{"id":17055,"date":"2022-08-15T03:58:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T02:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/?p=17055"},"modified":"2022-08-15T03:58:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T02:58:08","slug":"quran-memorization-contest-begins-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/17055\/quran-memorization-contest-begins-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Quran Memorization Contest Begins in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subtitle\">The preliminary stage of a competition on memorization of the Holy Quran got underway in Thailand earlier this week.<\/div>\n<div class=\"body ah_body\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah, and Guidance has organized the contest in cooperation with Thailand\u2019s Central Islamic Council.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 288 men and women from different parts of the Southeast Asian country are taking part in the Quranic event.<\/p>\n<p>It is aimed at encouraging Thai Muslims to learn the Quran by heart, according to News24.com website.<\/p>\n<p>Memorization of the entire Quran along with Tafseer (interpretation), and memorization of 15, 10 and 5 Juzes (parts) are the categories of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary round will run for five days and the top contenders in the men and women sections make it to the final stage.<\/p>\n<p>Top winners will receive cash prizes totaling 500,000 Saudi riyals, according to the organizers.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand is a country at the center of the Indochinese peninsula in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims are the second largest religious group in Thailand making up about five percent of the country\u2019s 70 million population.<\/p>\n<p>source:<a href=\"https:\/\/iqna.ir\/en\/news\/3480012\/quran-memorization-contest-begins-in-thailand\">iqna<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The preliminary stage of a competition on memorization of the Holy Quran got underway in Thailand earlier this week. &nbsp; &nbsp; Saudi Arabia\u2019s Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah, and Guidance has organized the contest in cooperation with Thailand\u2019s Central Islamic Council. A total of 288 men and women from different parts of the Southeast Asian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7773],"tags":[13763,8154,14551,9546,7563,19669],"class_list":["post-17055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quran","tag-ahl-al-bayt-a-s","tag-allah","tag-ethics","tag-islam","tag-quran","tag-shia-studies-world-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}