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Child prodigy called 'Computer of the Quran'

RAS AL KHAIMAH — This Egyptian boy has the uncanny ability to identify any verse of the Holy Quran, any chapter or any page without going back to the text. Without batting an eyelid, he could recite the whole Quran from memory.

Anees Mustafa Abdulazeez, the child prodigy known among his peers as the "Computer of the Quran", began memorising the Quran when he was only three years old.

"At that age, he finished memorising 12 chapters of the Holy Book," Mustafa Abdulazeez, the father of the boy, told Khaleej Times.

Anees, who was on a short visit to the UAE to attend the 6th RAK Holy Quran Award, successfully studied reading and writing in Arabic on his own when he was only five-year-old. He won the first prize in the contest for Al Azhar Holy Quran Award in Egypt.

He secured the sixth position in the Al Khurafi Holy Quran Award, which was held a few months ago in Kuwait. "He was the youngest among more than 450 contestants from different age groups and nationalities," Anees' father, who hails from Aswan Province in the south of Egypt, said.