The international Quran and adhan (Muslim call to prayer) competition has been launched with online contests among the participants who registered through the competition website and uploaded audio clips of their voices in the first stage of the competition, which is the largest of its kind in the world.
The competition enabled the competitors to register in both Arabic and English on its website, through easy steps that involved opening a personal account, which includes their data and means of communication, to facilitate their screening and nominate the winners to the next stage of the competition.
Through the competition website, the contestants will get to know whether they qualified for the following stage of the competition. They will also be able to review the audio files that they uploaded at various stages.
The contestants are sorted in each stage of the competition by specialized jury committees that work on evaluating the contestants in the tracks of Quran recitation and adhan according to specific criteria that take into account transparency, integrity, impartiality, tajwid skills, performance, mastery of maqamat, and control of phonetic characters.
The contestants go through four stages, three of which are electronic, in which they are nominated based on their level of performance via the website. The fourth stage will be in person in front of the jury and viewers in the Otr Elkalam TV show, whose episodes will be broadcast during the blessed month of Ramadan on the MBC and the Shahid digital platform.
Otr Elkalam is the largest competition show of its kind in the world and the first contest to combine competitions for the recitation of the Holy Quran and adhan. The General Entertainment Authority organizes and supervises the competition and has allocated prizes amounting to SAR12 million for it. Participation in the competition is possible through the link:
https://otrelkalam.com.
The international Quran and adhan competition seeks to show the richness and diversity of the cultures of the Islamic world and the vocal methods of reciting Quran and adhan. It celebrates the distinguished voices in the recitation of the Holy Quran, in addition to supporting, empowering and celebrating creative and talented people and defining the tolerance and moderation of Islam.