Tim Humble – Your Roadmap To Quran Memorization – AMAU Q&A

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The importance of consistency in learning the Qur passage is discussed, along with the need for a routine for everyone to commit to memorizing it. The best time to work after fajr is after fajr, and the best time to work is after fajr. The importance of practicing the Qelsha app and not just memorizing the passage is emphasized, along with the need for a routine for achieving graduation.

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			All knowledge, except the Qur'an, is busy
		
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			except for the hadith and except for the
		
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			jurisprudence in the religion.
		
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			The knowledge in which he was, he said,
		
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			is to our extent.
		
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			The first question says, how do I stay
		
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			consistent when memorizing the Qur'an?
		
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			You know, what I really love about this
		
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			question is, I love about the fact that
		
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			the question actually, first of all, tells you
		
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			a great benefit.
		
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			That really the key to memorizing the Qur
		
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			'an is consistency.
		
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			Because I want you to think about something.
		
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			What is easy for you to memorize?
		
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			Let's just say, let's just say that you
		
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			can memorize a third of a page of
		
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			the Mus'haf every single day.
		
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			One third of a page of the Mus
		
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			'haf every single day.
		
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			Okay, one third of a page of the
		
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			Mus'haf every single day.
		
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			How much does that work out?
		
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			How long would it take you to finish
		
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			the Qur'an?
		
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			It would take you in the region of
		
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			five years.
		
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			Including revision, including, you know, making mistakes and
		
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			going back.
		
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			One third of a page would take you
		
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			in the region of five years.
		
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			How many people are watching this video who've
		
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			been practicing Islam for more than five years
		
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			and have not memorized the Qur'an?
		
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			A lot, I would presume.
		
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			A lot.
		
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			So really all we need is we just
		
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			need a person to commit to a third
		
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			of a page a day.
		
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			And even that can be on average.
		
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			Like if, for example, you did a quarter
		
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			of a page a day and then you
		
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			built up and then you end up doing
		
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			half a page a day or whatever.
		
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			But on average, a third of a page
		
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			a day and you'll finish the Qur'an
		
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			in five years.
		
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			If that's too much for you, even if
		
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			you did two lines, two lines, two lines
		
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			or even three lines every day, you can
		
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			still finish the Qur'an comfortably inside of
		
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			ten years.
		
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			So that actually shows us that it's just
		
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			a matter of consistency.
		
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			Now, I'll just put that in context that
		
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			a normal madrasa of tahfeef where the child
		
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			is going every day would probably expect the
		
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			child, probably expect the child to memorize between
		
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			a page and two pages a day.
		
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			And I'm talking about memorizing a third of
		
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			a page or even a quarter of a
		
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			page.
		
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			It's a very, very, very small amount that
		
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			you have to memorize.
		
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			Very, very small indeed.
		
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			Extreme small.
		
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			And you only have to memorize that much.
		
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			So it's about staying consistent.
		
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			It's about having a routine.
		
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			So you have to have a routine and
		
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			the routine has to work for you.
		
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			So we talk about this.
		
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			I mean, I remember speaking to Sari Abdur
		
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			Rahman about this.
		
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			Habibullah Ta'ala asked him about it.
		
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			You know, we can talk about when the
		
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			best time is.
		
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			The best time is after fajr.
		
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			The best time is, you know, whatever time
		
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			people select.
		
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			But honestly, although that might be a general
		
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			rule, the best time is actually the time
		
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			that works for you.
		
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			And the time that you can actually commit
		
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			to regularly reading that third of a page
		
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			and reading it, for example, 30 times.
		
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			And then reading it.
		
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			And, you know, you might start with a
		
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			line and then or two, three words, and
		
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			then it becomes a couple more words.
		
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			And you read again with a few more
		
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			words and then you read again with a
		
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			few more words.
		
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			I'm talking about the length of Surat Al
		
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			-Falaq.
		
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			قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الفَلَقِ So, for example, someone
		
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			starts قُلْ أَعُوذُ قُلْ أَعُوذُ قُلْ أَعُوذُ And
		
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			they repeat it a lot of times.
		
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			قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الفَلَقِ And they repeat it
		
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			a lot of times.
		
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			قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الفَلَقِ مِن شَرِّي And they
		
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			repeat it a lot of times.
		
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			قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الفَلَقِ مِن شَرِّي مَا خَلَقْ
		
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			Until the end of the Surah.
		
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			This is not a lot of work.
		
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			Maybe you need to repeat it 30 times
		
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			at the beginning and then it becomes many,
		
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			many more times after that.
		
