Quran Memorization
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LaLa09
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I used to memorize 4 ayats at a time and break the whole sura into chunks and try to memorize the english translation as well because it used to be a "cue" for me lol...
So after you memorize 4 ayats at a time, put them all together and recite it as a whole about 3 times or more...and always keep up with it or else you'll lose it so you'll have to listen to it and recite it over and over again. A good idea is to recite it with your friends, for example you all sit around in a circle and someone starts with "bismillahi rahmani rahim" and the first verse and the second person says the second verse and so on until you finish the sura...it helped me out a lot
Also this website www.quranexplorer.com helped me out alot so check it out when you get the chance to.
So after you memorize 4 ayats at a time, put them all together and recite it as a whole about 3 times or more...and always keep up with it or else you'll lose it so you'll have to listen to it and recite it over and over again. A good idea is to recite it with your friends, for example you all sit around in a circle and someone starts with "bismillahi rahmani rahim" and the first verse and the second person says the second verse and so on until you finish the sura...it helped me out a lot
Also this website www.quranexplorer.com helped me out alot so check it out when you get the chance to.
IbnAhmad
Junior Member
salaam
yeh i agree with 'LaLa09' just start by memorising an ayat at a time, once you have memorised one, then move on to the next and then read the two together etc.. and in your free time always go over what you memorise...
learning the meaning or understanding what you are reading is also useful...
finally the website 'LaLa09' mentioned is fantastic so make sure you use it!!!
keep smiling and work hard
may allah swt make it easy for you..amiin
wassalam
yeh i agree with 'LaLa09' just start by memorising an ayat at a time, once you have memorised one, then move on to the next and then read the two together etc.. and in your free time always go over what you memorise...
learning the meaning or understanding what you are reading is also useful...
finally the website 'LaLa09' mentioned is fantastic so make sure you use it!!!
keep smiling and work hard
may allah swt make it easy for you..amiin
wassalam
Prosperous
asthagfirullah
when I was at the age of 10.,i lerned 4 juzu by heart.at that time it was really easy.
but I forgot all except 1 juzu..*asthagfirullah*. now I am trying again.and I find it still easy*alhamdhulillah* but not so easy as before..
mashaALLAH I can learn things very easily.alhamdhullillah.
pls pray for me too everyone as I do not get much time to recite because of my studies.
but I forgot all except 1 juzu..*asthagfirullah*. now I am trying again.and I find it still easy*alhamdhulillah* but not so easy as before..
mashaALLAH I can learn things very easily.alhamdhullillah.
pls pray for me too everyone as I do not get much time to recite because of my studies.
The Best Way to Memorise the Noble Quran according to my Personal Experience
By Dr. Yahya al-Ghouthani, Jeddah (world leading Quranic recitation authority)
Translated by Abu Muqatil – may Allah be forgiving to him and his parents
In light of the principles which have passed us by in the previous section, I say to whoever wants to memorize a page from the Noble Quran from any chapter that I hope that you will stay with me so we can read the following steps together at ease paving the way to apply it precisely.
1. [Obtain a good mus-haf ]
Try to obtain a good copy of the Quran whose size is according to your need and never ever replace it so that you will be strong in memorising the parts of the pages and the lines. The mus-haf al-huffaaz (the memorisers’ codex) [i.e. the text of the popular green edition from Madina written by the world famous calligrapher, Ta Ha Uthman] is preferred which starts with the verse at the start of the page and finishes with the last verse, and it is divided up well, whereby the Quran being thirty juz` (parts), every juz` has 20 pages and every page has 25 lines. The King Fahd organization in Medina al-Munawwarah has built a printer for this copy and I advice getting it as it is the most accurate contemporary print.
2. [Set the scene]
Setting the scene for memorization according to the following:-
i. Self-composure - Have the correct intention in mind and a desire for reward from Allah
ii. Wudoo` (ablution) and complete purity - Do not take the easy option of those who give a fatwa (legal edict) for its opposite as that goes against what befits high regard of the Speech of Allah and good manners with it.
iii. [Comfortable setting] - Sitting in a place where you feel at ease, and there is no more sacred place than the mosque.
iv. [Free of distractions] - It is preferred that it is a place without many pictures, carvings, decorations and distractions. The more enclosed the place is - with all due regards to fresh air - the better, compared with open space, trees and gardens. Even if some may differ with me, but I say this based upon experience not from abstract thinking. The atmosphere for light reading is different from the atmosphere for focused memorization, as wide spaces, sceneries and trees distract the mind and focus. Whatever is suitable for light reading is not needed for genuine work and focus, as mentioned in rule 4.
v. Face the Qibla - (direction of prayer towards Mecca) and sit in a state of submission, tranquility and respect.
