{"id":1821,"date":"2013-10-29T15:10:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T15:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/quran-courses-attract-millions-in-turkey\/"},"modified":"2013-10-29T15:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T15:10:03","slug":"quran-courses-attract-millions-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/quran-courses-attract-millions-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Qur\u2019an Courses Attract Millions in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-1820\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/quraan_ring.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; border: 0px none; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px;\" width=\"425\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/quraan_ring.jpg 425w, https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/quraan_ring-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Regaining Islamic flavor to Turkish secular education, a government religious directorate has organized Qur\u2019an courses nationwide, attracting more than three million students. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \u201c500,000 Qur\u2019ans and more than 10 million books on the rudiments of religion were distributed to the students,\u201d Ali Erba\u015f, the head of the Religious Affairs Directorate\u2019s Training Services branch told Anadolu Agency on Monday, September 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat the age and school grade restriction was lifted and that books were distributed free of charge to the students was received well both by the students and the parents.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis situation has led to an increase in the number of the pre-school and schooled students at the summer Qur\u2019an courses,\u201d he added. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Organized over the past summer, the courses were held under the motto \u201cCome this summer, write the Qur\u2019an upon your heart\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The courses were offered in 72,439 different venues in which 115,183 trainers helped the students to acquire the basic knowledge of Islam.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the summer months, more than three million students have managed to attend Qur\u2019an courses around Turkey.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Reaching this number was not an easy mission. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Erba\u015f said that with the Religious Affairs Directorate has launched a campaign which included opening ceremonies, children\u2019s festivals, 250,000 banners and billboards among other events to familiarize the children with Islam.<\/p>\n<p>The courses\u2019 hours were also arranged flexibly so that students could attend at least one of the daily prayers at the mosque, he added<\/p>\n<p>Muslims make up approximately 99 percent of Turkey&#8217;s population, but the country is also home to several ancient Christian communities and Jews.<\/p>\n<p>The Noble Qur\u2019an consists of 114 Surah (chapters) of varying lengths.<\/p>\n<p>Teaching children the glorious Qur&#8217;an and the Islamic principles is the responsibility of their parents from an early age which is the best period for implanting Islamic ethics.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Memorizing the Holy Qur\u2019an is one of the most important ways to preserve Allah\u2019s message.<\/p>\n<p>The others are to publish and distribute the book or the text on the Internet and to recite the parts that one knows to other people.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) said: \u201c<span style=\"color: #008000;\">The best amongst you is the one who learns the Qur&#8217;an and teaches it.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: Alukah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regaining Islamic flavor to Turkish secular education, a government religious directorate has organized Qur\u2019an courses nationwide, attracting more than three million students. \u00a0 \u201c500,000 Qur\u2019ans and more than 10 million&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-muslims-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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