“The Remarkable Story of the World’s Smallest Qur’an: A Family’s Legacy and Conversion to Islam”

Mario Broschi’s morning rituals always remain the same. Upon waking up, he carefully washes his hands and face and performs ablution before kissing and pressing his forehead with a small Qur’an is one of his rituals. The smallest Qurans in the world.

• A Qur’an made of miniatures

According to the AFP website, afp.com, for generations, the small Quran has been passed down and is considered one of the The smallest Qurans in the world (From miniatures) the size of postage stamps in Broshi who were able to overcome many hardships and arduous challenges, and survived wars and one of the most fanatical “atheist regimes” in the world.
“We kept this Koran in our house in Tirana and passed it on from generation to generation with absolute devotion,” Bruchi, 45, told AFP.

• The Holy Qur’an almost disappears in the palm of its holder’s hand

According to Agence France-Presse scholars believe that the Koran The smallest Qurans in the world recorded, (the small Qur’an is housed in a silver-black case that appears to have been dated), although it is difficult to determine the date of the Qur’an in the absence of scientific analysis, but according to Elton Karay, a researcher in Qur’anic studies at the University of Beder in Tirana, the 900-page copy has existed since nineteenth century at least.
The book is about 2 cm (0.7 in) wide and 1 cm thick, almost hidden in the palm of its holder, and readable only with a small magnifying glass built into its case.
According to thestar.com.my, Karay asserts, “This Qur’an was printed very small and is one of the smallest copies of the Holy Qur’an in the world. Its publication dates back to the end of the nineteenth century. It is an exceptional work of great value. It is fortunate that this The copy in Albania is miraculously preserved.

• The family converts to Islam because of the small Quran

The size of the Qur’an and the verses of the Holy Qur’an contained in its small pages are not the only remarkable thing, as the small Qur’an is responsible for converting the Brochi family from Catholicism to Islam.
Broshi tells thestar.com.my: “My great-grandparents were digging the earth to build a new house in the Djakovica area of ​​Kosovo when they found a perfectly preserved body of a man buried there, and he found the holy book of the Qur’an intact on his heart, so the family took this The discovery was a divine sign and I converted to Islam.”
Mario Broshi’s grandfather was an officer in the army of King Zog of Albania in the thirties of the last century, and he knew the Arabic language and invited his friends to his house every night to read verses from it, and after years, under the communist dictatorship, which completely banned all forms of religion, and sent all committed believers to Prison – The book survived in part because it was so easy to hide.
“At that time, someone informed the secret police that we had a Koran in our house, but it was so small that my father managed to hide it. The secret agents dug everywhere without finding it,” Broshi says.
“Following the incident, Brochi’s father, Skander, decided to entrust it to friends in neighboring Kosovo after smuggling it across the border hidden in a truck full of coal.” The Qur’an was only recovered after the war in Kosovo in 1999, where it was buried to save it from the fighting, and Brochi then inherited The Holy Quran shortly before his father’s death in 2012.

• I’m not thinking of selling it

Broshi says, “This little Bible holds so many stories, blessings and miracles. It is very dear to me.”
For her part, his wife, Blarina, said: “Every time I touch the verses of the Holy Qur’an, I am very affected.”
“When something goes wrong or when our daughter gets sick, we feel reassured and know that the Qur’an will protect us. It is a true talisman,” she added.
The family received many offers to buy the Qur’an The smallest Qurans in the world, including from museums, though Broshi is not considering selling it. “I would never consider selling it,” he says. “This Qur’an is for our family and it will always be with us.”