3. [“Warm up”]
Begin the “warm up” process (for want of a better expression). It is the preparation where you read a few pages of the Quran before starting the memorization process, whether from memory or looking.
Recite nicely, listening to yourself without haste or delay.
This is a fundamental component in preparing the self. You will find many successful memorization teachers do not allow the student to memorize before getting them to revise the previous session and letting the sheikh hear. This is to prepare him psychologically and spiritually for memorization, whilst the student may be totally unaware of the teacher's aim.
4. [Be controlled in recitation]
Beware of your voice’s beauty from distracting you at this point. The sweetness of your tone encompasses you in the atmosphere of chanting. So you start thinking that you’re so-and-so, the famous reciter, then you assume his persona and start to recite with deliberation and perfecting the letters. You repeat it and recite it again like some of the reciters. Perhaps it all goes over the top and you bring out a microphone and recording equipment. Time will pass by whilst you are unaware, and you become like that young man who really wanted to memorize the Quran but every time he sat down to memorize he opened the Quran at 7-rah Y-suf and began to chant it until the time passed him by and he memorized absolutely nothing.
5. [“Feel that urge…”]
About 10-15 minutes of the warm up exercise and personal preparation you will feel a strong desire in yourself to memorize, with that it is possible for you to start with a new page you want to memorize.
6. [Focus]
Here begins an important stage, you really have to doubly focus on the verses. Imagine that your eye is a camera lens, and that you want to film the page with sound and image. Be careful not to shake the camera.
7. [“Action!”]
Open your eyes well. Free your mind from any distraction. Read by looking at the first verse at the top of the page in an audible voice with tajw5d [the correct rules of recitation]. Read correctly with concentration. Lets use an as example His statement, the Most High:
The fools among the people will say, "What has turned them from their prayer direction to which they were used to face in prayer." Say, "To Allah belong both, east and the west. He guides whom He wills to a Straight Way.” [2:142]
Read three or more times until your mind takes it all in, then close your eyes and picture in your mind the places of the words and read them. If you succeed in reading them completely without any mistake, don’t get excited but instead repeat two, three or five times.
8. [Repeat]
Then open your eyes a second time. Read the same verse from the book to confirm the correctness of your memorization. If you are certain that you’ve memorized it correctly, don’t get excited. Instead close your eyes and read another time. With this you have chiseled in your mind an engraving that is impossible to disappear with the permission of Allah, the Most High. Try the steps carefully, you will definitely find this approach sound.
Note: During the process of recall and repetition, be careful not to divert your gaze to the things around you such as written notices distributed upon walls, posters, artwork, or décor. Do not follow a whirling fan. Do not be concerned about the type of furniture or coverings you’re sitting on. Be careful of excessively looking out of the windows, perhaps your eyes will chance upon something that will not please you, or perhaps you will be distracted by the scene of people in the street, or the scene of cars as happens to students during their revision for their exams. One of them stands at the window with the excuse of getting fresh air, then there he takes a census of cars based upon make and model, and in this manner time passes him and is wasted whilst he hasn’t benefited a single thing.
You have no business with these distractions, my brother. You have put yourself forward as someone from the people of the Quran and from its memorizers, and that requires motivation, perseverance, focus and an absence of distractions.
9. [Next verse]
After that move to the verse immediately following it:
Thus we have made you a middle nation…[2:143]
and begin with the same steps we outlined with the previous verse. If you think the verse is long, then divide it into several parts corresponding to correct and sound stops and normal meanings. Then repeat and repeat many times until it is engraved deeply in your memory.
10. [Connection process]
Begin now with the connection process which I mentioned in the eighth rule of memorization. That is by opening the book and focusing on the last part of the first verse – for example – ??? ???? ?????? …and read it with an audible voice then connect it quickly without any stop with the first part of the second verse ????? ??????? ??? ????. Repeat this process many times but no less than five times.
After reading these steps – if you like them – begin implementing them straight away and record in a special notebook the date of beginning memorization. Contact someone you love and trust, and then tell them that you have found a technique in memorizing the Quran that you began applying today, so that you can be someone who guides to good.
