Memorizing the Quran is very important for children, and we should make sure our children do it, as it has a positive effect on their personal and spiritual growth. Alongside its religious and spiritual benefits, memorizing the Quran has many psychological and social benefits that help children develop their personalities and interact positively with society. Below, we shed light on some of these benefits and explain how to help our children memorize the Quran with the Moddakir app, through the Talqeen and Tasmee’ track, and by choosing the Recitation Correction track for your child to learn to read the Quran.
Benefits of memorizing the Quran for children
Memorizing the Quran requires patience and great concentration, which helps children develop self-discipline and self-control. When children make progress in memorizing the Quran and can recite it with confidence, they feel proud of their achievements and their self-confidence grows. Memorizing the Quran also strengthens children’s spiritual connection and helps them build a strong, firm relationship with Allah, the Mighty and Majestic. When children memorize verses of the Quran, they can reflect on their meanings and apply them in their daily lives, which raises their spiritual awareness and deepens their closeness to Allah.
The Quran also contains great values and morals aimed at developing a person’s character and encouraging good behaviour. When children memorize the Quran and learn from its teachings, they learn the values of humility, honesty, justice, mercy and kindness. These values are reflected in their behaviour and have a positive effect on their relationships with others.
Memorizing the Quran also helps improve concentration and academic achievement, because it requires repetition and constant practice, which develops children’s ability to concentrate and achieve at school. When children learn to organize their time and keep to their Quran memorization times, they gain important skills they can apply in their academic and working lives. Memorizing the Quran is excellent exercise for developing children’s memory and language skills: it requires memorizing many words and sentences, which strengthens their ability to remember information and handle texts, and this has a positive effect on their school performance and language skills in general.
What are the psychological and social aspects of teaching children to memorize the Quran?
Teaching children to memorize the Quran is one of the most important things parents should attend to, because of its great psychological and social benefits for the child. Among the most important psychological benefits of memorizing the Quran for children are:
- Self-confidence: memorizing the Quran makes the child feel proud of themselves and strengthens their confidence in their abilities and potential.
- Better concentration and memory: memorizing the Quran helps improve the child’s ability to concentrate and pay attention, and strengthens their memory, helping them retain information better.
- Calm and tranquillity: reciting the Quran helps bring a feeling of calm and tranquillity, and relieves stress and anxiety.
- Developing patience and perseverance: memorizing the Quran helps develop the child’s patience and perseverance, and teaches them the importance of persevering to achieve their goals.
- A sense of responsibility: memorizing the Quran gives the child a sense of responsibility towards themselves and their religion.
How do you use the Recitation Correction track in the Moddakir app for your child?
The Recitation Correction track in the Moddakir app is one of four tracks for teaching children the Quran and helping them memorize Allah’s verses by heart. The Recitation Correction track is the right track for learning to read the Quran with great precision: it helps the child recite the Quran and pronounce Allah’s verses correctly while applying the basic rules of Tajweed, and then recite with mastery. It suits ages 3 to 12, and the program has no fixed duration, so you can choose the right time for your child as you wish. The Recitation Correction track works alongside the Talqeen and Tasmee’ track, so that the child masters the recitation of the Quran and memorizes it by heart through Talqeen with male and female teachers in the Moddakir app. To use the Recitation Correction track, all you need to do is follow these steps:
- Install the Moddakir Kids app, register your child with their full name and date of birth, and upload a personal photo of them to the app.
- Choose the Recitation Correction track by ticking “Recitation correction (learn to read the Quran)”, then tap Next.
- Choose the days on which you want your child to learn, from Sunday to Saturday (you can also choose every day of the week), and choose a time slot: the 24-hour day is divided into 6 slots of four hours each, starting at 4 a.m. Then tap the “Next” button.
- Choose your child’s learning plan for the Recitation Correction track, either by juz’ or by surah: you can choose the short surahs from An-Nas to Ad-Duha together with Surah Al-Fatihah, choose a suitable juz’, or choose a single surah from the 114 surahs of the Quran, then tap “Next”.
- Choose how much your child learns per session, in lines, from one line up to 8 lines, then tap the “Review plan” button.
- A window appears with a summary of your child’s plan in the Recitation Correction track.
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The Recitation Correction track for teaching children to read the Quran has several advantages, the most notable being an assessment of the child’s level: the child reads a short surah of the Quran, and the teacher assesses the child’s level in the articulation of the letters, accuracy of pronunciation and the rules of Tajweed, and then corrects their recitation so the child learns to read the Quran perfectly through repetition. The track relies on the Talqeen method: the child learns by listening to the teacher’s recitation and imitating it. The child’s progress is also assessed regularly to make sure the desired goals are achieved, and the teacher gives the child personal follow-up to correct their mistakes and help them improve.
Why choose Moddakir Kids?
Moddakir Kids stands out for its filtering feature, which lets you choose the reciters and the male and female teachers who are specialized for your child, and all the male and female teachers hold an Ijazah in the Quran. One of the best things about the Moddakir Kids app is that the child does not have to leave home, and it puts an end to boredom with memorizing; the very idea of using an app on a phone makes the child keen to memorize the Quran. One of the most important tips for mothers: do not let a single day pass without teaching your child the Quran, for teaching a child even one verse a day is important for teaching them the Quran from an early age, in keeping with the saying: “Learning in childhood is like engraving on stone.”
Teaching a child the Quran from an early age, and helping them memorize even one verse a day, is of great importance for their spiritual and mental growth. Here are some of the reasons this teaching matters:
- By learning verses of the Quran, the child comes to know important Islamic values and morals, such as honesty, justice, mercy and kindness. This helps shape the child’s character and guide them towards good behaviour.
- The child learns how to recite the verses and improves their pronunciation and Tajweed. In addition, the language of the Quran is beautiful and rich, and it strengthens the child’s understanding of Arabic literature and their ability to express themselves.
- Through reciting the verses and understanding their meanings, the child is guided to reflect on the Creator, to seek forgiveness and to make supplication, and this strong spiritual connection can help the child build a healthy, positive relationship with Allah.
