Bismillaah
This is an image that ran in the phone book until they found out that it is a little unusual.
Subliminal messages are in images every day. Subliminal images are on video boxes, in magazine ads, even in the phone book as the image to the left supports.
Subliminal tapes are sold by the millions to people that want to motivate themselves with custom subliminal messages.
First let me get a few things out of the way: businesses should be able to offer their products to ethnic markets if they wish without someone calling for a boycott simply because the targeted audience is Spanish or Jewish or even Muslim. There is a “however.”
However, the company should not market products if doing so:
Of course, it is unlikely that infidel corporations will purposely support terror, but whenever they deal with Muslims they need to take extra precautions because many Muslim organizations are actually front groups for terror. Take the case of Campbell Soups:
Israel National News,
Popular Soup Boycotted Due to Halal Line of Productsnternet blogs have been calling for a boycott of Campbell Soup products after its Canadian subsidiary introduced a line of soups certified as halal, meaning they’re prepared according to Islamic dietary laws.
The halal soups were introduced by Campbell Co. of Canada in a few Canadian markets in January. They are designated with a special label, are available only in Canada, and the company has no plans to offer a similar line in the United States, according to company spokesman John Faulkner.
Earlier this month, blogger Pamela Geller, who runs the popular Atlas Shrugs blog, began calling for a boycott after getting wind of the halal soups. She was soon joined by other bloggers calling for a boycott of one of the most famous canned soups in America.
Speaking to the Washington Post, Geller explained that she has no objection to the halal certification, but rather objects Campbell’s decision to have its Canadian products certified by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an organization which has been accused in 2007 and 2008 of being linked with the Hamas terrorist organization. Prosecutors wrote that ISNA possessed “a wide array of testimonial and documentary evidence expressly linking” it with Hamas and other radical groups.
“No one is suggesting they not have halal food,” said Geller. “I’m not against halal food any more than I’m against kosher food. My issue is who’s doing the certifying.”
Daily Mail UK,
KFC diner told ‘you can’t have bacon in your burger here – we’re now halal’A diner was left fuming after a KFC restaurant took his favourite meal off the menu because it breached their new halal regulations.
Alan Phillips was told he would have to travel five miles to another branch if he wanted the Big Daddy, a chicken burger, topped with bacon, cheese and salad.
The branch, in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is one of 86 KFC restaurants which is running trials of a scheme where they sell nothing other than halal meat.
But suppose this was about KFC or McDonald’s catering to Jews and selling only kosher products, what then Bernie, would you make an exception then? I would be opposed to such a thing unless the restaurant accommodated gentiles as well. For example, there is only one kosher McDonald’s outside of Israel in the world, in Buenos Aires, where the hamburgers are kosher which means you have to get the Big Mac without cheese. But if you want your burger your way, there’s a regular McDonald’s only a minute away in the same food court.
If a restaurant chain cannot afford to accommodate both gentile and Jew, both infidel and Muslim, then it must not favor the minority. Religious accommodation should not mean the faithful of other religions, or non-religions, should suffer.
I am violently opposed to any group buying a restaurant franchise and eliminating dishes they find offensive. If you buy a McDonalds or KFC, then leave the menu alone. Otherwise one day Hindus will buy McDonald’s and eliminate beef from my hamburgers. Muslims will eliminate sausage from my sausage, egg and cheese. Vegans will eliminate everything except the garden salad.
Thousands of Jews own McDonald’s and Burger King and KFC franchises without changing the menu to Kosher only. Muslims and others should do as the Jews do.
There are many halal restaurants by major chains in mostly Muslim countries. This is fine since they are catering to the culture of the host country.
It should be mentioned that the KFC has 750 restaurants in the UK of which 100 are halal only. The store mentioned in the article above has reverted to a regular menu in June because of poor sales.
Bismillaah
Dear Reader,
WASHINGTON (CBS4/CNET) – The days of freedom on the Internet, even during a time of national crisis, may be coming to an under a new U.S. Senate bill. The legislation would grant the president emergency powers to seize control of or even shut down portions of the Internet during times of national emergency.
