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My TijarahYour PersonalHifdh Diary
A sheet for every day, a score for everypage, a grid for all thirty ajza.
Before you begin
This diary belongs to
Fill this page in first, in pen. Don’t skip the mushaf line. You’re memorising where each verse sits on the page as well as how it sounds, so choose the copy you’ll finish in.
Name
Started on (Gregorian)
Started on (Hijri)
My mushaf, its publisher and its print. I will finish in this copy
My teacher
How and when I recite to them
My daily portion
My repetition count
My fixed hour
Where I am starting from
Where I intend to reach
What usually stops me, and when it tends to hit
What I will do on that day instead of stopping
وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ
And We have certainly made the Qur’an easy for remembrance, so is there any who will remember?
Al-Qamar 54:17
This diary can’t memorise anything for you. It shows you, day by day, what you revised and what slipped.
What is inside
Contents
This diary belongs to
Your name, your mushaf, your teacher, your hour
How to use this diary
Six working parts and what each one is for
Your commitments
Nine lines, signed by you
The ladder, on one page
The repetition sequence, and what it costs
The three tiers and the balance
Sabaq, sabqi, manzil, and how the split moves
Set your pace
Turn a daily portion into a finishing date
The mushaf, all 604 pages
One box per page, shaded only when it’s yours
The 114 surahs
Verse counts, first pages, memorised and secured
The thirty juz
A target date and a real date for every juz
A worked day
The sheet filled in, including what went wrong
Weeks one to eight
Forty eight daily sheets and eight seventh days
The juz strength grid
Twelve checkpoints. Where next month’s revision goes
The manzil cycle
Seven portions, and whether yours has stretched
The khatmah log
Every complete pass through what you hold
The confusions log
The verses that nearly match other verses
The teacher log
Dates, mistakes, and their initials
When you fall behind
Five steps back in, without starting over
The last word
Eight weeks from now, and what to print next
Day 1
New
Day 2
New
Day 3
New
Day 4
New
Day 5
New
Day 6
New
Day 7
Consolidate
Six days of new ground, then a seventh with none. The pace table on page 08 already counts that seventh day, so the date it gives you allows for it.
Before you begin
How to use this diary
Six parts. You work two of them every day. The other four are how you keep what you’ve memorised. It’s the working half of The Hifdh Algorithm, so turn to that book for the why behind each rule.
Fill in the front once
Your name, your mushaf, your teacher, your start date and your pace. The pace page turns your daily portion into a finishing date, so you know what you’re taking on before week one.
Work the daily sheet on every memorising day
Two days to a page, six days to a week. Each day has the gate, the new portion split into three, and a row for each kind of revision.
Take no new ground on the seventh day
Day seven is for revision, a spot check and a look back at the week. It’s the day you keep what the other six gave you.
Shade the map as you go
There’s one box for each of the 604 pages of the mushaf. Shade a page only when you can recite it from memory, alone, with nobody prompting you.
Keep the back pages going
The juz strength grid, the confusions log and the teacher log are where you hold on to old pages. Most of the work of a hifdh is there, long after the first pass.
Print it again
This is one eight-week cycle. At the end, print the log pages again. Keep the map, the surah list and the juz planner: they last the whole hifdh.
إِنَّمَا مَثَلُ صَاحِبِ الْقُرْآنِ كَمَثَلِ صَاحِبِ الإِبِلِ الْمُعَقَّلَةِ، إِنْ عَاهَدَ عَلَيْهَا أَمْسَكَهَا، وَإِنْ أَطْلَقَهَا ذَهَبَتْ
The likeness of the companion of the Qur’an is the likeness of the owner of tethered camels. If he keeps watch over them he holds them, and if he lets them go they are gone.
Before you begin
Your commitments
Tick only the lines you mean to keep, then sign. An honest blank is more use than a tick you didn’t mean.
None of the nine is about how much you memorise. Each one is about how you memorise, and that’s the part you control.
