Maryam Amir – Emotional Recitation Hafitha Meriem Guerroumico
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Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah,
Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah,
Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah,
Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah,
Alhamdulillah,
subhanAllah, super excited to have all of you with us today.
Inshallah, today is going to be a little bit different than the way
we've done it before. We have a really incredible reciter of the
Quran mashallah with us. Inshallah, she is actually from
Algeria, and the interview is actually going to be in Arabic,
but I'll be translating for her, and she'll be doing the recitation
inshallah. So we'll start with just having her waika, salaam. Are
you saying salam to yourself and have Mala that's so awesome.
She'll be joining us, and we'll welcome her, and then ask her to
share a little bit about her Quran journey. And then Inshallah, after
that, we're going to have her recycled Quran, if she's open to
doing so. Inshallah, Alhamdulillah, she already said
that she will be recycled Quran inshallah. And then Inshallah,
we'll ask her about she's been on Quran competitions in Algeria, and
she's won Mashallah. She has placed in Quranic competitions,
and she's also recited Quran on television. And so we're going to
ask her about that and also ask her about her in Algeria, about
women reciting, what it's like for women as reciters. So Inshallah,
it's such an honor to have you all with us. Super excited to Injil
hear her story and hear her recitation Mashallah. It's such an
it's such an incredible gift to hear the recitations of different
different people Subhanallah, because each person brings their
own kind of like mix into the recitation. They bring it with
their own feelings and their own style. So so it says, it's very
exciting and such a such a blessing to see that
Alhamdulillah,
um waika, salaamshallah, you are in so many different places before
she joins us. If you guys have any questions that you want to ask,
please let us know. Inshallah, we can, like Islam on authority, we
can have a short conversation before she comes on. Inshallah,
SubhanAllah. Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah,
masha Allah and Kuwait. Masha Allah, how long did it take me to
memorize? It took me seven years. I started when I was 17, and
that's so sweet. Thank you for that. You know, every single
minute we should be praising Allah, especially when we're just
waiting and hanging out Alhamdulillah. It's a, it's a,
it's an investment in our in our dunya and our Akira. But I started
when I was 17, and I didn't know Tajweed at all, but it was like I
had spent like my the year before that, just reading the
translation, listening to the Quran all the time. And then the
more that I listened, the more that I was actually, you know,
trying to read and understand, the more that I wanted to memorize it.
And so when I went to my first Quran teacher, my first Quran
teacher asked me, she was like, Do you want to memorize the Quran or
do you want to memorize it correctly? And I was like, I just
want to memorize like, What do you mean correctly? And she's like,
you're going to finish the whole thing and you're going to have to
start all over, because you don't even know how to recite it. Like,
I didn't have any idea. What about tijuid? I could barely read in
Arabic. I was so slow. So first she had me starting with just
reading in the, you know, in this like book, which is, like, famous
for just practicing, like, how to say the letters and how to do the
rules. And then after that, Alhamdulillah, I started actually
memorizing. I started from Surat Al Baqarah, because my Quran
teacher said that most, most people who do some sort of Quran,
when their kids start with jazamma, so many of you, maybe you
memorize, you know, like a few verses, a few Surahs from jozamma.
But sometimes when we memorize them, when we're kids, we don't
know how to recite them correctly, and so when we're trying to
memorize them, No, I'm not out of when you're starting to memorize
them, you don't,
you don't. You know you're you're saying the wrong types of words.
Yes, I am what you're saying the wrong types of words, like you're
saying it you're saying the Teju eat incorrectly. And so when you
start and you're starting the whole new place, and you're
learning new rules, you apply the new rules to a new place. So I had
never memorized before, so I'm memorizing it new with the new
rules that I learned, instead of re memorizing.
Joza Amma, and I didn't joza Amma, I didn't know. When I started my
memorization, I memorized. I memorized from Al Baqarah before I
finished jozama. And so like when I was starting to do joza Amma, I
had done all of the rules hamduda already. And so by the time I got
there, I was able to correct the mistakes that I had learned as a
kid that I'd completely forgotten about in all those years because I
didn't like panala. I used to go to Quran class when I was, like,
in seventh grade. For real, what I would do is I would write down on
a piece of paper the verses in English, like, in English, English
transliteration, like, B, I, S, M, I, L, L, A, H, like, Bismillah.
And like, I would write that for every single like, how to recite
with a transliteration. And I would, like, look down like this,
and while my teacher was looking at her, must have to correct me. I
would read it like that, and she would think that I'm reciting like
a stump in Allah. May Allah, forgive me, but I was in seventh
grade. I wasn't really into it. I didn't really want to be there.
