Asalamualaykum Wa Ramhatulahi Wa Barakatahu
My name is Yusuf and I am 13 years old. I have studied the Quran for 4 years Alhamdulilah
and I have completed the memorisation of the Quran.
I first started memorising and trying to learn the Quran when I was 7 years old.
I had no idea how to read or how to even “Alef, Ba, Taa”. I didn't know anything.
And that's when I first met Sheikh Abdul Karim.
He first started on a part time basis, he was obviously keen to memorise the Quran.
He would come one or two days a week and then eventually he committed himself to the
memorisation of the Quran.
And then I decided to step it up a little and start taking the full time classes at
Daar Ibn Abbas. And it was the most difficult and hard journey I have ever tried to undertake.
At many times I thought I would never be able to do it and I will never actually get there,
because it's not exactly easy.
And every night I would be in Duaa, Duaa, Duaa, just asking Allah that I can memorise
the Quran. Alhamdulilah due to Allah's mercy, last year I finished the Quran.
My name is Imsaeel Setohy, I'm 14 years old. I memorised the Quran when I was ten. And
it took me one year and a half.
When I first began, I used to not know how to read. My dad used to read on me, and I
used to follow him.
We started with Ismaeel, when he was three years old. Of course that was Kul Huwalahad,
Al Falaq, and Al Fatiha. And then we moved to phase two, where we started to sit with
him and start a program. And that was when he was 5 years old. And then what really made
a difference was the start of Daar Al Quran.
When I started I used to do one page everyday and I used to be constant, after that I increased
one page and a half. By the end I was used to memorise 6 pages a day.
The students at Daar Al Quran are all very hard workers Alhamdulilah and they attend
5 days a week from 7 am to 3 pm. The program itself it's very intense so they make many
sacrifices.
They say that time is at the top of your wealth. So I have to make the most use of it. Doing
it in Quran, so I spent my time on beneficial things. I still have friends, but I joke with
them in the right way.
My name is Zakariya Al Baba, I am 15 years old. I have been studying the Quran ever since
I was 11 insha'Allah very soon I will be finished.
“How long have you been coming to the Quran school Zakariya”
“From the start of this year.” “How much have you memorised?”
“7 Juz” “Masha'Allah”.
When a person memorises the Quran, ultimately the first one to benefit from the effort is
the individual themselves, but also the Parents. The Prophet (pbuh) said that the parents of
the one who memorises the Quran, will receive a Crown on the Day of Judgement, the brightness
of which is stronger than the brightness of the Sun.
Just thinking about how my parents will be rewarded, I'll be thinking “Wow, how would
I be rewarded”.
I wanted to be from the special people of Allah, so that when He calls my name at one
of His doors to come, and I read the Quran to Him.
But it doesn't end there, because the Prophet (pbuh) also said “The best of you are those
who memorise the Quran and then go on to teach the Quran”.
“What do you want to do when you grow up Yusuf?”
“I want to become a Sheikh”.
“So your going to memorise all those books behind you?”
“Yes. Insha'Allah”.
(Quran Recitation)
The biggest responsibility is not really to memorise the Quran, it's more to act upon
it. This is not just for the people who memorise it but for every single Muslim.
If it's going to be to impress the people, or just as a hobby as something to do. You
have to act upon the Quran that which you have memorised.
Imam Al Ghazzali says in his book, “Knowledge without action is madness, and action without
knowledge is void. And if you do not make amends for days gone by, you will say tomorrow
on the Day of Resurrection send us back so that we may act virtuously and it will be
replied to you “Oh Fool, you have just come back from there”.
The ultimate aim and goal of any teacher of Quran is for the student to memorise and then
act upon the Quran. And acting upon the Quran is following in the footsteps of the greatest
of all men [Prophet Muhammad]. The one whom our Lady A'isha describes as being “A walking
Quran”.
I think we should take that as an example, we should try to follow him and follow in
his footsteps. Even just doing little Sunnah's, like using the Miswak (Toothbrush) or even
just stepping out of the house with the left foot.
Any sunnah I knew that he done or said, I implemented it. Or tried my best to implement
To me he was my Master.
The Quran is one of the great Sunnah's of the Prophet (pbuh). Many of the Sahabah memorised
it, many of the Scholars. It's a big blessing. It's a great gift of Allah. It's one of the
miracles of this Ummah.
In relation to the memorisation of the Quran it is truly a miracle. In a number of verses
in the Quran, Allah tells us in Surah Al Qamr “We have made the memorisation of the Quran
easy, so is there a person who is there to memorise it”.
I remember one student he was saying to me after he finished memorising the Quran, he
was lost for words. He didn't know what to say. He didn’t know what to do.
I think I must have been really exhilarated because I realised that everything from Allah
that I had worked so hard for over the period of 6, 7 years it was going to happen from
the will of Allah.
It was going to become a reality. It was something I don't think I can describe accurately. It
was something just amazing.
I'm really thankful for the chance I have been given. The Quran is in reality it is
everything.
The existence of the Quran being alive in a community, in a society, in the same way
it is the soul and the spirit of that community and the soul and the spirit of the society.
And the more people we have in the society that are connected to the book of Allah the
more alive that society becomes. So that the whole town would be like a bee hive with that
sound, and that's the same sound that you hear when you come to a Quran school.
No matter where you go in the world. Whether it be in China, whether it be in Africa, whether
it be in Asia, or in the middle East. No matter where you go in the world, it is one Quran,
it is one Mushaf.
And the students in Australia who memorise the Quran, it is them continuing on with this
great, rich and deep tradition of the Muslim Ummah.