The summer Qur'an courses, which attended by thousands of children initiated on June 25 under the Presidency of Religious Affairs throughout Turkiye with the slogan of, "The voice of kids in the mosque is the joy of my country," will continue for another week after the two month period.

The Qur'an courses will long shorter this summer due to the election and Eid al-Fıtr according to the data from Presidency of Religious Affairs. The students who participated in summer Qur'an courses in Mardin's Midyat district, which will end a week shorter due to the Sacrifice Feast, have stated their joy for attending the course but also feel sad that will end a week earlier due to the school semester.

Expressing that they have covered a long distance in a short period of 50-days, Cevat Turgut, imam of the Center Abdulkadir Şimşek Mosque added that the Qur'an education should not last for only 2-3 months, but for a lifelong.

"The Qur'an courses lasted for 2 months. During the training period, a group of 140 students, including girls and boys, have trained within these two months. Thanks to Allah, our course was fruitful. The children are taking two lessons in the Qur'an in a day and a lesson for aqaid, ilmihal, tacwid and the life of Nabi [PBUH].

"The Qur'an education should continue for lifelong"

"Parents should be very careful about children's Qur'an education and morality," Turgut said. "This process should not only be in summer or in school, but for lifelong. These children should at least reinforce what they have learned here, either at home. Mothers and fathers should especially communicate with the imam and the teachers of the children so that they prepare their children for the future," he added.

"If we do not claim our children, others will"

Turgut, who warned that children should be treated with compassion, said that children, which are our future, should be protected. 
 
"Our children are our future," Turgut said in his expressions. "If we do not claim them, some others will. Therefore our children from this direction are very important to us, they are our' tomorrow's future. These children must be protected. We must treat them with compassion. Our imams must also be compassionate in the same way that the Prophet's approach to children. We need to be tolerant of them. We need children to have absolute confidence."

Students participating in the Qur'an course also shared their feelings with the ILKHA's microphone. (Süleyman Tunç - ILKHA)