One of the benefits of contacting someone like this is that it will be an encouragement for you in memorization and continuation, as it reflects an increased conviction in oneself with what you’ve read.
This is what is confirmed in psychology, if a person does something and he convinces someone else about it, then it is like taking a firm stance without retracting from it and his behavior increases his conviction in what he does.
It is possible to summarize this method in the following steps:-
1.Personal composure
2.Warm up
3.Concentration
4.Repetition
5.Connecting
Result = a strong memorization with the best method.
Source: Kayfa Tahfaz al-Qur`aan al-Kareem (“How to Memorise the Noble Quran”)
By Dr. Yahya al-Ghouthani, Jeddah (world leading Quranic recitation authority)
Translated by Abu Muqatil – may Allah be forgiving to him and his parents
In light of the principles which have passed us by in the previous section, I say to whoever wants to memorize a page from the Noble Quran from any chapter that I hope that you will stay with me so we can read the following steps together at ease paving the way to apply it precisely.
1. [Obtain a good mus-haf ]
Try to obtain a good copy of the Quran whose size is according to your need and never ever replace it so that you will be strong in memorising the parts of the pages and the lines. The mus-haf al-huffaaz (the memorisers’ codex) [i.e. the text of the popular green edition from Madina written by the world famous calligrapher, Ta Ha Uthman] is preferred which starts with the verse at the start of the page and finishes with the last verse, and it is divided up well, whereby the Quran being thirty juz` (parts), every juz` has 20 pages and every page has 25 lines. The King Fahd organization in Medina al-Munawwarah has built a printer for this copy and I advice getting it as it is the most accurate contemporary print.
2. [Set the scene]
Setting the scene for memorization according to the following:-
i. Self-composure - Have the correct intention in mind and a desire for reward from Allah
ii. Wudoo` (ablution) and complete purity - Do not take the easy option of those who give a fatwa (legal edict) for its opposite as that goes against what befits high regard of the Speech of Allah and good manners with it.
iii. [Comfortable setting] - Sitting in a place where you feel at ease, and there is no more sacred place than the mosque.
iv. [Free of distractions] - It is preferred that it is a place without many pictures, carvings, decorations and distractions. The more enclosed the place is - with all due regards to fresh air - the better, compared with open space, trees and gardens. Even if some may differ with me, but I say this based upon experience not from abstract thinking. The atmosphere for light reading is different from the atmosphere for focused memorization, as wide spaces, sceneries and trees distract the mind and focus. Whatever is suitable for light reading is not needed for genuine work and focus, as mentioned in rule 4.
v. Face the Qibla - (direction of prayer towards Mecca) and sit in a state of submission, tranquility and respect.
3. [“Warm up”]
Begin the “warm up” process (for want of a better expression). It is the preparation where you read a few pages of the Quran before starting the memorization process, whether from memory or looking.
Recite nicely, listening to yourself without haste or delay.
This is a fundamental component in preparing the self. You will find many successful memorization teachers do not allow the student to memorize before getting them to revise the previous session and letting the sheikh hear. This is to prepare him psychologically and spiritually for memorization, whilst the student may be totally unaware of the teacher's aim.
4. [Be controlled in recitation]
Beware of your voice’s beauty from distracting you at this point. The sweetness of your tone encompasses you in the atmosphere of chanting. So you start thinking that you’re so-and-so, the famous reciter, then you assume his persona and start to recite with deliberation and perfecting the letters. You repeat it and recite it again like some of the reciters. Perhaps it all goes over the top and you bring out a microphone and recording equipment. Time will pass by whilst you are unaware, and you become like that young man who really wanted to memorize the Quran but every time he sat down to memorize he opened the Quran at 7-rah Y-suf and began to chant it until the time passed him by and he memorized absolutely nothing.
5. [“Feel that urge…”]
About 10-15 minutes of the warm up exercise and personal preparation you will feel a strong desire in yourself to memorize, with that it is possible for you to start with a new page you want to memorize.
6. [Focus]
Here begins an important stage, you really have to doubly focus on the verses. Imagine that your eye is a camera lens, and that you want to film the page with sound and image. Be careful not to shake the camera.
7. [“Action!”]
Open your eyes well. Free your mind from any distraction. Read by looking at the first verse at the top of the page in an audible voice with tajw5d [the correct rules of recitation]. Read correctly with concentration. Lets use an as example His statement, the Most High:
The fools among the people will say, "What has turned them from their prayer direction to which they were used to face in prayer." Say, "To Allah belong both, east and the west. He guides whom He wills to a Straight Way.” [2:142]
Read three or more times until your mind takes it all in, then close your eyes and picture in your mind the places of the words and read them. If you succeed in reading them completely without any mistake, don’t get excited but instead repeat two, three or five times.
