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5 min readJul 3, 2022
“If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
How foggy is our memory?
How fragile is our reptile brain?
How high is our retention rate?
I close my eyes. I entered the palace. And then I see it as I go from one room to another.
All the verses on the tablet reveal themselves to me. I get out of one room and to the next one.
I recite all the verses from memory.
I see the smile on my teacher’s face.
“Well, done. Wipe out your tablet and prepare the ink to write the next chapter (sūrah).”
I clean the wooden tablet with bleaching water.
I lean on the wall of the Quran school and put my tablet on my lap.
I dip the nib into the ink and write on the newly dry tablet.
