With the pen of his  Eminence Sayyed Adil Alawiyyah
 
Enhancing of memory

In the name of Allah the most compassionate the Most Merciful.
 
A lot of Peoples were complaining on forgetting, lack remembering and  little memory. And many of them especially Students of knowledge and Arts they are trying through various ways and means seeking for remedy. And this sometime could be refer to natural things.  On the other hand can be ethical and moral issues because constant committing of Sins for example -  As being reported from noble sources- it's imposes forgetting and memory deficiency, also walking between two women as well as  laughing at grave yards among others.

There are factors that helps person to recapture his memory and enhance it, and bost his memorization and the ability of understanding, also strenghning, bosting and making the brain very effective.

Among those things that bost memory are medicine, drug, pharmacology and other once  are foods, syrups and special pastry and also personal training  and recitation of some du'a (suplications) and some of azkar and recitation of holy Qur'an. All the above mentioned improve and bost  the memory.

One of those tried ( الاوراد) suplications is:  Salat.

You should make a good intention and purified your heart from impurities, Sins and evil deeds. In order your heart to be a good place of accepting Science, preserving and continuiting. Indeed  the heart is the king of the body if  it's good and healthy the whole body will be good and healthy and its prohibited to a dark heart with Sins for light to enter such heart.
You seek help for keeping memory and increasing of memorization through having little sins and total avoidance of Sin. Because if you are committing sins all the time without repentance and changing bad deeds with good once it imposes easily forgetting and having little memory and deficiency in the  ability of understanding.

Hazat Imam Hassan ibn Ali (عليه السلام) was asked: inform me on how  a person remember and forget? 
He Said:  Certainly in the heart of man there empty space and on the empty space there is cover in it.   If a man recite complete salutations ( اللهم صل علی محمد وال محمد) to prophet Muhammad and his progeny it uncover that empty space and his heart will be light and he will therefore remember what he has forgotten. And if he do not recite solutations for the prophet Muhammad and his progeny or he recited it incomplete the empty space will cover with another cover then the heart will be in darkness then will forget what he use to remember before.

 Here are some of the recommended activities for enhancing of memory and it's healthy most especially during the day of decrepitude and old age the time in which person is tested with forgetting . Allah is the helper. It includes the followings:

1- Whoever recite every name of Allah from among his beautiful names for example Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem 90 times it helps in bosting memory and take away the forgetting you should be doing for so many years your memory will be increasing day by day . In sha Allah.

2- After ablution and being a state of purification whoever write down Ayatul-Kursiyyu with rose water and Za'afaran on his right palm and then lick it using tongue he will do it seven times it helps increases the ability of memory.
 
3- Whoever write this du'a (prayers) with rose water and Za'afaran and wash and drink it before morning breakfast he will be remembering all what he heard by Allah will. This is the prayer:

( بسم الله نور بكتابك قلبي وإشرح صدري وأطلق له لسانى بحولك وقوتك لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله العلي العظيم)
 
If you daubting in its efficiency don't do it because while using Azkar, khatim and Aurad ( all suplications ) it cannot work if you doing it a state of daubting
and uncertainties as we mentioned.

4- Among the thing that increases memory is the recitation of this suplication most especially when reading book, while studying

 ( اللهم أرزقني فهم النبيين وحفظ المرسلين وإلهام الملائكة المقربين آمين يا رب العالمين ).

5 - In the book of Mafatihul-jinan in general  Taqibaat
After accomplishment of the ritual prayers, you may also say the following suplicatary prayer,  which the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a) taught  to Imam Ali Ameer al-Momineen (a.s) for developing memory:

 (    سُبْحانَ مَنْ لا يَعْتَدي عَلى أهْلِ مَمْلَكَتِهِ سُبْحانَ مَنْ لا يَأخُذُ اَهْلَ الاَْرْضِ بأَلْوانِ الْعَذابِ سُبْحانَ الرَّؤوُفِ الرَّحيمِ اَللّـهُمَّ اْجَعلْ لي في قَلْبى نُوراً وَبَصَراً وَفَهْماً وَعِلْماً اِنَّكَ عَلى كُلِّ شَي قَديرٌ  )