When you memorize Quran the first thing for you need to have is, to get yourself a Quran teacher or attend online Quran classes where you can memorize the Quran, now the reason for that is because we’ve come to notice that memorizing the Quran or reciting the Quran, both have intertwined into one another and sometimes it’s easy to mispronounce certain sounds and letters when you’re learning to memorize the Quran, because you’re just concentrating on repeating what you’re hearing, so having a teacher there is really going to help and support you, because when you make mistakes they’re going to be able to correct you and because most likely for the of time our online Quran teachers have been doing this for years and they themselves have memorized the entire Quran. They will be going to give you tips that are going to help you to improve your Quran memorization as well.
The second thing about having our online Quran teacher is that it’s going to help keep you accountable.
we all know that there has been sometimes in our lives and we’ve tried to memorize the Quran before but because we were doing it on our own and nobody was holding us accountable. For example we said we were gonna read Quran that particular time or we’re gonna set out a particular time out of our day to learn the Quran and then we get busy, life gets in the way and it ends up not happening and we kind of fall off the bandwagon from there onwards, so when you know that you have an online Quran memorization class with Tajweed for exmaple if your class is five o’clock Sunday afternoon or whatever, then you know that, that time you have to show up and if you don’t show up then online Quran tutor is going to ask you that where were you? so it helps to keep you accountable. It’s sort of keeping you on track with your Quran memorization as well.
Also in some cases, we provide you the opportunity to have other people (students of Quran) who will support you in the classroom as well so you can also be doing it together with other than your class time, so you don’t feel so alone in the journey. so you can join a Quran a class that should help a lot inshallah.

How to Memorize your New Lessons/Homework:

Memorizing the Quran is all about repeating, repeat, and repeat, according to psychology when it comes to memory, the only way you can consolidate a memory is by:
Number one repeating
Number two consolidating it through Association
So basically the repetition method goes like this you begin with your first ayah/verse and you say that 10 to 30 times if not more, you will hear some people recommending you repeating it even more than that. so let’s say you repeat the first ayah of Surah Fatiha 10 to 30 times, until you feel you’ve kind of got it together, then you move on to the second ayah of the quran and you say that another 10 to 30 times then you go back to the first ayah/verse and recite it once then go back to your second ayah recite it once and then move on to your third Ayah/verse recite that again 10 to 30 times, so you’re adding along every time you go on, I hope this is making sense for basically repetition is the best way to memorize anything.
The second part of consolidating information is through association which helps you to memorize Quran online, now association comes through understanding and if you understand what you’re saying then it’s a lot more easier for you to learn and memorize Quran with tajweed, because obviously, you’re going to get a storyline as you’re building up, so let’s take Sarah Yusuf for example, you begin reading surah yousuf and then you’re reading about the part where Prophet Yusuf AS tells his dad that he has a dream and there suddenly he dropped onto an ayah where he’s in prison, if you know what those ayahs are saying then you’re going to be like, “wait no I’m not here, I was reading another part” and that’s the wrong area, because you’ve learnt the sequence of events and you understand what you’re saying.

Something very important and that is the principle of encouraging your children to love Islam. to love learning Islam this is something that I personally find to be somewhat deficient in the way that many of us deal with our children.
Sometimes you have some parents who are negligent, they just don’t teach children Quran and Islam, they don’t have any concern for their children to learn about Islam, their primary concern is their secular Dunya education and that’s what they put the pressure on, but you see some other parents who put so much pressure on their children that they push their children away from Islam, by putting enormous and unnecessary pressure upon their children when it comes to learning Quran and Islam.
You have to make people love Islam and want to study Islam, for that reason we don’t overburden with the number of classes that are taking place in a week, for example even when it comes to adults we don’t overburden people by having like eight hours of classes on a Friday and then you know two hours every single night.
why do we not overburden people? I mean the resources are there, but we don’t overburden people, because eventually you push people away, so it is important that when you think about your children and when you think about your children’s Islamic education, that you think about making them love Islam and instilling the love of Allah in their hearts.
The love of Allah Azza WA JAL is a fundamental principal it’s a fundamental part of la ilaha ill allah,
Allah SWT said: from man are those people who have taken partners besides Allah they love them as they should love Allah, but those who believe love Allah more.

This is a fundamental proof for instilling the love of Allah into the hearts of ourselves and our children, and the love of Allah should be one of those fundamental driving forces in our lives to motivate us. not only the love of Allah, but also hope and fear.
Hope and fear in terms of hoping in Allah’s reward and fearing Allah’s punishment. and this is the secret behind the first three ayat of surah fatiha: al-hamdu lillahi rabbil alameen. Ar-rahmanir-rahim. Maliki Yawmiddin.
The first verse instills the love of Allah. Allah who raised you up and look after you and nurtured your Eman.
The second ayah instills the hope of Allah in your heart, in His mercy, in his forgiveness.
The third ayah instills the fear of Allah in your heart, that Allah is Maalik of doomsday, the fear of what will come on the day of the judgment, and the fear that allah subhanho wa taala will take you to account for what you do.
A similar kind of principle you want to still instill in our children, now hope and fear take time to build, they come with knowledge, they come with maturity, when children are very very young they might not fully understand, especially when they’re extremely young they might not fully understand what it means to hope in Allah’s reward or to fear Allah. but these are things that you’re constantly working on building in them, and above all the love of Allah azzawajal that they love Allah, that they love Islam, that they love Iman.
When Allah SWT said: Allah made Eman beloved to you, he made you love Iman, and he made it something beautiful in your heart, and that’s all we want to do it with our children, we want to be a cause for the love of Iman to enter into their hearts.
Now some of that is to do with reward and Punishment, so some of that is to do with rewarding them for Islamic achievements, rather than Dunya based achievements because when you do this you are setting the standard, that Islam is what matters. Yes, I’m worried about your education, I want you to do well, but what really matters to me is Islam. that’s why your success in your Islamic studies I’m going to reward it many times more than I reward your success for example in your secular studies.

