Start memorizing the second half of Juz’ 30 of the Quran with Waraqa’s Short Surahs course. Perfect your recitation with expert guidance and regular revisions.
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In this course you will memorize the second half of Juz' 30 of the Quran. Your instructor will correct your pronunciation of each verse and help you perfect the recitation of each surah. This course includes five revisions?? as well as two exams to assess memorization quality. In each class, you will review each surah already memorized in order to maintain what you have learned.
In this course you will memorize the second half of Juz' 30 of the Quran. Your instructor will correct your pronunciation of each verse and help you perfect the recitation of each surah. This course includes five revisions?? as well as two exams to assess memorization quality. In each class, you will review each surah already memorized in order to maintain what you have learned.
The short surahs of juz' 'Amma are the natural starting point for memorisation. They are short enough to memorise in one or two sessions, they appear daily in salah, and they contain the entire emotional range of the Qur'an — from the warning of al-Humazah to the calm of al-Kawthar. The Prophet ﷺ said, "The example of the one who memorises the Qur'an is like the example of an owner of a tied camel. If he attends to it, he will keep it; and if he lets it loose, it will go away" (Sahih al-Bukhari 5031). This course teaches both the memorisation and the daily revision system that keeps the camel tied.
Each surah follows the same routine: the teacher recites the verses with tajweed, the student repeats line by line, then memorises a small chunk before the next lesson. Every Friday session is reserved entirely for review of the previous week's surahs.
Memorising a surah once is easy; keeping it after six months is hard. Our students follow a three-cycle revision plan: the daily cycle (today's surah plus yesterday's), the weekly cycle (the surah from one week ago), and the monthly cycle (one full review of the entire juz' on the last Friday of every month). Without this system, hifz fades within a year. With it, the juz' becomes part of the student's salah for life.
Most students continue to the One Juz' track, then to the Hafez Program for full Quran memorisation. Students focused on tajweed first can branch into Intermediate Tajweed and return to memorisation later.
With two 30-minute lessons per week and 10 minutes of daily practice at home, most children aged 8+ finish juz' 'Amma in six to nine months. Younger children typically take 9–12 months.
Yes — adult memorisation is slower per surah but more consistent. The same six-month plan usually finishes in eight to ten months for adults, with stronger long-term retention.
Yes. All female students can request a female Al-Azhar trained teacher when booking.
The plan absorbs one missed week per month without falling behind, because the Friday review session doubles as a catch-up. Book a free trial and we'll build the plan around your real calendar.