Homo Totus
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repeat the already memorized page the following day. Students begin memorizing the Qur’an at very early ages and many memorize the whole Qur’an before adolescence. See also: > Islam > Qur’an
It is an Arabic word used to identify the one who entirely memorizes and recites the Qur’an, the holy book of Muslims, which is over 600 pages with more than 6,000 verses. The word hafiz is also used for those who memorize the sayings of Prophet Muhammad in certain numbers, but these are rare. The first to memorize the Qur’an was naturally Prophet Muhammad as the Qur’an was revealed to him. Given that the Prophet was an unlettered man, his early followers eagerly recorded and memorized each new revelation as it was revealed. By the time the Prophet passed away, many had memorized its entirety. This custom has been kept up throughout the Muslim world, and hundreds of thousands have memorized it. Although the number of those who endeavor to memorize the whole Qur’an seems to have been decreasing in the age of computerization, it is still one of the highest goals in Muslim life to become a human repository of the Qur’an. Being hafiz is still one of the most rewarded honorifics in Muslim society. The hafiz feels a psychological pressure on himself/herself to be a committed, decent, and virtuous member of the society as s/he is believed to bear a sacred trust in his/her mind. Prophet Muhammad encouraged his followers to read and recite the Qur’an, if not to memorize its entirety and cherished such followers. In the first centuries of Islam, mosques were used to memorize the Qur’an but later special courses in madrasas (Islamic school) or a special school called school of memorizers (dar al-huffaz) were opened. In the beginning, teachers developed various techniques of their own, but these have been evolved into specific methods over time. Some asked students to memorize verses in fives first before going into the next ten. Some favored memorizing page by page to
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Hajj is an Arabic word meaning to face and visit a sacred place. It is one of the five pillars of Islam. The Ka’bah, in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the house of God (Allah) built by Prophet Abraham and his son Ishmael, is the only pilgrimage site in Islam. It is a duty of Muslims to visit the Ka’bah once in a lifetime if one can afford it financially and physically. Currently, three million Muslims make hajj every year. The ritual of hajj is performed on certain days of the year, the first days of the twelfth month (Dhul-hijjah) of Islamic calendar, followed by the Festival of Sacrifice. Visits to the Ka’bah at other times are called umrah. The obligatory rituals in Hajj are to circumambulate the Ka’bah for at least seven times and stay at the hill of Arafat, not too far from the Ka’bah, for some time on the 9th day of the twelfth month. Other rituals include symbolic pebble throwing at an effigy of Satan as well as walking quickly between two locations called Safa and Marwa, also in Mecca, between which Hagar, the wife of Prophet Abraham, searched for
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