Hafazan Journey

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim..

Sedikit entry mengenai perkembangan Umar dalam hafazan dan Thariq dalam mengenalkannya kpd Al Quran..

Kami adalah antara yang agak perlahan dalam proses hafazan ini dan masih ramai di luar sana yang hebat dalam mendidik anak-anak mereka dalam hafazan dan mengenalkan AlQuran. Namun kami tetap optimis dan yakin untuk mencapai matlamat kami ini. Semoga semua mendoakan.

Method yang kami gunakan adalah basic:

1- perdengarkan bacaan Al Quran kepada anak-anak sejak bayi
ulang-ulang bacaan Quran itu, saya gunakan iphone saya untuk tujuan ini.
Siang saya perdengarkan bacaan surah-surah pilihan di alternate dengan surah yang sedang umar hafal.
Malam pula saya akan biarkan telefon ini membacakan surah yang sedang umar hafal berulang-ulang hingga pagi.

2- Hafal bersama
kami menghafal bersama-sama dengan memecahkan kepada dua bahagian, cthnya surah yang 11ayat kami hafal 5ayat dahulu kemudian 6 ayat sesi kedua. Jangan memaksa jika anak penat dan jadikan sesi ini satu yang personal antara ummi dan anaknya dan sesi yang gembira..

Umar akan baca satu ayat 10 kali lihat kemudian 10 kali tutup sehingga dia hafal. Average total dalam 60kali lihat dan 60kali tutup. Ini sesuai apabila anak dah besar sedikit.

3- mengulang
Ini selalunya kami lakukan pada hari sabtu dan ahad kerana ayah umar boleh bantu mentasmik bacaan umar juga, ini lebih terkesan kepada umar kerana ia merasakan hafazan ini sesuatu yang penting dan dia akan serius dalam mengulang. Step mengulang ini adalah paling penting. Kami pernah mengalami peristiwa di mana umar sudah menghafal 11 surah kemudian saya terlalu sibuk dengan housemanship sehingga tidak sempat mengulang-ulang dan akhirnya umar hanya ingat 4 surah. Saya sangat sedih namun redha kerana inilah cabaran dalam proses menghafal ini...

inspirasi Ummi: perkongsian perjalanan hafazan kami

Dalam menjalani kesibukan hidup yang tak berkesudahan, kami, iaitu umar dan umi meneruskan perjalanan hafazan kami yang agak perlahan namun alhamdulillah konsisten. Memang pada asalnya harapan ummi menggunung tinggi agar umar dapat menghabiskan hafazan juzu' ammar sebelum usia umar 5 tahun. Namun kesibukan ummi menyebabkan semuanya tertunda sehingga kini.

Walau bagaimanapun, perjalanan hafazan ini semakin dipermudah Allah. Mungkin dulu semasa awal proses menghafal, umar memerlukan hampir satu jam untuk menghafal 5 ayat tetapi kini alhamdulillah umar boleh menghafal 5-6 ayat dalam 10mins.

Sesi hafazan kami memang pendek-pendek supaya tidak bosan dan mendesak fikiran. Target kami adalah satu hari satu surah dan jika surah yang melebihi 5 ayat target berubah hingga ke 2 atau 3 hari. Ini agar ayat sedikit2 yang dihafal kekal dalam fikiran dan tidak menjadi beban kepada umar yang fitrahnya masih suka bermain.

Sebelum tidur kami akan mengulang bacaan hafazan dan paling comel, thariq akan turut serta mengikut bacaan walaupun pelat. Ia diselang seli dengan kemesraan dua beradik ini yang sangat membahagiakan. Alhamdulillah.


Thariq alhamdulillah pada usia 2tahun kini sudah boleh mengenal huruf-huruf hijaiyah. Setiap anak memiliki cara dan kemahuan tersendiri, mengajar thariq agar mencabar berbanding umar.

Untuk ummi pula, sebagai seorg yang sangat padat jadual dan tanggungawab, saya turut menghafal dan motivasi untuk menghafal ini sangat terdorong apabila melihat kesungguhan umar menghafal.

Kaedah ummi lain sedikit daripada umar, ummi mengaplikasikan kaedah jibril dimana umi menghafal at least 3 ayat satu hari. Mungkin ini sangat sedikit bagi setengah-setengah individu namun bagi saya biarlah sedikit asalkan konsisten. teknik ini boleh diperlajari daripada buku kaedah Jibril yang sungguh memotivasikan.

Wallahualam

Umar learns Furqan

Just some updates on Umar's progress on his Furqan session. I really want to start this learning process early but I could not find the best way that suits him until he was 3 years old.

I try not to push him, and now he shows his interest in learning Furqan. Maybe he just not ready or interested before. Alhamdulillah within few weeks he shows good improvement. My target is to finish Furqan book 2 last 2 weeks but Umar was not well due to fever thus we extend the dateline;)

I've changed from Iqra' to Furqan book for him because Furqan has more colourful pages, simple, big writings, it has some ryhmes (e.g. when learning the 'baris' the book make it like a sentence e.g. 'A Bi Ba Wa Bu Ku'). Umar giggles and was excited to learn the ryhmes;)

May Allah ease our effort to learn Quran and arabic!

educational dilemma

I guess everyone is familiar with the person name Ibn Sinna or so called Avicenna in the West who is well known of book on medicine name al Qanun fi al Tibb (or known as Canon in western) as well as Ar Rahzees the person whom discovered the origin of smallpox and showed that one could only acquire it once in one's life, thus showing the existence of the immune system and how it worked.

They all are Islamic scholars whom I believed had a great stimulation and exposure in their early childhood.

If we realized, there are differences in the educational system practiced during their time and now. In their time they were exposed to the Quran and spiritual knowledge as the first step then they were introduced to other fields e.g. arts etc. It was like an 'upside down' triangle. They learn one core subject, the Quran then others. That was the reason why they not only master the medicine but other fields as well.

But for us now, we are the 'upright' triangle. We learned many subjects since kinder age i.e. music, arts, english, sejarah, alam manusia, science etc and then as we grow up we choose the specialized area we are interested in. That is why now we even have the 'eyelid specialist'. Very sub specialization.

With this awareness, I was thinking so hard and worked out how to raise my children and applying the old system which is learning and mastering the Quran first then later come the other areas.

Some points which I found out as important area (anyone reading this may add other points which i've missed) to start from now are:

- the ability to read Quran / Arabic
-understanding of Arabic language
-master in Quranic knowledge
-study of other Islamic knowledge e.g. 'ilmu wahyu', tasawwur, fiqh etc.(yes, these are under Quranic knowledge as well)

I admit that it was quite 'late' for me to start as Umar is already 3 years old and in less than 6 months time his ability to utilize his right brain hemisphere will diminished thus I lost the opportunity to utilize his language dominant brain. But I would keep trying for umar and improve for my next child.

I am still looking for good guidance to provide my children with Quranic and other Islamic knowledge. It sound advanced but the reality is, we have to start now. It is essential to expose them with the basic as a stepping stone to move further in future. I really hope anyone reading this may share their own personal experience on this.

Update on umar progress in his Islamic study:

Umar almost finish his book 2 of al-Furqan. He shows good progress and enthusiasm even though sometimes he quite cheeky and try to avoid learning the Furqan:P. We also had started on Islamic history by reading bedtime stories on the 'stories from the Quran'. Undeniable lots of challenging questions came from him. e.g. Who is prophet ummi? where is Allah? Who is syaitan? Where is heaven? and the list goes on!

It is a good experience to know that he is thinking because he asked heaps of Q's! Alhamdulillah..