Bismillah If there is one experience that seems to unite almost every Hifdhul Qur'an student, it is the disappointment of forgetting. You spend days working through a page. You repeat it until the words begin to flow naturally. You recite it to your teacher, feel relieved that...
Bismillah One of the conversations I find myself returning to repeatedly with Hifdhul Qur'an students rarely begins where it ends. A student may come wanting to discuss revision, retention, or a memorisation target she has not met. She may be concerned about the pace of her...
Bismillah For many years, I assumed that effective teaching meant paying close attention to the things that could be measured. Like most Hifdh teachers, I kept records: I tracked memorisation, monitored revision, followed lesson plans, and paid attention to retention. I wanted to know whether students...
Bismillah One of the things that continues to surprise students is how difficult Hifdh can feel at times. Not because they do not love the Qur'an, and not because they lack sincerity, but because they often assume that everyone else is finding it easier than they...
Bismillah One of the unexpected things I've learned after many years of teaching Hifdh is that students rarely remember their journey in the way they think they will. When we begin memorising the Qur'an, we tend to imagine that progress will always be measured in pages,...
Bismillah Every student of Hifdh soon realises that memorisation is not sustained by memory alone. It is sustained by du‘a. Supplication becomes the quiet companion of the journey, whispered before opening the mushaf, sighed in moments of fatigue, uttered in gratitude when an ayah finally settles. I...