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We all want to feel that deep 
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But let's be honest, for a lot 
of us, the Quran sits on the 

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shelf more than it does in our 
hands this Ramadan. 

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Let's change that. 
Imagine this. 

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You understand every word you 
recite. 

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The first days come alive with 
meaning and your heart feels a 

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closeness to Allah you've never 
experienced before. 

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This episode will be your guide 
to unlocking the Quran and 

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making a daily source of 
inspiration and spiritualities 

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this Ramadan and beyond. 
Assalamu Aikum, this is your 

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host nosheen and welcome to 
Junja Jannah, a podcast curated 

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to help you become your own 
dream girl. 

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On the third episode of the 
Ramadan series, we are going to 

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talk about how to connect or 
reconnect with the Quran. 

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Ramadan is essentially the month
of the Quran, so logically we 

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should be using this month as 
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it. 
Let me ask a question. 

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How many of us have read the 
Quran front to back in our 

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native language? 
How many of us have gone through

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and studied each Surah 
meticulously and watched the 

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fears on them to truly 
understand the words of Allah, 

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Subhan matala? 
The answer is not enough of us. 

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So many of us want to build a 
relationship with the Quran and 

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we decide to do that by reading 
it in Arabic in Alhamdulillah. 

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It's a beautiful thing to do, 
but to truly build a connection,

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I believe that you also need to 
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And to understand it, we need to
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said, how Allah means each verse
that is just as important as 

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reciting in Arabic. 
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genuinely mind blowing because 
again, you actually are 

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understanding what Allah is 
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I'm going to share a hadith that
I think really exemplifies how 

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important the Quran is to us. 
Or the actual hadith is a lot 

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longer, but I'm just going to 
pull out this specific sentence 

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from it because that's what I 
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The Prophet Sallam said. 
And I am leaving among you 2 

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weighty things, the one being 
the book of Allah IE the Quran 

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in which there is right guidance
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So hold fast to the book of 
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So this book, the Quran, it's 
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I think it's so easy to forget 
that the words we read in the 

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Quran are the words of our Lord.
They're the words of Allah, 

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Subhanawatallah. 
No other book has that. 

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No other book is going to be 
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And at this point you might be 
saying yes. 

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I know the importance. 
I'm here to ask how exactly do I

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connect. 
So I will be sharing 5 tips that

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inshallah will help you. 
Tip #1 is to listen and read to 

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the Quran regularly. 
I know this may sound like a 

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very, very basic piece of 
advice, but honestly a lot of 

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the time it's the simple things 
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How many of us are guilty of at 
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lives letting the Quran lay on a
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when we finally go and get it to
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dust on it from how unused it 
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You're not going to build a 
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you're not actively engaging 
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So make Quran something that is 
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this means something different 
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What I recommend is picking a 
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unconscious habit to read the 
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day. 
And this can be after one of the

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five daily prayers right before 
you go to sleep whenever fits 

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best. 
What I like to do is recite 

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after Mahrab. 
I know I've talked about this on

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previous episodes, but basically
my mother, my own love, bless 

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her soul growing up, she sort of
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my sisters. 
So after Mahrobi would all sit 

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down on our parameds and 
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And as I've gotten older, at 
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really hard to keep up with 
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You know, life can get busy, but
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to it because this habit that 
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just it makes it so much easier 
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when I've lost it. 
Routines are always so, so 

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important to implement into your
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So if you make your Ibadat and 
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habits, it just makes it that 
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you may fall off. 
Having that system just makes it

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extremely easy to put yourself 
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And I also said listen to the 
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of the step. 
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Listening to other people recite
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experience. 
Like once you find your favorite

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Quran reciters, the difference 
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Quran is just wow. 
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I found reciter and them 
reciting A pseudo has literally 

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brought tears to my eyes because
of the emotion that they're able

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to convey. 
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everyone knows how to read 
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Some of you guys may be very 
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into Islam but only recently are
trying to connect with the Quran

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and it can be very hard. 
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having those reciters there 
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And this is something that you 
can really easily implement into

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your life, like you're cleaning,
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background, you're driving 
somewhere, play a Quran 

