It seemed remarkable this year that the number of Palestinian children who memorized the Noble Qur’an by heart increased during the home quarantine period, which lasted for about 5 months, after they shortened a great deal of time.

And from many others, the bedtime story of the girl Hoda Al-Basha (17 years) differed, so instead of a story that she reads and covered in a deep sleep, the Qur’an had nothing to do on a dark night, so she kept 5 pages and more from it on a daily basis.

Memorizing the Qur’an

In June 2019, Hoda had begun to memorize the Qur’an at the Al-Bukhari Center for Memorizing the Holy Qur’an in the city of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, and completed 10 parts of it before the outbreak of the Corona virus in the Palestinian areas and the announcement of the closure at the end of last March. Home stone.

The short period of time and the opportunity that Al-Bukhari Center gave to its students to continue memorizing and reciting from a distance prompted Huda, as well as her group of folders, to double her efforts, and she tells Al-Jazeera Net, "I memorized 6 parts during the month of Ramadan alone."

The encouragement of the center and the mechanisms it followed had a great role that doubled the opportunity for Hoda and her counterparts in the center to fully preserve during the quarantine period. She also took advantage of the absence from school as a result of closure and preservation before reaching high school, and thus distraction from that.

The child Shaima Khalaf from Nablus completed the memorization of the Qur’an during the stone period (Al-Jazeera)

Self-recitation

Following in the footsteps of Hoda, Shaima Khalaf (15 years old) followed and chose for herself a time of the night and after completing her homework to memorize the Qur’an, and for this she devised a program based on memorizing at night, repeating in the morning and reciting on the same day to consolidate the verses more.

Shaima tells Al-Jazeera Net her story, where she sensed her happiness and pride in herself and continued to memorize and recite electronically, and she says, "Within 3 months of the Corona stone, I memorized 15 chapters, and thus she completed the entire Quran."

Shaima used the mechanism of self-recitation to memorize the Qur’an, and did not make anyone listen to it. Rather, she recorded what she had memorized over the phone, then corrected herself and memorized it again, "and all this was due to the intense enthusiasm for memorization in the shortest possible time."

At the Al-Bukhari Center, about 35 students completed their memorization of the Qur’an, and some of them were approved by the connected bond, and this is the first time that the memoris have reached this number and within a short period such as this, and there are dozens like them in other centers and those of the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments.

Quran teacher Aya Mari hears one of her students through the video call feature (Al Jazeera)

Big challenge

The secret here is to convert the "ordeal into a grant", and how more than 50 female teachers of the Noble Qur’an worked as a beehive and bypassed the Corona crisis by setting up a remote recitation program, which contributed to encouraging students and their remarkable interest in memorizing and continuing in victory over all factors Inhibition.

There was something that pushed Aya Mari, a Qur’an teacher at Al-Bukhari Center, to step forward with her students (11 students) and finish with them the conclusion of the Qur’an, and this was a great “challenge” for her and them alike. And at multiple times.

Preservative of the Holy Quran The girl Hoda Al-Basha listens through the video call feature (Al-Jazeera)

Great energy

The time factor and the students ’will was the most important motivation for them to memorize, and Mari said in her interview with Al-Jazeera Net that the state of distress and anxiety experienced by people due to the Corona virus made them reluctance to do anything. Is required of him. "

This opinion is adopted by Indian names, the director of the Bukhari Center, which includes 4 clubs with about 600 students, more than 90% of whom are between 8 and 17 years old, and dozens of them graduate annually.

She tells Al-Jazeera Net that children at this age have the greatest energy and ability to memorize, and "instill in this age the fruits of the future," as well as the mental and temporal emptiness that can only be obtained during this period.

Director of the Al-Bukhari Center for Memorizing the Qur’an in Nablus Indian names (Al-Jazeera)

Competition and incentives

According to Indian, the center has set up a program based on challenge and competition in preservation, offering incentives and gifts in kind to visit students at their homes and meet them within the prevention controls, as well as encouraging parents and the participation of parents - specifically parents - in a significant and noticeable manner this time more than before.

The Hafiz classifies the entire Qur’an between Hafez in the first conclusion and the metaphor connected to the chain of transmission for memorization and intonation on the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace.

A teacher hears her students what they have memorized from the Qur’an while taking precautionary measures (Al-Jazeera)

Global and local supremacy

In turn, Atef Salih, Assistant Undersecretary for Advocacy Affairs at the Ministry of Endowments, tells Al-Jazeera Net that 90 religious observers took the second exam during this year, which took place in late August, out of 150 who were supposed to be tested, but Corona’s circumstances in their regions prevented that, and he succeeded Of the applicants, 70 are guardians, and nearly 60 of them are children and young boys.

The children of Palestine were distinguished from the memoris of the Qur’an, especially this year, that they benefited from the Corona pandemic, so they were able to preserve in a very short period of time not exceeding 5 months what would have been taken from them about two years or more.

According to Saleh, Palestine is distinguished by its global distinction and advanced ranks between the first and the second in most of the competitions in which it has participated during the past two years in the countries of the Arab and Islamic world for memorization and intonation and with various readings.