05 Jun Ready for Ramadhan? Part 8
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيم
Assalaamu ‘alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakaatuhu,
As we conclude the ‘Ready for Ramadhan?’ series, Fee Qalbee asks members of our multiple online forums (The Fee Qalbee Connection) to share their advice & suggestions for our weekly focus:
Qur’aan Readiness for Ramadhan
“For me, Qur’aan Readiness for Ramadhan is about having more time than the rest of the year. Over the past couple of years I have done the following and it has really been worth the sacrifice. I cancel all extra activities that I normally do, for example: no weekly mother and child workshop, no book club with my little ones, and no sporting activities for the elder ones. I also ensure that I don’t do any shopping in Ramadhan, everything must be done before. I then have extra time which must be planned very carefully so as to maximise my time for the Qur’aan, and I try to include days which will be missed for haidh.”
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“May Almighty Allah grant us all the ability to perform tahajjud salaah regularly Aameen! Another way to recite a juz a day would be to recite four pages each daily in our five obligatory salaah and four pages in two nafil salaah (ie Ishraaq, chaast or awwabeen). One could even read two pages in each of these salaah and read and review half a juz daily.”
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“Endeavour to recite two pages in each rakah of your tahajjud and try to pray ten rakahs. In that way you would read a juz in a night and finish the Qur’aan in a month. This will prepare us for the Holy Month. May Allaah may it easy for us and let us witness Ramadhan.”
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“Use the remaining weeks before Ramadhan to review the central points of focus in each Sura, so as we stand in taraweeh, we may ponder over the focus of each, rather than our minds drifting off to worldy matters.”
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“Start observing how you use your time. Do you waste or procrastinate unnecessarily? Every minute counts! So if you find just 10 minutes more of free time each day, I would suggest reciting Qur’aan out aloud for those ten minutes. It will help to improve concentration and correct tajweed mistakes.”
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“From Rajab, my family and I (we are 7) spend 15 minutes after supper together: We recite one hadeeth on the virtues of reciting Qur’aan and one family member will recite a sunnah surah, for example: surah waqiah, mulk, etc. whilst the rest of us listen to the recitation.”
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“I have four daughters all of them are in primary school and do hifdh part-time. We set up a hifdh star chart and from Rajab until the start of Ramadhan, the star chart is used to encourage thorough revision of all their hifdh surahs and ajzaa’. The one who has performed the best with revision gets to choose a Qur’aan quiz or books for our home library.”
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“Last week I set up an appointment to meet up with my son’s Qur’aan teachers and check on their progress. I also explained to their teacher that since both my husband and I have completed hifdh, we see Ramadhan as a wonderful opportunity to devote our time as a family to Qur’aan. So we discussed how he can improve and set Qur’aan goal for Ramadhan. I think that the goals will help us all stay focused at the end of Ramadhan we will have seen an improvement and a greater love for Qur’aan.”
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“To be honest, I’m guilty of only reciting specific surahs in my daily salah. So this year I chose to be brutally honest with myself. Its 18 years since I’ve completed hifdh so I’ve committed to improving my memorisation especially of those outstanding surahs. I read the surah repeatedly 5 times in a row and then use parts of that surah in my salah throughout the day, completing it by Esha time. I’ve already noticed an improvement and have been able to pick out my errors, alhamdulilla.”
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“I’ve 3 ajzaa and last month I started writing out the verses from memory. Gosh! I didn’t realise the multiple tajweed mistakes and hifdh errors that had crept into my work. I put aside about 30 minutes every day of the week and so far, so good. I really encourage you all to work on writing out your hifdh. You will definitely notice the difference!”
May Allah subhanahu wa Ta’ala reward all group members who either posted or individually emailed through their advise for this post: Jazaakullahu Khayran!
Stay inspired!
Rayhaanah
‘Ready for Ramadhan’ is a series of pre-Ramadhan posts which seeks to assist hifdh students, hafidhaat, teachers and parents alike.
View the two month series of ‘Ready for Ramadhan?’ here: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 ,Part 7
Rayhaanah
Posted at 14:10h, 05 JuneAddendum (from one of our BBM group members) :
Whatever is your usual amount during the year you should increase by ¼ or so that you may find it easier to read 1 or more juz per day in Ramadhan.
As Sister Zunaida has said, we need to cut down/out on our extra activities. All time-wasters need to stop.
In Ramadhan there is more Barakah in time but only because we do not do ‘laze’ around. We feel that every spare moment should be utilised in the reciting of Qur’an.
One of the things I do, as a student, is making sure all assignments that are due in Ramadhan are done before so that I may have extra time for Ibadah and Qur’an reading in sha Allāh…
Not too sure what else but may Allāh grant us all Barakah in our time so we may accomplish all our goals for this blessed month in sha Allāh.