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Minnesota student gets top prize at the International Quran Competition in Kuwait
Minnesota’s Abdullahi Bashir Abdi won the full-Qur’an category for the 11th International Quran Competition in Kuwait.
The names of the final winners of the three categories were announced at a gala ceremony held in the hall room of Hotel Regency near Salwar on Wednesday morning. Hafiz Abdullahi Bashir won the top prize, awards, and honors for coming first in the full-Qur’an category. The top winners received cash prizes totaling 152,000 Kuwaiti dinars.
Competitions to recite Qur’anic passages are popular in the Muslim world. The Ministry of Religion of Kuwait oversees the international competition that started on October 13. Expert judges from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen served in this competition.Hafiz Abdullahi Bashir is a student of Tibyan Canter in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Hafiz Abdullahi was selected as the representative of United States of America. Abdullahi has won 1st place in the last 4 competitions that he has participated in making this the 5th in a row.