Alhamdulillah these 2 girls in Bradford, England have just received braille Qurans from brother Anwar Alnassar of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Braille Press in Saudi Arabia , a member of our IBQS union.

A jam packed audience of blind students at Aligarh Muslim University attended a workshop titled, “Easy way to Understand Qur’an for Visually Disabled”, on Saturday, 8th November’ 2014 at ‘Cultural Hall, Maulana Azad Library, AMU’ from 3 pm to 5 pm.

The workshop was organised by a student organisation, “Students of AMU” in coordination with ‘Disability Unit, of Aligarh Muslim University. The purpose of the workshop was to reach out to visually challenged students with the Brail script of Primer for Holy Quran and its audio guide. It was for the first time at AMU that blind students were trained to read a Brail script for easy understanding of the glorious Qur’an.

I received a newspaper clipping from the 1980's from brother Yuzaidi Yusoff about a blind person ,Haji Mohammed Noor from Kota Bharu, who was tasked by the Malaysian Religious Affairs Department to transcribe the Holy Quran into braille for the first time in Malaysia . One of the readers who assisted him at the Muslim Women's Board where he carried out this task was Yuzaidi's mother Hajjah Jawahir Abdul Aziz ,a Quran teacher.
The other photo was taken when she visited him 20 years later at Institut Tahfiz Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah in Brunei where he was working .

Alhamdulillah we have come a long way and we can now produce the braille Quran electronically faster and in large numbers.

*** Norma Hashim

Tablets have changed lives of millions of users but blind people can't make the most of them.

Two Austrian engineers have designed a new kind of tablet. With a system of inflatable bubbles, its screen can translate any digital text into braille, allowing 150 million of visually impaired people to read, to be informed and to communicate more easily.

For #ImpactJournalism Day, supported by AXA, this project was selected to gain visibility in newspapers around the world.

Alhamdulillah, the braille Quran from Persatuan Braille Malaysia has enabled Mr Ali to read and memorise the complete Quran.

This is about a blind scholar Dr Ahmed Abdulla Al Omran from UAE. It shows you that with access to education, there are no limits to what the blind can do.

The summer camp for blind children organised by Dar Alquraan AL Kriam with funding through Viva Palestina Malaysia has had to be halted for the first time in 3 years. It was not safe for the blind children to be transported outside their homes, as everyone is a moving target for the drones.
The children had made good progress with memorising the Quran using braille Qurans. One boy Mohamed Jodia had memorised 7 juzuk in less than one month.

Israel has no respect for anyone and anything. They have bombed hospitals, mosques, a school for orphans, relief agencies ( including Salam Society who helps us with food distribution to the poor) and now - the Palestinian Mercy Society for the Disabled, which has killed 3 disabled people and injured many others.

In this Thursday, June 26, 2014 photo, a model wears a FingerReader ring at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass. Researchers designed and developed the instrument, which enables people with visual disabilities to read text printed on paper or electronic devices. (AP Photo Stephan Savoia)

Associated Press    July 8, 2014 | 1:22 a.m. EDT

When I was invited to Istanbul in Feb last year to meet up with people from 13 countries who worked with braille Qurans for the blind, I had not anticipated how much needed to be done to unite blind Muslims worldwide and give them access to the Holy Book. Many blind Muslims, esp those in western countries, are isolated from other blind Muslims.
Alhamdulillah we have worked well together, despite the differnces in languages and culture, with members from Turkey, Iran, South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, UK, India and Pakistan. Now the Turkish Prime Minister's department has approved the formation of the
International Union of Braille Quran Services
The real work starts now!

Upcoming Braille Quran International event in Istanbul, Turkey. Please share and spread the words.
If you are happen to be in Istanbul please do come and support this initiative. Doas.

The First International Meetings on Braille Quran.
(Ulusrasasi 1. Karbartma Kur'an Bulusmasi), 21-23 June 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.