How to memorise the Quran- Mufti Abu Layth

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I'd like to share with some students of knowledge today some advice on how to memorize the Quran and this is one of the greatest things that we as Muslims could possibly Endeavor to do it is it is unbelievable to really even grasp that people would memorize and commit to memory an entire book word for word letter for letter vowel for vowel but yet as a miracle it has been

demonstrated by the millions with unbroken precedents and unbroken chains of transmission going right back to the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam himself what could be greater than to commit the words of Allah to memory may Allah subhana tala give us all the to do so now some words of advice if you are going to uh memorize the Quran having studied the Arabic language will help immensely so if you are or have studied the Arabic language then I think this is

an amazing even more so an amazing opportunity for you to Embark upon upon this um upon this opportunity I would say what is important in memorizing the Quran is routine okay and there's a few things I'll mention today very briefly I'll say I'll highlight some routine perhaps some tips but also a Dua okay and a method of application for that Dua so taking a look at the Dua first it well we find in a Hadith that has been transmitted in and that

transmits that Ali approached the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he said that he's finding it difficult to retain some of the verses of the Quran and commit them to Memory and that he was finding this a challenge and the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam said should I not teach you some words by which this would become easy so Ali uh said of course and the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam advised him that what you do is you wait till Friday morning as in sorry wait till Friday night and

what this means in the Arabic sense is it is understood that night precedes day okay so this would be how we would commonly understand it today as Thursday night okay going right up to um like in the early early hours very early hours of the morning if you like will be will count as Friday night okay so beyond midnight that before sub the latest you possibly could do without but giving yourself an ample amount of time for subah to come in the prophet sallallah Ali wasallam told him that in the final part of the

night if you stand to pray and you offer four in the first you pray with f andah y in the second with f and in the third and and in the fourth with and now those of you that are wondering well wait a minute I don't even know these few suras how am I supposed to read that well it is permissible for you according to the majority of the now

there is some difference to hold the Quran during Salah it is permitted to kind of read from it okay if you leave the markers in those uh in the right suras and you can access them during your actual Salah and at the end of that the prophet Sall alhi wasallam advised him that once you do that then follow it with a Dua now the Dua can be done either right at the end of the Salah before you do your Salam or or or alternatively could be done after your Salah but it's at the end of Salah so and the Dua is that once

you finish those four oh Allah have mercy on me by allowing me to abandon sins for as long as I am and Empower me that I may take upon myself this task which really you know it's not befitting for somebody like me and allow me to please you like Grant me that Allah who has created the heavens and the

Earth of who possesses absolute honor and an unrivaled might I ask you Allah [Music] that you make that you make your book or the memor or the memorization of your book stick to my heart as you have taught

me and Grant me that I should recite this book in such a way that you will be pleased with me so once again you call out to Allah glorifying him I ask you Allah that you Enlighten with this book of yours my sight and you allow my tongue to flow with

it and that you allow it to be a source of relief for my heart and that you expand with it my chest and you allow me to implement it with my limbs for sure nobody can help me upon the H except you oh

Allah and that no none can grant this to me except you oh Allah and that there is no strength and no might except through you and then the prophet Sall alhi wasallam saidan he said you do that either three Fridays or five or seven inshallah and he says he says and the prophet some of the re said he said that that he who has sent me by he who has sent me that this that a Believer has never done this except it served it served

him now Abbas says that I can't recall whether it was five weeks later or seven but he saysi came back and he said he said four I would take four verses and I would struggle to kind of keep them and and he said and now if I came across 40 he says I could recall them like that this people is something that I would encourage you all to practice those of you that wish to uh gain an acquisition of the book of Allah by memory do that

please in addition to that there are several other tips as well um like first of all the Arabic language if you are doing that it will be a great help I would say if if you do understand the Arabic language then whatever you are about to memorize go through all the difficult words from a separate book and understand them try and read the English translation as well to what you're going to what you will be memorizing try and keep the place and the position of where you memorize the same so it becomes almost like a you that the moment you're in that place you know that this is my place of memorization try a time that

works for you best some people the morning works for them others you see the evening works for them quite often I mean people have sometimes usually I I mean from my personal experience I found that people have struggled if during the afternoon to commit things to me memory whereas during the morning the early hours or during the evening it's been much easier for them but that may just be a personal thing so use a particular place where you know that when I'm here I'm memorizing have no disturbance go over it if you can go over the words before if you if you've leared or are learning Arabic and the

translation so you know what it means now sit down to begin your memorization and I would say whatever you have chosen the page that you will be memorizing as an example try to before you to begin what what I've always found has been very helpful that let's say if I was going to begin memorizing after M but now I'm going to take a break so I will be memorizing in let's say 2 hours time so what I would do now is I would sit down I would get what I would be learning and I would go over each verse that I will be

committing to memory inshallah and what I would do is I would read it enough times to be able to read it without looking at it so I could just look up and read that verse once and now stop once I can do that move on to the next verse even if I've now forgotten the first verse that's okay this is just a familiarization process so I've done that with every verse now once you've done that now you go on your break that you because you weren't planning on doing your memorization then you're going to do so after a while you can in between you can read you can read the translation can do this but have a

break then come back to when you're ready in your place where you commit uh yourself to memorizing and now what and once again I mean you can try what works for you a good technique has been that now when you start to go over that verse you recite it a few times until you can look away and read it now look back at it now with the next verse after it except this time once you've looked away with the second verse and and you've committed that to memory repeat the first one and the second one and then do the third one so you're doing it like that so you're kind of adding them along it's an

accumulative effect until you reach your your allotted portion for that day okay and then once you can kind of look away and recite the whole thing then alhamdulillah you can kind of practice that on a few occasions then what I found has been of great help has been to also practice that in your Salah and then to leave it maybe now after you've had a full break maybe towards the end of the night just just at any point just try and recall it because this will also it will really help you know making the whole thing

very fluid okay and it will add great fluency to your to what you've memorized okay and then once you've done that perhaps the next day or however you've organized it with your teacher read it on to him and you're ready for your next portion right that said people I hope that's been of some help um please feel free to share that with other people if you've had other experiences then share your experiences as well and each person just contributes what they've experienced and they've learned through their particular Journey themselves and may be of some help to others who come

after do remember me in your kind duas