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			Maybe it's a couple of hundred times by
		
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			the end that you've kind of gone through
		
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			it.
		
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			But it doesn't take a very long time
		
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			to do that in terms of the small
		
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			amount that you're doing and just repeating the
		
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			words again and again and again.
		
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			And obviously you have to have some time
		
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			for revision.
		
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			You have to have some time for reading
		
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			a bit more every day and things like
		
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			that.
		
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			But it's just having a routine.
		
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			So the first thing is make the amount
		
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			you're memorizing small.
		
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			Focus on repeating it more often and have
		
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			a routine that you can stick to.
		
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			Number three, have a system that works.
		
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			Too many times we see kind of the
		
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			blind leading the blind when it comes to
		
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			hifth of the Qur'an.
		
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			So we see that somebody who does not
		
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			have hifth of the Qur'an is telling
		
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			someone the best way to do hifth of
		
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			the Qur'an.
		
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			Wallahu musta'ala.
		
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			So go to the people who not just
		
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			have done it.
		
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			That's good.
		
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			Go to the people who have not just
		
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			done it.
		
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			Go to the people who have done it
		
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			and have done it for others.
		
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			You know, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100
		
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			people have passed through that teacher and more
		
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			and have memorized the Qur'an with them.
		
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			They've got a system that works.
		
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			Follow the system.
		
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			Don't make your own system.
		
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			Don't go backwards, forwards.
		
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			Don't, you know, take ideas.
		
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			Just follow the system they give you.
		
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			Have a teacher because a teacher will hold
		
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			you to account.
		
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			Memorizing yourself is very hard.
		
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			Teachers, these days you get an app.
		
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			You read into the app.
		
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			It sends it straight away to your teacher.
		
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			Your teacher sends you feedback.
		
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			That's what's available right now.
		
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			You can download an app right now.
		
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			I don't quite know the names of them,
		
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			but you could download the app right now
		
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			where you could read to a teacher online
		
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			and it will find your teacher.
		
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			The teacher will give you feedback.
		
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			But having a teacher who knows you regular
		
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			and established is better.
		
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			But I was just trying to point out
		
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			how easy it is to get in touch
		
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			with a teacher.
		
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			Have a teacher abroad.
		
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			Have a teacher over Zoom, over Google Meet
		
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			or whatever it is.
		
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			And have someone that holds you to account
		
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			for it.
		
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			And inshallah ta'ala in three to five
		
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			years, seven years is, you know, extremely slow.
		
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			You will have finished the Qur'an from
		
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			zero to complete.
		
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			And that just shows what you can achieve,
		
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			because we've said before that the Mutawn ilmiyyah
		
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			that you need to memorize as a strong
		
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			talib ilm is roughly, aside from hadith, is
		
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			roughly equivalent to the same kind of amount
		
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			of content as the Qur'an.
		
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			Any of the alfiyat and poetry and the
		
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			Mutawn that you need to memorize.
		
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			It's right around about the same size in
		
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			terms of, you know, number of words or
		
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			number of pages, probably around similar size to
		
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			the Mus'haf.
		
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			Or a little bit more than that.
		
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			Give yourself another five years, seven years, and
		
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			you've done the Mutawn of the talib ilm
		
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			very precisely, with a lot of detail.
		
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			Add to that the hadith, give yourself another
		
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			five years to ten years.
		
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			And now you have the ahadith.
		
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			Many, many, you won't have every single hadith,
		
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			but you've got a huge amount of hadith.
		
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			And how long did it take you?
		
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			15, 20 years, and that's going slow.
		
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			That is going extremely, extremely slow.
		
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			25 years.
		
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			How many people are watching this video, who
		
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			you are watching this video, and you have
		
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			been practicing Islam as an adult for more
		
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			than 25 years?
		
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			I can probably say, yeah, I can say
		
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			the same for myself.
		
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			Practicing Islam as an adult for 25 years.
		
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			In that time, you would expect, you would
		
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			say to the person, if you're a slow
		
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			memorizer, you should have memorized the Qur'an.
		
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			And the major Mutawn, the major, major Mutawn,
		
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			for example, the AMU prospectus for memorization, and
		
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			a good chunk of the hadith of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, that's what I would have expected
		
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			you to have done in 25 years, as
		
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			a slow memorizer.
		
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			وما أبرئ نفسي I'm not saying I'm innocent.
		
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			I'm not sitting in front of you to
		
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			say that I'm innocent.
		
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			I'm telling you mistakes that were made and
		
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			how to fix them.
		
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			So this is my advice, and Allah Azzawajal
		
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			knows best.