{"id":6943,"date":"2017-06-16T03:26:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T02:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6943"},"modified":"2017-06-16T03:26:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T02:26:14","slug":"bangladeshi-boy-13-wins-dubai-quran-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bangladeshi-boy-13-wins-dubai-quran-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi boy, 13, wins Dubai Quran Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TariqulBangladesh\u2019s Mohammad Tariqul Islam won the top prize at the 21st Dubai International Holy Quran Award (DIHQA) on Thursday.
\nShaikh Ahmad Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, honoured Islam and other winners of the annual competition at a glittering ceremony at the Dubai Cultural and Scientific Association auditorium in Al Mamzar.
\nThe ceremony also saw the honouring of the Islamic Personality of the Year, which this year was awarded to King Salman of Saudi Arabia.
\nShaikh Saleh Bin Abdul Aziz Al Shaikh, Minister of Islamic Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, received the Award on behalf of King Salman.
\nThe 13-year-old Islam, who also got the fourth prize in the \u2018beautiful voice\u2019 category, walked away with the first prize of Dh250,000.
\n\"TariqulIslam performed on the ninth night of the annual Quran competition, leaving the packed auditorium at the Dubai Chambers awestruck with his powerful renditions from the passages of Quran.
\nHaving topped several national competitions in Bangladesh, the Dhaka boy justified his tag as this year’s favourite, leaving behind 89 other contestants.
\nFollowing Islam closely was the American contestant Huzaifah Siddiqui, who bagged the second prize of Dh200,000.
\nThe 20 year old was the third American in a row to secure the second prize at DIHQA. Last year, 14 year old Adeen Shahzad from New York was joint second, while in 2015 Hamza Elhabashy secured the second place.
\nSiddiqui also grabbed the first place in the best voice category on Tuesday.
\nThe third place was held jointly by Modou Jobe from Gambia, Abdul Aziz Al Obaidan from Saudi Arabia and Tunisian Rachid Allani, sharing the Dh150,000 prize.
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\nOthers in the top ten are Muhanna Ahmad from Bahrain, who secured the sixth place, while Libyan Mohammad Alhadi Albasheer Najiyah and Kuwaiti Omar Alrefai bagged the joint seventh.
\nNinth position was taken by Mauritanian Mohamedou Abeka, where as Habimana Makini from Rwanda and Mohammad Nageb Gado from Egypt got the joint 10th.
\nParticipating in his first international competition, Islam couldn\u2019t believe his luck as his name was announced in a tense countdown.
\n\u201cI just can\u2019t believe this has happened. I knew I had done well by the grace of Allah, I thought I will be among the top five, but winning the top prize is just unbelievable. I thank my parents and teacher for helping achieve this milestone,\u201d said the only son of a Dhaka-based imam completed memorising the Quran last year.
\nCurrently studying the traditions of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), Islam memorised the whole of Quran in just 12 months.
\n\u201cI would like to study the Quran further and pursue a degree at the Islamic University of Madina. As I grow up I would like to work in spreading the Quran\u2019s message of peace and harmony,\u201d he added.
\nA record 103 contestants participated in DIHQA this year, with 13 candidates being disqualified due to poor quality of their performance in the preliminary round.
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