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The Diary of A Hāfiz - Issue #96
Bismillāh al-Rahmān al-Rahīm
Assalāmu ‘Alaykum!
Hope you’re all doing well. Allah grant ease and blessing. I share some stories for both the elders and the youngsters.
Requesting your prayers,
- Qāri’ Mubashir
🔗 READ
How To Memorise The Quran Guide For Teens (11 min read)
Many of you ask how can you balance memorizing the Qur'ān alongside your studies. You have many questions. Today, I want to provide a comprehensive guide that addresses these concerns, specifically for teens on this sacred journey of memorising the Qur'ān. I've designed this guide to not only help you navigate the challenges of balancing Hifz (the memorization of the Qur'ān) with your academic and personal life but also to inspire and motivate you to embrace your Hifz.
How I Complete Memorizing The Quran At Age 64 (6 min read)
Allow me to share with you a journey deeply personal, a journey that began in the year 1988, the year I, at the age of 32, found my new abode in Port Elizabeth. It was a time of new beginnings, not just in my professional life as I started my tenure at Livingstone Hospital, but also in my spiritual quest—a journey towards becoming a Hafiz of the Noble Quran. Back then, my relationship with the Quran was rudimentary at best. To illustrate, reciting Surah Yaseen, a chapter I held close, would take me upwards of an hour, a testament to my struggle with fluency.
📖 THE DIARY OF A HĀFIZ
This is where we try to learn by watching others memorise. A roundup reporting the progress of a brother and a sister in their pursuit of memorising the Qur'ān:
Muhammad, 36, still on Surah an-Nisā’
Background: After forgetting what he memorised (half the Qur'ān) and kept struggling to start again. So he decided to share his diary and mission with us. After 19 weeks of struggle, he finally started. It took him a few months to do a few Juz’. He’s a few months away from having a years diary complete.
What he accomplished last week (1 year, week 22):
“I’ve seen improvement this week by doing a page a day. Sometimes I have found the page to be weak the next day or across a few days but I have to repeat it as part of my recent revision. So I recite the entire 6th Juz’ up to where I am, then I memorise a page. Then I revise from the back - this has been up and down. I do a few days and then it drops. So need to push forward and get these things right.”
Halima, 47, school teacher
Background: A 47 years old Black American Muslim school teacher. She has 3 adult children who are in university and grad school, Alhamdulillāh. She began memorizing the Quran about 5 years ago. It's been on and off with different teachers and motivation levels. She was inspired as a child to memorize Quran but my family lacked the access to a madrassah due to financial costs. She is the oldest of eight children. As a child she had never read more than the last ten surahs. Later in life, she rekindled her connection with Allah swt, and began taking tajwid classes in 2011, then finished her first reading of a khatam of Qur'an to her teacher in tajwid, from then her hifz struggles eased a bit. Currently, she is memorizing Surah al Maidah with Ustadha Sofia.
Week 10:
رَبَّنَا تَقَبَّلۡ مِنَّآۖ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلۡعَلِيمُ
“Our Lord, accept [this] from us. Indeed You are the Hearing, the Knowing.” 2:227
Allahu Akbar for the completion of Surah al Anam 1-44 and Juz 1. I'm preparing Juz 2 to recite in person at our local mosque to an African shaykh, Hafidh Abdessalaam of Morocco, who was just hired to our mosque one week ago. MashaAllah, the weather has been steady with rain and wind storms. As you drive through the neighborhood you can see various construction projects on hold until it dries out. One family has plans to redo the fence that borders the property. You can see the remnants of the old fence and some of the new. It reminded me of my Quran journey. What needs refining in my character, what old exposed and hidden virtues in my personality can be improved upon, shed, or understood more. Is there a system or plan for rectification? I add in my journaling some daily questions to ask myself; what are a few things I am grateful for, my plans for the day, my fears/resentments, things I need to watch out for, and finally a few things am I striving for? I like this journaling list that I found online because it looks at spiritual, and emotional health, goal-seeking, and motivation. Even one-word answers are acceptable as long as it's like 5 minutes I can be consistent. I pray that Allah swt blesses us all with a healing relationship with the Quran al Shifaa one that benefits ourselves, our families, and all of the ummah. Amin
👉 If you have any questions, just drop a reply to me and I'll feature the questions and answers in relevant issues.
Allāh grant us all success and ease on this path!
⚒️ MOTIVATION, TIPS & TOOLS
I’ve continued to share stories of those who have memorised the Quran on the Facebook page. A lot of motivation!
Born blind and with a condition known as "glass bones," Ahmed defied the odds by memorising the Quran in just a year and a half.
His father has to carry him on his shoulders and has vowed to do so for as long as he lives, and his brother acts as his eyes.
Not even bullying phased Ahmed.
Today he continues to learn and spread the Deen.
His mother, tearfully said,
"My son is a blessing from Allāh to me, a compensation, because he was born with a condition called glass bones which makes him susceptible to fractures at any time from the slightest bump.
I went around all the doctors and consultants, and they all told me there was no hope.
My son always sits in the room next to the house's entrance, holding the Quran, reading, and learning. My son doesn't just memorise; he understands what he memorises. He only leaves that room to sleep. Not only that, but he also teaches the village children the Quran, and even older people come to him to memorise.
My son refuses to live in darkness, and I always feel that he sees and moves around the apartment on this basis. Years passed in a long journey of examination and diagnosis to find a solution for him to see the light. It was painful moments for us all as he learned to walk, especially since a single fall could break his bones because of the severe pain.
A big consultant from America told me there's no hope, and here I completely lost hope in treating my son and that he would see the light after he told me that he has retinal atrophy and there's no treatment here or abroad. I broke down in tears, remembered Allah Almighty, and said, 'Praise be to Allah for everything.'"
What's stopping you?
⭐ COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTS & UPDATES
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