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In a journey to everywhere
Between cities and nations
In the presence of the Wise Remembrance
The Lord of all hearts Has unified us... Has unified us all.
And for the sake of memorizing the book
We have knocked every door
and we shall continue this right path, before things come to an end
It is important while memorizing the Quran
to be away from the bad companions
It is also important while memorizing the Quran
to be away from the negative fellows
A passive fellow may be a good, righteous, and religious person
But this negative person may hinder your memorizing of the Quran
may discourages you
I will give you an example
When you spend time with one of these negative persons
maybe you met him/her at a gathering, or at work
you tell him/her that you are going to memorize the Quran
do you know what they would say?
"don't fool yourself!"
"How are you going to find time for that?"
"see how old you are now!"
" see how busy you are!"
all these negative impulses, will make you believe that you can't memorize the Quran
on the contrary
the positive friend, he provides you with the good advice
he'd say:" I am with you, I'll help you, I can bring you a good Shiekh to teach you"
" I'll provide whatever you need to memorize the Quran"
This is the positive friend
e.g. you say you want your children to memorize the Quran
- "how old are your kids" - "They are 6, 7 and 10"
"Oh, don't make their lives difficult"
" Don't be *** them"
" This not the right time"
" Wait till they're a bit older"
This is the negative fellow
By Allah, he is an obstacle
Always be with positive people
when you are memorizing the Quran stay away from negativity
don't sit with these people, pay no attention to what they say
Be with those who benefit you
on conclusion, I want all the viewers
Those who memorize the Quran and those who are not,
If you don't want to memorize the Quran,
or Allah didn't help you to do so,
don't discourage others
at least give a good advice
I talked in previous shows about the reward of memorizing the Quran
I explained that reading each letter is 10 deeds,e.g. Alif-Lam-Meem is 30
Encourage others by mentioning that to them
someone might start memorizing Quran and soon finish it, encouraged just by your good words
So let's all use these good words so everyone around us would be encouraged to memorize the Quran
And for those who memorize Quran: stay far away from negative people!
[Morocco]
In Morocco, we met this distinguished Hafidh
A reciter of a very beautiful voice
He worked hard and with much patience till he won the honor of having memorized the whole Quran
The reason, a quality company around him
When we look into those examples, and listen to their stories with the Quran
We feel encouraged to memorize the Quran
This makes us go back closer to Quran and to memorize it even after we had abandoned it for long!
This indeed is one of these beautiful examples, from the beautiful Arabic Morocco
Shiekh Ahmad Al-Khalidi
- Welcome shiekh - Welcome
- How are you? Hope you are well! - Praise to Allah, may Allah bless you
Shiekh, we would love to know the beginning of your story with the Quran
First, Allah is most worthy of my praise, He helped me memorize Quran
This happened for a number of reasons
One of these reasons was that I had the friendship of a number of Imams
Some of my friends had memorized Quran and encouraged me much to do the same
I already loved the Quran and enjoyed reciting it and learning it since I was a young boy
So after I lost most of my eye sight, I enrolled in Al-Alawiyah School for eye-blinded
- How old were you at that time shiekh? - 7 years - Then!
So I studied there for 5 years, and learned Braille
After that, I proposed to my father that I enroll in a school to memorize the Quran -Yes
He was a bit hesitant, but I convinced him.
-So your father was hesitant! -Yes because he was more worried about my future living and earning
So after he accepted that, he used to sit with me, dictate the 1/8th that I had to memorize every time
So I would write it in Braille, then read it back to him for correction
Then I start memorizing, this was a daily routine
Then afterwards, I learned with a number of scholars
- I also heard that you wrote the whole Quran in Braille - Yes
- Yes, Allah helped me, so I wrote it - Congratulations to you! - Praise to Allah
Usually, people who lost vision memorize Quran only by listening -Yes
Because not everyone can go to schools that teach Braille
- It is available in few cities - It is also hard to learn Braille?
Yes, very difficult for the Quran, to write down a part, then editing it with corrections
But just because we know how much our Lord Has prepared for those who memorize the Quran after all these hardship...
We ask Allah to grant you that reward, and elevate your ranks with the Quran, in this life, and hereafter
" The companions of Paradise, that Day, are [in] a better settlement and better resting place."
" And [mention] the Day when the heaven will split open with [emerging] clouds, and the angels will be sent down in successive descent."
" True sovereignty, that Day, is for the Most Merciful. And it will be upon the disbelievers a difficult Day."
" And the Day the wrongdoer will bite on his hands [in regret] he will say, "Oh, I wish I had taken with the Messenger a way."
" Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a friend."
" He led me away from the remembrance after it had come to me. And ever is Satan, to man, a deserter.""
" It is the peace for my heart"
" And my friend in times of distress"
" And it's the medicine for my sickness"
" And it is the light of my grave"
[Turkey]
The story of Muhammad Ali Al-Albani hasn't finished
For that, as soon as he left all his family, to memorize Quran in Pakistan
He saw there what he never expected, but he was determined to memorize the Quran
I traveled to Pakistan, and what a journey I had
From my country, , to Istanbul, I took the plane
And afterwards, I had no much money left, so I decided to continue by bus
All this trouble out of love for Quran, and love for memorizing it!
