over the years i have been receiving phone calls from someone offering to sell me copies of the holy quran. the temptation to purchase begins with the small amount required to be paid, recently a copy is sold for a dinar, focusing on the fact that the caller represents a charitable entity and that the revenue of the sale will be used to buy wheelchairs for the disabled, or cover the costs of poor people who are unable to pay for their pilgrimage, and other reasons that persuade many to purchase dozens of copies of the holy quran, especially when they know that the delivery is free and with a dedication.
it is also possible to purchase the translation of the holy quran in several languages for the benefit of the workers of other nationalities such as filipinos, indians and others keeping in mind these copies can help “guide them” all for only one dinar.
a while ago i visited one of the companies selling the holy quran copies on al othman street, before informing the consumer protection department about it, and i found a veiled woman running the activity through an office just 2 square meters in size, sitting behind a wooden table that does not cost more than 4 dinars.
whoever manages such activities knows that the office is subject to closure from the ministry of commerce, but they also know that obtaining another license is not difficult, and that “gullible benefactors” contribute to promoting illegal activity, and copies may be distorted, for example. silence on such activities also increases the need for unproductive labor. i do not know where these offices get their needs from the free holy quran.
khaled al-madhkour was proud that the “supreme permanent committee for reconsidering laws and acting to islamize it is the longest name in kuwait, and after the committee was closed during the era of al-tabtabaei. i pray to god to protect him after it caused the state to lose more than 100 million dinars until another committee replaced it under the longest name, which is the “public authority to take care of the printing and publication and publication of holy quran, sunnah and their sciences”, which failed to print a single copy of the holy quran since its foundation 3,650 days ago.
the authority also employed hundreds of people, mainly members affiliated to the islamic parties, and created a huge administrative structure that was used to win the silence of some deputies, and most of the members of its previous administrations helped deplete the budget, prompting the former minister, yaqoub al-sane’ a, to refer it to the prosecution.
after that, the authority dedicated itself to import the holy quran textbooks from the united arab emirates and large numbers of them may have found their way to the stores selling them for a dinar a copy.
one of the directors of the holy quran printing authority stated that when he met colleague walid al-jassim at his office in the al-watan newspaper years ago, that the authority would one day become a landmark for kuwaiti visitors and this will happen, but as a model of how the public money is looted in smart ways.
on the other hand, one of the associations affiliated to the brotherhood announced some time ago the establishment of a waqf (donating a building, a plot of land or other assets for muslim religious or charitable purposes) to collect ten million dinars to print one million copies of the holy quran.
the reader can imagine the fate of those millions, which have been collected so far, and how they were spent on buying a million copies of the holy quran text? who benefited from its printing, publication, distribution, etc?