Friday, 22 July 2016

Ways to Fit Memorization and Revision into your Life



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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم


1.       Make your intention purely for Allaah – al Ikhlaas.
2.       Ask Allaah to help you by making Du’aa.
3.       Stay away from sins
4.       Fill your life with Qur’aan – read it, listen to it, memorize it, understand it and most importantly practice it.
5.       Teach your children Qur’aan. Manage their time, keep them out of trouble, increase their intelligence, increase their self-esteem and give them a sense of achievement.
6.       Set your targets – Plan your timetable (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly). If you memorize one page a day (not including weekends) that would mean 5 pages a week and one juz a month.
7.       Try revising and memorizing at fixed times in the day and work around those times instead of trying to fit in a session whenever you get the opportunity. There’s always something to do in the house and your session could be delayed till later or the next day.
8.       Set a portion of ‘reading’ the Qur’aan every day. Remember that one page of the mushaf only takes about 3 minutes to read for a fluent reader. Something small but regular is better than a large portion now and again.
9.       LISTEN to the Qur’aan at every opportunity using your smartphone, ipad, laptop, CDs, Tapes, digital Qur’aan device etc.
10.   Listen to the portion you are memorizing in the kitchen, whilst you are ironing or in the car etc.
11.   Find a partner to learn Qur’aan with so that you can encourage each other and test each other either daily, weekly or monthly. The positive competition helps enormously.
12.   Set up a WhatsApp group for children or adults to report and send the portion recorded as audio daily or weekly. Then let the children praise each other as encouragement and motivation. Be sure to delete the audios afterwards as they will contain mistakes, even if they sound cute. The Qur’aan should always be recorded accurately.
13.   Enter Qur’aan Competitions so that goals and timeframes are motivation for revision and memorization.
14.   Read the portion you are memorizing in your salaah and qiyaam.
15.   Reduce the time on your phone, surfing the internet, checking emails, reading or watching the news, visiting others too much without a need or purpose, cooking elaborate meals and you will be able to save an hour or two to dedicate to memorizing. (This does not mean you neglect your parents’ rights, your husband’s rights, your children’s rights or your neighbours! You can still help the sick, keep the ties of kinship and do some shopping for the elderly. What you are reducing is the time spent on ‘extra’ activities.)
16.   Reduce the hours you sleep. Instead of sleeping 8-10 hours, try sleeping 6-7 hours as if you were going to work.
17.   Eat healthy to boost your memory and intelligence. Take nuts, blackseed, lubaan and zamzam.

ألله أعلم
وفقنا الله وإياكم

By Umm ‘Abdir Rahmaan Tara Hashim