It’s been dubbed as an Internet “kill switch” the
Salman Khan has turned the tables once again. His latest movie, Dabangg, is all set to be one of the biggest ever hits in Bollywood history. Not just Salman fans but even film-buffs who never had a special liking for the macho star, seem enchanted by the film.
Dabangg is quitessential Bollywood masala movie packed with action, emotion and some romance. So what sets it apart from other films? For me, the foremost positive point of the movie is that the poor man is again back in the big-budget movies.
Who would have imagined that a woman selling earthen pots could be the heroine in a movie anymore? Sonakshi Sinha who plays the female lead role opposite Salman Khan, sells ‘surahis’ and her father is an alcoholic who is to be dragged back home often from the street or railway track.
It’s not Circa 1975 and it’s several generations since Sholay, still, it works. Fed up with NRI or homegrown millionaires of the likes of the ‘sophisticated’ Raj Malhotras whose filthy rich ladylove would only travel in swanky cars, it’s a surprising and welcome relief.
Even the role of Chulbul ‘Robinhood’ Pandey, played by Salman, is that of a middle-level cop who barely understands English and lives in a humble house, later getting a quarter allotted in the police line. Bollywood is back not just in UP but also its main characters are from poor background or representing lower-class stratum of the society. [Earlier this year the low-budget movie Ishqiya, that had got commercial success, was also set in Uttar Pradesh]
Further, the story is based not in a metropolitan city rather in a small town. Pandey is shown working for Lalganj police station and it appears to be a small town in the midst of rural Indian heartland. Pandey has a strained relationship with his stepfather and stepbrother.
He becomes a policeman, a crook cop, who can eliminate anyone by staging a fake encounter, and has no qualms in taking bribe, of course, from big criminals. After all, he has to survive in the system where corrupt politicians have nexus with the outlaws. Still, this ‘crazy’ supercop has certain principles and he will go to any lenghts to ensure that the poor gets justice.
For the last year or so, Indian audience was waxing eloquent about evolving Bollywood movies that may not necessarily have the song-and-dance scenes. ’Intelligent cinema’ was the buzzword. But here is another movie that doesn’t require audience to think much.
The film has incredible stunts, the item song ‘Munni badnaam hui’ and some crude jokes have been thrown in to keep us hooked for almost two hours. However, despite being a ‘formula film’, it somehow gels this time. After the debacle of the much-hyped Veer, Salman badly needed a hit and Dabangg appears to be a mega blockbuster.
While Amir Khan may be the cerebal actor and Shahrukh Khan seen as the star catering to the classes, it is the ’bad boy’ Salman–who seems to connect with the masses. Either it’s multiplex or theaters in small towns, the movie is getting packed houses everywhere and it’s a testimony to his charisma.
In his mid-40s the third of the Khan troika doesn’t seem tired or aging as yet. The stunts may be a bit unreal, with bombs exploding and jeeps being blown off and going up in air and falling after somersaults, but the hero survives it all. [Dabang is a word used in North and Central India. The meaning, as per Comprehensive Urdu-English dictionary is 'bully'. Origin: dabaana, dabang=one who can put others down, also used for someone who is courageous, the movie-makers say that dabang means fearless]
The dialogues, particularly, the punchlines for Salman and his swagger, are a hit with his fans. After this movie, we will see lot of youths tucking their sunglasses behind their collar, just like the cop Chulbul Pandey does it. With record earning of around Rs 50 crore [500 million] in the opening weekend at the box office, once again Sallu has proved his critics wrong.
Perhaps, along side Peeple Live, movie-goers also need movies like Dabangg that are just meant to entertain. Movies where the hero plays the superman and gets cheered by the crowd until it’s happy ending. Dabangg is certainly one such movie and it is not at all necessary to judge all movies as per the Western definition of cinema.
