‘State of Recitation’ Top Qaris Honored at Cairo University
Cairo University hosted the ceremony honoring a number of the participants of the talent show, including Aya Abdel Rahman, the host of the program and assistant professor at the university’s Faculty of Specialized Education, and Muhammad al-Qalaji and Bilal Saif, the two top participants of the competition.
Sheikh Ashraf al-Feel, one of the scholars of Al-Azhar, said at the ceremony: that the State of Recitation program has played an important role in society and has provided viewers with the opportunity to bringing back memories of listening to the recitations of great reciters.
Muhammad Al-Qalaji, one of the top participants in the State of Recitation program, thanked Cairo University for holding this event and said that he began memorizing the Quran at the age of four, attending courses taught by a number of Egyptian professors and sheikhs.
Bilal Saif, another participant of the State of Recitation, who also performed well in the program, staid that he completed memorizing the Quran at the age of 15 in the province of Beni Suef, and when he moved to Cairo, he tried to learn the Quranic recitations by referring to prominent teachers and improve in this matter.
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.
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.
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It also includes a number of special guests: Osama al-Azhari, Nazir Mohamed Ayyad, Ali Gomaa, Ahmed Nuaina, Abdel-Fattah al-Tarouti, Jaber al-Baghdadi, the British scholar Muhammad Ayoub Asif, and Morocco’s Omar al-Qazabri.
The final episode of the program is scheduled to air on the first day of Ramadan 2026, during which the winner of the first season of this competition will be announced.
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