Quran-ul-Kareem – Urdu Translation by
Abdur Rahman As-Sudais and Saud Al-Shuraim
Abdul Rahman Ibn Abdul Aziz al-Sudais
Abdul Rahman Ibn Abdul Aziz al-Sudais born 10 February 1960 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is the imam of the Grand Mosque Masjid al-Haram, in Makkah, Saudi Arabia; the president of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques; a renowned Qari and was the Dubai International Holy Quran Award’s “Islamic Personality of the Year” in 2005.
Al-Sudais comes from the Anazzah clan, and he had memorized the Quran by the age of 12. Growing up in Riyadh, Al-Sudais studied at the Al Muthana Bin Harith Elementary School, and afterwards the Riyadh Scientific Institution from which he graduated in 1979 with a grade of excellent. He obtained a degree in Sharia from Riyadh University in 1983, his Master’s in Islamic fundamentals from the Sharia College of Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in 1987 and received his Ph.D. in Islamic Sharia from Umm al-Qura University in 1995 while working there as an assistant professor after serving at Riyadh University.
Sudais took up imamate in 1984, at just 24-years of age, and conducted his first sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca in July 1984, other than this Sheikh Saud Al-Shuraim – has been his partner in Taraweeh Prayers from 1994 till 2006, and again in 2014, 2019 and 2020. They were titled “Twins of the Haram”.
In 2017, Al-Sudais supervised the film “One Day in the Haram”, a film about the Haram in Makkah, told through the eyes of the workers.
Saud Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Muhammad al-Shuraim
Saud Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Muhammad al-Shuraim born 19 January 1964 is one of the prayer leaders and Friday preacher of the Grand Mosque Masjid al-Haram in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. A Quranic reciter, he also holds a Ph.D degree and is a Professor of Sharia and Islamic studies at the Umm al-Qura University in Makkah. Shuraim was recently appointed as dean and “Specialist Professor in Fiqh” at the University.
Shuraim’s family is from the Haraqees of the Banu Zayd tribe of Saudi Arabia.
Shuraim leads the Taraweeh prayers during Ramadan in Mecca since 1991. He also led the funeral prayer for Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz on 17 June 2012 after Maghrib, in Masjid Al Haram. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and the royal families were present at this funeral.
In 1991, he was made a prayer leader and Friday preacher at the Grand Mosque Masjid al-Haram by the order of King Fahd. In 1992, he was appointed judge in the High court of Makkah. In 1993, he was approved and made to teach in the Holy Masjid al-Haram. He has been serving as a professor at the Umm al-Qura University in Makkah since 1995. Later, he was named the dean of the faculty of “Shari’ah and Islamic Studies”. In June 2010, he was promoted from the rank of professor to the specialist professor in fiqh by the president of the university Bakri bin Mat’ooq.
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