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My parents enrolled me in a school that did hifdh along with education (acc Baba did it bcz they had promised to teach Arabic but it was a new school and that didn't pan out but kher).
Skip to grade 5, I had made my way up to more than 1/3rd of https://t.co/gr27fx0czk
My parents enrolled me in a school that did hifdh along with education (acc Baba did it bcz they had promised to teach Arabic but it was a new school and that didn't pan out but kher).
Skip to grade 5, I had made my way up to more than 1/3rd of https://t.co/gr27fx0czk
The Quran but I didn't acc remember any of it. I would go every day, would delay memorizing the daily lesson and only read it late in the afternoon and then have no time left for revision. I made progress but I forgot each lesson as soon as I was done with it. Seeing this,
I was taken out of the school and into a madarsa where they taught hifdh full-time. I started over multiple times. I used the same formula to procrastinate, only this time, it was much harder to escape the punishment. So 6 or 7 months in, I started bunking,
Esp in the morning, I would leave home, then sit on a bench in the street behind us or go to this abandoned railway station and spend hours there, and then return home. All bcz I was NOT interested in memorizing the Quran. And I couldn't admit it. Not even to myself
Bcz I SHOULD have been interested. Bcz it was the book of Allah! And all the ahadith about the honour of a hafizdh and the pressure from the family. I couldn't say no so I simply avoided it. Until one fine day, Baba got a call from the madarsa asking why I was absent so much.
After a rigourous beating, I was finally able to admit that I can't do it. I said no, despite the immense guilt that came with it and so, I was taken out of the madarsa.
But the story doesn't end there.
A few years later, Baba started taking me to this weekend class for "easy
But the story doesn't end there.
A few years later, Baba started taking me to this weekend class for "easy
Quranic arabic" (note that this time, he went with me himself, instead of just handing me over to an institute to be injected with Quran)
I knew some Arabic from before as well but that is when I acc became interested in Arabic as a language. After that, progress was slow though
I knew some Arabic from before as well but that is when I acc became interested in Arabic as a language. After that, progress was slow though
Scarred by the wound from the past, my relationship with Quran suffered still. I learned Arabic from here and there, listened to online tafseer lessons once in a blue moon. It was excruciatingly slow but I started becoming more interested in the Quran. I had always
Heard about how miraculous the book is. And how amazing it's messages are, and I believed them whole heartedly. But it took a long time for me to acc start seeing the beauty of the Quran myself.
An important chapter in my rs with quran opened up when one ramadhan,
An important chapter in my rs with quran opened up when one ramadhan,
My parents asked me to take them to a taraweeh where they also explained the brief meaning and tafseer of the verses to be recited. After that, I made a point of going to these taraweeh. Once every year, I connected with Quran. It was slow, it still is. I still have an
Unfinished goal of revising the part that I memorized all those years ago. I still don't recite the Quran as often and as much as I should but wallahi, I love the Quran. Wallahi, He has been merciful upon me and shown me how beautiful and wonderful and full of depth
And meaning and hidden gems His Kalaam is. Alhumdulillah. I love the Quran. Despite the past wounds, I have a good relationship with it. Alhumdulillah.
The point of all this is that please don't JUST focus on having your kids memorize the Quran. Although I know
The point of all this is that please don't JUST focus on having your kids memorize the Quran. Although I know
There are plenty of folks who succeed where I failed, I think the more important thing is to inculcate the love of Quran in your kid's heart. And that is very tough I know. But please please please please please, FOCUS on showing your kids the beauty of Quran. Even if they don't
Memorize all of it. Even if they don't recite a lot of it, what MATTERS is that when they do, they enjoy it and have an interest in it instead of just doing it as a chore. I cannot tell you to not make them huffadz bcz you should but please focus on building their rs with Quran
Don't just enroll them in an institute and let them do it, engage yourself. Make sure that they love it otherwise they're gonna end up becoming a source of disgrace for you instead of the glory and ajr that you seek.
Wallahu a3lamu bissawab
Please forgive me for ranting like
Wallahu a3lamu bissawab
Please forgive me for ranting like
This but this is a topic close to my heart and I just couldn't stop. May Allah increase my love for Quran and may He enable me to recite and learn more and more of it and may He do the same for you and your kids! Ameen
