He said Master Shoaisha who had been hospitalized in Cairo on Wednesday morning, passed away on Thursday night at the age of 89.
Mr. Jaber, who is a member of Al-ul-Bayt (AS) Supreme Council in Egypt, added that Egypt’s Quranic figures, as well as religious scholars from different countries and people of Cairo attended the funeral of the late Quran reciter.
He went onto say that the Egyptian people who love the Holy Quran feel sad at the demise of Master Shoaisha, who was the last great Quran reciter from the golden era of Egypt’s Quran recitation.
Master Shoaisha Sheikh Abolainain was born in Kafarsheikh, north of Egypt, in 1343 Hijri (1922 A.D.). He started memorizing and reciting the verses of the Holy Quran early in his childhood. Shoaisha gained fame as a Quran reciter as early as 1936 when he attended a Quran reciting session in Mansura city. He began reciting the Quran in Egypt's radio in 1939.
Shoaisha was deeply influenced by Master Sheikh Muhammad Raf'at, an eminent reciter in the Muslim world, and initially followed Raf'at's style of recitation. But, later on, he adopted his own exceptional style.
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