.
Asked how he was selected as Iran’s representative, Rezaei noted that the Committee to Invite and Dispatch Quran Reciters and Memorizers organized a competition among top winners of competitions held in the memorization of 15 Juzes category in the country in recent years and he came first and was chosen to compete for Iran in this category in the Saudi Quranic event.
He said he is not much familiar with the details of how the Saudi Quran contest is organized but knows that a lot of attention is paid by the panel of judges to contenders’ proper observance of the rules of Tajweed.
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Rezaei said he would soon start his exercises to get prepared for the international Quranic event and that his exercises would focus on the rules of Tajweed.
Born in 2004, in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, Rezaei is a student of pharmacology at the Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences in Tehran.
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