Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Question about Qur'an Memorization?

As salam alaykum- Dear brothers and sisters, al hamdulil lah, I started my process in memorizing Al- Qur'an a few days ago. I started with sura Al- Baqarah- but I'm not sure if that what I should immediatley start with. I have not yet completed Juz- Amma, I have memorized parts of it, and for nearly every sura I can say I have memorized or atleast studied it at some time, if I try to recite the sura, I can't remember it, but when I look in the Qur'an and read it, it is very familiar and i start to remember some of it. I really want to start with Al- Baqarah and go from there, but many people recommend to finish the shorter suras first. On a scale of 4, I'm about a 3 in Arabic, as in, I know the letters and vowels by heart and can read for the most part, but I don't understand all the words (though I look them up in translations). I'm not interested in the actual number of suras that I complete, in time, inshallah, I plan on memorizing the whole thing. I have already started and have memorized nearly 25 ayat of Al- Baqarah, alhamdulilah, and I realize the lengthy ayat to come and am aware that at times, it will probably tak the whole day just to learn one, but as long as I memorize at least 1/2 a page a day- that's my goal. Inshalah, I want to memorize the Qur'an in the shortest amount of time I can, and for a number of reasons I would very much prefer starting with Al- Baqarah and go from there, but many recommend to start from Juz Amma and memorze maybe a few Juz after that then go to sura Al- Baqaraa. For memorization I use a very user- friendly website called Quran Explorer, and I listen to a Qari so that I can make sure I am memorizing the aya correctley, and I recite after him,and when I have the aya down, I begin memorizing it- I split up the longer ones in shorter parts. My dilemma is the order in which I memorize the Qur'an, what is your advice?

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