We enjoy it, we give a thumbs up. That’s all.
The following is a guest contribution. Reuters is not responsible for the content and the views expressed are the authors’ alone. Ibrahim Kalin is senior advisor to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. This article first appeared in Today’s Zaman in Istanbul and is reprinted with its permission.
By Ibrahim Kalin
Has multiculturalism run its course in Europe? If one takes a picture of certain European countries today and freezes it, that would be the logical conclusion.
The European right is thriving on anti-immigrant attitudes and is likely to continue to reap the benefits in the short term. But there are forces that are sure to keep multiculturalism alive whether we like it or not.
Take Germany as an example. Chancellor Angela Merkel has said bluntly that Germany has failed to integrate large immigrant communities. The complaint is that most Turks and Muslims who came to Germany in the 1960s to jumpstart the German economy after World War II have not integrated into German society. They kept their language, religion and most of their cultural habits. Instead of blending in, they created their own parallel societies.
But is it logical to conclude that multiculturalism is dead because certain European countries have failed to integrate their minority communities? First of all, what some European countries present as multicultural policies have very little to do with multiculturalism. Again Germany is a case in point. German governments welcomed Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Turkish workers in the 1950s and 1960s and treated them as “guest workers.” But it never occurred to them that these so-called guest workers were also human beings with social and familial needs just like any other people. As a result, the German governments made very little or no effort in creating a social and political environment for them to integrate.
But it would be a mistake to think this is only a matter of policy. The deeper issue is how culture and multiculturalism are understood in the German context. “Multiculturalism” as a term has largely negative connotations because “Kultur” in German means something rather different than culture in French and/or English. Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler and Thomas Mann used Kultur to denote the intellectual, spiritual, artistic and religious values of a society.
For many German thinkers in the 19th century, civilization, which meant European civilization, was a sign of decadence and loss of cultural purity. Culture, by contrast, meant something more profound, something to be found in the Geist of a nation. Given this definition of culture, how is any non-German-born person supposed to participate in the German culture?
Besides these critical issues, what is the alternative to multiculturalism? Forced integration? Assimilation? Walls of separation? Or a complete halt of all immigration? The last option, which is the never-ending political talk of all right-wing political parties from Berlin and Paris to Washington, is not an option at all. The reason is that the economic realities of globalization, the current state of labor force and demographic trends in Europe make it impossible to stop immigration.
The age of cultural purism has ended. Europeans need to wake up to this simple fact. As Fernand Braudel, the prominent French historian of civilization, said: “The history of civilizations, in fact, is the history of continual borrowings over many centuries, despite which each civilization has kept its own original character. It must be admitted, however, that now is the first time when one decisive aspect of a particular civilization has been adopted willingly by all the civilizations in the world…”
Instead of mourning the loss of an imaginary cultural heritage, we need to articulate a new definition of culture. This definition will have to be based not on some abstract notions and traits but on a deep sense of social and filial empathy, a sense of reaching out to others, and enriching oneself through the discovery of the other. An ethics of coexistence can nourish a sense of cultural empathy without alienating anyone.
Bismillah
Dear Truth Seeker,
Interesting video here, but you might want to turn up the volume on your speakers as the audio isn’t very good. Anyway, check the video and give your opinion(s).
Watch it here
I JUST WATCHED the movie, Freedom Writers for the second time. It’s a good movie and a true story. But this time I realized the movie illustrates something I continually hammer on: If you can’t reach somebody, one possibility is to blame them for the failure of your message to penetrate. Another possibility is to look at yourself, look at the way you communicate, and try to find another way.
The first approach leaves you the victim of the mindset of other people. The second approach gives you power, gives you ability, and opens your mind to possibly finding or creating ways to get through.
Your ability to think up or learn new ways to do something is greatly facilitated by an open mind. In order to relieve the cognitive dissonance regarding why people seem to stubbornly refuse to understand even the most basic things about Islam, many of us in the counterjihad movement write them off. We’ve all done it. We explain our setbacks by blaming our listeners, and while that’s a perfectly understandable response, that kind of explanation leaves us less capable of overcoming our obstacles.
