User:Husin Jalal/Sharifah khasif

Sharifah Khasif Fadzilah Syed Mohd Badiuzzaman (born 5 August 1982) is a renowned Malaysian Al-Quran reciter. She won the Malaysian national recitation competition (Tilawah Al-Quran) twice in 1998 and 1999 and won the internationally acclaimed Annual International Recitation Competition held in Kuala Lumpur in 2009.In 2008 she won the second place. She started early at the age of four under the tutelage of his father Syed Mohd Badiuzzaman. By her own admission her upbringing was a strict one and she was forced to withstand long hours to study the art of recitation. The hard work bore success as she won the annual Al-Quran Recitation Competition for state of Perak (Malaysia has 13 states) for continuous ten years beginning when she was eighteen. After winning her international Tilawah competition in 2009 she took a break, focusing on other quranic related activities such as becoming a host for Akademi Al-Quran 4 (AQ4), a reality tv show by TV9 to discover new talents for Al-Quran reciters in Malaysia among younger generation. She was also a host in Kalam Suci by Astro Oasis, a popular interactive Al-Quran programme. She is frequently invited to recite Al-Quran all over Malaysia and internationally such as in Indonesia, Thailand, Mauritius, Austria, Iran and South Africa. In April 2010 she was invited to be a judge in Indonesian national tilawah competition held in Batam.

Sharifah Khasif as she is popularly known in Malaysia had her formal secular education in Ipoh. This is a departure from other qaris and qariahs who normally have education in madrasahs or religious stream schools. She overcame her lack of Islamic education with her determination, searching for numerous teachers all over Malaysia and studied arabic,thus becoming a fluent speaker in it. She is also fluent in English, apart from her mother tougue, Malay. She studied tarannum (mujawwad) and various aspects of Al-Quran recitation under at least 14 teachers most notably Haji Daud Che Man who was Malaysian Tilawah champion in 1991. Sharifah Khasif is known for her extraordinary long and powerful voice which enable her to recite long verses without pause. This is exemplified when she won the International Tilawah competition in 2009. She is also blessed with a strong Arab accent (lahjah Arabiyyah) which always separate her from other competitors. She is an expert of many aspects of Al-Quran recitation and able to recite the seven maqamats or tarannums i.e. Bayati, Rast, Hijaz, Nahawand, Sobah, Sikah and Jiharkah. Her favourite maqam is Rast. While on tour she is fond of reciting Al-Quran in various qiraat (riwayat) other than that of Hafs an Asim, which is predominant in Southeast Asia region. According to her, she acquired the knowledge and skill when she was a contestant in AQ1 and AQ4. While not in competition she is noted for mixing the recitation styles of other notable international reciters namely Sheikh Muhammad Shahat Anwar, Sheikh Al-Laythi, Sheikh Al Mutawally from Egypt and Mo'min Mubarok from Indonesia.