– As Salyamu Aleikum Wa RahmatuLlahi Wa Barakyatuh.
My name is Mahmoud, I'm 15 years old
and AlhamduliLlah I finished memorizing the Quran.
– Relation to the student Mahmoud Hamzeh,
his father first brought him to Daar Al Quran in Daar Ibn Abbas,
number of years ago
and in all honest in the beginning it was a little bit of a challenge
considering this is something that as teachers here in Daar Al Quran
we had never undertaken before teaching a child
or a student who is unable to read from the Mushaf directly.
– Well I can't see the words of the Quran,
I can't describe actually what I can see,
What I see in the Quran looks like dots everywhere
I can't actually see letters or words or anything.
– Initially he brought his Braille Mushaf,
and we started looking at how we could possibly start
with his memorization with that.
And then we tried another strategy and that was to learn based on listening.
– I memorize the Quran by listening
and AlhamduliLlah it was really easy.
I tried Maher Al Muaiqly and the reason why I chose him because like his recitation,
like it's perfect for memorization,
it's not really slow
and I don't know about his voice is really good
and that's why I was really good with him.
– In the beginning for the teachers involved it
was more of a bit of an experiment
and we weren't too sure as to whether how this will go,
whether he will succeed in in this pursuit or not.
But Mashaallah with the dedication of his teacher
and the dedication of Mahmoud himself
and the encouragement and dedication of his parents,
he has attained a goal that is to be envied by every Muslim.
– The last day when I when I finished the Quran,
I felt like really happy and like relieved
that I actually finished the Quran
and I didn't know if all the hard work that I put in,
like all the effort getting up early, going to school at 7 o'clock
and I didn't know if was gonna pay off at the end,
but AlhamduliLlah it did.
– And he's not the first to have ever memorized the Quran in this way.
In fact one of the greatest scholars of the Ummah – Imam Al-Shatabi,
who was from Andalusia, in Granada.
Memorized the whole Quran,
and he was visually impaired as well
and he is inspiration for every other individual
for every other student who wishes to memorize the Quran
and there is no such thing as a barrier from without
or that there is no such thing as something that forces me not to memorize the Quran,
but any barrier and any challenge can be overcome
so long as a person has that desire, the genuine desire from within to memorize the Quran first and foremost,
and then he's aided by Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la in doing that.
So ask Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la aspire and strive
and InshaAllah Allah will grant to what you wish
and what you strive for.
Wa JazakumuLlahu Khairan.
As Salyamu Aleikum Wa RahmatuLlahi Wa Barakyatuh.