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recitation, you're getting ready
in the morning, play a Quran 

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recitation. 
It's just like, again, a really 

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easy thing to implement into 
your life and it brings a lot of

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peace as well. 
Tip #2 Read the Quran in your 

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native language and watch the 
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We recite Surah Al Fatiha in 
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But how many of us know what 
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Like what is Allah subhan what 
that are trying to tell us 

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through it and most of us would 
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because I haven't done that 
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Quran to try and grasp onto 
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You can't truly connect with the
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Allah is trying to convey to us 
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A really great way to do this 
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meaning of the Quran is to watch
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If you don't know what a the 
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explanation of the Quran. 
So scholars will sit down and go

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through each verse of a Surah 
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And on top of that, oftentimes 
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Because Arabic is such an 
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literally have 30 different 
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So going through it like piece 
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together so that you can truly 
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the Sudah is saying. 
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watched a theft seer video, I 
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Alf Adahab because I saw a video
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thing. 
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Sudah Alf adahab actually means 
when we recite it so many times?

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I remember how genuinely 
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of an analysis the scholar was 
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He was going into how each word 
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meanings. 
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And honestly that experience 
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Quran, like my perception of the
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interacted with it as well. 
I was able to see the Quran not 

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just as a collection of verses, 
not just as a book, but as 

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something deeper that is really 
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And I feel like after this point
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the Quran for what it is. 
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true beauty in it. 
And it's so easy for the Quran 

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to just like become something 
that we recite during our 

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prayers. 
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meaning helps with creating a 
deeper bond with it and with 

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Allah, because you know the 
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amount of wisdom and the amount 
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holds. 
It's something that has really 

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helped me again in shaping my 
perception of the Quran and in 

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Islam in general, and it's 
elevated me on my spiritual 

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journey. 
A great thing to do to keep 

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track of all the fifth series 
that you watch is to keep a 

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Quran journal where you 
basically just take notes on the

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fifth series for each Surah. 
Writing down all the things that

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you learn just makes it easier 
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And what I like to do is write 
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and then write it in English and
then notes on how the scholar is

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explaining everything so that I 
just have like a brief nice 

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summary overview if I want to 
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my notes. 
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which is start acting upon what 
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Implementation of the Quran is 
just as important as engaging 

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with it. 
You can recite the Quran, listen

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to it, learn its meaning. 
But if you're not then taking 

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what you've learned and then 
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you're not fully connecting it. 
Essentially, the Quran is a 

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guide to us as Muslims on how to
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Does it make sense to read the 
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understand what the guide is 
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the guide is telling you to do? 
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We're supposed to take what 
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our daily lives. 
The Quran says to, for example, 

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be patient. 
You can read the verse in Arabic

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and in English and watch the 
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knowledge that we now have, we 
are sort of kind of obligated to

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act upon that knowledge. 
One thing that I did to help 

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with this is I bought a book 
called The Practicing Muslim 

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which summarizes the code of 
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the Quran and it breaks it down 
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So you can go through by each 
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prescribed in each Surah. 
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Khan, it says remain steadfast, 
don't be arrogant, exercise self

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restraint, be humble. 
And it goes on with more points 

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from the Surah. 
This has really helped me 

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because it really easily 
translates the Quran's message 

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into do's and don'ts that I can 
take and directly implement into

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my life. 
I hope you guys see that 

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connection between the three 
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because they do interconnect, 
they all build off of one 

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another and they're all very 
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of connecting with the Quran. 
Let me give another example. 

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So in pseudo 49 verse 12 Allah 
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not to backbite and backbiting 
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somebody else. 
If you read this verse you 

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understand it on hamdullah but 
then you go ahead and talk bad 

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about someone else while you're 
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That's not first of all isn't 
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it's immoral. 
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with Allah has explicitly told 
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Knowing this, having that 
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and doing it anyway, it doesn't 
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It honestly makes it worse. 
So you can see how important it 

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is to not only understand the 
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also internalize its teachings 
and to allow it to shape your 

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behavior. 
The reflection of how strong 

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your connection is with the 
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it. 
It lies in your actions, your 

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personality, your character. 
Next, on to tip #4, which is 

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make it interactive. 
Our brains tend to remember 

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things better when they're 
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actively engaging in whatever it
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One really easy way to do this, 
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briefly earlier, but keep a 
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While you are reading the Quran,
jot down verses that jump out to

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maybe a particular phrase that 
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something that you're going 
through right now or a question 

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that comes to your head. 
Write it all down. 

