How Listening to the Quran help me memorise better

One of the methods I use to revise and memorise the Quran is by listening to Quran recitation by my favourite qari. However since most Quran recitation are separated based on surah, I find it difficult to revise longer surahs like al-Baqarah, Ali Imran and the likes of it.

Until I found VerseByVerseQuran. You can download Quran recitation split by aya or page. Since I attempt to memorise 1 page a day, the page that I’m memorising will be on repeat the whole day. I’ll listen to it while driving, while working, walking and pretty much anything that I do alone. That way I don’t have to spend too much time in revising as it is always playing in the background for the whole day. I will also recite that page and a page before in my solah.

Here’s my memorisation plan.

1. I start by listening to the page that I want to memorise.
2. After listening for a few times (about 5 – 10 minutes) while looking at the mushaf, I start memorising it.
3. I will end the first session as soon as I can recite the whole page from memory, even though it might not be really smooth yet.
4. I will have the page that I’m memorising on repeat the whole day.
5. I will recite the page that I memorised yesterday in the first rakaah of my solah and the page today in my second rakaah in prayers that day. If I’m short of time, I will recite it after solah. So that makes it 5 revisions for the day, excluding the revisions that I usually make through out the day while listening to the audio.

Fridays are my revision days. So on Fridays I will create a playlist consisting of all the 6 pages that I have memorised in that week and listen to it all day.

By using this method, the actual time I spend in sitting down and memorising the Quran is 30 minutes a day. I don’t count my revision times in prayers as every Muslim need to pray anyway. And I believe everybody can afford 30 minutes a day. Maybe cut 15 minutes from Facebook and 15 minutes from Netflix and you’ll find your 30 minutes.

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