You make it more possible to overcome the obstacles if you think differently about these setbacks. Think of it this way: You have obstacles to overcome and you need to find a way to become more creative. You need to find a way to get around the obstacles. And it’s nobody’s fault, there’s no one to be angry with. This is just the way it is. All you need to focus on is finding a way to penetrate their ignorance. Find a way to get basic information about Islam into the minds of people who don’t know yet.
It helps your own attitude to think of yourself as being in training. Your own motivation and the obstacles you’re running into are combining to teach you what you need to learn to reach people, to connect with people, and to help them understand and become motivated to learn more, just like the teacher in Freedom Writers.
The teacher was fresh out of college, very idealistic, and her first job was at a school with forced integration. She was an English teacher and her ninth-grade students were basically the academic failures of the school, and mostly Hispanic, African-American, and Asian. They had been passed along in the school system for a long time, and they were almost entirely uneducated, mostly members of gangs who had been bussed in from another part of town, and they didn’t care about education or graduating or anything else a teacher might need her students to care about (to motivate them to listen to her).
She was frustrated that they didn’t care what she had to teach. They were openly hostile towards her. Does this sound familiar? Have you felt the same way? Do you sometimes feel people don’t care what you have to teach and they’re openly hostile to you?
The teacher went to get help from the administrators of the school, and they basically tell her, “don’t beat your head against the wall, these kids are not going to learn, and the best you can do is to try to instill some kind of discipline.” She talks to other teachers, and gets pretty much the same response.
They explained their failure to reach the students, their failure to get through, by blaming the students or blaming the students’ circumstances, or their culture, or whatever. All these explanations tend to close the mind to finding a way to get through. It’s an attempt to explain failure rather than an attempt to solve the problem.
Many of us are making the same mistake. We talk to our friends and family about Islam and meet resistance. Many of them react with anger and seem impervious to anything we have the say. They have preconceived notions about our message (or of the “kind of people” who communicate that sort of message).
This is what the students did in the movie. They looked at this young white teacher, and they felt no connection whatsoever with her. They knew for a fact she didn’t understand what they were dealing with every day — the violence, the fear, the uncertainty, the pressure to conform to the rules that have already been set up within the gangs and within their neighborhoods, the pressures from their peers.
This young white teacher had no clue about how things worked. She didn’t know the rules: If a student rejects their own racial group in their neighborhoods — if they are Hispanic but don’t want to be involved in wars with the neighboring Koreans, for example — their own Hispanic neighbors and relatives will become hostile to them, and they’ll have no way to protect themselves from the hostility they’ll get from the Koreans either.
Those students had difficult choices to make. They’ve been put in a difficult environment, and they looked at this teacher who was trying to teach them things they had no interest in, and they saw no relevance to their lives. She couldn’t reach them.
So instead of continuing to try reaching them using the same method and continually failing, or alternatively, giving up and blaming the students for her inability to reach them, she tried a third option: She tried a different way around the obstacles.
When what you’re doing isn’t working, try something else. It’s usually a good policy.
So what does she do? She finds different ways of reaching them. For example, she tries to get some good books for them to read, but the school doesn’t want to the academic failures of the school to use those books because the school administrators “know” the students will just destroy the books because they don’t care about learning.
The teacher wanted to get her students interested in learning, but she couldn’t get any books they’d be interested in reading, so she got a second job in order to buy books she thought would interest her students. It’s not right, she shouldn’t have to do this, but she didn’t limit herself to “the way things ought to be.” She thought outside the box.
She caught one of the students passing around a note in the classroom one day. But it wasn’t really a note, it was a drawing of one of the students that exaggerated his racial features and made fun of him. The class had been passing it around and giggling.
The teacher got angry. She said this is how the Holocaust started. She remembered seeing a similar drawing in a museum that exaggerated Jewish racial features.
