Political stories about the reciters in the "state of recitation"

Muqri 'surrendered to exile with Saad Zaghloul ... and another refused to read in Farouk Palace

• Muhammad Refaat was the equivalent of the Wafd leader Saad Zaghloul and the popular artist Sayed Darwish.

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• Sheikh Abdul Basit Abdul Samad reciting the Qur’an at the condolences of King Muhammad the Fifth.

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The relationship of the "state of recitation", which is the term used for the reciters of the Noble Qur’an to the state of politics, was filled with distinctive stations on the succession of Egyptian governments, as rulers and ministers sought to choose the readers next to them, while other readers were, without intending, a party to political quarrels. Which attracted writers and journalists, headed by the late satirical writer Mahmoud Al-Saadani, to enter this world and write about its details.

Al-Saadani narrated in his book “Heaven's Melodies,” which Sheikh Muhammad Metwally Al-Shaarawi introduced to him, that “the people's reader” Muhammad Rifaat was the equivalent in his weight to the Wafd leader Saad Zaghloul and the people's artist Sayed Darwish, and the Copts listened to him alongside Muslims, just as Al-Saadani narrated the story of a Canadian officer Kabir was participating in World War II. He asked the radio director to gather him with Rifaat, and when he saw him and realized that he was blind, he started crying, and said that he realized the secret of the great pain that his genius was overflowing with.

Al-Saadani narrated the story of the Indian prince in Hyderabad, who offered to raise 100 pounds every day in exchange for him to travel there, which was a high number in the language of that time, and he refused.

Al-Saadani relates that the Wafd leader, Saad Zaghloul, had a special reader, Sheikh Mahmoud al-Barbari, and the British arrested him because he was hiding thousands of leaflets against the British occupation under his cloak while he was leaving the nation’s home. The prisoners around him, and when he got out of prison, and Saad Zaghloul was deported to Malta, the barbarian surrendered himself to the occupation authorities to exile with him, and to read the Holy Quran to him in exile, and after his request was rejected, the Berber continued his revolutionary role, where the patriots used to hold mock funerals for people to gather around him. And they discussed issues of the revolution, and when a crowd died in a solemn funeral, it was headed by the national leader of the Coptic delegation, Makram Ubaid, who was known for his preservation of the Holy Quran and his love for reciting it, and considered himself one of the students of the Berber.

Muhammad al-Saifi

Al-Saadani also narrates the story of the Sheikh reciter, Muhammad al-Saifi, who was paid a wage of 50 piasters a night, and kept progressing until he reached 10 pounds in 1927, and he was one of four readers who revived the funerals of Saad Zaghloul and King Fouad, and he was the only one who refused to read inside the King's Palace Farouk, despite the great pressure Al-Yawran, and Al Saifi spent all that he earned on his sons, the most prominent of whom was writer and director Hassan Al Saifi, who presented 150 films to Arab cinema.

Al-Saadani also narrated the story of another reader, Sheikh Al-Qahwi, who was also not far from politics, as he was a close friend of the political leader, Mahjoub Thabet, a supporter of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II, one of the leaders of the old National Party, and a friend of the poet Ahmed Shawki, the poet Hafez Ibrahim, and the sheikh of Al-Azhar Abdulaziz Al-Bishri, and he was the owner of a salon called “Bakuka Mahjoub Thabit.” Among his anecdotes is that he would only appear at night, and that he had a team of supporters and a team of opponents in the popular neighborhoods, and clashes that occurred between them once caused the transfer of 10 injured by ambulance to the hospital. The fight was documented in a police report.

Intelligence continues

The "Heaven Melodies" deals with the follow-up of the global intelligence services of the state of recitation, as British intelligence reports during World War II monitored that the reciter, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Saadani, deals with the "axis", as he broadcasts his recitation every night from West Berlin Station, immediately after the news bulletin. I conveyed this perception to the Egyptian Prime Minister at the time, Mustafa al-Nahhas, who in turn summoned al-Saadani, and who was overly angry at him refused to shake his hand, but al-Saadani explained to al-Nahas that the origin of the story was that a mission from Germany a time before the war to make cultural and social programs, songs and other materials for the German radio that It is broadcast in Arabic, and among these materials was the recording of 10 hours of recitation of the Holy Qur’an with his voice, which is now being broadcast regularly.

The story of Farid Al-Sindyouni

Al-Hanaa al-Heaven also narrates a funny story about the reader Sheikh Farid al-Sindyouni, whose name shone in Egypt. Because of his fame for the Near East Radio in Mandate Palestine, he was attracted by the English authorities, and his wages reached 500 pounds per month. When the war in Palestine intensified in 1947 and was closed The radio station and the Sheikh was injured. He pulled his way back to Cairo, and when he wanted to work for Cairo Radio in 1949, they asked him to pass an exam, so he got more on himself, so he went along with them with approval. When he entered the studio, his voice rang out and shouted, “As long as you want to test my voice, I am ready for the exam in Singing, but no one tests me in reciting. ”He left the studio to establish a cafe in Shubra where he would stay for the rest of his life.

As for the most prominent of the readers who approached politics, he is the reader Sheikh Mahmoud Ali Al-Banna, who was a Nasserist par excellence, a believer in national liberation policies in the sixties, and was keen to recite the Holy Qur’an in the house of Nasser throughout the month of Ramadan, and after the 1967 defeat he proposed forming a delegation of great Qur’an readers. Karim, to go around the Islamic world and hold nights there and collect donations to support the front in Egypt.

Mahmoud Al-Saadani’s book on “The State of Recitation” opened the door to a group of other books, such as “The Genius of Recitation in the Twentieth Century” by Shukri Al-Qadi, “Sheikh Mustafa Ismail - His Life in the Shadow of the Qur’an” by Kamal Al-Najmi, and “Months of Qur’an Readers” In the Modern Era, ”by Ahmad Al-Balak,“ Voices from Light ”by Mahmoud Al-Khouli, and“ Ambassadors of the Noble Qur’an ”by Ahmed Hajjaj. A group of these books monitored the life and biography of readers in general, while another group focused on their contact with public and political life.

As for the book "Voices of Light", it revealed the details of the relationship of the reader Sheikh Abdul Basit Abdel Samad with the King of Morocco, Muhammad V, who used to call him periodically, and made sure that Abdel Basset Abdel Samad was waiting for him at the airport when he came to Cairo. That he was offered permanent residence in Morocco while granting him huge sums of money.

• The most prominent reader who approached politics is Sheikh Mahmoud Ali Al-Banna, who was a Nasserist par excellence, a believer in national liberation policies in the sixties, and was keen to recite the Holy Qur’an in Abdel Nasser’s house throughout the month of Ramadan.

• The book "Voices of Light" revealed the details of the relationship of the reader, Sheikh Abdel Baset Abdel Samad, with the King of Morocco, Muhammad V, who used to call him periodically, and made sure that Abdel Basset Abdel Samad was waiting for him at the airport when he came to Cairo, and reached the extent of the king's connection with him until He was offered permanent residence in Morocco.

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