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This is a very short kind of impromptu session but there's a couple of really important questions the students have asked And I really wanted to just touch upon them as well as to ask for your questions on this specific issue.
So the first thing is if you get a Qur'an teacher, if you get a Qur'an teacher How do you combine the method that you've been taught with your Qur'an teacher?
So the first rule is when it comes to your teacher you're not allowed to have a choice in anything When you sit in front of a teacher you are literally like a slave to that person You don't have a choice, you don't have an opinion, you don't have a preferred method You just sit down with them and say Sheikh whatever you think is right for me However, it doesn't mean that you can't use the method in your own time.
So what is the benefit of the Sheikh? What are you trying to get from the Sheikh? Ideally you're trying to get two absolutely critical things from the Sheikh Two things that are absolutely critical. The first is that before you start your hifdh you read to the Sheikh so you don't memorise wrong It's so easy to memorise incorrectly In fact it's normal even when you know how to read the Mus'haf Like you might miss something, a ghunnah or you might miss a letter or mispronounce So you want to read the page to the Sheikh before you start your hifdh.
The second thing you want to do is to get your hifdh checked No Sheikh is going to do hifdh for you In the sense that he's going to, very rarely he's going to sit with you and memorise and memorise Usually he's going to say go and memorise and come back So when he says go and memorise you can use the method that you have learnt Insha'Allah And the method, there's more than one method as you were taught it the first day with Sheikh Abdur Rahman There were different methods that you could have used right So there's different options.
But the key thing is you really need your Sheikh is to ask politely that Sheikh is it possible I could read the page to you before I start my hifdh Because it will help so much You're just reading it and then all the mistakes that are there he'll take it out And then he says okay Sheikh am I ready for hifdh? Okay go He might say come back tomorrow He might say go sit in the corner for an hour and come back when you're ready But the point is then you can choose your own method.
But what you can't do is you can't sit in front of the teacher and tell the teacher that Sheikh I don't like the way that you're doing it with me, I prefer the way that Sheikh Abdur Rahman told me Because your teacher is your teacher at the end of the day You have to trust that person, you really have to completely trust that they Then whatever method, it might be your method is good.
But maybe it doesn't suit them They personally can't manage it, they don't know how to do it or they're not comfortable with it So that's the first thing, so if you have a Qur'an teacher You have to follow what they want But in your free time you are free to do whatever you want So you're free to strengthen your memorization using this method or whatever But whatever your teacher tells you in the Qur'an class You have to stick to it, there's only two things I would say Try your very best to get out of the teacher with politeness and requests and asking Number one is, please can I read the page to you before I start Because I want to make sure that I don't have mistakes If the Sheikh says I'm busy, say Sheikh is there a student I could read to Is one of your students I could read to We heard Abu Darda used to do that with it And it's very common, I used to do that with my Sheikh Wallahi, Sheikh Jaza Allah Khairan Wallahi he really helped me a lot in the Masjid al-Nabawi Masjid al-Nabawi has a long queue for teachers and it's very hard to get in And some teachers they have like, you have to write your name Whoever writes their name first on the list that day will read to the teacher And if you came like a bit late, then you won't be able to read that day But my teacher used to never refuse anybody who came to him to read Never, like if you come to him even if he's never seen you before Sheikh can I read to you, sit down But you would read to his students a lot So he would say come, so you today, him, go read to him So even if your teacher says I'm too busy to listen to your first page Just say to your teacher that, if you don't mind Sheikh, is it possible I could read to one of the students As I'm worried that I might have some mistakes on the page That maybe I might memorize them wrong So he will Insha Allah allow you to read, you say go and read to him Go and read to him And then you check your reading before you start If you can't check your reading before you start Minimum, listen to it Put Hussari on, listen to it several times while reading the Mus'haf So that you're sure you're not going to make a mistake Insha Allah That's the issue of Hifth.
