Oblivion of Students Is a Problem That Have a Solution

 

The Glorify Allah (the Lord) created the human being with innate oblivion and instructed us to seek help from Him to avoid it.

 

Fixed Evidences:

80% from what you read without the intention of keeping it in the memory fades out after 28 days from reading.

90% of what you hear vanish out from memory after 14 days from hearing.

90% of oblivion is a result of inefficiency in memorizing method.

 

Types of memories:

The memory is divided in terms of strength into the following:

 

The Golden Memory:

It is a strong, long lasting memory that stores only organized and classified matters for a long period.

 

Mercuric Memory:

This type of memory do not loses quickly the big incidents of joy or terror and have the nature of “mercury” that it not easy to catch.

 

The Evaporative Memory:

It is a short term memory which leaks out events quickly and it is used, for instance, in viewing natural sceneries or in short discussion.

Any how your way for success depends on filling up your golden memory. The first step towards this goal, is the ability to concentrate and push the information into the golden long term memory.

 

There is also another classification for memory types as follows:

Self Memory:

This memory deals with the materials which must be used immediately and the brain delete them quickly.

 

 

Short-term Memory:

Concentration is essential for this type of memory. If we read or hear a telephone number or important word it is kept in the memory and we can remember such number or word for some moments only.

 

Long-term Memory:

This memory processes more complicated operations. It records information and gives due time for storing it for retrieval when needed. This memory is capable of storing a big magnitude of information for long periods extending to some years. The information in this memory is less vulnerable for interference with new inputs of the short term memory.

 

Remote Memory:

This memory stores the basic unforgettable information in the normal situations, such as our names or names of our close friends or (Sura) chapter from the Holly Quran which we had memorized at early ages. This memory is as solid as the rock that its content never vanishes easily.

 

Enemies of Memory:

The first enemy: Non-Usage:

If a certain information is not used or retrieved for a certain period of time, it will be impossible to remember it due to the gradual weakness that occurs in nerve passages between the nerve cells. Consequently as a result of non-usage the information will be lost.

 

The second enemy: Absence of Mind:

Absence of mind is one sort of failure in concentrating attention. Normally this situation happens when we engage ourselves with other things or daydreaming. Always try to resist absence of mind by concentrating on the lesson and taking part effectively with the other student during learning.

 

 

 

To get rid of the above-mentioned enemies you must stick to the following:

Good understanding that enables you to explain the subject in your own style.

Comprehensive analysis by considering yourself fully know the subject.

Link the information with other data you have acquired in the same course or others or from life experience. For instance, you may study astronomy information in connection with what you have read in Quran about the sun, moon, heaven and the earth.

In order to master the above-mentioned three steps (understanding, analyzing, linking), hereunder are ten principals for dealing with memory:

The stimulatory concern: the real desire for learning is an actual incentive for quick understanding, while the absence of such desire makes learning very difficult.

Selection: the insistence to memorize each word, leads normally to memorize none. Therefore, you have to select the words that you need to memorize and send them to the sustainable memory.

Determination for memorizing: for example, you may sit long hours to make your brother memorize a poetry and read it with him ten times. At the end your brother will memorize it while you don’t. this is because your brother is determined to memorize while you don’t.

Background of basic information; reading of newspapers, magazines and going to libraries is not a waste of time because such activities enrich your language and your general information.

Arranged expression: always try to arrange your information in a logical manner to retrieve them easily. The other alternative could be reading the subject till memorizing. This alternative is boredom and time consuming, but unfortunately almost all students use this method.

Recitation: is the most successful method for conveying information to the permanent memory. If you recite the information for yourself or for others in your own style, this will harness the information into the memory and gives you more confidence that you have understood the topic. 

Time for access to the memory: the information needs five seconds and fifteen minutes to reach safely to the memory. For fixing the information into the memory, you need to recite it or write it down immediately after receiving such information in order to store into the brain nerve centers.

Distributed training: it is recommended to take rest intervals of five minutes after each period of not more than 55 minutes of studying. This method generates more benefits because of the following four reasons: 

Alleviates the physical and psychological stress.

Provides more incentives when limited time is assigned for one mission.

Lessens boredom when studying an uninteresting subject.

The rest interval is good for storing what you have studied in the memory.

  

Visual expression: deals with the half of the brain capacity and includes figures and words while the other half deals with the pictures. If you store figures and words, this means you are using only half of the brain capacity. Therefore, always try to transform the information into words and drawings.

 

Linkage and association: you have to boost the relation between the new and the already stored information into the memory in order to create a “magnetic force” that puts together the new information with others and so on.

 

The student is a human being and may make mistakes or forgets and the increasing oblivion could be attributed to the following reasons:

The mental and physical stress due to burdens and responsibilities and such alike.

Increasing social, sustenance and scientific duties and problems beside other mattes. “Events normally remove out others”.

Abandoning studying and reviewing the lessons for a long period due to disregard of the plan and program.

Several similarities and interferences between the subjects.

Lack of good understanding and concentration as a result of several reasons including rush, recklessness and unrestraint.

Some topics are forgettable by nature. In addition committing guilt, sins and becoming tough hearted.

 

To remedy the problem of oblivion, you have to abide by the following:

Seek refuge with God All Mighty and increase supplication to Him “Ask He Who returns back those who went astray to take you by His strength to the straight way”

Reconciliation with the God All Mighty, through more supplication to Him for forgiveness and repentance beside more worships.

Entertainment by the legal acceptable means to avoid toughening the heart

Use notes, summaries and other learning methods which help in recalling the stored subjects. Also use the method of writing summaries while studying. “what you have memorized could vanish but what you write remains in mind”.

 

Hereunder are some other advices:

Don’t study while you are tired because you cannot fix information in your mind.

Many students do not organize studying and memorize without taking intervals. Therefore, information interferes with each other and become distorted.

Repeated memorizing and review in different periods help in fixing information in the memory.

The unstable mental condition causes oblivion. Therefore get rid of your problems first by first to keep yourself stable.

Concentration and attention are key factors for resisting oblivion.

Abandonment and negligence are main reasons for oblivion and weak memory.

Finally avoid guilt and sins to avoid oblivion.

 

 

Imam Al Shafie Said:

 

I complained about my bad luck in memorizing to a Wiseman. He advised me to abandon sins.

He told me that knowledge is a light and God’s light is never granted to disobedient.