Surah Baqarah Hizb 2

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2On the authority of Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him, who said that the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: Do not make your homes graves, for evil flees from the house in.

Surat Al-Baqarah is a comprehensive surah for many chapters in the Islamic religion, and it is difficult to enumerate its topics or define them definitively, but we can say in general that it contains:-

The meaning of the name Surat Al-Baqarah is a reference to the story of Bani Israel and the cow, which they argued against prophet Moses, peace be upon him, about his command to them to slaughter it after receiving the order from Allah Almighty, while the meanings and ayat learned from the surah are many, so we know from them, for example:-

2- When reading it at home for three nights, Satan does not come close to this house. The Messenger of Allah, peace, and blessings be upon him, said: Allah wrote a book two thousand years before He created the heavens and the earth. A demon approaches her.

The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: Whoever recites Ayat al-Kursi arranges every written prayer, nothing prevents him from entering Paradise except that he dies. Narrated by women and horses in the true small mosque.

But if you want to read surah baqarah without learning tajweed or you are still on the elementary level in the tajweed, you can listen to a sheik who can read the Quran with tajweed rules perfectly and repeat after him until you can read it on your own.

But no matter how long it takes to memorize Surah Al-Baqarah, you should never be disappointed, as the purpose of memorizing Surah Al-Baqarah is for the sake of Allah, and as long as you are sincere in your intention to memorize, Allah will honor you and you will memorize Surah Al-Baqarah successfully.

It is advisable for someone who intends to memorize Surah Al-Baqarah to specify a certain amount of verses to memorize daily. This is a successful method that arranges and facilitates memorization. For example, five ayahs per day, or ten ayahs, or each day is allocated a page of it, or half a page, or a page, and the like, this division helps him to commit to memorizing at a faster time if he wanted to finish memorizing Surah Al-Baqarah with only two months; That is, in sixty days, he could do that if he designated for each day to memorize five ayahs from them.

Do not exceed the course until you have memorized and after the memorizer determines the daily amount of memorization for himself, he must not exceed what he decided to memorize, and not move to new memorization before making sure that his daily course is fixed and the verses are firmly established in his mind, and then he moves to new memorization.

Surah Al-Baqarah is also located in two juz and half, as one juz consists of twenty pages, and it is a surah with many benefits, lessons, and commands, as well as the news of Bani Israel, the people of prophet Moses.

This symbol is part of the mushaf, but not of the Quran. As later during the time of the Omayyad dynasty some scholars have done efforts to divide the Quran to ahzab أحزاب (plural of hizb) -mostly under the pressure of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf at-Taqafi- the idea apparently was either to have 60 hizbs حزب because the Quran should be completed at least each two months or 30 juz' جزء (part, plural ajza' أجزاء) to complete it each month (see for example this post). These parts have been also divided into quarters (arba' أرباع singular rubu' ربع), half/halves (nisf نصف/anssaf أنصاف) and eigth (athmaan أثمان singular thumun ثمن) so the sign or symbole you see is referring to one of these division parts: it marks the end of one of these divisions. In most actual mushafs a hizb is divided into quarters so a hizb constitutes of 4 quarters and the symbol would therefore be the mark of the end of such a quarter.

Also note that the sahaba (according this Arabic source) themselves used to complete the quran each 7 days so the understanding of hizb differs a lot from the one we now find printed in the Quran. This is logical as the division made by those scholars is dividing a surah and therefore day may divide a meaning or let you stop at a point where the story continues. So this was a kind of muhdath act and as said it is definitely not part of the Quran and not a divine division, but a man made one.

Also note that these divisions may help to memorize the Quran, and are mostly used for this purpose an other option is to memorize it by pages therefore people who memorize always advise to learn and read from the same mushaf copy, as pages could start with different words and verses in different mushafs, even if in modern times this would rarely be the case.

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