A young boy came to register for the Qur’aan memorisation class. The teacher asked him “Have you memorized anything from the Qur’aan?” The boy replied in the affirmative. The teacher asked him to recite from Juzz Amma (Juzz 30) and the boy recited the whole Juzz. Then the teacher asked him “did you memories Surah Tabarak (Juzz 29)?” The boy said “Yes!” and the teacher was surprised by his memorisation despite his young age. The teacher then asked the boy to recite Surah Nahl (Juzz 14) and the response was the same, and the boy recited the whole Surah. The teacher increased in his admiration of the boy. The teacher then tested him from the long Surat and asked him “have you memorized Surat Al Baqrah ? The boy again said yes and recited the Surah without any mistakes. The teacher was surprised and said “oh my son, have you memories all whole Quran???” The boy said “Yes!” and the teacher responded “Subhan Allah, Maa shaa Allah, Tabark Allah” and asked him to come tomorrow and attend with his guardian and he was very impressed.
The teacher was thinking how did the father manage to teach this boy without any mistakes.
When the teacher saw the father he was surprised that the father did not have an appearance which matched the Sunnah (shaving beard, not particularly religious). The father immediately knew what the teacher was thinking and said to him “behind this child is a woman who’s better then 1000 men…and I give you the good news that in my house I have another 3 children who have also fully memorized the Quran and my four year old daughter has memorized up to Juzz Amma.” The teacher was even more surprised and asked “ how did you manage to do this?”
The father responded “Their mother started to teach them the Quran the moment they started to speak and then encouraged them further by making them compete with each other, and whoever memorized first was given priority to choose which food the family has for dinner that night….and whoever was the first to complete their revision had the choice where the family would go out that weekend (in Muslim country Thursday and Friday)…and whoever was the first to finish memorizing the Quran would have the choice as to where the family take their annual holiday…and this was the environment in which these children competed with each other to memorize and revise their portions of Quran”
May ALLAH (SUBHANAHU WATA'ALA) open our minds and guide us to encourage ourselves and our children in the same way by following the Quran and the authentic Sunnah.
Aameen.
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