And Alhamdulillah, I'm so grateful that ALLAH blessed me and honored
me with being able to really do the memorization because I wanted
to as a as a young adult, Alhamdulillah. And that was such a
gift of Alhamdulillah. Mean, for such such a blessing, to be able
to memorize it and want to do that, Alhamdulillah.
So give me one second, because we are obviously in different time
zones, and the clariah should have been on by now, and I just want to
make sure that we are
right on the same page inshallah. So please make the kid for a
minute. SubhanAllah.
Alhamdulillah. Subhan
Allah, Allahu. Akbar Subhan Allah, yeah, subhanAllah, I'm not sure.
Okay, so let's just keep having a conversation. Inshallah, what do
you suggest? Is it better to go through the whole translation and
to see you before starting the memorization? No, I don't think
so. But it really depends on what your goal is, if your goal is to
do the actual memorization, then in that case, you don't need to
know all of the tafsir to be able to memorize. However, it's really
helpful to know what you're memorizing. And definitely for me,
I needed the translation before I learned Arabic, because I learned
Arabic as I was memorizing. So once I learned it, Alhamdulillah,
I was able to start really able to focus on the meaning in Arabic
itself. But before that, I didn't know it. And so I was reading the
translation as I was memorizing. But I had spent like six years
reciting, listening to the Quran in Arabic and reading the
translation. And so like listening in Arabic, reading the translation
when you're doing that every single day, then you start to
understand the general messages of the Quran. So for me, I went to
Egypt, and when I was there that they they placed me when I wanted
to study Arabic, they placed me straight into level three, and my
teacher started saying, You don't speak Arabic at all. Like she was
so surprised. And she's like, why are you in level three? I'm like,
I don't know. This is just where I placed. And then the more that we
started classes, she realized that I understood everything related to
Quran, all of the vocabulary of the Quran. That's when I
understood what the Arabic was about. Because I had spent so many
years listening to Quran in Arabic and England reading the English
translation. So if you are just trying to understand it for your
own worship, your own connection, read it in the translation, listen
to it at the same time, so that you get an idea that okay, these
verses are generally talking about this topic. So inshaAllah, may
Allah honor us all with being able to pray Taraweeh and the masad
this year, Allahumma, Amin, that while you're standing in taraweya,
you can actually listen and understand what's being said and
just feel like
this is a message for me. This is a message for my life.
Subhanallah, what an honor to be able to feel that connection. So
Inshallah, that helped a little bit. It took me seven years
because, oh, masha Allah, Ana Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah. She's
here, Alhamdulillah.
But the point is basically that I studied while I was working, while
I was going to school full time, while I was having so many
responsibilities I never, ever took time just to simply,
simply memorize. I never had the time to do that, so plan to take
10 years. That's okay, but just plan to do it consistently while
they could salaam, Alaikum to Ari a momkin, mom can
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Baraka.
Alhamdulillah,
it's such
an
honor to have Claudia hafilan with us, mashaAllah all the way from
Algeria, and Inshallah, she's going to speak with us about her
journey to the Quran. Mom, can tabdaina be this Auntie Bede Mal,
Quran rahlati, ke Mal, Quran kefati, Mata Badi, Lima badati, he
has the Quran, and I'm asking her to tell us about her journey to
the Quran. Why did she start memorizing? When did she start?
What? What made her want to start memorizing and
reciting the Quran? Okay, we did that in
LA Masha Allah, so she started when she little,
yes. Oh, well, in salamani. She's just, she's an active
Abu Asmaa
challenge. Saying that. She's, she, you know, she's just saying,
you know, thank you for having me, and she's happy to be here, and
it's such an honor to have her just some other bihadi
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Okay,
yeah,
Mashallah. So
she comes from a family of people who are with the Quran, people of
knowledge. And so since she was five years old, she's been
Starting with the
Quran
sabbatical law.
Now,
sorry,
yeah. Again. When she got to high school, she decided that she
didn't want
to keep going with the Quran,
and she kind of fell away from it, and she started getting into
things that weren't that weren't, that weren't things that she, you
know, not, not wonderful things, yeah,
so So
looking out of payments and for An angel of satu
Ali Nikki, okay? Daniel, for us. She
said, the more that she went away from the Quran, the more she
realized the importance of it. Because the more that you go away
from it, the more you realize when you had it before that,
subhanAllah, your life is not the same. I'm doing a very I'm not
doing a word for word translation. So then Alhamdulillah, she came
back to the Quran, and now mashallah, she's constantly
with the Quran.
