My Quran Journey — One Surah at a Time

in Beauty of Creativity6 days ago

أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

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A Personal Reflection from Bilkisu Quranic Center


Assalamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh!

Dear Steemians!

Sometimes,there are journeys you plan. And then there are journeys that plan you.

When I first decided to build an online Quran learning platform, I did not imagine I would be sitting here today — 27 lessons deep into a Surah-by-Surah series, with 86 more ahead of me, writing to a global community of people I have never met but feel deeply connected to.

This post today is a lesson, not My usual tutorial but simply me — pausing to look back into my dear achievement between Lesson 27 and Lesson 28 — to share what this journey has meant, what it has taught me, and why I believe the Quran belongs to every Muslim, everywhere, regardless of time, distance, or circumstance.


📖 Where It Began

"Read in the name of your Lord who created. He taught by the pen — taught man what he did not know."
— Surah Al-Alaq, 96:1-5 | quran.com/al-alaq/1

The first revelation was a command to read and to teach. Every lesson I publish is my small answer to that command.

It started with Al-Fatiha — seven verses that every Muslim recites at least seventeen times a day, yet most have never sat down to understand word by word. I built Lesson 1 not knowing if anyone would read it. Someone did. And then someone else. And slowly the series grew.


🌟 What 27 Lessons Have Taught Me

Each Surah in Juz Amma carries its own world. But as I worked through them one by one — from the three verses of Al-Kawthar to the thirty verses of Al-Fajr — certain truths kept surfacing that I could not ignore.

Consistency is a form of worship. The most beloved deeds to Allah are those done consistently, even if they are small. Every lesson I published on a hard day, every week I showed up when I did not feel creative — those moments were not just content creation. They were acts of devotion.

Teaching deepens understanding. Before I built the word-by-word breakdown for Surah Al-Fatiha, I thought I knew it. I had recited it thousands of times in Salah. But explaining every word, its root, its meaning, its grammatical form — I discovered that I had been reciting something I had barely begun to know. Every lesson teaches the teacher first.

The Quran meets everyone where they are. A mother who cannot leave her home. A professional with no time for fixed classes. A revert living far from any Islamic center. A child in a rural area with no qualified teacher nearby. These are the people I build for. And Allah says:

"And We have certainly made the Quran easy for remembrance, so is there any who will remember?"
— Surah Al-Qamar, 54:17 | quran.com/al-qamar/17

Easy. That is Allah's own word for it. Every lesson I build is my attempt to honour that promise.


🌸 The Lesson That Moved Me Most — Al-Fajr

Lesson 27 — Surah Al-Fajr — is the longest lesson in the series so far at 30 verses. And it contains what I consider the most beautiful address in all of Juz Amma:

يَا أَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ
ارْجِعِي إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَرْضِيَّةً
فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبَادِي
وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِي

"O soul at peace — return to your Lord, pleased and pleasing. Enter among My servants. Enter My paradise."
— Surah Al-Fajr, 89:27-30 | quran.com/al-fajr/27

These four verses are recited at funerals across the Muslim world — a farewell and a divine promise. But what struck me as I built this lesson was this: the soul called mutma'innah — at peace — is not a soul that never struggled. It is a soul that found its rest in Allah, through every struggle, and kept returning to Him.

That is the kind of soul I want to build — one lesson, one day, one act of trust at a time.


📚 The Series So Far — 27 Lessons Published

LessonsSurahs Covered
L1 — L10Al-Fatiha → Quraysh
L11 — L20Al-Feel → Al-Alaq
L21 — L27At-Tin → Al-Fajr
NextL28 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah

Every lesson includes full Arabic text, Tajweed rules, word-by-word breakdowns, verse explanations, audio reciter cards, quizzes, and a Kids Corner — all free, all online, all for whoever needs it.

🌐 Explore the full series: bilquranic.blogspot.com
📘 Follow us: Bilkisu Qur'anic Centre


🤲 What Keeps Me Going

On the days when the blank lesson template feels impossible to fill, I remember why I started.

Someone out there is learning Al-Fatiha for the first time at 45 years old.
Someone is teaching their child Al-Ikhlas using our Kids Corner.
Someone is hearing the word mutma'innah explained for the first time and realising that peace — real, deep peace — is something they can build.

"When a person dies, their deeds come to an end except for three: ongoing charity, knowledge that is benefited from, or a righteous child who prays for them."
— Sahih Muslim | sunnah.com/muslim/25/14

Every lesson published is a seed. I do not always see what it grows into. But I trust the soil.


🌙 What Is Coming Next

Lesson 28 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah (88)

"Has there come to you the report of the Overwhelming Event?"

26 verses. Two radically different groups facing completely different destinies. Then the signs of Allah in creation — the camel, the sky, the mountains, the earth — all as evidence. Coming soon at bilquranic.blogspot.com.


📖 Trusted Resources

📖 Read the Quran: quran.com
📿 Verify Hadith: sunnah.com
🎧 Free Recitations: quranicaudio.com
🕌 Free Islamic Courses: seekersguidance.org
❓ Islamic Q&A: islamqa.info
🌐 Our Blog: bilquranic.blogspot.com
📘 Our Facebook: Bilkisu Qur'anic Centre


May Allah make us all from the people of the Quran — those whose hearts found their rest in His words. Ameen. 🤲

If this post touched you, please you may give thank to Allah. Jazakumullahu Khairan.


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