Then she found out most of them didn’t know what the Holocaust was! And she realized this might be something that would interest them. She told them, “You think your gangs are tough? They don’t even come close to what the Nazis did. That was a gang to reckon with!”
She convinced the school superintendent to give her permission to take her students on a field trip to a Holocaust memorial (the school administrators rejected the idea, but the superintendent gave her the go-ahead, which really angered the school administrators). But the teacher was right: The students were fascinated. After the field trip, she set up a dinner with her students and invited three people who were actual Holocaust survivors. The students talked with these survivors and asked them questions. They were interested, they were connecting, they were learning.
Then the teacher bought everybody in the class a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank. They became even more fascinated. Intrigued. Interested in learning. And interested in listening to this teacher and what she had to say.
She thought creatively. She found a way to reach them.
This is what we must do. When we can’t reach people, our attitude, our response should be, “What can I do differently that will allow me to reach this person? What different approach could I use that would penetrate? What approach could I use that would get this person interested in learning about Islam?”
After reading The Diary of Anne Frank, the students were in awe at the courage of the woman who risked her life to hide Anne Frank and her family for all that time. So the teacher suggested as one of their English assignments that everyone in the class write a letter to that woman.
The students said, “We should send our letters to the woman, if she’s still alive.” The teacher was just doing it for writing assignment and hadn’t thought of actually sending the letters. But the students said, “Why not? In fact, why not invite her here so we can meet her?”
The teacher said, “I don’t know how to reach her, I don’t know if she can travel, she might be too old to travel,” but the students were so excited by it, the teacher looked into it.
And she was able to find the woman who harbored Anne Frank and her family, and this woman was moved by the letters the students wrote, so she came to the United States, to Long Beach where the students went to school, and talked with them.
It changed their lives.
If you are committed to doing the one thing that needs to be done — that is, awakening your fellow non-Muslims to basic information about Islam — I invite you to suspend your already-existing explanations for why you can’t get through to some people, and open your mind. Decide that you will find a way. Decide you will learn about persuasion. Decide you will seek new ideas about influencing people. Decide that you will overcome the obstacles. Decide to try new things besides what you have tried already that didn’t work.
Sure, being more forceful is one option. Being more frustrated is another option. But neither of those work very well. What other ways can you try? How many different ways can you try? And when you find new ways I urge you, I plead with you, to share those ways with us. Go to Talk About Islam Among Non-Muslims and join the conversation. Give us your ideas. Give us your your new creative methods. Tell us what you tried and how it worked.
Let’s share our ideas and experiences with each other and let’s all get better at this.
Watch the movie Freedom Writers and get inspired to find new ways to reach people. Make the assumption that it can be done, and don’t stop until you find a way.
HERE’S SOMETHING NEW I’ve run across lately: People who don’t really know anything about Islam, but when you tell them about it, they aren’t surprised. And they agree with you that it certainly sounds bad. And yet they have no apparent motivation to do anything about it.
The first two times this happened, it took me by surprise and I didn’t know where to go from there. I had never encountered this before. The three categories I’ve run into in the past are 1) people who know nothing about Islam but defend it, 2) people who know nothing about Islam but are surprised and awakened and motivated when they learn about it, and 3) people who already know about Islam and are already motivated and taking action.
But there’s a fourth category: People who know nothing about Islam but do not disagree with you that Islam is a dangerous ideology, and yet lack motivation to do anything about it. What do you do when you come across someone like this?
I believe our best approach is to let them know that yes, it is certainly bad, but it could easily be stopped if more people knew about it. Use the Flight 93 analogy. With a little knowledge about the true motives of orthodox Muslims, they could be stopped. We greatly outnumber them.
But they can easily defeat us if the majority of us believe Islam is a religion of peace and believe our best approach is to go out of our way to prove our tolerance and appease their demands.
Let them know what we need most is an educated population. Each of us needs to learn about Islam and educate people we know.
