The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Authority for Entertainment, Counselor Turki bin Abdul Mohsen Al Sheikh, honored in the closing episode of the Perfume of Words program, which was shown today, the twenty winners of the million prizes. Millions of riyals.
The competition, which concluded its competitions today, won 6 certificates from the Guinness Book of Records, as it recorded the largest Qur’an competition in terms of participating countries. The largest competitions attracting participants in the call to prayer, and two other records as the owner of the largest prizes in the Qur’an competitions, as well as the call to prayer competitions.
The episode witnessed the honoring of the Counselor Turki Al-Sheikh, the winners of the competition prizes in the categories of recitation and the call to prayer, where the Iranian contestant Younes Shahmradi topped the winners in the recitation by winning first place and a prize of three million riyals, while the Saudi contestant Abdulaziz Al-Faqih won second place and a prize of two million riyals. Moroccan contestant Zakaria Al-Zirik won third place and a prize of one million riyals, and his compatriot Abdullah Al-Daghri won fourth place and a prize of 700,000 riyals.
As for the call to prayer, the first place was won by the Saudi contestant, Muhammad Al-Sharif, with a prize of two million riyals, while the second place was won by the Indonesian Diaa al-Din bin Nazar al-Din, who received an amount of one million riyals. 300 thousand riyals.
The episode devoted to crowning the winners of the Perfume of Kalam competition this year opened with a recitation of Quranic verses from the winner of the first edition of the competition, the Moroccan reciter Younes Gharbi, and a call to prayer from the Turkish Mohsen Kara, the first winner in the call to prayer category last year.
The Quran and Azan competition, which comes this year in strategic partnership with the Muslim World League, is one of the global initiatives of the General Entertainment Authority, as it allowed participation for all Muslims from different countries of the world through easy steps, facilitating participation for those wishing to join the competition qualifiers from anywhere.
The “Perfume of Speech” program is one of the initiatives of the General Authority for Entertainment, which it launched in 2019, to create a global competition targeting distinguished vocal talents in reciting the Qur’an and reciting the call to prayer. Huge financial prizes totaling more than 12 million riyals were allocated for it.
The first version of the program was launched at the beginning of Ramadan 2022, on the Saudi channel, with the participation of a group of the best voices in the world, and the competition will return in 2023, on the mbc screen, and the Shahid digital platform daily at four thirty in Riyadh time, and participated in the first and current versions of the competition. More than 90,000 subscribers, from more than 160 countries, before a number of arbitrators specialized in readings, sounds, and shrines.
Okaz (Riyadh)