56 years ago was the first time that the Holy Quran Radio was broadcasting from Cairo as the first radio station specialized in broadcasting the Qur’an around the clock. Before that, the Islamic world did not know how to read the Qur’an except directly in mosques, religious events and private parties.

Reading the Qur’an and religious chanting were among the rituals of Egyptian gatherings.

In 1964 the Egyptian Holy Quran Radio was inaugurated, and the reason is that word in a luxurious and gilded edition of the Holy Quran was being sold cheaply throughout Egypt at that time.

The reason for the rapid spread of the gilded copy was its cheap price, and sometimes its free distribution, which was known to its secret shortly, as some distortion of the verses of the Holy Qur’an was discovered, and their distortion was hidden in a way that does not raise doubts. In Surat Al-Imran verse No. 85 was corrupted. Non-Islam desires a religion, so it will not be accepted from it, and in the hereafter it is among the losers. “The verse was corrupted and printed without the word“ other ”, so the meaning became completely different.

When the matter was remedied and the copy was withdrawn from the market, the alternative was to print the recited Qur’an of Sheikh Mahmoud Khalil al-Hosari on CDs and distribute them throughout the Islamic world in the first audio collection of the Holy Qur’an, given that this method was the most widespread at that time, but it was not Enough.

By the decision of the Egyptian President at the time, Gamal Abdel Nasser, the radio broadcast of the Holy Quran was carried out over a period of 14 hours per day in the short and medium waves, and this method was the best in preserving the Noble Qur’an from distortion, as the radio broadcast was extended to millions of Muslims in Asia and North Africa.

The political role of the radio

Many do not pay attention to the political role played by the Holy Quran Radio since its inception.

In the radio station devoted to reciting the Qur’an, during the night and the outskirts of the day, the programs were entered into its radio map by a sovereign decision in 1966, as programs such as “Hadith of the Spirit”, “Religion The Treatment” and “The Islamic Dictionary” were chosen.

In the year of the setback 1967, and underestimating its negative impact and curbing the socialist tide in the radio, the Holy Quran was introduced by the voices of the great Egyptian readers, and in 1973, after the October War, the broadcast was extended to 19 hours, then the late President Hosni Mubarak extended it to include the entire day in celebration Media Professionals Day 1996.

Heritage Renewal Crisis

A few days ago, the tag "Support the Holy Quran Radio" was launched on Twitter after a video of a sarcastic actor appeared mocking the radio station's broadcasters and programs in a sarcastic way.

Hajar Saad al-Din, the former head of the radio station and the oldest female broadcaster who specialized in religious programs, was the subject of mockery of the young actor.

But the young man who apologized later, he - perhaps - does not know the history of that lady who dug with her sweet voice and her different way of vocal performance, a long road without assistance or mediation.

Encyclopedia of Islamic Fiqh The most famous program of Hajar Saad Eddin on the Egyptian Radio, where it started with the program "Religion and Donia", then "The Jurisprudence of Women", then presented "Encyclopedia of Islamic Fiqh" with its Ramadan program "The Fiqh of Women in Ramadan."

Radio Hajar Saad Al-Din (social networking sites)

Hajar was the first woman to work at the Holy Quran Radio, which she initially refused to work with women, then Hajar came to break the rule and be the first female voice, and a female without a hijab, working in the Quran Radio, then she continued to break the rigid rules until she reached the head of the Holy Quran Network Then it won the Messenger of Peace award from the United Nations in 1996.