Koran by Heart

[Advo]

beautiful hbo documentary

[garoweboy]

I watched it yesterday and Walahi i enjoyed watching the whole documentary. Masha Allah i always wanted to participate in those kinds of competitions back in the days but i didn't get the chance. but nevertheless i was proud of the 2 little kids from Tajikistan and Maldives.

[shaamboo]

thanks for the trick sxb
This was by far the greatest program that I have ever watched on HBO period. the Maldavian guy is lil bit suufi or falling for the extreem part. I have to give Huge credit to his daughter mash allah what sweet smart child

[Beans]

Thank u Advo for sharing this.I cried many times while watching this.so beautiful and amazing.

[Advo]

It was my pleasure akhiis

Shamboo, the little girl was my favorite too, reminds me exactly of my young cousin full of life mashallah. I didnt appreciate how her dad was dictating but his changing for the best.

[Beans]

My heart broke for the Senegal kid.He had no one there.

[shaamboo]

Yeah I totally forgot about the lil kid from senegal , they didnt even let him finish . they need to teach the kids arabic or have a translator dumb arabs.

they were really rude to the poor kid, and at the end they allowed him to do reading in one of the famous mosques in qairo.

Advo sxb the father was walking in a thin line between suufi and extreem.

[union]

I need to resubscribe to HBO. They make such excellent documentaries.


EDIT: Just finished watching the whole documentary. It was pretty decent.

The Senegalese boy was impressive. I'm shocked his family sent him alone to Egypt, they probably could not afford the ticket. The judges were unkind for interrupting him and yelling at him in Arabic, but allowing him to recite at the mosque afterwards was a good losing gift. The cynical side of me thinks they did it just because the cameras were there....

The Sardov boy had the best recitation voice in my opinion. It was good the Tajik government shut down the one room school where he was taught solely how to recite the koran, because he was illiterate in everything else. He now attends a boarding school where he can continue his religious studies, which he obviously has an aptitude for, and secular studies (such as reading and writing and math) that will allow him to function in soceity. Also I don't speak Arabic, but doesn't his first name translate into "Prophet of God"? Is that allowed.

The overbearing wahabist father of the Maldives girl greatly annoyed me from the start all the way to the end. He was being a total ass during the entire competition, telling her she would lose several times, and even at the end when she won second place he still didn't seemed satisfied. Like the typical wahabist he has a chip on his shoulders for being non religious for thirty years and feels that being a short trousers, long bearded fundamentalist will make up for those years. Towards the end when the girls mother said she was the best in her math and science class and wanted to pursue a career in that field, the wahabist father vowed to take her to backward Yemen and turn her into a housewife. SMH.

[globetrotter2]

I haven't watched the documentary but based on simpleton observation I think it is better to understand the meaning of the quran than merely learning it by heart.

We somalis need to be able to read the koran in somali and understand what it says.

[sadeboi]

A really good documentary...loved all the kids...I felt sad for the senegal kid and happy for the other two. I dislike the political aspect of the documentary that was in a subliminal way included. I think the Maldives father was misunderstood, I felt compassionate towards him. But overall it was great beyond the moderate/fundamentalist talk.

[ciyaal_warta]

beautiful doc mashallah..it brings back alott of memories

[globetrotter2]

beautiful doc mashallah..it brings back alott of memories

Ciyaal warta; I thought reer wardhigley sung "Wardhigleey wasaarad waaye inta kale waa wakaalad" when other people were doing the subac.



I miss the subac days; nowadays it is Nasheed and other arab inspired nonsenses

[ciyaal_warta]

beautiful doc mashallah..it brings back alott of memories

Ciyaal warta; I thought reer wardhigley sung "Wardhigleey wasaarad waaye inta kale waa wakaalad" when other people were doing the subac.



I miss the subac days; nowadays it is Nasheed and other arab inspired nonsenses

looooooolz sxb reer wardhiigley are sheikhal-kulli i memorized the quran 7 times alhamdulillah and i used to go quranic competition when i was kid..so it brings back old memories

[quark]

[Shirib]

I thought it was a great documentary. At the end when the Djamil the Senegalese boy goes home and I think its his little sister or something reads Kul xuwallah, brought a big smile to my face. That was my favorite part.

I thought the Saidov had the best voice and recitation, but I guess no one thought him tajweed, but hey no one thought me either. I guess Arabs have a little advantage on that.