Signed
Date
Someone who’ll ask me how it’s going, and when they’ll ask
Reference, keep this open
The ladder, on one page
The steps for one third of a page. Drill a verse, drill the next, join the pair, move on. This table uses a count of twenty. The daily sheets let you write your own.
| The instruction | Looking | Closed | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | The whole third, reading, to hear its shape and its ends | 20 | |
| 1 | Verse 1 on its own | 20 | 20 |
| 2 | Verse 2 on its own | 20 | 20 |
| 3 | Verse 1 joined to verse 2 | 20 | 20 |
| 4 | Verse 3 on its own | 20 | 20 |
| 5 | Verse 2 joined to verse 3 | 20 | 20 |
| 6 | Verse 4 on its own | 20 | 20 |
| 7 | Verse 3 joined to verse 4 | 20 | 20 |
| 8 | Continue that way to the last verse of the third | 20 | 20 |
| 9 | The whole third, from memory, mushaf closed | 20 |
Each verse in a third is recited on the warm-up, twice on its own, twice in each join it sits in, and once more on the seal. So a third costs 160 recitations for each verse, minus 80. Check this table before you promise yourself a page a day.
| Verses in the third | Recitations | At 3 seconds | At 5 seconds | At 8 seconds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 verses | 400 | 20 min | 33 min | 53 min |
| 4 verses | 560 | 28 min | 47 min | 75 min |
| 5 verses | 720 | 36 min | 60 min | 96 min |
| 6 verses | 880 | 44 min | 73 min | 117 min |
120
passes over the first and the last verse of a third
160
passes over every verse in between, which sit in two joins
560
recitations to finish one third holding four verses
Twenty is a starting number.
Twenty repetitions works for most people. Some need twelve. Students in the mahadhir of Mauritania take one passage past three hundred. Use fewer when it’s already automatic and more when you want it stronger. The number is right when the words arrive before you reach for them.
Reference, keep this open
The three tiers, and how the balance moves
Every daily sheet has a row for each tier. The split between them isn’t fixed. It changes as you hold more.
Today’s new portion
Yesterday it did not exist. Tomorrow it is still fragile. This is the only tier that adds.
The last seven days
Recent portions, recited from memory every day until they stop wobbling, then released into manzil.
Everything older
The body of your hifdh, cycled on a fixed daily quota, for the rest of your life.
| How much you hold | New | Revision | What is going on here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up to 5 juz | 60% | 40% | There’s little to lose yet. Build the habit and the technique. |
| 5 to 15 juz | 40% | 60% | The turn. From here, revision becomes the main job. |
| 15 to 25 juz | 30% | 70% | The hardest stretch. Slow the new pages down here. |
| 25 to 30 juz | 20% | 80% | Protect the twenty five before you chase the thirtieth. |
| Completed | 0% | 100% | For at least a year. Then repair the weak juz, not new ground. |
Juz I currently hold
So my split is (new)
And (revision)
Come back to this line each time you finish a juz. If you hold twenty juz and still split your hour the way you did at two, revision falls behind.
Before you begin
Set your pace, and know the date
Pick a row, do the five short sums below it, and write the year down where you’ll see it.
| Daily portion | Days | Years | Who this is for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three lines | 3523 | 9.7 | A fifth of a page. The pace of a full working life. |
| Five lines | 2114 | 5.8 | One third of a page. The most common serious pace. |
| Half a page | 1409 | 3.9 | Workable with an hour a day and a teacher. |
| One page | 705 | 1.9 | A full page a day. Demanding, and possible. |
| Two pages | 352 | 1 | Full-time study, or a very good year. |
The years assume you memorise six days in seven and never stop. They leave out the weeks lost to illness, travel and family, so treat the date as a guide. If you finish eighteen months after the date you write, you’ve still finished.
0.33
pages a day
0.29
after six in seven
2,114
days
5.8
years
+5 yr 10 mo
onto today’s date
Part one
The map
Three pages you keep for the whole hifdh and never reprint. They’re the only place in this diary where you can see everything you’re taking on at once.
