The 6th day of learning surat al-fajr Nr. 89

I am now on my sixth day of learning surat al-fajr. In this pace it will take much much longer to learn the whole Qur'an.


As I am a swedish convert, I would prefer reading and learning in arabic-swedish. I use www.koranensbudskap.com when I am learning the surahs and verses.


I have also found one in English that is good because you can choose to have a transliteration, or the arabic translated into which language you want to: http://quran.com/89 . The negative part is that you cannot devide the verses and learn them one by one.


Furthermore, if I do not put my heart into this and pray more to make my mind open, then I will certainly not proceed as I have projected. 

4th day of learning the Qur'an

I have been trying to learn more of the surah al-fajr. Still I am not sure about the verses except of the first six ones. So from the first day I have only learned one verse by heart. I have tried to listen to the surah and repeat, but it still does not come in to my mind and rest there.

I once read about brainwaves and that the frequence of the wave help or hinder to learn better. There are four kinds of waves. Delta, theta, alpha and beta. The deepest one, and most meditative, is the deltaspectrum. Then it is the theta when you feel drowsiness. In the alphaspectrum you are very captive and in beta you are very alert, but also have troubles learning new information, even though problemsolving is better at this wave lenght.

So the best thing to do is to "meditate" or in islam "pray". So to learn better I have to pray more. I can do that inchallah. I can start with doing shaffa and witr after the Ichaprayer. Do 2 rakahs before fajr and 2 sunnah before or after dhohor, before asr and after maghrib. I can also try to do salat-al doha between fajr and dhohor.

We'll see if that helps inchallah.

Surat al-Fajr

I have started to learn surat al-fajr. I sat down with my child of 8 years for about ten minutes. We tried to learn half of the surah. It was a pleasure learning with him. I have not finished yet so it is hard work that I have postponed until tomorrow. 


By the way. To challenge myself (I am a convert) and make it easier I have made a challenge with my tunisian family which of us is going to learn it by heart the first. They have the advantage to know arabic, have learnt the surah before, but when I tested them one only knew half of the chapter and the other one has the period right now. So I can win this challenge if I put my heart and mind to it. Inchallah. 


This girl already knows the whole surah. Mashallah. 

Al-fatiha - the first chapter to learn by heart

Luckily I already knows this chapter of Al-fatiha. It is the easiest one. I also know the three last chapters 112-114 in the generous Qur'an. So which chapter will I continue to learn? I will say "Al-fajr", because I already knows the first lines. How it will go learning the rest and how much time it took, you will find out, Allah willing.