Yesterday, May 9th, marked the anniversary of the reader’s birth and death Sheikh Muhammad RifaatFamous as the lyre of the sky, the reciter who devoted his life to the Qur’an and entertained people with his unique voice. He loved reading the Qur’an, and it would be better if it were without pay.
On this anniversary, the radio was decorated with the recitations of Sheikh Muhammad Rifaat, may God have mercy on him and forgive him, in his memory, and this anniversary was concluded. With the evening Quran From his immortal recitation of Surat Yusuf and Surat Al-Ra’ad.
Sheikh Muhammad Refaat was born on the ninth of May 1882 AD, and he died on the same day of the ninth of May 1950 AD, where he grew up in the Al-Maghriblin neighborhood in Cairo.
Sheikh Muhammad Rifaat – may God have mercy on him – lost his sight in the second year of his life, and his father died at the age of nine, and he completed memorizing the Holy Qur’an at the age of ten.
Sheikh Muhammad Rifaat began reviving the nights of the Holy Qur’an at the age of fourteen, and his fame spread. They said that he was the “harp of the sky,” the pioneer of the school of recitation in the modern era, and one of the most prominent figures in recitation of the Holy Qur’an in Egypt and the world.
Sheikh Muhammad Rifaat was chosen to inaugurate the Egyptian Radio broadcast in 1934 AD, and in the opening recitation he read the beginning of Surat Al-Fath from the Almighty’s saying (Indeed, We have given you a clear conquest).