The mushaf
All 604 pages, one box each. Shade a page only when you can recite it alone
The 114 surahs
Verse counts and first pages, with a box for memorised and one for secured
The thirty juz
A target date and the date you actually finished, side by side
بَلْ هُوَ ءَايَـٰتٌۢ بَيِّنَـٰتٌ فِى صُدُورِ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْعِلْمَ
Rather, it is clear verses in the breasts of those who have been given knowledge.
Al-Ankabut 29:49
Part one, the map
The mushaf, all 604 pages
Page numbers follow the Madani mushaf. Shade a box only when you can recite that page from memory, alone, with nobody prompting you. Every tenth page is marked so you can count along a row.
Shade it only when it is yours
From memory, alone, nobody prompting, on a day that is not the day you memorised it.
The juz are not equal
Rows run from nineteen boxes to twenty-three. Juz 30 is the longest of all.
Do not rub anything out
If a page slips, leave it shaded and note it on the strength grid. This map shows what you’ve memorised. The grid shows what you still hold.
Total today
On this date
Part one, the map
The 114 surahs
Verse count and first page against each. M for memorised. S for secured, meaning you’ve held it through a full manzil cycle without repairing it. M fills up faster than S. The gap between them is your revision work.
Part one, the map
The thirty juz, target and actual
Fill in the target column once, at the start, from the pace you set on page 08. Fill in the finished column as you go. If the two drift apart, look at your pace again.
Part two
The daily log
Eight weeks. Six memorising days and a seventh for revision, the same six in seven the pace table uses. There are 48 daily sheets, and one is filled in for you as an example.
A worked day
The sheet completed, including a third that did not get sealed
Forty eight daily sheets
Two to a page. The gate, the portion in three, both kinds of revision
Eight seventh days
No new ground. The week in numbers, the heart, and next week’s target
وَرَتِّلِ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ تَرْتِيلًا
And recite the Qur’an with measured recitation.
Al-Muzzammil 73:4
Part two, the daily log
A worked day
A real portion: page 562 of the mushaf, which holds Al-Mulk 1 to 12 and opens juz 29. It splits neatly into three sets of four verses. Notice that the day isn’t finished.
Date
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Minutes
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| First third | 1 to 4 | ||||
| Second third | 5 to 8 | ||||
| Last third | 9 to 12 |
What I revised
What I revised
The gate comes first
Close the mushaf and recite yesterday. If it doesn’t come, today is a repair day and the new portion row stays empty.
Write the portion down before you drill it
Name the surah and the verses. A portion you never wrote down is easy to shrink when it’s half past nine at night and you’re tired.
Three rows, one for each third of the page
Each third gets its own line: read to your teacher, drilled at your count, then sealed with the mushaf closed. A third is either sealed or it isn’t.
Both revision rows get a mark out of five
Fill in the dots for how it really felt. A juz that keeps scoring two is telling you where next month’s revision goes.
Week 1 of 8
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Week 1 of 8
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Week 1 of 8
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Week 1 of 8
The seventh day
No new ground today. Revise, check the week, and plan the next one.
What I revised
Minutes
Tick each day you could recite the day before from memory.
Memorised from
To
Pages this week
Total of 604
Page
Page
Page
My target portion
The juz I will strengthen
Days I will recite to my teacher
Four questions, once a week, for you alone. Nobody else reads this page. If a box stays empty, start there next week.
One mushaf. Keep it.
You memorise a picture as well as a sound: where the verse sat, which line it began on, what was above it. Change mushaf halfway and you lose that picture. Pick the copy you’ll finish in and write your name in it.
Week 2 of 8
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Week 2 of 8
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Week 2 of 8
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Week 2 of 8
The seventh day
No new ground today. Revise, check the week, and plan the next one.
What I revised
Minutes
Tick each day you could recite the day before from memory.
Memorised from
To
Pages this week
Total of 604
Page
Page
Page
My target portion
The juz I will strengthen
Days I will recite to my teacher
Four questions, once a week, for you alone. Nobody else reads this page. If a box stays empty, start there next week.
