{"id":120090,"date":"2018-03-09T11:25:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T03:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=120090"},"modified":"2018-03-09T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T03:37:16","slug":"inaugural-university-level-hafazan-competition-successfully-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=120090","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural university level &#8216;hafazan&#8217; competition successfully launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Alya Nadiah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 9 March 2018: The inaugural university level Quran hafazan competition named &#8216;<em>Musabaqah Iqra Mahasiswa Universiti Seluruh Malaysia&#8217; <\/em>was successfully launched at IIUM Cultural Centre (ICC) here on Wednesday (7 March).<\/p>\n<p>Organised by International Institute for Muslim Unity (IIMU) and Institute for Quranic Education (ITQAN), the competition received contributions and support from the Saudi government.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi Arabia ambassador to Malaysia, Mahmoud Hassan Saeed Qattan, in his address said that the event reflects the close and warm relations that exist between Saudi Arabia and Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153I take this opportunity to pay tribute to the Malaysian government and its people for organising the event,\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, IIUM Deputy Rector (International), Prof. Dr. Abdelaziz Berghout expressed his appreciations for the support given by the Saudis.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the event was expected to be expanded globally in the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153Next year, we will go for the Nusantara region and we will get into the Islamic world to make this a great event in which many universities will participate in the competition.\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the Saudi Ambassador, others who attended the event were Chairman of Institute for Quranic Education (ITQAN), Dr. Hassan Firdaus, and Chairman of Khayr Ummah Foundation, Dato&#8217; Dr. Fathul Bari Mat Jahya. ***<\/p>\n<pre>Pic credit to Udabayas.com<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alya Nadiah GOMBAK, 9 March 2018: The inaugural university level Quran hafazan competition named &#8216;Musabaqah Iqra Mahasiswa Universiti Seluruh Malaysia&#8217; was successfully launched at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120090"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120140,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120090\/revisions\/120140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}