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She wants to go...

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I wait there. In the little KFC in the little town where we first met 5 years ago. A nondescript eatery in a nondescript town. But it didn’t matter. This is where our love first blossomed. And sadly this is where it will end.  She’s late. Busy with another friend. The bitterness in me sees this as typical of how she treated our relationship, a quasi joke. Three years after she threw everything away via a text. Three years after I told her I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. Three years after she vanished from my life. Three years after I chose not to fight her family. How many people have found love over the years, over the centuries in fact, I wonder as I wait. The beauty didn’t matter, the buildings, the constructs, the surroundings didn’t matter. Love was the connection between two souls. The yearning, the caring, the wanting to be, know and have every part of the other in your life, the completion of yourself, of both of you. Unless it is only one way…
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STICKY: PLAN

Updated Plan (10/4/16): April 6-April 30 – basically May 1st 2016  (1pg/day) Total: 85 pages (4.25 juz + should have most recovered if go at a pace of 1pg/day too) June 1st: (1pg/day) 110 pages (5.5juz + should have all recovered) June + July (1.5pgs/day): 90 pages (4.5 juz) So by Aug 1st: 10 juz Sept 1 st : 45 pages – total 12.5juz ·         Start 2pgs/day i.e. 60 pages = 3 juz/month Oct 1 st : 15.5juz Nov 1 st : 18.5 Dec 1 st 2016: 21.5 Jan 1 st 2017: 24.5 Feb 1 st 2017: 27.5 March 1 st 2017: 30 – finish in sha Allah CAN I INCREASE THE AMOUNT LEARNT + POSSIBLE NEW PLAN Again a very interesting talking point with my brother in law. He emphatically said yes. He mentioned how it’s amazing how your memory opens up. And not just memorising greater quantities, but also staying on top of the greater quantities memorised - he said the whole process actually gets easier over
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Surah Kahf Done. 3 Juz. Retention =100%

Surah Kahf redone. But this time retain everything. Making a lot of notes in writing pad so not always blogging. Weak old pages = generally stay weak unless you really spend some time with them on  a particular day. As do 'weak endings'. Baqarah all in one go today = 55mins 97% accuracy alhamdulillah.
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51/600 Done. Baqarah = 58mins. 100% retention

Page 51 memorised today. (P2 of Kahf) All of Baqarah done in one go for first time, 57mins. Juz 1 = 18mins Juz 2 = by 48 Juz 3 = by 58
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Pushing myself after an impossible day

Self discipline = doing what you know you have to do, when you should do it whether you feel like it or not. A succcessful person is one who doesn't give up where others would. Today or last night rather had to work a nightmare 14hr shift. Pretty much continous work. Got home Friday morning had breakfast slept few hours then left from bham 6pm to 9.30pm to London. By the time had dinner and talked with relatives etc it was midnight. I hadn't received current juz today let alone memorised today's juz. With a day like today surely it's another one to mark off as an impossible day to do my hifz. But at midnight despite my eyes burning for sleep I decided to force myself to JUST GET STARTED. Alhamdulillah I revised current juz once and then memorised today's page. Whole thing barely took an hour. Alhamdulillah. It's efforts like this and forcing that consistency which will determine whether I succeed or not inshaAllah.
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Juz 2 = 25mins

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P46/600 done + How I'm doing current Juz

Juz 1 and 2 revised. So on Juz 3 now, 5 pages in. My system for reviewing this current juz is to try and reduce each page to 1min or at least 1.20 - basically to get it fluent. To do this with each page of current juz and then join them together. Finally to recite what I've learnt so far of this Juz (minus today's page) 3 times. I've done this since the start of the Juz. Today's timings: To do as above for p42-45: 1hr 20mins  (97% efficiency). P42: 3mins P43: 6mins P44: 13mins P45: 18mins? P42-45 All in one go: 1) 5.59 2) 5.33 3) 5.23 Juz 1+2 recited.
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