Count on your hand, not your feeling.
It’s easy to lose count in your head and still feel sure you did twenty. Use your fingers, a tally in a notebook, or beads. The method only works if the count is real.
Week 3 of 8
Days 13 and 14 of 48Date
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Week 3 of 8
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Week 3 of 8
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Week 3 of 8
The seventh day
No new ground today. Revise, check the week, and plan the next one.
What I revised
Minutes
Tick each day you could recite the day before from memory.
Memorised from
To
Pages this week
Total of 604
Page
Page
Page
My target portion
The juz I will strengthen
Days I will recite to my teacher
Four questions, once a week, for you alone. Nobody else reads this page. If a box stays empty, start there next week.
End with the mushaf closed.
Make the last pass of every session from memory, even if it’s halting. End while still looking and your mind learns the page is always there. End on recall and it learns to hold on.
Week 4 of 8
Days 19 and 20 of 48Date
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Week 4 of 8
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Week 4 of 8
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Week 4 of 8
The seventh day
No new ground today. Revise, check the week, and plan the next one.
What I revised
Minutes
Tick each day you could recite the day before from memory.
Memorised from
To
Pages this week
Total of 604
Page
Page
Page
My target portion
The juz I will strengthen
Days I will recite to my teacher
Four questions, once a week, for you alone. Nobody else reads this page. If a box stays empty, start there next week.
Pray with it the same day.
Recite the new portion in your sunnah and nafl prayers that day. It costs no extra time. There’s no mushaf to glance at, so any weak spot shows up straight away.
Week 5 of 8
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Week 5 of 8
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Week 5 of 8
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Week 5 of 8
The seventh day
No new ground today. Revise, check the week, and plan the next one.
What I revised
Minutes
Tick each day you could recite the day before from memory.
Memorised from
To
Pages this week
Total of 604
Page
Page
Page
My target portion
The juz I will strengthen
Days I will recite to my teacher
Four questions, once a week, for you alone. Nobody else reads this page. If a box stays empty, start there next week.
Sleep on it, then meet it at Fajr.
Recite the day’s portion once before you sleep and once straight after Fajr. Those two passes, one each side of sleep, do more than another hour of drilling in the afternoon.
Week 6 of 8
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Week 6 of 8
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Week 6 of 8
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What I revised
What I revised
Week 6 of 8
The seventh day
No new ground today. Revise, check the week, and plan the next one.
What I revised
Minutes
Tick each day you could recite the day before from memory.
Memorised from
To
Pages this week
Total of 604
Page
Page
Page
My target portion
The juz I will strengthen
Days I will recite to my teacher
Four questions, once a week, for you alone. Nobody else reads this page. If a box stays empty, start there next week.
Mark your own mix-ups.
The verses that trip you are nearly always ones that almost match a verse somewhere else. Pencil a small code in the margin linking the two, and drill them side by side so they don’t catch you out in prayer.
Week 7 of 8
Days 37 and 38 of 48Date
Hijri
Minutes
Surah
Verses
Page
Reps
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What I revised
What I revised
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What I revised
Week 7 of 8
Days 39 and 40 of 48Date
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What I revised
Date
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What I revised
Week 7 of 8
Days 41 and 42 of 48Date
Hijri
Minutes
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What I revised
What I revised
Date
Hijri
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Surah
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Page
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What I revised
What I revised
Week 7 of 8
The seventh day
No new ground today. Revise, check the week, and plan the next one.
What I revised
Minutes
Tick each day you could recite the day before from memory.
Memorised from
To
Pages this week
Total of 604
Page
Page
Page
My target portion
The juz I will strengthen
Days I will recite to my teacher
Four questions, once a week, for you alone. Nobody else reads this page. If a box stays empty, start there next week.
Recite it to someone.
Your own ear forgives what a teacher’s won’t. Recite to a teacher, a study partner, or anyone at home who can hold the mushaf and stop you. Hifdh nobody has tested is usually weaker than it feels.
