The Prophet ﷺ said: “The best of you are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it.”
He also said that the one who is skilled in the Qur'an is with the noble, righteous scribes: the angels.
“And the one who recites it and stumbles over it, finding it hard, has two rewards.”
And We have certainly made the Qur'an easy for remembrance. So is there anyone who will remember?
Tip 1: make the Qur'an your companion, like a friend you want to see every day.
The Prophet ﷺ said: “Recite the Qur'an, for on the Day of Resurrection it will intercede for its companions.”
In Arabic, sâhib means both the one who keeps a thing and the one who keeps its company.
Keep a small paper mushaf with you, to read in the empty moments of your day.
Use the same copy from start to finish: your eyes remember where each verse sits on the page.
Why paper rather than an app? On a phone, one notification is enough to pull you away.
Tip 2: read what is reported about the virtues of the Qur'an, to keep your motivation alive.
Imam an-Nawawî gathered many of these hadiths in a chapter of his book Riyâd as-Sâlihîn.
The Prophet ﷺ said: whoever recites one letter of the Book of Allah has a good deed, worth ten like it.
“I do not say that Alif Lâm Mîm is one letter: Alif is a letter, Lâm is a letter and Mîm is a letter.”
Now think of a verse you repeat dozens of times to learn it.
The Prophet ﷺ said: “No envy except in two cases.”
The first: “a man to whom Allah gave the Book, and who stands with it in the hours of the night.”
The scholars explain that this means wishing for the same good, without wishing that the other loses it.
So hearing others recite, at the mosque or in a recitation contest, can push you forward.
You want to memorize the Qur'an, but you are starting from zero.
Where do you begin?
The Qur'an is not a project to get through. It is a companion to keep.
Tonight, choose the mushaf you will keep from start to finish, and read one page in it.