Sheikh Uthman Hadi - Practical tips to Learn, Memorize and Retain the Quran

Episode Date: May 4, 2026

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Asanao-a-a-a-a-rahmatelah and your brothers and sisters. I pray that everyone's doing well and I ask Allah to find our results for our sins of our shock, means and great and special mercy now only this life and may be the next. Hamdulah, al-a-rah-a-a-a-a-man. I've been wanting to do this video for a minute now, and specifically do this reminder for a minute. But it's how to practice your hiffs and how to become a proper hifs and how to learn the Quran in the proper way. I'm going to give you, inshallah, some tips. But the first thing I want to mention before starting all, make sure you make Dura and you ask Allah,

to make it easy for us all and allow for us to learn his book, retain it, allow for it to transform us and allow for us to overall connect to it. Because one of the main things when it comes to the Quran is that it is not the words of anyone but Allah. So you're asking Allah to allow for us to learn his words. So that's the first thing I want to mention. The second thing I want to mention is repetition. It's a very interesting thing. When you're trying to learn something, you put it on repeat, right? If you are going to work, if you're driving somewhere, if you want to learn a specific thing, if you want to learn a specific aya, you listen to it repetitively. You continuously put it on clay and you keep doing it. And the pairing between doing this at any moment and any time you have also helps you to learn the surah or suras or Jews overall in a quicker manner rather than just you trying to listen to a part and then try to recite, listen to a part and try to recite. So repeating the whole Sura, repeating certain verses, repeating every part of it. You know, one of the best methods is to repeat a verse between 100 times to a thousand times.

And at a thousand times, at that point, you have a solid memory. You're not going to forget it, inshallah. And we ask Allah, Supperahua, to allow for us to always remember the Quran and not to forget it. But when it comes to this point, a lot of us think that you only need to repeat it five or ten times. Once you've got those five or ten times, you go on. But when you're learning the Quran, especially if you're learning it with, you know, a teacher, or even if you're learning it, you have a teacher, but you're learning it by yourself at this point. You're reciting by yourself. Recite this ayah over and over again. If you're learning the first ayah of iqlas, kulhu allah a had, repeat this over and over a hundred times. Continuously

repeat it and continue going. If you're learning a longer surah, repeat it multiple times. And for the longer ayah, it may take a little longer, but for certain ayas, if I want to recite the ayah for a class. That is only going to take me a couple of seconds. Kulhu Allah, Ahad, Kulhu Allah, Ahad. Sometimes slow down and break it down. Kulhu Allah, Ahad, ensure that you're pronouncing every letter in the proper manner. The third thing I would like to mention is one of the things that's hardest nowadays as well. And when it comes to learning the Quran, because we want to wake up and just say, I know the whole Quran. But that is patience and there's time, because Allah, Sufana-a-ha-a-a-ha-ha-ha has created a beautiful

book and there's a book in which we should take our time to learn. We don't want to learn it just in a couple of weeks and a couple of months. Some people say that, you know, it's best if you learn the whole Quran in just a couple of months. You can do it in three, four months. But to tell you the truth, take the time between a year to however long after that. Because there are certain people who it just took them 12 years just to learn Sartal Bakara. So try your absolute hardest to embed yourself and your heart into the Quran, not the time. Because when you put time on your Quran and you say, I want to finish by this time, I want to finish by this time.

have flexibility as well before I mentioned the thing, but ensure that you're not putting time on yourself where you're saying, I want to finish the Quran in just a couple of weeks or a couple of months, and you don't do it, and then now you feel upset, and now you feel as though you need to give up. Put yourself a bit of a grace period.

Say, you know what, instead of trying to finish the Quran in just a couple of months, maybe a year, maybe two years, maybe even four years, maybe I give myself a bit more time, because there's always time to learn the words of Allah, Sufana, and as I mentioned before, one of the most important steps in learning the Quran is literally just making dua and asking Allah saffaniahu atada to allow for us to retain it and make it easy for

us to retain so do not feel hesitant to ask Allah saffana how it's a ability to learn his book and to learn his words and to connect with the book to connect with his book and to connect with his words but ensure that you're also you are also trying to practice day to day in every moment you have there are many schedules you can follow and one of the most particular ones I will mention here and the practical ones you can follow is to try after every prayer and recite a bit the for fjur you're learning for vohr you're you know still learning if it's a longer soda and if it takes more time you know a day or so however long it is try to go over it slowly if you just said you do

a page after each prayer you do a page every day a page after fudger is when you start so I'll give you a tip here and I don't want to make this too long but I'll give you a tip here if you say you start with one page and I want you to write this down if you say you start with one page after Fajr and then for the whole you review over that page and you recited it continuously and then Aser you know recite over that page again but this time without looking or this time you know with the the moushaf if you you know if you were weren't looking in the first point then try and do that try to connect with the

words mugrib is revision and then Isha is finalization of that page So you should try to be finalized with that page. So if you're learning naba, if you're learning mulch, if you're learning, you know, any sort of, whatever it may be, try your absolute hardest to put yourself to a limit. I'm not going to spend any longer than this time period to learn these couple of ayas. If it takes me longer, then by all means I will do it. But if I know I'm capable of doing it, I'm not going to prolong it for no reason. I'm going to get it done with and I want to learn it. And inshallah a la, that's the simplest method.

And like I mentioned before, make sure. you're practicing it and make sure you're repeating it continuously. Not just listening to it, repeating it, but also repeating it just by yourself, right? If it's an ayah of nazia, you're saying one nazia to yoha. Continuously, repeat that over and over and over again. As many times as it takes, repeat it while you're shopping, repeat it while you're walking, repeat it while you're driving, repeat it when you're at work. Repeat it at any moment that you have, especially in your prayer, one of the best methods to do it is if you know parts of sura, if you know the Sura and you're learning it and you know you finalized the Sura learning

this is for you know the after point of learning the Sura recited in your prayer because now you pray five times a day if even if you only recite it in the out loud prayers that's still three prayers that you're praying out loud or so ensure that you're also trying to repeat this as many times as you can and make a consistent schedule that you will embed the Quran and you will learn the Quran and we ask Allah Sopanao'u'll tell it to make it all easy for us Thank you, my brothers and sisters. And I'm at all right of your brothers and sisters. And al-a-wa-harmu.

And al-harmu. And al-harmuah, and al-haphthulah, and abracatulah, and brahmatu.