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How to Improve Quran Recitation

by | Feb 14, 2011

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In this article you’re about to learn the quickest, most effective ways to increase your fluency in reciting the Quran in Arabic. By following these methods, over time you’ll go from stuttering and stammering over simple words to reciting any page of the Quran as easily as you can recite Surah al-Fatiha.

5 WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR QURAN RECITATION FLUENCY

1. Ancient Thai Saying

The ancient Thai people, now famous for their Muay Thai Kick Boxing style had a saying. “If you want to be a good kicker… kick!” The same holds true of your goal of improving you AlQuran recitation. Follow the first advice ever given to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by his Educator. “Recite!”.
Recite as much as you can, as frequently as you can. Nothing can replace this discipline. The more you do it, the better you get at it. Before you know it, you’ll be reading an unfamiliar page in the same amount of time it used to take you to read a couple of lines.

2. Link New Habit With Old Habit

This is without doubt the single most effective way to build a new habit. You need to link the habit of Quran Recitation in Arabic with something you already do every single day without fail. Something like brushing your teeth, or putting your clothes on in the morning.
Or how about, linking it with one (or more) of your 5 daily prayers? That way, you’re already in a state of wudu, so one of the main psychological barriers is out of the
way. If you’re going to do this, I’d advise that you do it with a prayer you have been doing consistently over the last few weeks. I’d also recommend you don’t do it if you think you’ll be stressed.
For example, if you’re at work, and are taking three 10 minute breaks for prayer during the day, turning them into three 15 minute breaks might not make your boss too happy.Now make the commitment to recite a small amount of AlQuran every single day for the next 30 days after the selected prayer.

3. Intelligent Repetition – The Mother Of All Skills

Here is a trick that will double or triple your effectiveness and speed at Quran Recitation. Let’s say you’ve decided to recite two pages of the AlQuran after Isha every night and 2 pages before you leave for work in the morning.
Instead of reciting the first 2 pages on day one morning and the next 2 pages on day one night, try this out. On day one morning, recite page 1, then recite page one again. Then on day one evening, recite page 1 again, and again.
“But then I’ll only have done one page?!” I hear you exclaiming. That’s true, but you’ll have done that page four times, and what’s more important, is that by the 4th recitation, you will read it about 3 or 4 times quicker that on your first attempt. Aim for reading the page 5 times each day.
The next day, you can move on to page 2, and so on. At the end of the week, you might like to do one marathon session of going through all 7 pages you covered that week. You may even want to do this with a tajweed teacher, who’ll correct your recitation. You’ll notice that you can still recite page 1 about 2 or 3 times faster and more fluently than on your 1st attempt.
600 days later you will have completed the Quran 6 times. If you recite the page 5 times each day, and once at the end of the week, it’s the equivalent of completing the Quran once every 100 days – just over 3 months. That’s like reading 4 Quran’s a year – but who’s keeping count!

4. Learn Some Vocabulary

The quickest, easiest, most effective way to understand the entire AlQuran in Arabic is to learn some Vocabulary. If you want to get hold of the audio download where I explain how to do it, visit www.quranforbusypeople.com
The key to the whole process of understanding the Quran is to learn Quranic vocabulary lists. If you learn around 300 words, that accounts for about 70% of the entire Quran. But you need to learn the right words.
This links in with your Quran Recitation because when you know these commonly occurring words, you’ll spot them as you recite, and something magical will happen.
Just as you do in English, you will unconsciously read the first and last letters in the word and work out what the word says, without having to read each letter phonetically (cool eh?).
In other words, just by being able to recognize the common words, your recitation speed will increase exponentially.
HOWEVER, this does not replace numbers 1,2 & 3. DO NOT wait until you know all of Quranic Arabic, before you start reciting the Quran. This is a common mistake and it is a waste of time. You can know all 300 words, but if you never recite the Quran, you will still be a slow reciter.
If you do manage to learn 5-10 words a day for 1 month, whilst still doing your daily recitations, you’ll know 70% of Quranic vocabulary in a month or two. This will give you a huge boost in motivation, and momentum.

5. Get Your iPod Out

If you are still struggling, the iPod technique will propel you forward. Get an online recitation from a famous reciter, whose voice you love. Listen to the recitation, one page at a time, as you read along the script with your finger.
Even if the reciter goes way too fast for you to start with, just finger along the page. Then, rewind back to where the page started, and do it again, and again. Because the reciter goes much faster than you, you can go over the same page several times in one sitting. Eventually, you will be able to follow with your eyes, and then your lips and tongue.

So, here’s a quick review of the 5 ways to improve your Quran Recitation:
1. Practice Quran like a Martial Artist Practices Kicks.
2. Read 1 page of the Quran immediately after a prayer.
3. Repeat the same page several times before moving on.
4. Learn 5 words of Quran vocab per day for 2 months.
5. Get your iPod out and read along with a reciter.

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