Five-Year-Old Filipino Boy Memorizes Quran by Heart

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A five-year-old Philippines boy has managed to commit the entire the Quran to his memory.

At age 5, Al-Hafiz Mohammad Abdulmohaimen Campong, a Bangsamoro boy, has memorized the entire Quran.

His remarkable achievement of completely memorizing the Quran at a very young age was announced by his father through a Facebook post last month. His father was an instrument for this feat.

Mohammad is the son of Sheikh Abdulmohaimen Abdulrahman Campong, a Maguindanaon who is currently earning his master's degree in Arabic Language at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. He is also the grandson of one of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founders, Abukhalil Yahya Abdulrahman Campong Rahimahullah.

Sheikh Campong said he always read the Quran to his wife when she was pregnant.

"When my wife was six months pregnant with him (Mohammad), it has been my practice to read Quran near his mother's belly before and during sleeping, and when she wakes up. This became a routine until my wife gave birth to him," Campong said in Filipino.

"Until he was growing up, he could not sleep without listening to somebody reading the Quran. When he was 3 years old, I was surprised to learn that he was already able to memorize the Surah Al-Baqarah (the longest chapter of the Quran) and Suratul Al-Imran. I continuously taught him to love and learn the Quran by heart."

Campong said he sometimes notices his son crying while reading the holy book.

"When I asked him why he was crying, he just answered that he didn't know, that he cannot explain his feelings. He said he just felt happy and elated whenever he reads the Quran," he explained.

Memorizing the Quran has been a practice since the early days of Islam. It is a way of preserving the true essence and the complete message of the religion.

Even in this digital age, where storing large amounts of data on memory chips is easy, millions of Muslims around the world continue to learn the Quran by heart and have kept the tradition of becoming a Hafiz. Hafiz is the title given to a Muslim who wholeheartedly memorized the holy book which has 114 Surahs (chapters) and 6,236 verses comprising around 80,000 words.

Source: Manilatimes.net