QBG to hold Holy Qur’an contest

The Qur’anic Botanic Garden (QBG) has announced the AlUtrujah Holy Qur’an Contest in collaboration with the Education City Mosque, which will start at the beginning of Ramadan. The initiative aims to encourage the community and school students to memorise the Holy Qur’an and highlights the Qur’anic verses and stories that focus on botanical terms, according to a press statement. Contestants will also be asked about the meaning of some verses of the Holy Qur’an that relate to plants. The contest, which will feature a series of categories, is open to both male and female schoolchildren in Qatar under 12 years old, as well as employees and students of Qatar Foundation and Education City universities.The finals of the AlUtrujah contest will be held in the first week of Ramadan. Interested participants must register before April 20 via the QBG website, http://www.qbg.org.qa/  Alongside the AlUtrujah contest, which is the name of a citrus fruit mentioned in the Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), a number of Ramadan events and activities will be organised by the QBG at the Education City Mosque. These include public lectures based on the ethics and stories of the plants mentioned in the Holy Qur’an and Hadith and will be delivered by a number of well-known Islamic scholars.QBG will also organise an exhibition of the plants mentioned in the Holy Qur’an and Hadith and display photographs and plants, along with traditional tools made from plants, in the halls of the Education City Mosque.QBG, a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), aims to encourage social engagement and strengthen cultural and conservation awareness in Qatar, “supporting QF’s commitment” to promoting environmental sustainability within the wider community, the statement adds.