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Double prize money for Abu Dhabi competition

The winners were honoured with prizes amounting to Dh500,000 from 50 holy Quran memorisation centres across the country.

The award ceremony was held under the auspices of Khalifa bin Obaid Al Jaber Award for Holy Quran in Abu Dhabi and supported by the General Authority for Islamic Affairs.

Among the 105 students, 53 were boys and 52 were girl students. The prize money is to be distributed among all students as per their categories for memorisation of the Holy Quran— for 10 sections, 20 sections and complete memorisation of the Holy Quran.

The sponsor of the award, Obaid bin Khalifa Al Jaber announced that the prize money would be doubled to Dh1 million from next year so that more students can participate. However, he stressed that the initiative is in no way a comparison to the great Zayed Quran memorisation project founded by the late Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and now functions under Awaqaf.

Al Jaber thanked the Abu Dhabi Institute for Memorising Holy Quran and other Quran memorisation centres in the country for their continued support.

The Chairman of the board of directors of the Abu Dhabi Institute for Memorising Holy Quran, Nasir Abdullah bin Hamdan Al Zaabi, said the campaign for memorisation of Quran began 10 years ago, and has shown good results.

For the first time in the UAE, three male and two female special needs students took part in the competition. “It is purely a miracle of the holy Quran,” Al Zaabi said.

“I am very happy to receive this award,” said Mohammed Rehan Mohammed Shafee who stood first in the competition. The 12-year-old boy from Bangladesh and who lives in Sharjah, learnt the Holy Quran at the age of six.

Mohmmad Hassan who bagged the second position said, “it is the bounty of Allah that bestowed me with the award.” Eighteen year old Hassan

is from Sudan and lives in Sharjah.

Abdul Bari Abdul Rahman from Somalia clinched the third position.

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