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Don't worry about being needs. 
It's honestly just for you. 

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This is your personal space to 
explore your own thoughts and 

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your own feelings. 
In addition to writing down the 

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verses, you can also take the 
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actually means to you. 
What lessons can you learn from 

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this? 
How can you apply the teachings 

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to your daily life? 
Maybe you even want to write 

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down a dua based on the verse, 
asking Allah for the strength to

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live by its message. 
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is build a mind map. 
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the theme of patience in the 
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You can create a mind map with 
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and then as you brainstorm 
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patients, you can branch them 
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So for example, you might add a 
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with difficult people 
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entrusting in a lost plan. 
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add specific verses. 
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also add personal stories like 
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brainstorm situations where 
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work or to school one day and 
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nerves or you had a disagreement
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Write down these experiences and
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teachings on patients could have
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Through this method you can 
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connections between different 
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back to the central theme and 
they allow you to connect the 

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topics within the Quran and see 
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Quran, because you're also able 
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life you can apply specific 
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Another interactive study method
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group, either in real life or 
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You can learn together and you 
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Discussion is also very 
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learning, so you can discuss 
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learned. 
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what you've learned in your 
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time. 
This can also count as a great 

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way to hold yourself 
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with the Quran every single day.
Because let's face it, studying 

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and staying consistent can be 
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It's really easy to become 
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a study group, you're not going 
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And this goes both ways. 
You can be the one giving your 

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friends that extra boost that 
they need to stay motivated too.

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Tip #5 Also, the final tip is 
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This is the most impactful thing
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the Quran. 
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Reflection is the bridge that 
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the words on a page to truly 
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I'm going to go back to the 
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about patience. 
It's one thing to understand the

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meaning of the words, but it's 
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consider how this verse applies 
to a recent fight you have had 

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with a friend. 
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of the importance of forgiveness
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anger. 
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these connections, to take the 
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it as a mirror to examine your 
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that you have. 
It's about asking yourself the 

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tough questions like am I living
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Quran? 
And how can I better myself as a

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person? 
How can I better myself as a 

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Muslim? 
This process of self reflection 

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isn't easy. 
It forces you to face your 

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flaws, but it's ultimately what 
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take root and grow within you 
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The Quran has so many beautiful,
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you to figure out what they mean
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them into your life, on how you 
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There have been moments where 
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to stop because I'm thinking, 
wow, reading this is really 

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making me regret something I did
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I should have thought about it 
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For you, maybe it could be 
adverse about generosity and you

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have that nagging feeling that 
you could be doing more right 

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now to help those in need. 
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Once you see those flaws, once 
you recognize them, you can't 

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just Unsee them, right? 
That's the beauty of self 

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reflection. 
It forces you to confront your 

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shortcomings, but it also gives 
you the power to do something 

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about them. 
And to do that through the Quran

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by using it as your guidance is 
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Let's go back to the patient's 
example before we end this 

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episode. 
So let's say you're reading the 

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code on and you come across a 
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reflect on that verse and you're
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something you need to work on. 
So you may choose to recoup your

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thoughts before you respond to 
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These are the kind of positive 
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reflection and over time, as you
keep reflecting and making 

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changes, you'll start to notice 
a difference in yourself. 

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You'll be more patient, more 
generous, more kind because you 

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will took that extra time to 
look inward and confront your 

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own flaws from the perspective 
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That brings us to the end of 
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I hope your first day of fasting
went amazing and that the start 

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of this Ramadan has been good 
for you. 

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Make sure to follow my Instagram
for dating motivation and to 

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just see my life. 
I have the link to that in the 

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description Ramadan Kareem and 
I'll see you guys in my next 

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episode as Salaam Alaikum.