MEMORIZATION OF QURAN
"And We (Allah) have made the Quran easy to
understand and remember, then is there any
that will receive admonition."(The Quran,
54:17)
One of the means through which Allah has
assured the protection of the Holy Quran is
the fact that He made the memorization of His
Book an easy task for the believers. In fact,
the Quran is the only religious Scripture that
is memorized by its followers. Innumerable
persons in every Muslim community have
memorized the whole Quran since the first
day it was revealed. Children as young as five
years old and men and women as old as 50
years memorize the whole Quran as part of
their love and devotion to the Book of Allah.
The one who memorizes the whole Quran is
known as a Hafiz. It is a miracle that the Hafiz
not only memorizes the entire text of the
Quran, but also the punctuation and diatrical
marks of each and every word and verse of
the Quran.
What is more amazing is that Muslims of
different languages are able to memorize the
whole Quran perfectly even though they do
not speak Arabic. The Quran is not a small
book containing few verses. Rather, it is a
book containing over 6,000 verses! It is a
miracle of the Quran that a Hafiz is able to
memorize all of these verses in order.