{"id":16985,"date":"2019-07-04T07:40:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T07:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=16985"},"modified":"2019-07-02T07:43:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T07:43:04","slug":"quran-global-message-of-peace-theme-of-quran-contest-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/quran-global-message-of-peace-theme-of-quran-contest-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Quran, Global Message of Peace\u2019 Theme of Quran Contest in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"
TEHRAN (IQNA) \u2013 An Islamic NGO operating in less endowed communities in Ghana organized the 2019 edition of its annual Quranic recitation competition in the Northern Regional capital of Tamale.<\/div>\n
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The Light Foundation held the contest with the theme of \u201cThe Quran, a Global Message of Peace\u201d.<\/p>\n

It was attended by scores of Muslims from the Northern Region, Upper East Region, North East Region and Ashanti Regions. The ceremony also saw the attendance of prominent and notable Sheikhs from Tamale, representatives of the Northern Regional Ghana Muslim Students Association of Ghana, Tamale College of Education Chapter and other well-meaning Muslims.<\/p>\n

The first category, captioned, \u201cFull Quran Category\u201d involved ten (10) Muslims aged 20 years and below who have committed the Quran to memory.<\/p>\n

The second category, \u201cHalf Quran Category\u201d saw seven (7) Muslims aged 20 years and below turn up for the audition, of which five (5) qualified for the final contest.<\/p>\n

The third category, \u201c20 Hibz Category\u201d saw eight Muslims aged 18years and below turn up for the auditioning of which five (5) people qualified for the final contest.<\/p>\n

The last category \u201c10 Hibz Category\u201d saw seven people turning up for audition and five making it to the finals after the screening.<\/p>\n

The competition also had five (5) respectable Imams in Tamale as the judges; Sheikh Yusuf Yakub, Sheikh Ali Abubakar, Sheikh Salman Jibreel, Sheikh Yussif Iddris and Sheikh Alhassan Mohammed.<\/p>\n

The competition commenced with the least category, the \u201c10 Hibz Category\u201d which saw the contestants exhibiting their memorization of the Quran with questions from the Judges. This category saw all five participants who had qualified from the auditioning to contest the finals take turns to answer questions from the Judges. The contestants for the various categories all took turns to recite the Quran to the applause and excitement of the audience, upon which they were scored by the judges based on their performance.<\/p>\n

Sheikh Abdallah Abdul Nasir who took the podium to introduce the Light Foundation to the public in his speech acknowledged Sheikh Ali Napari who founded the foundation which has been operating in Ghana for more than decade.<\/p>\n

Winners of the various categories went home with certificates, copies of the Holy Quran and cash sums of between 200 cedis to 1200 cedis.<\/p>\n

The Light foundation has over the years been engaging communities that are less endowed across all regions of the country. As an Islamic NGO, their focus has been on how to empower the less privileged in societies, Therefore the Foundation has over the years provided schools, health facilities, portable drinking water, support to orphans among others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TEHRAN (IQNA) \u2013 An Islamic NGO operating in less endowed communities in Ghana organized the 2019 edition of its annual Quranic recitation competition in the Northern Regional capital of Tamale.     The Light Foundation held the contest with the theme of \u201cThe Quran, a Global Message of Peace\u201d. It was attended by scores of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16987,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16985\/revisions\/16987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}