Now because one of the brothers asked this very good question If I have a teacher, how do I join between the AMAU, the method that we've learnt And how do I join between my teacher? The next question we had a lot Which I really wanted to deal with between you guys is How do I manage AMAU and Qur'an and Arabic So many of you already speak Arabic So Alhamdulillah for you we said Insha Allah We'd like to make a separate AMAU course Of you can call it like brushing up your Arabic And for people who speak it but they just want to correct their dialect or whatever They want to just pick it up We don't have that at the moment But in any case Insha Allah khair I did suggest the alternative Which is that I suggested most people who speak Arabic at home Their problem is going to be Islamic books And they're going to say what I struggle with is Islamic books I don't struggle with Arabic, I speak Arabic at home with parents all the time But I struggle with Islamic books So in that case what I would suggest you do Is you start by getting Mutoon Ilmiya That is Islamic texts that are written for very young children Like for example Fiqh for like a 6, 7 year old, 8 year old A book of Aqeedah that is written for like young children And practice reading it and then go up and up and up from there Like start with a very simple text It's got like lots of spaces in it and lots of easy words in it There are some on AMAU if you want on the AMAU Arabic course You could if you have access to it You could dive into it and just take the Mutoon In like Fiqh, in Aqeedah But if you don't, but there's no point getting access to it Just if you already speak Arabic There's not necessarily a benefit to that Then what I would suggest you do if you already speak Arabic Is as I said get those Mutoon If you can't find them, go and take the Medina books The Medina, the books, the topics that are not Not the Medina books that are printed Book 1, book 2, book 3, not those But the books that are on the topic of Aqeedah and Fiqh and whatever You can download them from Fatwa Online I remember they have them If you go to the website Fatwa Online You can download the entire Medina books Like the ones they don't print They give you in the Jami'ah But they don't actually print them in the shops And you can actually get the book of Aqeedah, book of Fiqh And just go through it Because they'll basically do the same thing for you They'll teach you the words that you don't know That relate to Fiqh and that relate to Aqeedah And relate to Tafsir and everything They'll teach you those already So take Fiqh book 1, Fiqh book 2, Fiqh book 3 It's just language By the time you finish them Your Arabic will be fine for reading Islamic books Because just vocabulary is missing And a little bit of grammar, that's all That's all that's missing.
But people ask, how do I mix AMAU? So we want you to give priority to the Qur'an, no doubt But if you look at what is the minimum commitment For the AMAU Academy Ideally, the minimum commitment for the AMAU Academy Is one hour of Aqeedah And one hour of Fiqh every week Right? That's typically what we We don't make it an enforced minimum But it's our minimum recommended amount Is that you take one hour of Aqeedah That is one lesson of Aqeedah And one lesson of Fiqh Every week Don't worry that you're behind Don't worry you haven't got past the introduction But the goal would be Sort of a basic minimum commitment Would be two hours a week I don't think that two hours a week Is going to get in the way of your Qur'an InshaAllah And two hours a week I think everybody can commit to Taking two hours a week And bear in mind that for most of the courses The video will be much less than an hour long It could be like 20 minutes long 25 minutes long.
Why do we say Aqeedah and Fiqh? Aqeedah teaches you what to believe And Fiqh teaches you how to practice your religion properly. So it's like the essential things. While you're memorizing the Qur'an If you have a little bit more time here You can take Aqeedah, Fiqh and like manners Or Aqeedah, Fiqh and seerah Or Aqeedah, Fiqh and whatever You can take a little bit more But what's important is It doesn't have to be daily Like nobody made a condition on you That the academy content has to be taken Every single day You can do a minimum of a couple of hours a week. In that time It would be better for you to give priority To Arabic and Qur'an Qur'an first and Arabic second. So for example Just as a rough example You can adjust it according to your own preferences And your own abilities Maybe you want to give Two thirds of your daily time To the Qur'an And maybe a third of your daily time To the Arabic course If you don't speak Arabic. So for example A person that says I'm going to give two and a half hours a day For example, it doesn't have to be a third It could even be like two hours for Qur'an And half an hour for Arabic Or an hour and a half For Qur'an And an hour for Arabic And you guys have seen what you can do in an hour and a half With Qur'an, you can do a lot. So for example You go like that With regard to how How do you know exactly how much So you need to evaluate your performance If your performance in the Qur'an is not good enough Like you're just not getting any further Then you're going to have to increase your Qur'an. Qur'an comes first. But if you're doing fine with an hour and a half Then look at your Arabic. Is your Arabic too much a day? Is it just too many words And you're not learning them? Cut it down, no problem. So you adjust it like that And then maybe once a week, twice a week, Three times a week You do the academy for now. Once you finish the Qur'an