8. [Repeat]
Then open your eyes a second time. Read the same verse from the book to confirm the correctness of your memorization. If you are certain that you’ve memorized it correctly, don’t get excited. Instead close your eyes and read another time. With this you have chiseled in your mind an engraving that is impossible to disappear with the permission of Allah, the Most High. Try the steps carefully, you will definitely find this approach sound.
Note: During the process of recall and repetition, be careful not to divert your gaze to the things around you such as written notices distributed upon walls, posters, artwork, or décor. Do not follow a whirling fan. Do not be concerned about the type of furniture or coverings you’re sitting on. Be careful of excessively looking out of the windows, perhaps your eyes will chance upon something that will not please you, or perhaps you will be distracted by the scene of people in the street, or the scene of cars as happens to students during their revision for their exams. One of them stands at the window with the excuse of getting fresh air, then there he takes a census of cars based upon make and model, and in this manner time passes him and is wasted whilst he hasn’t benefited a single thing.
You have no business with these distractions, my brother. You have put yourself forward as someone from the people of the Quran and from its memorizers, and that requires motivation, perseverance, focus and an absence of distractions.
9. [Next verse]
After that move to the verse immediately following it:
Thus we have made you a middle nation…[2:143]
and begin with the same steps we outlined with the previous verse. If you think the verse is long, then divide it into several parts corresponding to correct and sound stops and normal meanings. Then repeat and repeat many times until it is engraved deeply in your memory.
10. [Connection process]
Begin now with the connection process which I mentioned in the eighth rule of memorization. That is by opening the book and focusing on the last part of the first verse – for example – ??? ???? ?????? …and read it with an audible voice then connect it quickly without any stop with the first part of the second verse ????? ??????? ??? ????. Repeat this process many times but no less than five times.
After reading these steps – if you like them – begin implementing them straight away and record in a special notebook the date of beginning memorization. Contact someone you love and trust, and then tell them that you have found a technique in memorizing the Quran that you began applying today, so that you can be someone who guides to good.
One of the benefits of contacting someone like this is that it will be an encouragement for you in memorization and continuation, as it reflects an increased conviction in oneself with what you’ve read.
This is what is confirmed in psychology, if a person does something and he convinces someone else about it, then it is like taking a firm stance without retracting from it and his behavior increases his conviction in what he does.
It is possible to summarize this method in the following steps:-
1.Personal composure
2.Warm up
3.Concentration
4.Repetition
5.Connecting
Result = a strong memorization with the best method.
Source: Kayfa Tahfaz al-Qur`aan al-Kareem (“How to Memorise the Noble Quran”)
muslimeen1989
Junior Member
:salam2:
Have a teacher or go to classes so you know you have to read and do homework as well it will be a task and have someone that knows the quran listen to you that always helps,..also i heard honey is good for the memory i have and i love it.
But most importantly have the niyah and make dua to Allah make it easy for you and to keep it in your heart inshallah
Try not to sin that wont help inshallah when you have free time just listen to it and it will losen the surah for you inshallah i am trying to memorise it too I ask Allah to reward us all and make it easy for us ameen
Learning is not the hard part but keeping all the surahs you know by memory because its like holding the rains of camels if you dont strenghten it you will lose it all i read it in a hadith sorry havent got the refrence :astag:
so key tip PRACTICE makes PERFECT inshallah
Have a teacher or go to classes so you know you have to read and do homework as well it will be a task and have someone that knows the quran listen to you that always helps,..also i heard honey is good for the memory i have and i love it.
But most importantly have the niyah and make dua to Allah make it easy for you and to keep it in your heart inshallah
Try not to sin that wont help inshallah when you have free time just listen to it and it will losen the surah for you inshallah i am trying to memorise it too I ask Allah to reward us all and make it easy for us ameen
Learning is not the hard part but keeping all the surahs you know by memory because its like holding the rains of camels if you dont strenghten it you will lose it all i read it in a hadith sorry havent got the refrence :astag:
so key tip PRACTICE makes PERFECT inshallah
Asalaam-u-alaykum
Brother, i used to do hifz aswell.
and the best ways for me to learn a surah was not to do it in less.
e.g. 3 ayahs at a time.
