Aarron Zayd Burgin lost his vision through retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 10 but today he is a black belt in Brazilian Jiujitsu and teaches and competes with able bodied people. After he converted to Islam at the age of 18 he started to learn the Quran with a sheikh and Alhamdulillah has memorized almost one third of the Quran. It is inspiring to meet someone who doesn’t let his blindness hold him back.

AlFitrah Foundation was happy to gift him a copy of Imam Nawawi’s collection of 40 Hadith and inshaa Allah will be sending him a Braille Quran very soon.

You can watch a video about Zayd here https://youtu.be/h67dsifotu4

Alhamdulillah a young brother in Scotland is learning to read the Quran using the Braille Quran primer we posted to him last month.

Alhamdulillah the 2 Braille Qurans and 8 books of Juz 30 of the Quran have been received by our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan. Thank you to brother Wasiqullah Naseri of the Kabul school for the Blind for distributing the holy books to the blind Muslim community in Afghanistan.

Alhamdulillah we completed the 5th Quran memorization competition for all blind people in Gaza. This year 40 people took part and memorized Surah Al AnAam. The winners were:

Female category:
First: Sabreen Hamdi Munia
Second :Heba Majed El Safadi
third : Khulod Awn Muhaisin
Fourth : Iman Nasir Faraj
Fifth: Itaf Younus Bader

Male category:
First place : Wael Mohammad Jumaa
Second : Shaban Mohammad Rehan
Third : Ahmad Mahmoud Khalafallah
Fourth : Mahmoud Nahid El Masri
Fifth : Mahmoud Yahia Juhaish

It is tough for Gazans to live under seige and occupation, more so for the disabled. As part of our efforts to promote the reading of the Quran in Braille, Alfitrah Foundation holds an annual Quran memorisation competition for the blind in Gaza . We advertised on the radio , social media and through NGOs and universities that work with the blind. We started with surah alBaqarah in 2015, and this year the competitors need to memorise Surah al-An'Aam. 40 people took part , young and old from all over Gaza. As always our partners in Gaza are Dar Alquraan AL Kriam and Viva Palestina Malaysia