Hadhrat Ayyub (Radhiyallahu anh) reports that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said,
“Whoever fasts Ramadan and follows it with six days from Shawwal it is as though he fasted the entire year.” [Muslim, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, and Ibn Majah; Ahmad transmitted it from Jabir, Muntaqa]

Hadhrat Thawban (R A) reports that the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace be upon him,) said,
“Whoever fasts Ramadan, after which six days after Eid, it’s miles an entire 12 months. Whoever does a terrific deed shall have ten instances its reward.” [Ibn Majah, Muntaqa]

Important:
1. Primarily based in this, most of the scholars, including the Ahnaf, Shawafe`, and Hanabilah school, have held that it is endorsed to have soum (fast) six days of the month of Shawwal. [Radd al-Muhtar; Mughni al-Muhtaj Shah al-Minhaj; Kashshaf al-Qina`]
2. It’s far approved to fast six days of shawwal one after the other for the duration of the month, or sequentially together , after Eid al-Fitr.
3. It’s prohibitively undesirable (Makrooh) to fast on the day of Eid and sinful. [Radd al-Muhtar]
4. The Shawafe’ and Hanabila school of thought says that it’s far superior to make the six fasts together [Minhaj, Ghayat al-Muntaha]. Khatib al-Shirbini explains the reasoning as being,
“with a view to hasten to do the good deed, and due to the issues inevitable in delaying,”
Inclusive of turning into lazy and not truely pleasant this sunnah ultimately, although he points out that the sunnah is fulfilled through both consecutive and non-consecutive fasting of six days in Shawwal. [Mughni al-Muhtaj]
The later Hanafi fuqaha differed as to that’s higher, fasting the six days together or individually , though neither is makrooh and each fulfill the sunnah. [Radd al-Muhtar]
but, for those Muslim brothers and sisters who have fear that they won’t be able to fast if they delay it because of laziness or any other reasons they could fast right after Eid and they could fast 6 days of shawal right after Eid.
Sayyiduna Abu Hurayra (Allah be thrilled with him) narrated that the holy Prophet (Peace be upon him) stated,
“The strong believer is better and more cherished to Allah than the weak believer, though there is right in each. Be eager for that which advantages you. trust upon Allah and don’t assume yourself incapable…” [Muslim:4816, Ibn Majah:76, Ahmad:8436]
Imam Nawawi (Allah have mercy on him) defined that the ‘energy’ in this hadith refers to, “One’s determination and potential in matters of the following life.”

Question: Can I learn Quran by myself? Or do I need a shaykh or Quran teacher to teach me?

Answer: the short answer to this question is, No, You can’t learn Quran by yourself.
Reasons: The holy Quran is a divine book of Allah SWT, even if you’re an Arab and want to learn to read Quran with tajweed or want to understand it, you still need some authentic and expert teacher who can help you to learn Quran.
Unlike the other books, Quran is revealed by Allah SWT, it is not written by a human. Although it is not impossible to understand it.
The holy Quran is revealed on the holy prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم, and for understanding it for learning Quran we need him, we need his lifestyle his interpretations of the Quran. We need to know how he recited Quran when it was revealed to him.
When we talk about the Quran we usually meant by reading Quran or understanding Quran, for both we do need a Quran teacher.

Learning Quran Reading:

The Quran is in the Arabic language and the Arabic is different than the other languages, it is a more sensitive language, if you don’t pronounce a letter correctly you are going to change the meaning of the Quran, which we don’t want to do.
so it is necessary to learn Quran and read the way it was revealed
So for reading purposes, we just need someone who can teach Quran with tajweed. so that we can read it correctly and get Allah’s SWT reward for reciting his book.

Learning to Understand Quran:

when you go to the book store and buy a copy of the Holy Quran with translation and interpretation with it or only translation, and then you start studying it. As we’ve mentioned the Quran is a different book, when you study it you come up with many many questions, which are normal and good.
Now when you have questions from Quran, who are going to ask to???
Yes, you need a teacher, a scholar who can answer your questions and guide you in the light of Quran and Sunnah.

Conclusion:

The Quran is the most amazing and perfect book whenever you read it you get new gems, your brain raises more questions and when you get the answers it amazes you even more. Study it by yourself when you try to understand it and when you see something confusing ask your Quran teacher and keep asking unless you get your answers.
If you’re trying to learn how to read Quran with tajweed then start from very basic with an expert Quran tutor who can teach you from scratch.