Week 8 of 8
Days 43 and 44 of 48Date
Hijri
Minutes
Surah
Verses
Page
Reps
| The page in three | Verses | To teacher | Looking | Closed | Sealed |
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What I revised
What I revised
Date
Hijri
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Surah
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Page
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What I revised
What I revised
Week 8 of 8
Days 45 and 46 of 48Date
Hijri
Minutes
Surah
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What I revised
What I revised
Date
Hijri
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Verses
Page
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What I revised
Week 8 of 8
Days 47 and 48 of 48Date
Hijri
Minutes
Surah
Verses
Page
Reps
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What I revised
What I revised
Date
Hijri
Minutes
Surah
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Page
Reps
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What I revised
What I revised
Week 8 of 8
The seventh day
No new ground today. Revise, check the week, and plan the next one.
What I revised
Minutes
Tick each day you could recite the day before from memory.
Memorised from
To
Pages this week
Total of 604
Page
Page
Page
My target portion
The juz I will strengthen
Days I will recite to my teacher
Four questions, once a week, for you alone. Nobody else reads this page. If a box stays empty, start there next week.
The stop rule comes first.
If you can’t recite yesterday’s page from memory today, you don’t take a new page. You repair yesterday’s. Skipping this one rule is how years of work turn patchy.
Part three
Revision, and the long game
These pages outlast the cycle. People talk about the first pass through the mushaf. Keeping it is the longer job, and these sheets are where you do it, for years after the new pages stop.
The juz strength grid
Twelve checkpoints across thirty juz. Where next month goes
The manzil cycle
Seven portions, and whether your cycle has stretched
The khatmah log
Every complete pass through what you hold, from memory
The confusions and teacher logs
The slips you can plan for, and who heard you
سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلَا تَنسَىٰٓ
We will make you recite, and you will not forget.
Al-A’la 87:6
Part three, the long game
The juz strength grid
Twelve checkpoints, one a month. Recite a page of each juz you hold, from memory, and write a score from 1 to 5 in the box. Then give next month’s manzil to whatever scored lowest.
Juz
Juz
Juz
These three get your manzil time until the next checkpoint, even if you’d rather recite the juz you enjoy.
Number
Date
Part three, the long game
The manzil cycle
Seven portions, one for each day of the week. Write the date each time a portion comes round. A seven-day cycle can slip to five weeks without you noticing. On paper, you’ll see it.
| Manzil | Surahs | From and to | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 to 4 | Al-Fatihah to An-Nisa | 4 |
| 2 | 5 to 9 | Al-Ma’idah to At-Tawbah | 5 |
| 3 | 10 to 16 | Yunus to An-Nahl | 7 |
| 4 | 17 to 25 | Al-Isra to Al-Furqan | 9 |
| 5 | 26 to 36 | Ash-Shu’ara to Ya-Sin | 11 |
| 6 | 37 to 49 | As-Saffat to Al-Hujurat | 13 |
| 7 | 50 to 114 | Qaf to An-Nas, the mufassal | 65 |
Sat
Manzil
Sun
Manzil
Mon
Manzil
Tue
Manzil
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This split comes from a report that the Companions were asked how they divided the Qur’an. It has been used for centuries, but it’s given here as reported practice, not as a sunnah, because scholars differ on the report itself (see the grading below). Use it if the portions suit you. If not, split what you hold into seven equal parts. Either is fine.
I asked the Companions of the Messenger of Allah how they divided the Qur’an into portions. They said: three, five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen, and the portion of al-Mufassal on its own.
Part three, the long game
The khatmah log
Every full pass through what you hold, recited from memory with the mushaf closed. It’s the clearest sign of whether your hifdh is being kept. Don’t worry if the first rows take a while to fill.
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Length I am aiming for
Daily quota that gives
Last full khatmah
اقْرَأِ الْقُرْآنَ فِي كُلِّ سَبْعٍ وَلَا تَزِدْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ
Read the Qur’an once every seven days, and do not do more than that.
