The Effectivity of “DIFA” Method in Memorizing the Quran at Baqiyat al-Sa’diyah Islamic Boarding School, Indragiri Hilir Riau

Abstract

This paper examines DIFA Method in memorizing the Quran at Baqiyat al-Sa’diyah Islamic Boarding School, Indragiri Hilir Riau. This research aims to find out how the practice of Difa Method is, to uncover the santri’s effectiveness, and to cognize contributing and obstacling factors in memorizing the Quran by using Difa Method at Baqiyat al-Sa’diyah Islamic Boarding School. This is a qualitative field research with survey method. We use simple regression as analysis techinic and use sent-questionnaires, observation, and documentation as data collection method. The data will be analyzed by using product moment analysis and simple regression. The result shows that some santris can memorize the Quran within only 3-6 years. The contributing factors are the student/santri and the educators/teachers. The obstacling factor are also the students attitude, such as laziness and exhaustion, which extremely impacts them in memorizing the Quran; schedule factor, the students have to spend most of their time in memorizing (ḥifẓ) and repeating (murāja’a); the teacher factor, it is that the number of the adaquate teachers would effect significantlty for successing the program. The data shows also one of the obstacling aspects on  Quran memorizing program with Difa method is the small number of teacher in tahfiz field at Baqiyat al-Sa’diyah Islamic Boarding School.