My Journey with Quran

I'm blessed with a family whom my late father was a quranic teacher.A strict disciplinarian I managed to read quran in very early age.

Later i did not gain much in the school. Just revision of what i already got from my father.

My understanding and reading of gone" exponential "during days at medical school in Cairo.Nothing strange.Arabic language is the key to understand quran. During my childhood my father pressed me to memorise the few short suras especially for "namat" or the end of the stage of the learning reading quran where there was to be an occasion you r

ead these memorise verses following somebody who would read before you and you followed him reading phrase-ayat by ayat.There would be a special pulut semangat for each of the students to taste few bites of the pulut.Many times the occasion was hold in conjunction with ritual circumcision.

But in Cairo i got myself motivated with the help of usrah groups.So by end of my medical years i managed to memorised from surah 26 downwards to the last surah with couples of other surah.

Few factors that helped me.The first one the radio station:izaatul quran or quranic broadcast.Every there will be a reciter who will read and complete reading quran the whole week and my favourite one was Sheikh Khosairi.When i came back on holiday i was surprised that the quranic reading by Sheikh Khosairi

on the tape that was played either in the mosque or elsewhere was different from what I am hearing at Cairo which was much sweeter and powerful.

So i followed the reading week-on-week and followed the rhythmic intonation and that really smoothed me to bury inside my cortex.

The second one was more dramatic.I followed the friday sermons of a sheikh who used the session for tafsir quran: Sheikh Mutaal Jabari.Sometime i taped his sermons.Every week he would tafsir few ayats of a particular surah and what i did was to memorise that few ayats before the sermons and reinforced after that week in week out.This method gave me 2 surah:Yusof and Taha.

The third factor is of course my many good friends especially the Azharian medical students.They have to memorise few stipulated surah for their examination plus they were also memorising extra surah so i kept myself as their good company within their healthy environment as we stay

ed together in the same neighbourhood.

My first surah to memorise then was Surah Anfal.A kind of young energetic with very much spiritful i loved the surah as the content was surrounding the battle of Badr.

Back in Malaysia for good.No new surah gained.The life of medical officer in early stage was much of heavy manual works plus working in a new NGOs setting new kindergarten,new primary school all gave me not much time to memorise new things.All the time spend to maintain the memorised surah with specific days for a specific juz: sunday for juz 26,monday for juz 27 etc.

Then came my subspeciality training period.I tried the conventional method of memorising quran and as i did in my young days at Cairo.I tried to memorise AlBaqarah.Trying very hard, still not very successful.I spend every early morning sitting on chair looking through the window grazing at the quiet neighborhood of Albany Street Chicago.Overlapping of ayat.Very unhappy.

At age 45 i'm already considered myself age 50 putting to the nearest 10 digit.Now i promised myself.Allah helped me in memorising all the delicate anatomy of human body,of spines and its intricacies why i could not use the way i learnt and memorised medical books to memorise quran

Then i started duplicating my method of learning and memorising using illustrated quran pasted on all the walls of my house.Then alhamdulillah,i got what i wanted.