inside of two years Or a year and a bit Then you can definitely take more of the academy at that time. Some people said You mentioned in the academy itself You mentioned That you only need to do five Ajza' in the first level You need to do five ajza' Five juz' in the first level. That's true. But that was more of a minimum Commitment rather than For the Ashab al-Qur'an. Ashab al-Qur'an who have a goal to memorize the Qur'an, I would say do it something like that Maybe for example if you've got two hours a day Give an hour and a half to the Qur'an Half an hour to Arabic. And then once a week take the half an hour Arabic off Or twice a week Take the half an hour Arabic and replace it with One lesson of Aqeedah And one lesson of Fiqh. That's just a rough guide. You look at your own self If you find that the Arabic is just too much I'm not taking the lessons in I need to go slowly Go slowly and then add some more of the other lessons If you feel like my Qur'an is going fine And I'm happy with it. Yeah you can like for example If you were doing two and a half hours But you decide to cut it down to two hours So you can take a little bit more of an Arabic lesson. Arabic will help your Qur'an And Qur'an will help your Will help your Arabic, they'll go together. So just very very quickly because we are short on time Have any of you got any questions About this issue How to schedule Amey Or similar to that like issues of memorization? One more thing before I take your question Some people said I already started Memorizing Mutun So what's your view about memorizing Texts while memorizing The Qur'an? I'm very much against memorizing Any text until you have Finished more than five Juz of the Qur'an. The reason is less than five Juz, it seems to be that Five Juz is kind of like a limit. Once you pass it It's very likely that you'll memorize A lot or all of the Qur'an. When you're less than five Juz It might be that you don't Ever get beyond where you are So we don't want you to get distracted. Once you get to five or ten Then you get to fifteen and twenty It's much more likely That you will finish the Qur'an. So you can add like Some time every week to memorize Poetry, to memorize Key texts and things like that. So what I would say is If you started something, don't lose it.
Like you started the forty hadith of Imam al-Nawawi Don't stop it because there's No benefit for you to have started it And then you lose it and then you have to do it again. Just continue, just give it less time. Like maybe do just maybe an hour A week or ten minutes a day Or whatever, okay? Until then, once you've done that Don't add anything else Until you get to at least Five Juz of the Qur'an And not just five, but you've got A program where you're adding a Juz Regularly, every two months Every month, every three months you're adding one And you've got no doubt The Qur'an is going well. Then now you can add a little bit of Poetry and text and things like that That it doesn't distract you from It doesn't distract you from the Qur'an. So for me, what I would like to see For someone that I know they're not distracted Is two conditions. Condition number one, they reached five Ajza of the Qur'an. They reached five Juz. That's my first condition. The second condition is, they're adding A Juz on a regular basis. So it could be every three months It could be every two months, according to the speed of memorization. But it's getting, it's going. And like the next month, okay I've got Now I've done a Juz and a half, two, then I've done another one. Then another one, and it's going forward. If that's happening Then you can, if you have spare time In your timetable, you can add Some points.
Last last thing before I take your questions is Someone might ask, I've got university I've got studies, I've got exams. There's no doubt Those things will come into play. And the answer is Do the best you can Fear Allah as much as you can Try not to ever lose At least, at least your Wird of the Qur'an, at least. That means your regular portion that you don't Leave it everyday, we don't leave that. No matter what National disaster, Exam, Interview, we don't leave That portion of the Qur'an everyday. So at least that. But if there's times when you maybe miss Memorization one day because you've got An exam the next day What can you do, if you couldn't do it, you couldn't do it. But one thing you'll find, memorizing The Qur'an, Wallahi it will help you So much, so much in your Secular, I don't like the word secular, Let's call it worldly, worldly exams In your worldly exams. Because let's be honest If someone can memorize the Qur'an like that And they know the ayah at the top of the page And they know the ayah before and the ayah after Tell me any university Degree that has even a Quarter of the memorization of the Qur'an And I've seen even medicine Even the ones that are like High end, they don't.
The memorization for the entire degree Doesn't even equal a quarter of the Qur'an. So you can Easily You can ace your exams. Like we used to see in Kulitul Hadith, I used to be shocked. Some of the students For every exam, I used to ask him You get good marks? He said yeah, I just memorize everything the teacher says. Everything, I just memorize the entire 16 weeks of lesson. I just memorized it. I used to sit there with the teachers. The notes they've taken from the teacher And memorize them like the Qur'an.
Because once you've memorized and you start getting used to it You can memorize anything. So that's what Allah made easy for me to mention Allahumma as-salatu wa as-salamu ala Nabina Muhammad Wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.
