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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.

In this article, we will mention things that will help an aid a person to memorize the Quran and not forget it.
what are practical steps that a person can take in order to memorize the Quran and keep it with them so they don’t forget it a lot.
the following is what a person should do there

1. Consistency

a person’s consistency in reading the Quran and going over it a lot.
if a person does the revision of the Quran and keeps going over it a lot, the person will learn Quran.
Hadith How to Keep Quran memorized: the prophets صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ told us in the hadith; like the person who’s holding on to the Quran and has memorized the Quran, that it’s like a camel that is tied if the person comes back to it and ties it and makes sure that it’s there and overlooks it, then that camel would never get away from him, but if he doesn’t, he leaves it, camel walks away from it.
Another Example: If you hunted a deer today and you got the deer what would you do?
You’ll have to tie it stronger and you will always have to overlook it if it’s there. has it left, has it moved or has it in the Rope tighten? You overlook it just so it doesn’t leave.

the Quran is like that the person has to keep looking over it making sure that it doesn’t get away from him.

2. Stay Away from Sins

the second thing that helps you memorize the Quran and also to keep the Quran memorization strong is, To lessen or to stay away from sins and shortcomings and errors and going against Allah SWT and his commands.
Why? because we all know what does sin does to the blessings of Allah, they remove blessings.
Don’t they? isn’t the Quran, a blessing? Yes, the Quran is a blessing this it destroys his blessings. that’s what Allah SWT said in the Quran; that there is not a calamity that befalls you, the only reason why this calamity fell onto you is because of that, which your hands have put forward.
So calamities trials and tribulations fall on you because of sins.
So if a person is not given the Quran, what is it?
It’s a punishment. the best of speeches are not being given to you, the reason is that there are obstacles and things that are standing in the way,

3. Stay Focused

Also, the other thing that helps is staying away from being a person who’s excessively stressed. A person who is depressed, the things that make a person stressed is when they connect their heart other than Allah SWT.
Placing things like the Dunya in your heart, placing in your site the Dunya and giving so much importance to it.
it starts to stress you out and when a student of knowledge or a person is learning the Quran places other things in his way, the stress is increased and when they express stress increases and the responsibility increases, what happens then? you’re unable to memorize Quran with tajweed.
That’s what Allah says in the Quran; Allah has not placed in a person two hearts.
You can’t have one leg in the Dunya and another leg you have to memorize the Quran,
So how would you memorize Quran? when you give the whole heart to Quran memorization.
So lessen every other obstacle on the way, get rid of it.

4. Gratitude / Shukr

The other thing is increasing in asking or expressing to Allah and showing him that you are grateful for what he has done for you.
Gratitude allows you to gain more than what you have, as Allah said in the Quran; If you show the gratitude I will increase for you.
you memorize 10 surahs if you show gratitude I’ll give you another ten. you show gratitude again, I’ll give you more. Allah will increase it for you,
Ulama they said; that gratitude (Shukr) restricts holds down for you what you already have. When you hold it down with Shukr the blessing that you already have, it holds it down for you. and that what you don’t have that’s not in your possession it hunts it for you. it will go out there and bring it to you that’s what Shukr does, it allows what you have to be with you and also be for you more that you don’t have.

5. Making Supplication

also what helps the person memorize Quran online is making dua to Allah subhana wa ta’ala and asking him to increase you in knowledge.
supplicating is from the most powerful weapon the person has by asking Allah subhana wa ta’ala that he gives you the keys and opens your heart to the Quran memorization because the person hasn’t got the ability to get what is with Allah except to please Him SWT.
the Holy Prophet PBUH said that Gabriel came to me, and he blew into my soul, that there is not a person on the face of this earth, except that they’re going to eat the provision that was written for them, then the prophet PBUH said; then perfect how you try to look for your provision since it’s written for you, and then look what the Prophet said because you will not attain that which is with Allah except in a way that pleases him.
So what is it that’s with Allah? the Quran.
You won’t attain what’s with him, except him in a way that pleases him, by begging him and Allah loves subhana WA Ta’ala when his slave humbles himself, lifts his hands up Allah subhana WA Ta’ala, he loves and he will give to him.
So this is what helps memorize the Quran.

