Fahad Al-Kandari

Fahad bin Salem bin Ali Al-Kandari (born in Kuwait on 28 June 1982) is a Kuwaiti Qur'an reciter, imam of the Grand Mosque in Kuwait City — the largest mosque in Kuwait — and a presenter of Qur'an television programmes known to Arab audiences for more than a decade. ¹

He began leading worshippers in prayer at the age of fourteen, in the mosque next to his father's house, and completed memorising the Qur'an at fifteen under Shaykh Rashad ibn Muhammad Sayyid Ahmad Alam. He was appointed imam of Al-Omair Mosque in Yarmouk from 1999 to 2001, then moved to Al-Kolaib Mosque in Qortuba, and he is today imam of the Grand Mosque in the capital. In Ramadan 1433 AH / 2012 he led the tahajjud prayer at the Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Mosque in Doha. ¹

He has presented a series of television programmes: Musafir ma'a al-Qur'an (Traveller with the Qur'an, 2012 and 2013), filmed in Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Chechnya and elsewhere and presenting the methods of memorising the Qur'an; Bil-Qur'an Ihtadayt (Guided by the Qur'an, 2014–2016), in which he meets new Muslims who tell the stories of their journeys to Islam, filmed in Britain, Belgium, France and Spain; then Fasiru (2017–2019), Qudwa (2020 and 2023), Wisam al-Qur'an (2021 and 2022) and Masra (2024). ¹

Kuwait Finance House records that, in a strategic partnership with him, he continues his Ramadan appearances in the daily programme Wisam al-Qur'an, broadcast on KTV and on his YouTube channel. ²

His official YouTube channel, which describes itself as the official channel of Sheikh Fahad Alkandari, began in 2012 and publishes his recitations and programmes; channel-statistics sites recorded about 1,930,000 subscribers, 218,062,307 views and 1,008 videos for it in October 2026 — dated platform figures that change constantly. ³

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