And then recommend a book, or recommend they sign up for ACT for America updates, or recommend they subscribe to Citizen Warrior, but don’t recommend all of these. Give them some small act they could easily accomplish that will help them get more informed and that will motivate them to share the information with people they know.
Don’t load them down with too much at once. Just recommend one book or one email subscription or one DVD. One small act of commitment can lead to larger acts of commitment in the future (read more about that here). But overwhelm someone, and they might give up on their commitment. The process of commitment is delicate at first, so tread carefully.
You will probably run into this new category of people more and more, so be prepared to deal with it. Think about it ahead of time. Think about which book or video or online resource you would recommend to a beginner if you could only choose one. Which would be the very best for a beginner? Something interesting. Something sharable.
Let’s be smart about this and turn them all into committed, motivated citizen warriors.
Noted journalist and columnist Shobaa De recently found how several colleges in Mumbai were not giving admission to meritorious Muslim students though they fulfill all criteria.
In her column, she writes how principals known to her accepted that the practice was in existence. Principals either said they didn’t want ‘trouble’ or ‘how could they [Muslims] be trusted’. At one college, there were seats available but the moment, De mentioned the name of the applicant, the ‘voice changed’….
The article that was published on TOI’s editorial page shows her concern and the anguish she felt at the blatant discrimination that was being practiced in certain high-profile educational institutions.
Communal, casteist and racist discriminatory practices are nothing new. On one hand we will find individuals who will go extra-mile to help the ‘other’ or the ‘marginalised’ and on the other hand there are individuals who act in a xenophobic manner. The issue of denial of flats or houses to Muslims has been discussed many a times.
The other discriminations
But all these issues can be deal with when we have a vigilant society where individuals and groups fight for the rights of themselves and others. It is not just about Muslims, but also about the Tribals, the Dalits, the economically weaker upper castes.
It is about taking up cudgels whenever you see or smell corrupt practices and wrongdoings. The poor get cheated everywhere–from the ration shop where they don’t get the allocated share of grains to the hospitals where doctors aren’t available or medicines not provided to them. Society ignores this discrimination.
Leading colleges and schools routinely charge funds and give admission on the basis of contacts and cash, ignoring merit. Seats are bought almost everywhere. The point is that wherever there is injustice, it must be fought with and we should side with the victim.
Contempt towards domestic helps, maids
The other day a group of neighbourhood women were ruing how the domestic helps [bai or kaam-wali] have formed a union and want a weekly off. How can ‘they’? Here ‘they’ was uttered in such a tone as if these women who are forced to work in others’ house due to their poor financial condition aren’t human at all.
For a few hundreds the women work in households and a large number of ‘educated’ middle-class considers them as if they are sub-human. They are denied leaves and often salary is cut for absent days even though the household head enjoys all sorts of leaves at his/her office.Isn’t it ironic as women discriminate against the maids and exploit their ‘own’ tribe[females]?
This is just another example, as there are umpteen forms of discrimination. Even giving favour to one candidate belonging to a community or linguistic group is a discrimination against another candidate. De’s article is welcome and we must all see there is justice for all sections. We are armed with RTI [Right to Information Act] and media revolution. So it’s important to be vigilant.
Mention names of such Colleges, Principals
De’s concern is legitimate and laudable. There is a lot of hypocrisy in our society and the personal biases of some persons lead to such illegal and unjust actions. However, she should have named these ‘reputed colleges’ and their ‘principals’ so that they could be shamed for their mindsets.
There is impact when institutions are named as their prestige gets affected. Once the names are published, there is media gaze and more scrutiny the next time. There is also more onus on the institutes to come clean.
