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It is very helpful to have a teacher to give advice and check mistakes. Also an experienced teacher will be able to pick up more subtle mistakes. Hifz is still possible without a teacher, and most of the work will be put in by the student away from the teacher: the real correcting, checking, re-checking, re-learning has to be done at home by the student; the teacher is a live aid that can intuitively track the students competencies and assist in perfection.

In the absence of a teacher, you can read to someone who can reliably follow the text of the Qur'an, by reading to them in a slow pace. You can supplement this by quietly reading just slightly ahead of a recording of the portion you are memorising; this is very effective in checking your mistakes as you may read something incorrectly and you can pick this up using the audio recitation. Also, listening silently and attentively with your mind to a recording of the portion you have memorised is very helpful in solidifying it in your heart - this is also why it's recommended to read aloud when memorising because it does help the memorisation, there's something about hearing the Qur'an which assists in memorisation.

Another way to is to test yourself by recording a recitation of the portion you have memorised. Then, play this back while you look into the Qur'an and check for mistakes. Keep doing this until no mistakes remain.