A twofold system for memorising Quran

I thought I'd type up the current system I'm using for memorising the Quran. I say current because it's a system that I amend slightly as the years go by. Here's how it works; there are two parts which go together hand in hand:

1. You learn one new line every day. Some days you'll learn two lines and some days you'll learn half a line. The important thing is that you average one new line every day. By following this religiously you'll learn fifteen lines in half a month, which is a page, and therefore two pages every month. Continuing the math, you'll learn twenty pages every ten months, which is a Juz. Each day, recite the new line in sequence along with the lines that immediately precede it. For added benefit, be sure to look up the meaning of the new line whilst you're learning it.
2. You revise half of a Juz every day. You start on the first day with the first half-Juz of the Quran. The next day you proceed to the second half-Juz. And so on and so forth up to the last half-Juz that you know. When you reach the last half-Juz that you know, go back and start the revision cycle again. A half-Juz daily may seem a lot but when you spread it over the five prayers of the day (reciting the verses in the prayers even), it's not difficult at all.

Feel free to start with smaller targets than what I've suggested here but do keep track of both your learning and your revision. Find an app that helps you with this or stick a chart up on your bedroom wall if you're averse to technology. The only way to really keep on top of your memorisation and your revision is to track it. Trust the data and not how you feel you're doing.

Ma'ariful Qur'an: Blessings – The tangible and intangible

Food, wealth, health, family, security.

Honour, happiness, intelligence, wisdom, guidance.

The joys of this world

The joys of this world

joys they are indeed

joys no doubt

tainted as they are

tinged as they are

with fear, with worry, with grief,

of decrease, of protection, of loss.

Such, is the life of this world.

Ma'ariful Qur'an: The Prophet's Miracle

To celebrate the start of Ramadhan - the month of Qur'an - let's have a think to enumerate some of the Qur'an's distinctive qualities:

1. When listened to with even the slightest courtesy, the recitation of the Qur'an - the melody and rhythm alone - takes a hold of the heart of the listener – Muslim or non-Muslim, Arab or non-Arab – in a strange, undeniable, incomparable manner.
2. The more one recites, studies and ponders a passage of the Qur'an – any passage of the Qur'an – the more eager one becomes to recite it and to understand it in yet greater depth. Few other books – if any – can retain their charm beyond a fourth or fifth reading for even the most fervent admirer.
3. No other book or comprehensive collection of teachings is so easy to memorise and memorised by so many people.

The distinguished few

If you love those who love you,
what reward have you?
Do not all men do the same?

And if you salute those who salute you,
what reward have you?
Do not all men do the same?

And if you bless those who curse you,
have heart for those who hate you,
pray for those who persecute you,
few are those who do the same.