I haven’t posted in a long time, so indeed I do feel kind of bad. But insha’allah this next one should be interesting since I took a class on Uloom ul Qur’an, Science of the Quran taught by Yasir Qadhi of Al Maghrib Institute. The course was real special because honestly, you learn so much about the Qur’an such as the tafsir, its history, the translations, the ten authentic qir’aat, etc etc. you learn so much. However, one of the things I wanted to share, since I know Muslims always love this, is how to memorize Quran using Yasir Qadhi’s methodology. Remember, these are notes that I took down while I was in the class, so I am vulnerable of making mistakes and may Allaah forgive me, before I spread this knowledge. Also I did add some of my own knowledge into this methodology (meaning I added a few extras for benefit insha’allah).
METHODOLOGY OF MEMORIZING QUR’AN!
1. Niyah for Allaah: This is making a sincere intention of memorizing the Qur’an to only gain the pleasure of Allaah ‘Azza wa Jall. If this is not your intention, then your whole plan of memorizing fails and there will be no barakah in your memorizing.
2. Start practicing Islam to the best of your ability: It is important to keep an Islamic habit and trying to abstain from sinning. Be in the company of good people who will encourage you to do good practices rather than those who take you away from the path of Allaah ‘Azza wa Jall.
Imaam Shafi’ee once complained to his teacher about poor memory, and this was obviously a great concern for the great Imaam of one of the four school of thoughts. Unlike us, we usually complain about the Toronto Raptors or Toronto Maple Leafs losing (I am a Torontonian, so I am using them as an example). The teacher of Imaam Shafi’ee advised him to abstain from sin. So this is indeed a great advice for us to follow as well, since abstaining from sin will eventually make us focus more on the ‘ibaadah (worship) rather than the dunyaa (worldy matters).
3. Learning tajweed from someone who has Ijaaza: This is to learn from a teacher who knows how to pronounce the words and vowels correctly in order to recite the Qur’an in its correct manners.
4. Make a habit to memorize every day: Do bit by bit every day, even if it is little as memorize 5 small ayahs from the Qur’an. Do your best to make this a consistent effort, so that you will not fall back on your goals. If you memorize even a small amount day by day, you will be one step closer to the end of bridge insha’allah.
5. Memorize at the early stage of the day: I know this is difficult for a lot of us, especially for me. I must admit, I love snuggling with my nice comfy pillow, however for those who are really determined in memorizing the Book of Allaah, it is best to memorize right after Fajr/ early in the morning when the mind is fresh and when the beautiful Sun is bright.
6. Recite to somebody on consistent basis: Have a friend, family member or a teacher who you can recite to consistently. This is an amazing tip when it comes to reviewing, because you will have someone catch the small mistakes you wont notice while you are reciting the surah from memory.
7. Compete!!: It is best to have a buddy that you can compete with. At times you may feel unmotivated. This is true for a lot of students and due to this reason you may see people actually quitting on their goal. Thats why a little competition wont hurt. Try finding a friend who you know wants to memorize the Qur’an and knows nearly the same amount as you. Both of you can race towards attaining good deeds and keep each other motivated by sharing how much each of you have memorized at the end of the day and how much you reviewed. And Allah says: So hasten towards all that is good. ( 2:148 )
8. Divide relationship of Qur’an into four categories:
9. Brain Food and Health: “A daily run, a diet rich in almonds and other healthful foods and a stimulating environment — all may keep aging brain cells in shape, according to research out Monday.” (Kathleen Fackelmann, USA TODAY) To increase your memorization capacity, I guess its advisable to eat some almonds and be a little more active (Shoot, I actually have to get off the couch to memorize!!).
But anyways, insha’allaah I will try to blog more beneficial notes and I pray that you benefit from this methodology towards your beautiful goal of coming closer to Allaah and attaining the amazing river in Jannah and trees insha’allaah!!!
And lastly I would like to say, these are tips I want to implement too insha’allaah and pray that you and I will one day become amongst the Huffadh with the understanding of the Qur’an who act upon what they learn insha’allaah!
Zaadak Allaah ‘Ilmaan (May Allaah increase you in knowledge)
Jazaak Allaahu Khair, Was-Salaamu ‘Alaykum
Aboo Jadd
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