After he was absent from his minaret at the beginning of the current month of Ramadan, Muhammad Hafez al-Rahman looked today at the pioneers of the largest mosque in the British capital, the “East London Mosque”, through the window of the Perfume of Speech program, one of the initiatives of the General Authority for Entertainment that allowed distinguished vocal talents in recitation and the call to prayer to participate in the largest competition. of the Qur’an and the call to prayer in the world.
The East London Mosque, which was associated with the voice of Hafez al-Rahman, is unique among the rest of the capital's mosques in announcing the sound of the call to prayer through external loudspeakers. It is one of the largest mosques on the continent of Europe, and the most attractive to worshipers during Ramadan.
Hafez al-Rahman, who combines the call to prayer and teaching the Qur’an, competed in today’s episode of Atr al-Kalam with the Egyptian muezzin Muhammad Tariq, who discovered his talent by traveling between France, South Africa, Mauritius, Indonesia and Nigeria. He became a famous muezzin on social media, but he lost the competition to the British, who won the highest share of the votes of the jury.
In the recitation category of today's episode, the Ethiopian Muhammad Nour Ibrahim, who memorized the Qur'an at an early age and believed in the feasibility of repeating it, was able to pass to the next stage at the expense of his Libyan competitor Hamza Al-Misrati, who memorized the Qur'an at a young age and practiced its teaching for the rest of his life.
The Perfume of Words program aims to show the vocal talents and capabilities of the readers and muezzins, using the best performances based on the use of the laws of melody, and the sensations that contribute to conveying the feeling and the situation that the readers want to the listeners of the program that is broadcast daily on the mbc screen and the Shahid digital platform.
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