Iraqis bid farewell to one of the golden throats .. Reader Walid Falluji

Imad al-Shammari-Anbar

May God take you precious things to compensate you with the most precious of them, which is translated by the biography of the reader, Sheikh Walid Ibrahim Falluji, when he lost his sight lost vision of people but they saw him great, God compensated him to receive a lift in the hearts of others compensated for the view of the world Others.

Genesis and disease
Since the age of four, he suffered from the disease of Sidi Ophthalmology that swept the city of Ramadi, to lose his sight in 1945, was the beginning of a painful march;

Nazim adds: Sheikh was born in the city of Ramadi, Azizia in 1941, and in his youth, he was followed by my father to the Institute of Music for the Blind in Baghdad in 1953 at the age of twelve years, but because of the difficulty of staying in my aunt's house only studied one year to leave the institute back to the city of Ramadi .

His beginning with the Qur'an
Sheikh Nazim says that after the return of Sheikh to Ramadi, he turned to memorize the Koran, and was frequented for the course of memorization of the Koran at the House of need Afifa Mohammed Said Telji in the Azizia, before moving to the memorization session at the pilgrim Salman Mullah Ibrahim.

At the age of fifteen, he studied the science of recitation and completed within three years the memorization of the Koran by Haj Mohammed Awwad Hamoudi Ani in the Sunni area known as gray in the old market, not only late to memorize, but continued to study the provisions of recitation and intonation in depth by Sheikh Jalilin Abdul Jalil Hiti and reader Abdul Latif Abdali.

Prof. Saadi Ibrahim, the middle brother of the sheikh, confirms what Nazim narrated, adding that his brother started at the age of twenty know the reader Walid, through reading the Koran in the condolence councils and his imam worshipers in the old mosque of Ramadi, before being appointed by the religious endowments read the mosque of Ramadi The new mosque, known as Sheikh Abdul Jalil, was at the age of twenty-three, and lasted three years was enough to earn Sheikh love people with his voice melodious.

According to his brother Saadi, the late not only read the Koran, but he was famous for the muwashahat through religious veils in the mosques of Ramadi and all governorates of Iraq, pointing out that the reason for the title of Sheikh Balfogi came to his appearance as a reader and singer of mosques in Fallujah mosques, as years passed almost hard to miss Any religious celebration such as the Prophet's birthday, the night of Isra and Mi'raj and the Islamic New Year.

This helped the Sheikh to the strength of his memory, he was preserving nearly 13 thousand verses of poetry, has become an icon attracted by many to commemorate those occasions and hear the voice of his distinctive Iraqi phase.

His stations in Kuwait
Raad Ibrahim, one of Walid's brothers, tells Al Jazeera Net the story of Sheikh's travel abroad, saying that after three years as a reciter at the new Ramadi mosque, he decided to leave Iraq for Kuwait in Ramadan in 1967, with the encouragement of our cousin Haj Khaled. Abdul Razzaq, to ​​be appointed as a muezzin in the mosque of the Wazzan in the area of ​​Mirqab for more than four years, before moving to the Imam of the mosque of Abdul Mohsen al-Mutair in the suburb of Abdullah al-Salem; there began another life with the Koran.

As for the stations of Kuwait, he continues to talk about the biography of Sheikh, his eldest son Khalid, saying that the love of the Koran and work and education did not let his father only appointment, while he was an imam in the Mutair mosque, he studied for six years at the Institute of Imamate and Rhetoric in the capital of Kuwait, and graduated the first to pay for work He has been a teacher of the Qur'an at the House of the Holy Quran in the women's section in the suburb of Abdullah Al-Salem for 13 years.

Khalid concluded by saying: "It is not possible to conceal and deny, preferred Mr. Yousef Al-Rifai, Minister of State for Awqaf Affairs in Kuwait, he had a big role in helping my father with what he reached in the stations of his career and study; Al-Rifai was a loving Abu follower with many personalities The prestigious that was visiting us, such as the Kuwaiti Minister of Health Abdul Rahman Al-Awadi and the Secretary of the Council of Ministers of Kuwait, Dr. Abdul Aziz Al-Otaibi.

According to his brother, Dr. Nazim, Sheikh Walid was married in Kuwait twice, as he was first associated with an Egyptian girl with two daughters and three sons. Before separating from her to travel and settle in Egypt, he married a Kuwaiti who is still in his custody and has two daughters and is still resident in Kuwait.

Imitated and loved
Sharjah singer Haqq al-Hayali views Sheikh as a school, not only for Quran readers, but for fans of the maqam, "I am one of the pioneers of his school," adding, "I was taking the Sheikh's visit to Iraq in the mid-nineties to hear some shrines taking advantage of his corrections. He preferred after Allaah as we got him a chanting position. "

Al-Hayali also stresses that Sheikh's treatment was not a professor's dealings with his students, but that my parents were compassionate to them, so they clung to him a lot and his stay in Kuwait was a barrier without learning more.

Mohammad Nawaf Al-Marouk, a close associate of Sheikh and director of the Facebook page of Sheikh Walid Ibrahim's Facebook fans, affirmed Sheikh's high emotion and softness in talking to people, as he did not get bored or shortened the visit. People.

Last resting place
Ammar Nazim, nephew of Sheikh Walid, says that during the last months of his uncle's life, he was ill, his health deteriorated rapidly and he spent a long time in the hospital.This lasted for nearly six months, and on the morning of Saturday, November 2, he moved to the Supreme Comrade. After eighty days spent in Bar Hospital in Erbil, to be washed and then buried in Sayyid Tayyib Baqal Mosque in Haflan area in Erbil.

On the morning of the second day, his body was transferred to the city of Ramadi, Anbar province, where he was born. Galilee Hiti and Abdellatif Abdali.

Three consolation councils were held at the same time, one in his hometown of Ramadi, the second in Erbil, and the third at his home in Kuwait.

He lost sight of God blessed him with the insight that paved the way for him to recite the Koran and manage, and will remain his recollection of immortality in the memory of his fans and the general Muslims.