Article: Advice to women who have memorised the Book of Allah

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Assalamu Alaikum.

Many people seem to think that memorising the entire Quran is the end, whereas in reality it’s just the beginning.

Here’s an article for sisters (although it also applies to brothers) who have memorised the Quran.

I found it on Islam Q and A many years ago but they seem to have removed the original link.

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Advice to women who have memorized the Book of Allaah

Praise be to Allaah by Whose Grace all good things may be achieved and by Whose Blessing and Mercy a group of sisters and good women have been able to memorize His Book. We see in them the fulfilment of Allaah’s promise to make the Qur’aan easy to memorize and remember, as Allaah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):

“And We have indeed made the Qur’aan easy to understand and remember, then is there any that will remember (or receive admonition)?”[al-Qamar 54:22]

O sister who has memorized the Qur’aan, congratulations! Allaah has used you to preserve His Book on earth. You are one of those through whom Allaah has kept the promise He made when He said (interpretation of the meaning):

“Verily We: it is We Who have sent down the Dhikr (i.e., the Qur’aan) and surely, We will guard it.” [al-Hijr 15:9]

O sister who has memorized the Qur’aan, do not underestimate the worth of what you have done. What is in your heart is knowledge. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“Nay, but they, the clear aayaat, are preserved in the breasts of those who have been given knowledge…”

[al-‘Ankaboot 29:49]

In your heart is a Book which cannot be washed away with water. It was said in the sacred Scriptures concerning this ummah that “their gospel is in their hearts.”

O (female) bearer of the Qur’aan, you are indeed envied by people.

This envy is the kind of envy that is permissible. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:

“You should not envy anybody except for two: a man to whom Allaah has given the Qur’aan, so he recites it night and day, so that another man says, ‘If I were given what he has been given I would so the same as he does’; and a man to whom Allaah has given wealth, so he spends it appropriately, and another man says, ‘If I were given what he has been given I would so the same as he does’.” (Reported by al-Bukhaari, 6974)

The permissible kind of envy is al-ghibtah, which means wishing for what another person has, without wishing for him to lose that blessing.