Teenager Wins Lagos Qur’an Recitation Competition, Goes Home With N100,000

A Teenager, Nuroh Nasir, 9 has won the Faith Unites Muslims Charity Initiatives (FUMCI)’s Children Award for Excellence in Qur’an Recitation and Islamic Practice 2020 held in Lagos.

The sixth edition of the annual competition, themed ‘Recipe for the making of Godly children’, was held with the support of the Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Sabit Ikuforiji Foundation.

It had contestants drawn from the five divisions of Lagos State, competing for prizes in Adab, Salat, Fiqh, Qur’an, Hadeeth.

Nuroh, who represented Ketu, Alapere in Ikosi-Isheri local council, had won the 2019 edition of the competition and was awarded N100, 000 and other consolation prizes.

Speaking during the prize presentation to winners, Amir of FUMCI, Ustadh AbdulMuiz Zubayr, commended all the contestants for their brilliance and their parents for exposing them to Islamic knowledge.

In his lecture, the Mudir, Darul-Naim Schools, Sheikh AbdulMajeed Imran Eleha, urged Muslims to select religious and morally upright spouses in order to raise pious children.

“Couples who desire righteous children must carefully select his/her partner. The kind of partner you choose and the moral uprightness and the level of religiosity of both partners are the determinants of the kind of children you will beget. You must make findings about the family background with a special focus on how religious they are in their family.

“Less emphasis should be placed on beauty, wealth, and influence but we should be on the lookout for his/her closeness to Allah in worship because whatever his/her inadequacies are will be taken care of by the religion. So if you desire a righteous child, go for a man or woman that has both religious and good morals.He said the second step is for Nikkah to be organised according to the dictate of Shariah, adding that this entails the intending spouse with his family to seek the consent of the parents of the woman in marriage in the presence of witnesses from both families.