{"id":6099,"date":"2015-09-28T16:13:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T15:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2015-09-28T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T15:13:08","slug":"two-million-copies-of-quran-to-be-distributed-among-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/two-million-copies-of-quran-to-be-distributed-among-pilgrims\/","title":{"rendered":"Two million copies of Qur\u2019an to be distributed among pilgrims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Two-million-copies-of-Qur\u2019an-to-be-distributed-among-pilgrims.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6100\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Two-million-copies-of-Qur\u2019an-to-be-distributed-among-pilgrims.jpg\" alt=\"Two million copies of Qur\u2019an to be distributed among pilgrims\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance has started the distribution of copies of the Holy Qur\u2019an among pilgrims who have started returning to their home countries after Haj, according to the Saudi Press Agency .<br \/>\nTalal Al-Aqeel, director general of the ministry&#8217;s office in Makkah and chairman of the committee for distribution of gifts, said that the ministry will distribute more than 2 million copies of the Qur\u2019an among departing pilgrims in the corridors of King Abdulaziz International Airport and Jeddah Islamic Port, in addition to other corridors and land routes. These copies are printed at Madinah\u2019s King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur\u2019an.<br \/>\nThis distribution includes translation of the Qur\u2019an into a number of languages including Urdu, Hosa, English, French, Thai, Indonesian, Chinese, Spanish, Malayalam, Russian, Turkish, German and Albanian.<br \/>\nThe ministry has created 50 points of distribution manned by one thousand employees round the clock till next month. All pilgrims will get the copy of Qur\u2019an as a gift with an envelope consisting of four books and tapes explaining Islam to help Muslims understand Shariah, SPA said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/two-million-copies-of-quran-to-be-distributed-among-pilgrims\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance has started the distribution of copies of the Holy Qur\u2019an among pilgrims who have started returning to their home countries after Haj, according to the Saudi Press Agency . Talal Al-Aqeel, director general of the ministry&#8217;s office in Makkah and chairman of the committee for distribution &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6101,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions\/6101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}