For us Muslims, to recite the Quran with a beautiful voice, and actually understanding its meanings sets us right on the road to salvation and redemption; and thus, on the road to heaven (Inshaa’Allah).
Quran Recitation For Non-Arabs
For non-Arab Muslim people, it’s extremely difficult to recite the Quran in Arabic, and another difficulty is to make it sound beautiful and harmonious, especially during the period after conversion to Islam, during which we would have so many religious things on our list, and learning a complicated language such as Arabic might be quite challenging.
So, today, we shall help you on your journey of reciting the Quran in Arabic, in a beautiful manner, and provide you with a group of techniques and tips that will make it a lot easier and even help you improve your Arabic language as well.
Why recite the Quran in a graceful, beautiful Voice:
The Quran is Allah’s word to human beings, and when dealt with, we must display the utmost respect and care. So, it’s highly recommended to try to make it sound beautiful, and to try to beautify the recitation with our beautiful voices.
It was narrated that Al-Bara b. Azib heard our prophet (peace be upon him) saying, “Beautify the Quran with your voices, for the beautiful voice increases the beauty of the Quran.”.
When one listens to the Quran recited by a beautiful voice, it almost feels out of this world, as if our own bodies don’t belong to this worn world, but have ascended to heaven for a moment.
How to Recite the Quran in a Beautiful Voice?
Learning to recite the Quran is definitely a goal that all Muslim people around the world strive for, and exert effort for, and there are many techniques that non-Arabic Muslim people use to go beyond the barrier of language.
Bayan Al Quran academy offers you tips to improve your reciting of the Quran, and facilitate your learning of it:
1- Practice the articulation of sounds and letters:
Some sounds and letters can be just a bit tricky to articulate; as Arabic has many unique sounds that don’t exist in many other languages. So, it would be a good idea to extensively practice those sounds simultaneously with practicing the recitation of the verses.
2- Recite the Quran loudly:
Reciting the Quran loudly will get your ears acquainted with the Arabic sounds, it will keep your ears in touch with your tongue which will increasingly improve your articulation of sounds and words, and it will help you in producing more delicate and graceful readings of the Quran.
3- Learn basic Arabic grammar:
Learning basic Arabic grammar will save you an immense amount of time and effort, and will make your journey of learning remarkably easier. After being aware of basic Arabic grammatical rules, you won’t have to depend on blind memory as much, plus it will help you improve your language-acquiring skills.
4- Learn the rules of Tajweed:
After learning some Arabic grammatical rules, you will notice that there are still some linguistic patterns that you don’t understand, and are not able to catch up to easily. This is due to the fact that the Quran is beautified by necessary Tajweed rules, which are mandatory to follow; so do yourself a favor and catch up on some Tajweed rules.
5- Listen to Quran extensively:
Listening to the Quran will be a huge aid on your journey; as it’s a simple yet effective method to revise all that you have learned while exerting only little effort. It will allow you to focus on the phonetic details of the process of recitation and will become a door towards feeling the emotional essence of the Quran and expressing it in a beautiful graceful recitation.
6- Make sure to revise daily:
Dedicating a certain daily period of time to revise what you have learnt so far will always help you keep your mind organized, and would not allow you to lose your Quran recitation skills that you worked so hard to acquire. Simply put, it will make sure you keep your well deserved new skills.
7- Don’t Use To Read the Quran in English
Since it’s very hard to learn to recite the Quran in Arabic, and of course learning the language is a long process that consumes years, why not read it in English and just be satisfied with that? In fact, that is not really an option.
8. Read the Quran In Arabic
In Islam, it’s mandatory to recite the Quran in Arabic, the exact way Allah has revealed it to his prophet, including its original language. So, you must attempt to learn to read and memorize it in Arabic. And we are here to tell you how to simply and easily do that.
9. Listen and Imitate Quran Reciters And Tutors
One of the most recommended techniques, which is followed by even Arabic speakers who learn to read and memorize the Quran, is through listening to it being recited by a Quran tutor, then imitating them and pronouncing it in the same way.
In this technique, your Quran tutor will recite a short verse or a part of a long verse multiple times in different ways, highlighting and stressing the more challenging parts, and then ask you to repeat what they said in the same exact way.
After a few attempts, you will find it a lot easier to recite that verse and all the words that compose it. This means that after a while, you will be well acquainted with many words, which will make the process of learning much easier and simpler.
Where to learn Quran Recitation:
Where to learn how to recite the Quran is a common query amongst Muslim people who live in communities where Islam isn’t the main religion of the government or the state, which is why it can be a little bit hard to find a reliable Quran tutor.
Our goal here isn’t to make you feel helpless and hopeless but to offer you alternative solutions through which you can find many reliable Quran tutors, and choose the most suitable.
Nowadays, there are many online institutions that hire only professional and qualified Quran tutors, and that are dedicated to teaching you the Quran and all the other branches of knowledge that are necessary for Muslim people.
One of the online institutions that provide such services is Bayan Al Quran academy. With us, you can schedule your own classes, track your progress, and the most important thing is you get to select your own tutor.
Learning how to recite the Quran? That is basically a realm of oceans, but don’t worry; even if you don’t know how to swim, we have got your back. With Bayan Al Quran academy courses, your skills will gradually improve, and you will one-day master swimming in those oceans.