When I wanted to do that, I was always thinking about my people
The dictator of our country didn't save an effort to erase this Deen from the Albanians
I was thinking, I will put even more effort than he did, to bring this Deen and Quran back home
So from Albania to Istanbul by plane, the from Istanbul to Pakistan by bus
- Yes, the bus trip lasted for 7 days - 7 days to get to Pakistan!
Yes, we crossed the entire Turkish lands, the to Tehran; the capital of Iran
Then we reached Zahedan, an area in Khorasan, between Pakistan and Afghanistan
We stayed there only five hours. I ate something quick, and then we left for Pakistan
There, I went to Quetta, then Lahore
This was the full 7 days trip
By the end of it, my legs were so heavy
- Out of exhaustion! - Yes, despite I didn't walk much on it
There are many people who travel long distances for completely different reasons
There are those who even travel following sins and desires
But this pain you experienced traveling, you did it for the sake of Allah
So He helped you memorize the Quran.
Tell me, how was it like, memorizing Quran in Pakistan?
Well, I got there, and as you know, Pakistan is not a very wealthy country
And in addition, the school was in a village. People there were so poor.
When I saw that and when I saw my school for the first time, I felt depressed
You know, I came from Europe, and saw Turkey, a very beautiful country.
Switching from that to a small village in Pakistan... my head was about to explode
- And you were very young..... - ... I felt like a diluted drunk!
All I was thinking was, what am I doing here?
But after that, my teachers were so welcoming, they showed me much respect and generosity
It would be so beautiful that while you memorize Quran, even if you just finished 1 or two juzz, at the beginning of your journey,
...to daydream about the day you finish memorizing the whole Quran
Don't say: Oh that's far!
Even at the beginning, think that Allah has chosen you to start that task, and that you will finish it, by the will of Allah
About myself, when I started my journey memorizing Quran, and when I finished my first three juzzs
I went to my father- may Allah have mercy on him- and said,
"Dad, I only finished 3 juzzs of the Quran, it is taking so long, will I ever finish it?
He said, " No, Fahad. Start thinking as if you have already finished it"
" You already reached the goal when made your intentions for the sake of Allah"
" Allah will make you succeed"
" Always imagine you had memorized the Quran"
How beautiful it is that while you are in your car, work, home, you read the narrations from the prophet- may peace be upon him.
" The professioned in Quran, is with the Ambassador Noble angels", you read that as soon as you wake up!
You read: " Recite, and elevate, just as you had did in dunyah"
So beautiful narrations
" Quran comes in the day of judgement as an intercessor for its readers"
All these things will- by the will of Allah- motivate you to memorize the Quran
If you go on my website, you will find that we compiled for you all the hadeeths that would left you up
All the amazing words our prophet -may peace be upon him- has mentioned in the status of that who memorizes Quran
So how long did it take you to memorize Quran in Pakistan? I know you got there at age of 17
Well in Pakistan, I had continued to be sick and weak
So after each month I spent in school,I would spend 1-2 weeks in hospital
- The weather there was not good for me - Pollution?
Learning tajweed only took me 2 month and half
- But you need to first learn reading Arabic and Quran, right? - Yes, I started by learning alphabets
And even after I learned tajweed, my Albanian language did not have like Kha or s`ad
- didn't know them! - These were extremely difficult for me to bring out
- .. because you weren't used to them
And also the Qaf, from the throat. I used to repeat it by the dikhr beads
- So how long did it take you to learn that? - Two and a half months!
- the learning of letters and.. - ...and tajweed!
Then I moved on to memorizing Quran, initially 2 pages a day
- Everyday? - Yes
- You started from 1st juzz? or from 30th? - From last juzz A'ma
... but because of my sickness it took 2 years and a half
In 2 years and a half you memorized the whole Quran!! This is such an achievement!
You know, in Arabic countries, some people know the language very well
But would still take them so long to memorize it
But you traveled so long from Albania, in such a hard journey, and all the way to Pakistan. We want to show this to our beloved...
Even when I was in school, my teacher told me: " You are old, you cannot memorize Quran"
Because the younger the better for memorizing, as soon as one reaches puberty, it gets more difficult to memorize the Quran
Because the mind changes, and the thinking. So there is some truth to what he said
- But of course all your worries was... - I told him: " Oh my teacher, by Allah, I came 7000km just to memorize the Quran and you are telling me you are too old! you cannot memorize Quran!"
- you traveled all this long distance and suffered a lot so as to memorize the Quran
by Allah, you would have said: if I was 40, I will still finish what I came for!
Exactly!
And today, we see the mark of this Quran on Shiekh Muhammad Ali
He memorized the Quran, then moved to many other countries, and earned so much knowledge in various sciences
And today, he is teaching others.
I ask Allah to make this knowledge beneficial
And I ask Him to reward you by each letter you memorized, given all the challenges you went through.
the greater the effort, the greater is the reward!
" Lovers at Heaven, there greeting is Peace"
" Memorize-rs honored by the words of the Lord of the creation"
" They recite during the night, and the day"
" Oh Allah, make them among the Ambassador noble Angels"