In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
It has been about a week since Ramadān has passed. I am still looking back and holding on desperately to my Ramadān self. Alhamdulillah! We got to witness the month of Ramadan and I pray that we are among the successful ones. May Allah accept our ibadah.
This Ramadan, I decided I needed mine to be about the Quran. I wanted to just be with the book of Allah ﷻ. Alhamdulillah! I read more than I would have normally set as a goal. I didn’t read any other book even a spiritual one talkless of fiction all through the month and I must admit, that was hard, I started feeling like I wanted to read a parenting book, or a random book that has been on my shelf for ages or some other book on a random topic but I pulled through and held on to that idea.
I attended a lot more tarawih in the masjid than I have in the past three years and I was so humbled by the Qur‘an. And I realized again that the Qur’an needs constant engagement. And in the past three years, I have studied and taught arabic and gone through some tafsir and been consistent with monthly tadabbur via the community, women of tadabbur and still, there was so much of it I didnt still get or just found for the first time. There were times I would think of a sister who shared something or my teacher who said something about a particular ayah and it all deepens the experience with the Qur’an.
And maybe that is the connection we seek. And I pray we do not ever take that connection for granted.
I was also quite humbled by a number of suwar that I had previously memorized and I found myself struggling and I wondered maybe I needed to change with hifdh meant to me. The work towards becoming a carrier of the Qur’an is not until I have ten ajza in my heart, it is in holding tight to whatever Allah ﷻ has already blessed me to be able to carry. SubhanAllah!
May Allah ﷻ make us among the carriers of the Qur’an.
I have a few things I am working on including a list of the 100-ish most common words found in the Qur’an in the hope that it allows us to start to see some familiarity in the Qur’an.
If you have some Saturdays free, or are willing to make the time come June In sha’a Allah, feel free to join our community study of Surah Al-Kahf as well.
And finally, if you do want to start towards reflecting in the Qur’an, no matter where you are in your journey towards arabic. Stop procrastinating and join us over at the women of tadabbur.
We also have a free Qur’an recitation class and free Qur’an accountability group, our next goal is to memorize Surah Sajdah. And if you want to start learning Qur’an arabic have two more spots. Fink the relevant links here.
Over and over again, Allah ﷻ assures us that the Qur’an is easy. Let’s remember that as we shy away from the learning phase, that is the rate-limiting step to our growth.
May Allah ﷻ make us of the people of the Qur’an. May we not be among those who the prophet SAW would say “they left it as something forgotten.” Amin.
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O the Qur’aan! What can I say.
May Allah honor us by allowing us be of its carriers. May we love it and live it. Learn it and teach it. May we be of its people, the people of Allah! Aameen!