Grab The Crowning Venture: Inspiration From Women Who Have Memorized The Quran Compiled By Saadia Mian Accessible In Edition

dapat kita baca pengalaman para hafizah perempuan yang diketengahkan, sama ada pengalaman, cabaran, kaedah dan penyesalan jika ada,

Latar buku ini bukan di Malaysia, justeru amat menarik untuk melihat kelompok minoriti berusaha menghafaz Quran atas kesedaran sendiri, Ada dari kalangan saudara baru, tidak kurang pula memang secara lahirnya Islam datang dengan sebab berbezabeza tetapi tujuannya tetap sama iaitu menghafaz Quran.


Dalam usaha mereka itu terbitlah pertanyaan mengapa harus menghafaz yang nanti akhirnya dilupakan, Atas soalan ini penulis mengeluarkan pandangannya serta menitipkan pengalaman para hafizah yang berjaya menghafaz, tidak berjaya menghafaz atau sudah menghafaz tetapi telah tercicir dari amalan.
Mereka ikhlas berkongsi cerita meskipun berhadapan dengan pandangan sinis pihak tertentu yang mempersoalkan tujuan mereka menghafaz yang sekadar menghafaz, Tetapi mereka tidak menghiraukan, terus dengan usaha meskipun ada yang telah terhenti disebabkan cabaran kehidupan, Namun Quran tetap dalam ingatan mereka, Such a great inspirational book SO very inspiring BismiLlah,

I requested this book from my dad Decemberas a birthday present.
AlhamduliLlaah it's been the best gift k got, It's so inspiring and has allowed me to attempt to change my relationship with the Qur'an,

Jaza kaLlaah Khair to the author for this amazing book I love the flow of this book, the writing style and tone very positive and encouraging, as well as the stories of the women included inside and how diverse it is.

Saadia Mian told her own personal stories, the women she interviewed, and gave plenty of tips and guidance for women who want to memorize the Qurán.

However, though the book go for inspirational vibe, but I think the overall vibe is it's just a book that tries to be practical and provides you with

the practical tools.

After numerous attempt, and failing to be able to recite fluently from my memory more than one page at once, even aftersessions with my Qurán Buddy, I now realized that memorizing the Qurán is not just about technique and determination, though it surely is a really big part of it.

I wish she would have talked and addressed more about that that it's not just techniques, tips, and determination, but also about your heart, your emotions, your spirituality, your intention, and your resoluteness about the beliefs you hold about Allah and the Qurán.
This is such a motivating book,

My favorite story was Umber, Dr, Sadias and Ustada Azza

Allahs says “Whoever is too busy with the Quran for remembering me and asking me, then i shall give him more than what i give to those who ask”

“ I could self identify as a hafiza as soon as I realized that perfection was an unattainable attainable goal.
I did not have to embody the image of perfection I held in my head instead, I had to share my dancing heart with the hearts that yearned to dance.
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Just the book I needed, but I didn't know that until I read it within one day! MashaAllah.


Points about "The Crowning Venture" that I particularly appreciate:

Very wellwritten and welledited: straightforward, concise, referenced, and even with bulletpoint summaries in the case studies.


Such a positive, balanced and encouraging tone throughout,

Good variety in the case studies: inshaAllah all women will be able to identify / relate to at least one of the interviewees.


Full of tips, tips, tips!

May Allah reward the author and all those who were involved in this book.
It's a gem! Intention is important when one wants to start the Quran, In this book, it had been reiterated as well as the importance of tajweed, Overall, an inspiring book for Muslims regardless of gender, May we do better, May we be better, Insyallah Alhamdulillah, A book I will have to come back to again and again because of its extremely useful advice and tips,

Its stressed in the book how integral the Qur'an is to a Muslim/ah's life that the Qur'an is essentially a lifeline for us all which a lot of us probably already know but all the same can still appreciate when reading this book the repeated emphasis of the Qur'an's importance through the Muslimahs' different personal accounts of its memorisation.


May Allah Swt reward the author and women who shared their personal ongoing journeys with her abundantly,

I picked it up and finished reading it in a day, I really love how simple the book is and how lovely the stories are,

I am happy that a variety of women's stories was included, I could relate to at least two sisters' stories.


Many things stood out for me, and the advice shared is so valuable,
I am even more determined now to continue on this journey,
It is a beautiful thing to have a good relationship with the Qur'an, I think about it being a companion for its reciter in the grave and in the hereafter,

I love the ahaadith and quotes shared too,

I would recommend it to anyone interested in memorization or just wanting to have a better relationship with the Qur'an.
Started reading this wonderful book sometime last year during the pandemic, However, I lost it half way through and I got another one much later as it was oos in the country, This book is definitely a form of motivation for simple minded person like me, Touched my heart to start learning more of the Quran, In shaa Allah. Inspiring and motivating, ma shaa Allah, I pray that I will be able to complete the memorisation of the Quran just like the women that their stories been told in this book.
Ameen.

May Allah rewards the writer for beautifully written down the stories and the spirit to memorise the Quran, ltThe first part of the book presents Saadia's story of how she memorised the Qur'an in America and Syria, Having lived in Syria myself I could relate to a lot of her stories that brought up old memories, which was a beautiful experience.
Saadia Mian's writing style was very eloquent and beautiful, and I liked how smoothly she connected her personal story with scientific evidence on how our brains and learning in general works.
I liked the tone and the vibe that was somewhere in between a biographical account and a manual,

The second part of the book gives space to the stories of other women and how they memorised the Qur'an by heart.
While I find the idea great to not make the book about the author only but to share as many different experiences as possible, I found that the writing style of the second part was in stark contrast to the beautiful eloquent writing of the first part.
It was very obvious that this second part was based on the interviews carried out with the women as the informal spoken language often shined through.
I believe a second round of editing of this part would do it good to approach it to the first part in terms of stylistic beauty.


The third part of the book Chapter six: Roadmap functions more as a manual that leads you through the main topics related to recitation from Intention to Tahara in short paragraphs, often with sources from the Qur'an or Hadeeth.
While this was generally useful, I was astonished that one specific topic very particular to women was not addressed: menstruation and the fiqh that allows or doesn't allow women to continue touching, reading, reciting and studying the Qur'an during her menses! For me, this was long one of the biggest if not the biggest difference in women's vs.
men's relationship to the Qur'an, since according to most of the traditional madhahib, especially the Hanafi fiqh, women are not allowed to do that during their periods.
I am glad that the Maliki madhhab has a different approach to this, but I wish it would have been mentioned in the book under the section of Tahara.


Overall, The Crowning Venture is still a beautiful and inspiring gem that I encourage every woman on the path of reciting Qur'an to read.
For me it has been lifechanging because it encouraged me to embark on a lifelong journey of memorisation, which through reading this book, has become less daunting to me.
I would give it.if I could.

Thanks for writing it, Ustadha Saadia!,