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Ayesha Nicole
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How to Memorize the Qur’an (Part II)
Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 6:40pm
PERFECTING THE JUZ
Each time the student completes one juz’, he / she should take the next day “off” of their usual daily assignments and perfect that juz’. He / she should do so by reviewing the juz’ 3 times in the same day. (One time would be replacing the time allotted for NMA, the other replaces the allotted RMV time, and the last replaces the Review time). While reviewing, all mistakes must be marked, counted, and noted each time. The last time, the student should be sure to recite the juz’ to a teacher to make sure he / she does not have any mistakes. By the third time, the student should not have a single mistake in that juz’. If they do, they should again repeat that juz’ three times the next day.
Alternatively, if the student feels that the juz’ they completed has quite a few mistakes, he can perfect half that juz’ on the first day, by repeating it 3-5 times (i.e. however many times required to perfect it). Then, the next day, he can perfect the second half of the juz’.
After perfecting that juz’ in this way, he / she may move on to memorizing the next juz’.
Lost and Found: Regaining past juz’s that one forgot
Often times, when a person has had a long break due to travelling or other circumstances, and has failed to maintain what they have previously memorized, it can become “lost”. Or, before a person starts a system such as this one, he / she may have juz’s they have memorized previously that somehow seemed to have faded away. What should one do in such situations?
If the juz’s are completely lost, meaning, the person would have to rememorize a page or two of it a day in order to regain it, they should just “pretend” they have never memorized it, and start from scratch, or from what they know.
However, if the person has nearly forgotten it, they can regain it, inshaa’ Allaah, with strengthm using the system based on the one described above for memorization.
That person should take 5 pages of that soorah or juz’, or 3 pages minimum,[1] and treat them like NMA. That is, they are to review them perfectly. The next day, he takes the next 3-5 pages. Each day, he review that soorah from the beginning if the soorah is long (20 or more pages). If it is shorter, then he should review the last 20 pages that he has reviewed. That is, he actually treats the 3-5 pages he has reviewed as new memorization, and reviews the last 20 pages as “RMV”.
Meanwhile, he / she should do a regular juz’ of review from the back (or front) until where they have reached.
So, for example, lets assume a person had once memorized Soorat al- Baqarah and Soorat Aali- ‘Imraan and has maintained Baqarah but forgot Aali ‘Imraan. He should review the first 3-5 pages of Aali- ‘Imraan, putting them in place of NMA.
Meanwhile, he reviews ½ a juz’ to one juz’ of Baqarah that day. The next day, hes does the next 3-5 pages of Aali-’Imraan as NMA, then does Aali-’Imraan from the beginning until that point as RMV. Additionally, he reviews the next ½ juz’ or one juz’ of Baqarah. And so on. When he exceeds 20 pages of Aali’Imraan, he should only do the last 20 pages as RMV, and not do Aali’-Imraan from the beginning.
This is also useful for people who have memorized very large portions of the Qur’aan, or even for those who have completed the Qur’aan, and are having a hard time regaining it. If they simply review what they can each day, by the time they reach the end of what they know, they would have nearly forgotten what they have reviewed at the beginning of their “round”. Whereas, doing it in this way, will allow it to stick and will also not allow the old juz’s to be lost. For people who have memorized large portions, it should be noted that before embarking on review in this way, he / she should determine which juz’s are weak and which are strong. If they can review ½ a juz’ or one juz’ in half an hour, they can count it from the strong juz’s and simply do them as “Review”. If it takes them half an hour to accomplish less than that, they should treat it as NMA, taking 5 pages a day (or 3, if it is very weak). Additionally, they must neglect to their 20-page RMV or their so-called “NMA”.
However, we must note that once a person starts to memorize the Qur’aan according to the system described in this book, he should beware of the habit of stopping and restarting. First of all, he / she should not stop unless dire circumstances arise, like family emergencies or sickness. Also, travelling naturally throws a person off schedule. In such cases, the person should at least maintain their daily revision of one juz’, so that they do not lose what they have memorized. Neglecting this matter is one of the greatest causes of delay in hifzh and often times, of leaving the hifzh altogether!
Finally Finished!
Joy and Gratitude
If Allaah graces the student to complete the entire Qur’aan, he should realise that this is one of the greatest blessings of Allaah on him, and hence, consider it the greatest (or one of the greatest) days in his life of this world. Allaah has told us that blessings such as these, which are from the mercy and grace of Allaah, are greater than all the belongings of the dunyaa. He said,
قُلْ بِفَضْلِ اللّهِ وَبِرَحْمَتِهِ فَبِذَلِكَ فَلْيَفْرَحُواْ هُوَ خَيْرٌ مِّمَّا يَجْمَعُونَ
“Say: In the Bounty of Allaah and in His Mercy, therein let them rejoice, for that is better than all (the worldly possessions) they collect.5] with a chain tracing back to the Prophet (s). Upon finding him, he should recite the whole Qur’aan to him from memory, with accuracy and a precise application of all Tajweed rules. Once he completes this, and the teacher ascertains that he is qualified and deserving to carry this great trust and responsibility, i.e. the ijaazah, he will certify him. This certificate will then allow him to recite and teach others Qur’aan wherever he goes, and will grant him the authority to certify others.
Sadly, some people become unenthusiastic and lazy after they have attained the ijaazah, perceiving that they have reached their ultimate goal. However, this is far from being the case. The reality is that it is only the beginning of the road to learning and teaching Qur’aan. The ijaazah is no way means that a person has become perfect in Tajweed or other Qur’aanic sciences. He still must expand in knowledge of Tajweed, as well as seek to learn the ten recitations. Not to mention studying the Tafseer, vocabulary, and Arabic grammar of the Qur’aan, as well as other matters related to the sciences of the Qur’aan. In other words, the ijaazah should not stop him from continuing his quest for Qur’aanic knowledge and continuing to knock on the doors of the scholars and teachers.
In this regard, Sa’eed ibn Jubayr, may Allaah have mercy on him, said, “A person continues to be a scholar for as long as he continues learning. Yet, once he leaves (the quest for) knowledge and feels that he is no longer in need and that what he has is sufficient, then he becomes as ignorant as one can possibly be.�
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