Mirza Yawar Baig – Concern yourself with yourself

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The speakers discuss the benefits of sharing news and events online to avoid distraction and harm. They recommend setting goals and benchmarks to improve one's understanding of Islam, and emphasize the importance of learning about Islam through reading the Quran and practicing daily prayer. They stress the importance of measuring goals and setting goals through setting goals and reciting the Quran, and encourage people to practice these activities.

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			In the name of Allah, the most Gracious,
		
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			the most Merciful.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
		
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			the worlds.
		
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			Peace and blessings be upon the Messengers and
		
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			Prophets.
		
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			Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and
		
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			blessings be upon him and his family and
		
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			companions.
		
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			One of my very dear friends, my brother
		
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			Anil, who sent me some really good stuff.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, Allah bless him.
		
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			He sent me something from one of the
		
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			sayings of Sheikh Muhammad Ghalib, hafizallahu warah, who
		
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			said, Do not busy yourself with following people's
		
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			private matters.
		
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			Do not busy yourself with following people's private
		
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			matters or seeking to know their personal affairs.
		
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			It may be that due to this, you
		
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			will be trialed, you will be tested with
		
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			turning away from rectifying your own state of
		
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			affairs and your uprightness about Islam and your
		
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			worship of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And by Allah, what a tremendous loss that
		
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			would be.
		
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			Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, O
		
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			you who believe, protect yourselves and your families
		
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			from a fire whose fuel is men and
		
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			stones.
		
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			Today, the whole purpose of social media is
		
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			to do the opposite.
		
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			It's to get us involved in everyone else's
		
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			affairs and invite others to be involved in
		
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			our affairs by sharing with them things which
		
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			really are personal and there is either no
		
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			benefit in sharing them or there is actual
		
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			harm in sharing them.
		
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			So we share them.
		
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			We talk about our successes and we don't
		
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			know that there are people out there who
		
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			when they see you succeed, they become jealous
		
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			and they wish ill for you.
		
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			You talk about something that you enjoy.
		
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			You talk about something that makes you happy
		
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			and you don't realize that there are people
		
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			out there who don't like to see you
		
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			happy.
		
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			And some of those people can be quite
		
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			close to you.
		
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			That is why silence is such a huge
		
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			benefit because the word that does not leave
		
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			your mouth cannot cause any harm.
		
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			In the khatab, he said, I have regretted
		
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			my speech many times but I have never
		
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			regretted my silence.
		
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			Now this does not mean being silent about
		
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			things where you should speak out like for
		
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			example against injustice.
		
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			That is something that you should not be
		
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			silent about.
		
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			You should speak out about that.
		
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			But being silent about other things which are
		
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			personal and which really should not be in
		
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			the public space.
		
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			So what must you do?
		
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			Focus on yourself.
		
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			And focus on yourself by doing two things.
		
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			One, by setting goals.
		
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			And second, by having benchmarks.
		
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			Who do you compare against?
		
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			So first and foremost, learn about Allah.
		
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			The way to learn about Allah is to
		
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			read his kalam, the Quran al-Karim.
		
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			Make it your mamool, your daily practice to
		
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			read at least one juz every day.
		
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			One sipara every day.
		
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			So that way every month you complete one
		
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			Quran.
		
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			And then in Ramadan you do your one
		
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			juz plus you pray Taraweeh.
		
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			And in the Taraweeh in most places the
		
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			Quran al-Karim is completed.
		
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			So that means you would have completed 13
		
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			times the Quran al-Karim in one year.
		
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			And if Allah gives you tawfiq, do more.
		
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			But at least minimum 13 times the Quran
		
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			al-Karim would have been completed.
		
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			If you follow this method.
		
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			One juz every day.
		
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			The best way to do that is to
		
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			wake up say an hour, hour and a
		
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			half before the time for fajr starts.
		
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			And pray tahajjud.
		
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			And after that read Quran until the time
		
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			for fajr.
		
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			And so then you can easily finish one
		
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			juz.
		
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			And then go to the masjid for salatul
		
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			fajr.
		
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			So learn about Allah by reading the Quran.
		
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			Then memorize the Quran.
		
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			Do whatever you do.
		
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			One ayah more today.
		
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			Each day one ayah.
		
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			Two ayahs, three ayahs.
		
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			Memorize Quran.
		
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			Ask yourself how much Quran do I know?
		
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			How much do I know?
		
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			Some people know, you can say I know
		
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			one juz, two juz, three juz, ten juz.
		
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			Others may not know an entire juz.
		
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			But they may know different surahs.
		
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			And if you add all of them up.
		
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			That may be equal to one or two
		
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			juz or more.
		
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			Whatever it is.
		
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			So how much do I know?
		
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			And then compare and say how much did
		
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			I know last year?
		
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			How much more this year?
		
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			You know there is something that I May
		
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			Allah give me the tawfiq to follow what
		
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			I preach also.
		
