Assalamualaikum.
The second post for today! It seems that I am rushing to get this blog full with words. Haha! Anyway, Dr Lihanna asked us about four weeks ago to find out various ways or techniques to memorize Al-Quran. Job is successfully done and I found these techniques from muslimmatters.org, which I don't remember the full url to that link/web. This is the 13 steps provided by Yasir Qadhi and I rephrase or summarize his points.
- Sincerity
- Consistency - Not skip even one day. At least 3 lines a day, or 5 would be more ideal.
- Timing - Right after Fajr for the spiritual breakfast.
- Atmosphere - Ideal place would be a secluded area and a quite place.
- Familiarity - Same time, same place and using the same mushaf.
- Repetition - repetitive repetition and listening.
- Memorize with meaning - Read the translation first and then match it with the Arabic word.
- Surround with recitation - Listen to what you about to memorize.
- Find recitation buddy - To listen and correct your recitation.
- Recite daily what you memorize in your prayers.
- Try to revise the verses you remember in previous 7 days.
- Do not jump around. Stick to the order of the surah.
- Three chunks - Start from the back, the easiest surah. *30,29,28 *28-Surah Al-Kahfi *Surah Al-Kahfi-Al-Baqarah
These are techniques I found from the website muslimmatters.org. I would like to apologize to the author if what I wrote is a misunderstanding one. InsyaAllah, it's not. From all these techniques, Dr Lihanna then instructed us to relate it to some of the psychological terms regarding memory. Some of them are encoding specificity, maintenance rehearsal, and chunking.
For the assignment, I have yet to choose my technique of memorization. But, from this, I may of thinking to use one or two technique(s) to help me to memorize the Surahs. Okay, that's all from me. Assalamualaikum