6. Revision

Imam Bukhari was once asked, one of his students came up to him and asked him, he said to Buhari; do you know anything any medication that if I take it will help with my memory?
Bukhari was the right person to ask this question to, because his memory was a miracle in the Hifz (memorization),
so he said; No, I don’t know a medication or something a person can take that if they eat, their memory would be good. He said. there’s no particular fruit or food that should be eaten that will bring your memory.
but he said I do know what can help the person’s memory and he said that is two things;
1. A Parson’s drive and will. the fact is that if the person wants this so badly and he’s putting every effort that he has.
2. The second one when the person excessively looks at this thing so much. Which is called “Revision”.
There’s not a person who’s memorized so much, except that he’s beating you with revision. so the person should do that when it comes to the Quran and as you can see the Quran was made for the hearts, the place that the Quran is meant to be in is the heart. when the Quran came down whose heart did he come down on?
It started off on the heart of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and the Sahaba the companion where did they memorize Quran from?
Look at the hadith when you read them that they used to say; the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم taught us. that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to teach us Istekhara, he taught us it to say the way, he taught us an ayah of the Quran.
The Companions they compared to that, that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم taught us this thing as he would teach us an ayah from the Quran, so they took it from his mouth.
Abdullah bin Mas’ud he said; I took 70 surahs from the prophet’s صلى الله عليه وسلم directly from his mouth.
Another hadith Surah Qaaf the female narrator she said I memorized surat al-Qaaf because the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to read it in the Khutbah and I memorized it from his mouth, so she went to write it that shows you from the prophet’s صلى الله عليه وسلم heart to her heart to the students of those.
So, that’s how the Quran used to be passed on.
it wasn’t in bookshelves and it wasn’t kept in on the walls and it wasn’t put into a frame.
A lot of people have ayah Kursiy on the what on the wall, but he doesn’t know it.
So the Quran was made for the heart, this is the relationship between the Quran and hearts.
so that’s where it should be in and we should always realize it’s not about a matter of writing it, it’s a matter of trying to memorize the Quran and keep it with us.
May Allah make us from the people of the Quran

“How often has a small force vanquished a large force by the permission of Allah? And Allah is with those who steadfastly persevere.”
[Quran 2:249]

In the third week of July 634, the Muslim army marched from Busra; and the march of this army was an amazing sight-one that would earn the immediate disapproval of any regular, disciplined soldier. It had none of the appearance of a normal army. Its advance was more like the movement of a caravan than the march of a military force.

The soldiers of this army had no uniform of any kind, and there was no similarity in the dress that they wore. The men could wear anything they chose, including captured Persian and Roman robes. There were no badges of rank and no insignia to distinguish the commander from the commanded. In fact there were no officers so far as rank was concerned; officership was an appointment and not a rank. Any Muslim could join this army, and regardless of his tribal status would consider it an honour to serve in the ranks. The man fighting as a simple soldier one day could next day find himself appointed the commander of a regiment, or even a larger force. Officers were appointed to command for the battle or the campaign; and once the operation was concluded, they could well find themselves in the ranks again. The army was organised on the decimal system-a system started by the Holy Prophet at Madinah. 1 There were commanders of 10, 100 and 1,000 men, the latter corresponding to regiments. The grouping of regiments to form larger forces was flexible, varying with the situation.

Even in weapons and equipment there was no standard scale for this army. Men fought with whatever weapons they possessed, and had to find their own weapons either by purchase or by taking them from fallen foes. They could have any or all of the normally used weapons of the time-the lance, the javelin, the spear, the sword, the dagger and the bow. For armour they wore coats of mail and chain helmets. And these could be of any colour or design; in fact many of them had been taken from the Persians and the Romans. Most of the men mounted camels; those who possessed horses formed the cavalry.

One remarkable feature of the movement of this great army was that it was independent of lines of communication. Behind it stretched no line of supply, since it had no logistical base. Its food trotted along with the army; and if it ran out of meat, the men, women and children could live for weeks on a simple ration of dates and water. This army could not be cut off from its supplies, for it had no supply depots. It needed no roads for its movement, for it had no wagons and everything was carried on camels. Thus this army could go anywhere and traverse any terrain so long as there was a path over which men and animals could move. This ease of movement gave the Muslims a tremendous edge on the Romans in mobility and speed.

Although this army moved like a caravan and gave the impression of an undrilled horde, from the point of view of military security it was virtually invulnerable. The advance was led by a mobile advance guard consisting of a regiment or more. Then came the main body of the army, and this was followed by the women and children and the baggage loaded on camels. At the end of the column moved the rear guard. On long marches the horses were led; but if there was any danger of enemy interference on the march, the horses were mounted, and the cavalry thus formed would act either as the advance guard or the rear guard or move wide on a flank, depending on the direction from which the greatest danger threatened. In case of need, the entire army could vanish in an hour or so and be safe at a distance beyond terrain which no other large army could traverse. In this fashion the Muslims marched from Busra.

The route of the army has not been recorded; but it undoubtedly lay north of the Dead Sea, for the army arrived at Ajnadein before the corps of Amr bin Al Aas, who joined the army at Ajnadein. Had the army travelled south of the Dead Sea, Amr bin Al Aas, who was still at the Valley of Araba, would have been picked up en route. The army probably marched via Jarash and Jericho, then by-passed Jerusalem, which was strongly garrisoned by the Romans, and crossed the Judea Hills stretching south of Jerusalem. Beyond this range it descended into the plain of Ajnadein, arriving there on July 24. The following day Amr bin Al Aas, moving up from the Valley of Araba on the orders of Khalid, arrived at Ajnadein, and his joy knew no bounds. He had been in a state of anxiety for several weeks, expecting the Roman storm gathering at Ajnadein to break over his head any day.

1. Tabari: Vol. 3, p. 8.