No visa to foreigners, International Qirat competition in Bhopal cancelled

Wednesday December 22, 2010 10:42:08 PM, Pervez Bari, ummid.com

Bhopal: Non-issuance of visa to foreign participants for the two-day seventh "Aalamee Musabiqa Qirat-e-Qur'an" (international competition of traditional styles of rendition of the Holy Qur'an with Tajweed) has forced the organizers to postpone the programme.

The competition was to be organized here in Bhopal on December 22 and 23 under the banner of Aalamee Anjuman-e-Zeenat-ul-Qur'an at the historic Iqbal Maidan open air auditorium in the walled city.

A crest-fallen Maulana Abdul Hafeez Khan, president of this Aalamee Anjuman, talking to this Correspondent said the non-issuance of visa to foreign participants from the United Kingdom, Iran, Pakistan, Republic of Panama has dismayed us. Without the overseas Qaris the competition which was billed as an international one would have looked ridiculous with only competitors from across the country would have taken part.

In the competition apart from abroad, Qaris from the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and host Madhya Pradesh etc. were to exhibit their skills of rendering Qur'an in different styles in the competition.

Maulana Abdul Hafeez said Insha’Allah the competition would be organized in March-April next year with efforts to bring in Qaris from more countries and concerted efforts made to ensure that they were issued visa for it.

 (pervezbari@eth.net)
 

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