30. THINGS THAT HELP IN MEMORISATION
I have seen nothing that is more difficult than memorising knowledge (hifz lil-‘ilm), especially having to repeat things that are not enjoyable, such as fiqh issues.
On the other hand, there is pleasure (ladha) in repeating poetry (shi’r) in spite of its difficulty; After saying it a few times, poetry becomes difficult to repeat as well. A person enjoys hadith, poetry and reading books more, because a person comes across something new every time. Similarly, copying knowledge is enjoyable.
A person must spend most of his life repeating knowledge, especially for a youth. This causes knowledge to stick firmly in one’s mind. When he becomes tired of repetition, he should revert to copying knowledge. Later on in the future, he will be glad that he did so.
He who does not memorise will feel guilty in the future. In fact, it is more difficult to re-memorise something that you had forgotten than to keep something memorised by repeating it over and over.
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
Comments
John Doe
23/3/2019Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
John Doe
23/3/2019Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
John Doe
23/3/2019Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.