The Muslim Judicial Council's Department of Quranic Affairs successfully launched its second year of the Qurra' Development Programme. The programme is aimed at further developing reciters of the Holy Quran to a level of international competency. Cape Town's proud legacy of producing excellent reciters of the Holy Quran will now be taken to the next level where students, after having memorised the Holy Quran or part thereof,now have access to teachers that will guide through the Arabic works written in the various sciences of Al Quran.

The programme has now reached the module three phase with students concern

trating specifically on subjects that will enhance their overall recital of the Holy Quran. Subjects such as Arabic Grammer and Arabic Morphology aids the students with the grammatical make of the quranic verses. Understanding the verses of the Quran and its grammatical make-up enables the reader to more effectively express the meaning of what is being recited. Other subjects include Tajweed, Uloomul Quran, Tilaawat and Maqaamaat.  The course has also seen students receiive the Ijaazah in Tuhfatul Atfaal by Jamzoori, one of the classical works of tajweed. The programme is blessed to have qualified and extremely competent teachers who are committed to producing students of extremely high quality. Moulana Saleem Gaibie, principal and chief co-ordinator of the programme envisions the programme to be conducted by the future graduates of the programme.

Cape Town bids farewell to Sh. Yusuf Booley

 The Muslim Judicial Council and the Muslim community of Cape Town on Saturday 22 January 2010, bid farewell to one of its favourite sons and commited servents to the development of Quran in Cape Town and South Africa. Sh. Yusuf Booley, after a lengthy battle with illness, passed away on Friday 21 January 2010.

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