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Could someone explain this Islamic video to me?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yDtQBubnCAM I just found it interesting. Why does he put his hands on his ears? Why does he pause between phrases? What is he singing?

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1. because it's deep strong words that force him to put his feeling into the words, blocking his ears help him reading the Quran more strongly and focus. it just happend naturally. it's not required in Islam, people do it naturally when they are deeply reading the Quran.
2. That's Sheikh Abdel Baset Abdel Samad. He is one of the greatest readers of the Qur'an in modern times. He is an Egyptian, wearing the famous Al-Azhar head-covering. He is reading verses from the Qur'an. The pauses are between the Ayats (or verses), so he can catch his breath. He is not singing. This is the way the Qur'an is sometimes read. It's called Tarteel.. It may look funny to some people who are not accustomed to this kind of recital when seeing it for the first time, if they just look at the gestures and facial movements, but the fact is that listeners are concentrating on the content of the words, and not his facial expressions.
3. man I actualy found it a bit funny. At first i thought maybe he was recording a few sound samples or something, but then you can hear the audience.
4. STEP UP, "Why does he put his hands on his ears?" Some singers try all kinds of things to stay on the notes. Without wandering off key. What he is singing, not every singer can do. It's alien to the Western Culture, and it is very good for him to be able to sing that way. "Why does he pause between phrases?" He seems to be very professional. I doubt that he has trouble remembering the words. I would imagine that since he is singing a capella, it helps to put breaks in between, and I suppose that it's between verses that he does it. Since that language is alien to me, I don't know what he's saying, but I'll bet it's out of the Qu'ran. "What is he singing?" He sounds like he is singing perhaps the shortest verses from the Qu'ran. I couldn't listen to all of it because it is such an irritating sound. I really don't like the music, it's too whiny and reminds me of the kind of singing that they do at mosques. Very annoying. I'd rather listen to Ted Nugent. Or Rush, or Black Sabbath, or Celtic Music, or Pink Floyd, or Panic! at the Disco, or Kansas, or Foghat, or Led Zepplin, or even Christian music (though some of that is irritating too), or my own music, or UFO, or Scorpions, or Beatles, or Boston, or Aerosmith, or your typical coffeee shop music, or Joe Satriani, or Bush.