Message to adults
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the hamdulillah and
Masha Allah, Masha Allah, so she was continued to study with her
teachers. Alhamdulillah, she finished, finished, finished the
half of Quran. And now, Alhamdulillah, she's also teaching
children, and she's teach, she's teaching woman. Alhamdulillah,
yes, sir. Masha, Allah, Allah, you. Verdict key. Mom canal,
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Subhan Allah, Allahu, very Kiki, Aunty, Masha, Allah ish ishtarati,
Musa bakat, Al Quran. Kefa badetti, Phil Musa Kat and anti
foisty. Masha Allah Kefa bedeti, yani,
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I'm asking her she has and I told her that she has been a Quran
competitions, and she's won competitions. How did she start
getting involved in the competitions?
I.
And cannot will musava Pali can't be Jamia, any video in a doors
you can't always happen come to any country, must say the
gentleman
at our 11 Yes. Masha, Allah, Yani, subhanAllah, okay, best of so
she's saying that the first competition was when she was in
college, and at that time, she was far, far away from the Quran, but
she saw that this, there was going to be this competition. And so she
thought, why not just, like, try, and just just try Subhan, Allah,
Allahu, Akbar,
yeah,
Sherlock, to mean Bain Pali, better for lab. Can we any
powerful Labor Party, but well handled any level, and then you
also even, yet, even marketable? Ok? Continuously
handle this topic. Masha Allah, so she's saying that this competition
had men and women, the students who were attending the university.
And she couldn't, you know, she hadn't been close to reviewing her
Quran and doing the rules and but she just went go, went ahead and
did it anyway. And she was so surprised that she not only got to
the final round, but Allahu Akbar, she actually went into first
place. And so this opened the doors for all of these other
opportunities to
continue
to work with
the Quran and competitions. Masha Allah Yes, any
SubhanAllah? So
the more that she
started doing these national competitions, the more she started
focusing and enjoying this, you know, this connection with the
Quran Subhanallah, Baraka, lofiki,
Barak, wafina,
alatil, fast wa Hal hada, Shea, Adi, then nisafi, Josiah, * and
misamo. Sabakat, alatil, VAZ Yani field, Jamia adds, I'm asking her,
is this like she recites in competitions and she recites on
television? Is this something that's part of the culture? Yani,
he's at you. Is it normal for women to be a Quran reciters like
her?
That's very
mean. Yani McKinnon, ekama, the California
California, masha Allah, yes, Obama and some list of within
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she asked me where I'm where I live. I said, California. And she
said, Maybe this isn't normal for you where you live. But here she
said, Dr Anne says, so I like let the, let those basically, let
compete,
let let you compete. I'm doing a very terrible translation of the
aya, but it's, she's, she's saying that this ayah doesn't say that a
woman should not do this. Or it's, it's not, it's not conditioned.
It's not, it's not made small, like, like, like, only men should
do this. Rather, it's open that all people should be working hard
for the Quran and competing with one another for this, this, this
beautiful Quran, and for the hereafter in this way. And so this
is something that you know, men and women, they compete against,
with one another, with the Quran, and that sometimes women are even
better reciters than the men, and that we see that, and that is so
powerful for us, why I want to always ask these questions is
because when you grow up never seeing it as a woman, you never
know that you have, you have a space with Quran, that the Quran
is for you too. And so that's so powerful. Barak alone, speaking
Masha Allah.
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learn the city and Nara what had to learn?
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blissfully, okay. And then has TV.
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huh, what everyone we're just I'm just telling you how much I'm so
grateful for her time, how it was such an honor to recite with her,
her recitation, Mashallah. Masha Allah, she is literally she wins
competitions. Come on like her recitation is insane. So Barak
Allah, what an honor to have her here with us. Subhanallah, shut up
and then ajamian and Inshallah, if anyone would like to continue
learning from her, Helen internet monkey and NES Yani, yahudun, JIRA
Seth maakhi,
yes, WhatsApp. So she teaches on WhatsApp. But Kate Yani, they send
you a message. Yani Allah, Allah, Instagram. Hatsa, you are seen.
Una makaki,
yes, no problem. Okay. So message her on Instagram, and then
inshallah on Instagram, she can connect with you so that you can
take classes with her on WhatsApp to bonok Allah, what an incredible
honor to be able to do that inshallah. Let me give you how to
spell her name as M, E R, I, E M, G, U, E R, R O, U, M, I, C, O, so
go back to the I've done, sha Allah, and then you'll be able to
hear the the I'll tag her Inshallah, so you can click on on
her name and and follow her recitations. Her recitations are
insane to Barak Allah, many of the old to take classes with her, just
Amanda and be Looking Inshallah, the dunya, the Medina, when sha
Allah
and