Muhammad Faisal of Sanbhal, District Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, established a new record in Guinness World Records by memorising longest sequence of objects in one minute at a function organised jointly by India Islamic Cultural Centre (IICC) and Noble Education Foundation (NEF) at IICC auditorium in the Capital on May 18.
The 25-year old Faisal broke the last record of Sudhanshu Singhal, who had made history in this category by memorising 17 words in one minute. Faisal memorised 18 different objects in the same period of time.
Dr. Sandeep Ahlawat, Guinness World Record Holder Manmohan Agarwal from Jaipur and Mr. Dilip Kumar Bedi, principal in a high school, were witnesses cum judges of the event. Whereas two other Guinness World Record holders, in other categories, Mr. Mohit Chauhan and Ranjan Thakur were there as time-keepers.
In the beginning of the event, one of the judges, Mr. Bedi was asked to read out the rules of making an attempt to establish a record in Guinness Book. Then another judge, Dr. Ahlawat was asked to blindfold Mr. Faisal so that he might not see the arrangement of objects on the set numbers. The judges collected various objects, mostly from the audience, like pen, mobile phone, rosary, diary, wrist watch, handkerchief, bouquet, etc. Again, Dr. Ahlawat was asked to bring blindfolded Faisal to object No. 1 with Faisal facing the audience, and untie his blindfold. Now it was time for Faisal to see and memorise the arrangement of objects with their specific numbers within 60 seconds.
Then Faisal went aside and closed his eyes trying to preserve the objects in memory with their numbers. In the meantime judges were asked to shuffle the arrangement of the objects. And Faisal was asked to rearrange the objects on the numbers he had seen them on. He did so successfully to the applause of the audience. All the three judges unanimously declared him successful in his attempt.
When asked, Mr. Bedi said he tried his best to make the test difficult; to do so he collected a spoon, a paper cup and a napkin from the kitchen, and plucked a leaf to put them as distinct objects. He was full of praise for Mr. Faisal for memorising the longest sequence of 18 objects in just 60 seconds.
Talking to Radiance, Mr. Faisal said it was his long cherished dream that had come true then.