Want To Be A Hafidh ???

Want to be a hafidh ?

Learning and studying to be one? More like struggling to be one?

Alhamdulillah. May Allah make you one soon! Aameen
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Since I have posted a couple of articles where I spoke about my experience during my hifdh course, I got a number of queries regarding it. This isn’t the full one I promised to write about, but last night a friend of mine told me the struggle she is going through and it reminded me of something that I wanted everyone to be reminded of as well.

When I was doing my hifdh course, it was at the verge of my mother’s (Allah yer7ama) death. I started for a couple of months already when she was diagnosed of her illness.

If you have been reading my articles then you will remember how my mother found me my shaykha. Alhamdulillah. Since she was operated for her illness, I had to chop my time from my hifdh to take care of my mom, but what was so beautiful with my mother was, she never failed to remind me to revise and study beside her.

When she was in the hospital, I was with her and so was my studies. I got the table beside her filled with my books and notes and I did have consistent phone calls and video calls with my shaykha therein so that I couldn’t miss my hifdh course.

My mom never complained rather she kept reminding me and kept encouraging me, I remember her being shocked when I started writing the Basmallah in full arabic infront of her, she couldn’t believe that moment so she had to call my cousin who was literate in arabic to tell her I wrote it correctly, and the expression on my mom’s face during that time was priceless.

What I am trying to say her is that to be able to go with this course, you have to have a strong support coming from your family, I really do consider myself blessed as I had my mom along with this journey compared to the orphans I hear who do so well in this course. Alhamdulillah.

When my mom’s death came, it was a horror for me, but whenever I miss her, I miss the Qur’an. Whenever I cry, I find comfort only through the Qur’an. Whenever I am about to give up because it was becoming hard for me to retain the words of Allah in my heart, I remember her words, “go and revise so you will understand, you have to revise as much as you want us to see each other again in the Hereafter.” So when I feel like giving up, I remember her telling me not to, and so Qur’an and Allah became my refuge in that darkest moment of my life.

In my journey without her by my side already, I found in the books an inspiring man who made me understand the words of my mom when she said “revise so you will understand”.

This man was amongst the children of the Sahabah Radiyallahu Anhum, and this is the answer I have for those who asked me what made you kept going on doing that course?

He was Abdullah Ibn Amr, the son of Amr Ibn Al ‘As RA and Raitah Bint Munabbih Bin Al Hajjaj As Sahmi RA.

When Abdullah embraced Islam, many verses and chapters of the Qur’an had been revealed, so what he used to do was to memorize and write it down from the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wassalaam and his sahabah RA.

He kept company with Zaid Ibn Thabit RA. Abdullah indeed had a special place for the Qur’an in his heart. He would hardly left off reading the Qur’an for more than an hour and he was so zealous in memorizing the whole Qur’an.

But what is amazing with him was he did not memorize it simply in order to have it preserved in his memory, rather he memorized it in order to fill up his heart with it and to be an obedient slave because he had “understood” what he had preserved in his mind.

He wanted to preserve it not only in his mind but in his heart so that this preservation can come naturally within his actions. Allahu’akbar. He held such soul filled with certainty with every word of the Qur’an. It is said that whenever Paradise was mentioned to him, it was as if he could see it with his own eyes and whenever the Fire was mentioned, it was as if he could hear its raging and blowing.

And whenever he would recite the Qur’an, it was so emotional, it was full of feelings that one can feel the humility, gentleness, happiness and pleasure. Something a person who truly understands the words of the Qur’an can only achieve. A person who reads it with all of his faculties and comprehended it with all of his being and so he finds that all the pleasures of life are in no comparison to this pleasure (e.g being satisfied of Allah as your Lord, blessing of Islam, remembrance of Allah).

Abdullah indeed showcased that Qur’an was not revealed simply for the purpose of recitation even thought its recitation is the best form of remembrance of Allah still, it came as a course of action to be followed - this was the principle Abdullah Ibn Amr RA had and implemented during his life.

It was through learning about his life that I was able to hold on and get inspired to learn more about the Qur’an. I wanted to preserve it the way Abdullah Ibn Amr had. May Allah grant us such ability. Amin

Indeed, sometimes Allah takes away someone from our life that we couldn’t think of losing to replace it with something we could have never imagined. Alhamdulillah.

So I advise you, learn the Qur’an do not just simple “memorize the qur’an” If you would notice, the hadith says “The best among you (Muslims) are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it.”[Sahih Bukhari 545]  - it did not mention or say “memorize the Qur’an”.
When the heart would understand, so will the mind and so the actions will come naturally, and when teaching it’s not usually the academic teachings that leaves a great impact but it is usually the manners and the actions of your teacher.

That’s why it says learn it coz when you’ll learn it, your manners and actions will teach it even without uttering a sound

And in learning, you get to understand and reflect from it, unlike in mere memorizing, you just memorize even if you do not understand it.
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Life is full of obstacles, if ever you find yourself going through hardships in whatever aspect you are trying to excel and achieve in, be reminded of the lives of these great people (the Sahabah), they are the closest one we should find inspirations from.

The struggle is real but remember Jannah is so much worth this struggle.

So strive hard, O Muslim.

See to it you leave this world, with a bag full of good deeds that would benefit you in the Hereafter.

May Allah help us reach our goals that would benefit us and stray us away from things that are of no benefit for us.

Aameen