‘State of Recitation’ Honors Memory of Late Qari Sheikh Tantawi
In a report with the voice of As'ad Younis, an Egyptian artist and media activist, the program discussed the biography of Sheikh Tantawi, one of the pillars of the art of recitation in Egypt and the Islamic world who owned a unique voice that left a lasting legacy in the minds of Quran lovers, El-Balad reported.
In this report, details of the life of this Egyptian reciter were explained. According to the report, he began his Quranic activity from the school of his small village in Dakahlia and achieved global fame.
His father wanted him to follow the path of the Quran, so he sent his son to his village school, and this Egyptian reciter was able to memorize the entire Quran in 1957 under Sheikh Salah Mahmoud Muhammad.
He studied at Al-Azhar and graduated from the Faculty of Principles of Religion in Cairo.
Tantawi became a preacher at Al-Azhar and traveled to many countries, and his voice was a balm to the wounds of the souls of his listeners.
In another part of the State of Recitation program, the history of the establishment of Egypt’s Quran Radio was recalled.
Ayah Abdel Rahman, the recitation host, said the idea of establishing a specialized Quran radio was formed in the early 1960s after a luxurious Quran copy with deliberate distortions in some verses was seen in Egypt, causing widespread concerns in Egyptian religious and cultural circles and prompting the Egyptian government to take immediate action to protect the Quran from any distortion or forgery.
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He added that Egypt had previously launched the first audio Quran project with the voice of Sheikh Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husari, which was recorded on a gramophone record. However, this measure alone was not enough, which led the ministry of culture at that time, led by the great media personality Dr. Abdel Qader Hatem, to take a historic decision to launch a radio station specializing in the Holy Quran.
Ayah Abdel Rahman said that the Cairo Quran Radio was launched on March 25, 1964, by order of Gamal Abdel Nasser (the then president of Egypt), and began its broadcast with the recording of three recitations of the Quran narrated by Hafs from Asim, in the voices of three of the great Egyptian reciters, Sheikh Mustafa Ismail, Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi and Abdul Basit Abdul Samad, and later a fourth recitation was added in the voice of Sheikh Mahmoud Ali Al-Banna.
The fifth episode of the State of Recitation also included a notable performance by Omar Ali Awad Muhammad, a teenage Egyptian qari who aroused the surprise and admiration of the judging committee.
However, the recitation of Verse 186 of Surah Al-Baqarah by Sheikh Muhammad Sami, one of the reciters participating in this television competition, was controversial, as he had a Waqf (pause) in recitation when it was not permissible.
The State of Recitation program is produced in cooperation with the Ministry of Awqaf and the United Media Services Company in Egypt, with the aim of identifying talents and outstanding reciters from different provinces of the country.
This program is broadcast on the satellite channels Al-Hayat, CBC, Al-Nas, Misr Al-Quran Al-Karim, and the “watch it” platform, and the broadcast time of this program is 9 pm on Fridays and Saturdays every week.
It offers a total prize pool of LE 3.5 million. The first-place winners in both the recitation and intonation categories will each receive one million pounds, in addition, they will have the entire Quran recorded in their voices and broadcast on the “Misr Quran Karim” channel.
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They will even be given the honor of leading the Taraweeh prayers at the Hussein Mosque during the upcoming month of Ramadan.
The program features a high-level judging panel comprised of prominent religious and scholarly figures from the Islamic world: Hassan Abdel-Nabi, Taha Abdel-Wahab, Mostafa Hosny, Taha Al-Nuamani.
It also includes a number of special guests: Osama al-Azhari, Nazir Mohamed Ayyad, Ali Gomaa, Ahmed Na’ina, Abdel-Fattah al-Tarouti, Jaber al-Baghdadi, the British scholar Muhammad Ayoub Asif, and Morocco’s Omar al-Qazabri.
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