Part three, the long game
The confusions log
Mutashabihat: the verses that nearly match other verses. They cause many of the slips in a hifdh, and they’re the slips you can see coming. Write the pair down and drill them side by side.
| The verse | Page | Where it nearly repeats | Page | What actually differs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Part three, the long game
The confusions log, continued| The verse | Page | Where it nearly repeats | Page | What actually differs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Part three, the long game
The teacher log
Your own ear forgives what a teacher’s won’t. A run of blank weeks on this page is the first warning sign in the diary. It usually shows up here before you hear it in your recitation.
| Date | What I recited | Mistakes | What they told me to fix | Initials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
الْمَاهِرُ بِالْقُرْآنِ مَعَ السَّفَرَةِ الْكِرَامِ الْبَرَرَةِ، وَالَّذِي يَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ وَيَتَتَعْتَعُ فِيهِ وَهُوَ عَلَيْهِ شَاقٌّ لَهُ أَجْرَانِ
The one who is proficient in the Qur’an is with the noble and obedient scribes. And the one who recites the Qur’an haltingly, finding it difficult, has two rewards.
Part three, the long game
The teacher log, continued| Date | What I recited | Mistakes | What they told me to fix | Initials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Part three, the long game
When you fall behind
Everyone stops at some point. What helps is a short gap between stopping and starting again. Here’s the way back, in five steps.
Don’t restart where you stopped
Start where you’re still solid. That’s usually a good way behind the page you left off on, and it’s the right place to begin.
Seven days with no new ground
Not one new line. The whole week goes on winning back what you’d already memorised. New pages on a weak base slip faster.
Cut the quota to what you’ll really do
Take half of what you managed before. If half still isn’t happening by day three, halve it again. A small quota you meet beats a big one you don’t.
Recite to a person in the first three days
Your own ear has been forgiving you for as long as you were away. Someone holding the mushaf will hear in ten minutes what you might miss for a month.
Take new ground again after three good days
Wait until you’ve recited yesterday from memory three days running. Then take a new page. It’s the same gate as always, kept a little stricter for now.
I stopped on
I am starting again on
Days lost
The last portion I am still solid on
My reduced quota
The last word
Eight weeks from now.
One cycle of this diary is 48 memorising days and 8 seventh days. At five lines a day, that’s about 16 pages of new memorisation. These are sums, not a promise. Some weeks will go better than others.
What the cycle does give you is a record. You’ll see which juz held, which slipped, and how many days you recited to someone. Fill in the box below on your last day.
Then print the log pages again. Keep the map, the surah list and the juz planner: they’re built to last the whole hifdh. If you can, keep the same teacher, the same hour and the same mushaf.
Pages shaded on day 1
Pages shaded today
Gate passed, days of 48
Days I recited to a teacher, of 48
The juz that slipped most
The juz strength grid
Twelve checkpoints, one a month, for all thirty juz. Score each one from memory, then give next month’s manzil to whatever scored lowest.
The manzil cycle
Seven portions, one for each day of the week. Write the date each time a portion comes round. If a seven-day cycle has slipped to five weeks, you’ll see it.
The khatmah log
Every full pass through what you hold, recited from memory. It’s the clearest sign of whether your hifdh is being kept.
The confusions log
Verses that nearly match other verses cause many slips. Write down the pair and what differs, and drill them side by side.
The teacher log
The date, the portion, the mistakes and your teacher’s initials. A run of blank weeks here is the first warning sign in the diary.
أَنْ تَجْعَلَ الْقُرْآنَ رَبِيعَ قَلْبِي، وَنُورَ صَدْرِي، وَجِلَاءَ حُزْنِي، وَذَهَابَ هَمِّي
That You make the Qur’an the spring of my heart, the light of my chest, the lifting of my sorrow and the going of my worry.
The closing request of a longer supplication. Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas’ud. Musnad Ahmad. Graded sahih by al-Albani in as-Silsilah as-Sahihah 199.
My TijarahA plan only works when someone tests you.
This diary shows you which juz are slipping. It can’t hear the slip itself. Your own ear forgives what a teacher’s won’t.
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