I would first read the surah about 10 times so i become fluent in reciting it .
Then i would attempt it by heart, if i can only recite an ayah or two by heart still, then i will read the surah again about 5-10 times. This has always worked for me. And i had completed 4 juz of the quran. I would do atleast 10 AYAHS at a time for the 1st 3 juz. and for the last juz, i would do a surah at a time.
Brother, i used to do hifz aswell.
and the best ways for me to learn a surah was not to do it in less.
e.g. 3 ayahs at a time.
I would first read the surah about 10 times so i become fluent in reciting it .
Then i would attempt it by heart, if i can only recite an ayah or two by heart still, then i will read the surah again about 5-10 times. This has always worked for me. And i had completed 4 juz of the quran. I would do atleast 10 AYAHS at a time for the 1st 3 juz. and for the last juz, i would do a surah at a time.
As-salaamu `alaykum.
Maa shaa' Allaah, jazaak Allaahu khayran for the tips. Muawiyah akhi, I do the same as you and it works all the time for me, and sometimes I also learn the translation as a cue, which helps loads... But I thought I'd share with you the following methods of memorising the Qur'aan that I've been informed of.
The first, is the Mauritanian method. In Mauritania, students would read a page of the Qur'aan 300 times a day. The following day, they would recite the next page 300 times, and the previous one 150 times. Then, they recite the next page 300 times, the one before it 150 and the intial page 75 times. And I believe they repeat this process, although I can't remember how they divide beyond this.
Using the same mushaf is stressed in memorisation. The idea of the above method is that the recitor will capture a visual memory of the page in addition to the actual text, so using the same would increase the effect. This is why Mauritanian scholars like Muhammad Ameen Ash-Shanqeetee, rahimahullaah, when mentioning an aayah, would easily and instantly recite the one before and after it. And that's not as easy as it sounds lol.
Mabsoot told me of another method recently. He heard it from Shaykh Mashhoor Hasan Aal-Salmaan, and for those of you who are unaware of him, he has excellent memory maa shaa' Allaah. At times you'll here him quote paragraphs and pages of books off the top of his head. Anyway the method went something like this. Read 5 juzu' a day, everday for two years and inshaa' Allaah you would have the Qur'aan committed to memory!
EDIT: The way this method works and is to be done is more correctly outlined in this thread.
Was-salaam
Maa shaa' Allaah, jazaak Allaahu khayran for the tips. Muawiyah akhi, I do the same as you and it works all the time for me, and sometimes I also learn the translation as a cue, which helps loads... But I thought I'd share with you the following methods of memorising the Qur'aan that I've been informed of.
The first, is the Mauritanian method. In Mauritania, students would read a page of the Qur'aan 300 times a day. The following day, they would recite the next page 300 times, and the previous one 150 times. Then, they recite the next page 300 times, the one before it 150 and the intial page 75 times. And I believe they repeat this process, although I can't remember how they divide beyond this.
Using the same mushaf is stressed in memorisation. The idea of the above method is that the recitor will capture a visual memory of the page in addition to the actual text, so using the same would increase the effect. This is why Mauritanian scholars like Muhammad Ameen Ash-Shanqeetee, rahimahullaah, when mentioning an aayah, would easily and instantly recite the one before and after it. And that's not as easy as it sounds lol.
Mabsoot told me of another method recently. He heard it from Shaykh Mashhoor Hasan Aal-Salmaan, and for those of you who are unaware of him, he has excellent memory maa shaa' Allaah. At times you'll here him quote paragraphs and pages of books off the top of his head. Anyway the method went something like this. Read 5 juzu' a day, everday for two years and inshaa' Allaah you would have the Qur'aan committed to memory!
EDIT: The way this method works and is to be done is more correctly outlined in this thread.
Was-salaam
muslimda3ee
brother
:salam2:
[FONT=MS Sans Serif,arial,verdana,helvetica]by Shaykh Abdul Muhsin al-Qasim
Imaam and Khateeb of Masjid an-Nabawi, Madeenah
Translated by: Abu ‘Abdis Salaam Siddiq Al Juyaanee
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[FONT=MS Sans Serif,arial,verdana,helvetica]by Shaykh Abdul Muhsin al-Qasim
Imaam and Khateeb of Masjid an-Nabawi, Madeenah
Translated by: Abu ‘Abdis Salaam Siddiq Al Juyaanee
pdf attached:
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