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How to Memorize the Qur’an and Not Forget it!
How to Memorize
the Qur’an and Not Forget it!
Posted
by: Nihal Khan July 29, 2012in Featured, Inspiration
and Spirituality, Islam, Quran and
Sunnah, Ramadan, Worship 62 Comments
Ramadan Mubarak to everyone! I hope
your fasts and prayers are accepted by The Almighty. I feel there can't be a
better time for this post than in Ramadan. This is the method I used to
memorize in Qur'an back in hifdh school. I used this technique to memorize the
Qur'an, alḥamdulillāh. And until now, I feel it's the reason I've
been leading tarāwīḥ for close to five years now, alḥamdulillāh.
Memorizing Qur'an
It's important to understand that this
process is broken into 3 categories:
1) new lesson,
2) new memorization,
3) old memorization.
I'll give a brief intro to each
category and then show you how to properly memorize within each fold. It's
important to understand that memorizing Qur'an for the long-term is a process
which takes close to a month. Once you memorize an āyah,
it won't be solid until you repeat it a number of times until it enters the
deeper part of your brain.
New Lesson
This is where you will be memorizing
from scratch. If you are serious about memorizing, you'll need to follow these
tips exactly as they are written below.
1) Read the page 10
times while looking in from the top.
2) Read the first āyah on the page 10 times while looking in.
3) Now read the same
verse 10 times without looking at it, until you can recite it without any
mistakes.
4) Begin connecting
the ayahs. Recite the first and second āyah together
without looking in and without mistakes.
5) Keep connecting
the ayaat on the page. Each time you connect a new āyah,
go back to the top of the page and read till the āyah you've
memorized.
6) When you reach the
last āyah, you should recite the whole page from the top without
looking and without any mistakes.
7) Recite the page
from memory to someone. You should have zero mistakes.
8) You can repeat the
above steps as needed to have a perfect page memorized.
New Memorization
This is the amount of Qur'an which
you've memorized in the last 30 days. Take this part seriously, it'll determine
if the ayaat you memorized will be solid for your life or not.
(Retaining/reviewing Qurʾān is a 25 day process. After
those 25 days, reviewing once a month will suffice. This will lead to the 'old
memorization' which we'll speak about).
1) Whatever you
review in this section, you MUST recite it to someone who has either memorized
the ayaat or is well-versed in reading the Qur'an.
2) If you've
memorized five pages in the last five days, you must recite them to yourself
until you don't make any errors. Then go recite it to a teacher.
3) From this point
on, whatever you memorize, it MUST be read daily. When I say read, it means
reviewed to yourself without mistakes AND recited to someone else.
4) If for some reason
you didn't review your 'new memorization' for the day, then don't memorize new
ayaat. You're pouring water into a cup w/ a hole. Each day you don't review the
'new memorization,' you're making the hole in your cup bigger and bigger until
you won't remember anything! (If you did not review a page for seven days
consecutively, go back to the 'new lesson' and re-memorize the page).
5) I sound somewhat
redundant here, because I can't lay anymore importance on how much you need to
review the 'new memorization.' It'll make/break your hifdh.
6) If you memorize a
page a day, you'll finish a juz in 20 days. After these twenty days, take five
extra days to review the whole juz with someone proficient.
7) The juz you've
memorized will now be considered part of your 'old memorization.'
Old Memorization
This is anything you've reviewed for at
least twenty-five days consecutively. The amount you review depends on how much
Qur'an you've memorized. Once you've memorized the Qur'an (which I pray is soon
for all of you seeking to memorize it), new lessons and new memorizations will
come to a halt, and you'll be left with the old memorization. This will
continue for the left of our lives till death does us part.
1) Daily review
1.
Between 1-3 juz, you should review five
pages daily.
2.
Between 4-7 juz you should review 10
pages (which equals half the juz) daily.
3.
Between 7-15 juz, you should review 20
pages (which equals one juz) daily.
4.
Between 15-20 juz, you should review 30
pages(which equals 1.5 juz) daily.
5.
Between 20-30 juz, you should review 60
pages (which equals 2 juz) daily.
2) Read the juz to yourself then recite to a teacher/hafidh.
This process will continue for the rest
of your life.
3) In the 'old memorization,' you
should not get more than four mistakes, or four stutters in a juz.
A mistake classifies as reading
something incorrectly and not being able to correct it. A stutter classifies
reading something incorrectly, being sent back a few ayahs to correct it, and
finally reading it correctly. At the same time, you should be make more than
one mistake or one stutter for every five pages you read.
Concluding remarks
·
When I found a verse to be hard, I
would look into the mushaf and write it somewhere. At times I would also listen
to recitations to ease the memorization for me (I recommend Sh. Husary).
Sometimes looking in and repeating it won't make the verse stick, so do
whatever it takes to memorize it!
·
If you falter somewhat in the old
memorization, it's ok. Just don't miss two to three days at once. Reading
Qur'an is a lifetime endeavor.
·
Reviewing is more important than
memorizing.
·
Focus on perfecting your 'new lesson'
and 'new memorization.'
·
If you feel some part isn't strong,
give preference to reviewing that part rather than memorizing something new.
·
Read something EVERYDAY. Not only
should we do this as students of hifdh, but it should be our habit as Muslims.
I'm saying, don't say “I've memorized an x amount of Qur'an today, so no need
to read and reflect.” Take out some time to read and reflect on a few verses
daily.
This is the optimal method which I
found easy for myself to memorize. It was formulated in my fourteen-year-old
mind as a Qur'an student who found it hard to memorize Allāh's book. I asked Allāh's help, and I feel
this method was his answer.
I hope Allāh facilitates
the memorization of His book for you all, and blesses you with a positively
unforgettable Ramadan where you achieve all the goals of your lives.
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