I am so happy that you chose my website to learn how to read Qur’an. Even though my website is not complete yet, it has enough content now to accommodate your needs to learn basics of how to read Qur’an on Arabic version. Also, uploaded documentation would help you planning your best deed, teaching it to others!

Listening to the Qur’an being recited correctly is enough to soften even the hardest of hearts. Muslims or non-Muslims find it a deeply moving experience even if they do not understand what is being said. Every single Muslim has to recite Qur’an in daily prayers (Salah), but many of us do not realize that reciting the Qur’an correctly, observing the rules of recitation is not an advanced science for expert reciters alone, rather it is an obligation upon each and every one of us whenever we recite the Qur’an.

The word Tajweed linguistically means ‘proficiency’ or ‘doing something well’. It comes from the same root letters as the word ‘Jayyid’ in Arabic (meaning ‘good’). When applied to the Qur’an, it means giving every letter of the Qur’an its rights and dues of characteristics when we recite the Qur’an and observing the rules that apply to those letters in different situations. We give the letters their rights by observing the essential characteristics of each letter that never leave it. And we give them their dues by observing the characteristics of each letter that are present in them some of the time and not present at other times.

The Qur’an was revealed with Tajweed rules applied to it. In other words, when the Angel Gabriel (Jibreel A.S.) recited the words of Allah to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), He recited them in a certain way and He showed the Prophet (PBUH) the ways in which it was permissible to recite the Qur’an. So, it is upon us to observe those rules so that we recite it in the way it was revealed.

At the time of the Prophet (PBUH) there was no need for people to study Tajweed because they talked with what is now known as Tajweed so it was natural for them. When the Arabs started mixing with the non-Arabs as Islam spread, mistakes in Qur’an recitation started appearing, so the scholars had to record the rules. Now, because the everyday Arabic that Arabs speak has changed so much from the Classical Arabic with which the Qur’an was revealed, even Arabs have to study Tajweed.

Knowing that learning Qur’an is an endless process, I am committed to prepare students to achieve certain levels that enable them to live Islam based on it’s main source, The Holy Qur’an. There are 6 significant steps in Quran classes in my model.

1. Elementary Level (This level partially completed in this website)
2. Memorization Level 1 
3. Memorization Level 2 
4. Hifz Track (Memorization of entire Qur’an) 
5. Qur’anic Arabic 
6. Maqamat (Music) of Qur’an 

In this website, I aim to cover the elementary level’s basic rules within 10 lessons.

Expected Student Learning Outcomes

After successfully completing the elementary level,

1. Students will be able to pronounce Qur’anic verses and supplications correctly without changing their meanings.
2. Students will be able to apply and articulate tajweed rules correctly.
3. Students will have already read some major chapters and supplications correctly Students will be acquainted some chapters helping them to read Qur’an quicker.
4. Students will be able to continue reading Qur’an without in need of supervision, finding out his/her own mistakes.
5.  Students will memorize some supplications and chapters from Qur’an, which are required to maintain prescribed daily prayers and other worships.
6. Students will be able to start memorization levels.

Bilal Sabit

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