Memorizing Quran While Pregnant??

[umm_madina]

Assalamualikum,

I was discussing with a friend of mines, (who just had a baby) and we were talking about Islam influencing her daughter. I remembered a story of one Sahaba who reported saying that his mother was memorizing the Quran while pregnant with him.

Can someone verify this for me, and please give me the entire correct version.

Jazak-Allah Khair

wa'salam

[Alhumdulillah]

Walaykum Salaam.

I heard that they did a study, where while the mother was pregnant, she would read a Dr. Suess book (a kind of rhyming comic book) to the child who was still in her tummy.

Then, after the child was born, they tried to feed the child while reading the Dr Suess book, or while reading something else similar to it.

The child would preferentially suck when the Dr Suess book was read. Which goes to show, if my understanding of their conclusion was correct, and I remember properly, that the unborn child is actually influenced by what they can hear.

BUT -- they mentioned that it only happened when it was the mother who read the book to the unborn child. It only worked with the mother's voice.

So I think it is a good idea for mothers-to-be to read the Qur'an continuously during pregnancy.

I know this doesn't completely answer your question, but I don't remember hearing the story you are referring to. Maybe someone else can help? Also, are there any mothers here who have actual experience of memorising Quran while pregnant?

Wasalaam.

[hafs]

Let me tell you a true story regarding someone I know. There was a lady she wanted to learn Quraan by heart.
She started learning at the start of her pregnancy and by the time she gave birth she had learnt 29 para's..
Masha-allah she had a son. When he became old enough to learn Quraan she started to teach him.At a very young age and at record speed he learnt the quraan by heart but when he got to the last para/juz the one she had not learnt during her pregnancy he couldnt learn it. He struggled for a long time before he managed to learn it.
That shows how much a mother's action during pregnancy influence her child.

[2many questions]

i know someone who did 22 parts of the qur'an when she was pregnant, her son when he was about three/four started hifz and whizzed through the first 22 but after that it was really difficult for him to do the last few. I guess she passed her hard work onto him and it paid off.:D

[umm_madina]

Suban-Allah!!! :D

I am very inspired by these stories. Still looking for the correct version of my first post though, I think it may have been a scholar of Islam, maybe Imam Abu Hanifa?

wa'salam

[phoenix]

ASAK,
Yes, I have heard that too. My father tells me that all the time. The only problem is .. I can't remember the name of the Scholar . Will get back InshaAllah. And No, it is not Imam Abu Hanifa.Wassalam

[umm_madina]

ASAK,
Yes, I have heard that too. My father tells me that all the time. The only problem is .. I can't remember the name of the Scholar . Will get back InshaAllah. And No, it is not Imam Abu Hanifa.Wassalam

InshaAllah, I'll really appreciate that :)

[phoenix]

Assalamalaikum sis,

It was Abdul Qadir Jeelani (R.A). His mother was a hafiza and she would often recite the Quran while doing house work.

When Mawlana was of age she called upon a molvi to come and start teaching him the Quran. As was the custom, he started with 'Iqra bismi' and he would say a line and the mawlana would say the next until he got upset that the child's mother had played a prank and he left. When days passed by and he didn't return to teach, the mawlana's mother called up the Molvi to ask what the matter was and he said that the child already knew the Holy Quran and narrated what had happened. She then said that she would often recite the Quran when she was pregnant and that must have been how he remembered.
Wallahu Alam.

This is what I remembered of the story and it has been very long long time since I heard it fully. Unfortunately, my father is still out of town and I can't ask him again. But I am almost certain it is Abdul Qadir Jeelani(R.A).

[umm_madina]

wa'alikumussalam wa rahamatulilahi wa barakathu,

:jazak: Thank You sis :cheesygri I feel you are correct as well (just I could'nt remember until you said it) :confused:

Thankssss :)

wa'salam

[*BismikAllahumma*]

Aslaamu Alaikum wa rehmatullah


found this on 'DAWAH FiSABILiLLAH msn grp' (http://groups.msn.com/dawahfisabilillah):
hope it helps inshallah


Education begins in the Womb

"Verily the creation of everyone of you is brought together in the mother's womb as a drop of semen for forty days, then it becomes a clot for the same period, then it becomes a blob of flesh for the same period. Then the angel will be sent unto it to blow into it a spirit (ruh), and the angel ordered (to carry out) with four instructions: to write down his livelihood, the span of his life, his deeds, and either he is wretched or fortunate..."
And so goes the first part of one of the most well-known hadeeth recorded by Bukhari and Muslim on the subject of Qadr (predestination).

The significance of this hadeeth is that science has recently verified this process of embryo/foetus development. That is, six weeks (roughly 40 days) after fertilisation, the embryo is developed (from zygote - sperm & ovary - to embryo); then another 6 weeks (roughly another 40 days) it develops into a foetus (a clot); after which for about the same period (again roughly another 40 days) it develops into the recognisable human form (a blob of flesh).

Science has also verified that the foetus can think. Before 120 days the foetus does not think: "The brain of the foetus appears to be electrically silent during the first six weeks of life. After this time, slowly activities of low intensity occurs. So although the brain is at least 'moving', it is not 'thinking' in any real sense." (The Thinking Foetus) But after 120 days, when the spirit (ruh) enters the foetus, brain activities place: "The foetus becomes conscious sometime during the second trimester...There is ultrasound evidence that about 23 weeks (161 days) the foetus dreams. Dreaming is certainly an indication of the presence of the mental capabilities required for thought..." (The Thinking Foetus)

There are numerous other things which the foetus can do in this period. Such as expressing emotions (happiness, fear, disgust etc.) through it's facial expressions. It can show anxiety through the sucking of the thumb, assert itself and protest through kicking, and it develops memory.

One other important development during this stage is the ability to distinguish and recognise sounds. Experiments have been carried out that proved this:

When words were repeated by the mother to her foetus, after it is born, the baby will prefer
A newborn will prefer a story that has been read twice a day to it, when it was a foetus, to a new one.
A newborn will recognise and copy its mother's words.
When a theme music to a program was played, a newborn whose mother watched the show during pregnancy, will calm down.

What is significant about this is that babies can be taught the Quran (or some surahs (chapters) from the Quran) while they were in their mother's womb.
Imagine if you were to read the Quran everyday to your foetus, by the time it is born, inshaa Allah, it will prefer the Quran over other books and sounds. It will recognise the Quran and try to copy it, and it will use the recitation of the Quran to find solace. Is that not what we all want for ourselves, let alone for your child? Imagine your reward when you have bestowed, with Allah's Grace, this tremendous gift on your child. Your reward will be two-fold: one for you for reciting the Quran, the other for you and your child for having taught him the Quran.

Even if you cannot read the whole Quran, whatever you can read, inshaa Allah, will benefit the both of you. A few surahs twice a day will engender a love of the Quran in your child.

So the next time that you are pregnant, inshaa Allah, instead of watching TV or listening to music, reach for the Quran and start reciting.

[umm_madina]

Assalamualikum,

Jaazak-Allah khairan sister, you have been helpful. May Allah (swt) reward you with abundant good....Ameen. Thank you for sharing that beneficial article.

wa'salam

[Ya_Rahimo]

Assalamoalaikum
thanx for sharing
this was a new thing i have heared