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			And the same thing to all of us.
		
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			Which is that what you don't measure you
		
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			don't know.
		
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			What you don't know you cannot change.
		
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			You cannot improve.
		
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			So measurement is critical to all improvement.
		
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			So ask yourself how much Quran do I
		
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			know now?
		
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			And then measure yourself one month later.
		
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			How much more did I learn?
		
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			Next month how much more did I learn?
		
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			And so on.
		
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			How much more did I learn in this
		
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			year?
		
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			And make the niyyah to memorize the entire
		
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			Quran.
		
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			Because we know there are hadiths of memorization.
		
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			One of the most beautiful of them is
		
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			The Prophet said on the Day of Judgment
		
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			Allah will call The people of the Quran.
		
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			The people who have memorized the Quran.
		
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			Who know the Quran.
		
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			Allah will call them and say Now read
		
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			as you used to read in your life.
		
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			And Allah will increase their darajat as they
		
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			read.
		
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			Until the last of what they know.
		
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			And that will be their darajat in Jannah.
		
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			The Prophet said when a person recites Quran
		
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			Allah listens for that.
		
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			So try to recite.
		
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			Not in a loud voice but audibly.
		
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			Because Allah listens to that.
		
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			Also if you recite then you can correct
		
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			yourself.
		
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			According to the rules of Tajweed.
		
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			If you have a doubt record yourself.
		
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			These things have become so easy.
		
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			Just turn on your phone and record yourself.
		
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			And then play it back or play it
		
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			before your Qustad.
		
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			And correct your Tajweed.
		
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			So recite because Allah listens to that.
		
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			We know the hadith of the Prophet.
		
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			He said that when a person recites Quran.
		
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			When he reads Quran.
		
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			Allah gives him one hasana for every letter.
		
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			And he said one hasana is ten rewards.
		
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			Because Allah said The one who comes with
		
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			one hasana I will give him ten likewise.
		
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			So one hasana is ten rewards.
		
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			And then he said to clarify it further.
		
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			He said I do not say that Alif
		
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			Laam Meem is one letter.
		
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			He said Alif is one letter.
		
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			Laam is one letter and Meem is one
		
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			letter.
		
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			So when we recite Alif Laam Meem.
		
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			We are getting three hasanas.
		
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			For which the rewards are thirty.
		
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			Imagine how beneficial that is.
		
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			And remember if somebody is memorizing.
		
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			You are reciting the same thing over and
		
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			over.
		
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			And Allah did not say Allah will give
		
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			you that reward only for the first recitation.
		
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			If I have to recite Ten times Then
		
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			I am going to get the reward For
		
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			the total number of letters in that ayah.
		
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			Multiplied by ten.
		
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			So ten times the reward because of the
		
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			reward.
		
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			Each letter one hasana.
		
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			Each hasana ten rewards and I am doing
		
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			this ten times.
		
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			So I have got ten rewards.
		
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			So try to do this.
		
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			Just the other day I was reading somewhere.
		
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			Somebody said this methodology of memorizing Quran.
		
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			May Allah make it easy for us.
		
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			He said he called it the rule of
		
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			50.
		
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			And he said the way to do that
		
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			Is take one page of Quran.
		
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			Start from wherever you want to start.
		
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			Take one page.
		
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			And he said each page read it ten
		
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			times after each salah.
		
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			So ten times after Salatul Fajr.
		
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			Ten times after Dhuhr and so on.
		
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			So in the five salats you have read
		
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			that page 50 times.
		
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			Next day do the test yourself.
		
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			And if you need to do it again
		
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			then do it again next day.
		
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			And he said this is how you will
		
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			memorize the entire Quran.
		
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			Quran is very easy, simple.
		
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			Ten times after each salah.
		
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			Doesn't take long.
		
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			And if it takes long it takes long.
		
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			This issue of not taking long and something
		
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			being too long is I think overemphasized for
		
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			no reason.
		
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			Something is good.
		
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			Something you enjoy you don't say it takes
		
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			too long.
		
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			The question of long and short happens only
		
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			when you are not enjoying something.
		
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			So if you feel that something is too
		
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			long then ask yourself am I enjoying this
		
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			or not.
		
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			Or is this something which I am really
		
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			not enjoying.
		
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			And if it is the Kalam of Allah
		
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			then I am not enjoying it.
		
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			So ask yourself.
		
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			And say if you try and memorize the
		
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			Quran as much as possible let me keep
		
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			on trying.
		
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			So inshallah even if we don't complete it
		
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			whatever we do because we make this Niyah
		
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			and we do it like this then inshallah
		
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			I am not saying a particular method I
		
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			am saying we do it consistently then inshallah
		
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			we hope that Allah will give us the
		
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			reward of memorizing even if we have not
		
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			memorized.
		
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			And that will raise us inshallah with the
		
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			Hufadh of the Quran.
		
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			Al Fatiha.