Saleh Ahmed Takrim from Bangladesh has emerged as the winner of the Dubai International Quran Competition, receiving the top award and honor from Sheikh Muhammad bin Rashid bin Muhammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum at a ceremony held on April 4th at Al-Wasal Plaza in Dubai Expo City.
The competition, which started on March 24th, saw Ethiopia’s Abbas Hadi Umar and Saudi Arabia’s Khalid Sulaiman Salih Al-Barkani taking second and third place respectively. The fourth place was jointly won by Nuruddin from Cameroon and Fatwa Hadis Maulana of Indonesia, while Abdul Alim Abdur Rahim Muhammad Haji of Kenya secured the sixth place. Muhammad Haj Asad of Syria and Muhammad Abduhu Ahmad Qasim of Yemen shared the seventh place, and Abdul Aziz Bin Noor Nasran of Brunei and Hamza Mustaquim of Morocco jointly took the ninth place.
On the final day of the competition, Syed Abdullah Harib, the deputy head of the organizing organization, gave a welcome speech, and Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Omar Hashim, the former president of Al-Azhar University, was honored as the Islamic Personality of the Dubai International Quran Award Competition this year.
In addition, the judging panel, which included world-renowned Quran experts such as Sheikh Shuaib Mujibul Haque of Bangladesh, Dr. Ahmed bin Hamud of Saudi Arabia, Dr. Salim Al-Dawbi of Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah Aish of Morocco, Jamal Farooq of Egypt, and Dr. Ahmad Mia Thanvi of Pakistan, were also recognized for their service.
Takrim, who is a student of the book department of Markazu Faizil Quran Al Islami Madrasa in Dhaka, had previously won the first place in the Quran competition held in Iran in March 2022 and the third place in the Quran competition held in Makkah in September 2022. His father, Hafez Abdur Rahman, is a madrasa teacher, and Takrim’s house is located in Bhadra village of Nagarpur police station in Tangail.
