Memorization Skills in Tahfiz Educational System in Alor Setar, Kedah: A Comparative Study

Abstract

This research is a comparison analysis of al-Quran Memorization Skills in Tahfiz Education System in Alor Setar, Kedah. This research aims at identifying the Tahfiz educational system adopted at Tahfiz institutions in Alor Setar. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used by conducting a questionnaire survey to 300 tahfiz students. Whereas 3 school principals and 3 teachers were interviewed. The Researcher used the Stratified Random Sampling technique for the sampling of students. Findings showed that, 4 different Tahfiz Al-Quran  educational systems were applied by respondents; the Indian-Pakistani system, the Azhari, the integrated Tahfiz and Science, and the Turkish system. The study found that the students under the Indian-Pakistani and the Turkish systems master their memorization significantly better than the other two systems. However, all the systems have moderately high mean values showing that students are still weak in terms of Al-Quran memorization and hence need to undergo pre tahfiz session prior to memorizing al-Quran.