I traveled the world n I visited Muslims community anywhere I can... There was a beautiful San Diego Mosque, small tight community mostly African American. I was embraced when I chanced upon it, one beautiful Saturday n had many chances to hang with themn even get to stay with some of them beautiful kind hearted souls. They also have classes where they group together n ponder not just the Holy Quran but also empowering books like Napoleon Hill. Together they grown not just in faith but also in other aspects of life. In Argentina, there were Quranic classes. And some hang n eat n drink mate together, sipping from the same container. And discuss about life. In Korea, during Ramadan, there were free iftar n sahoor food cooked from the mosque. And some locals actually brought boiled sweet potatoes n eggs from home to share with those who solat tahajjud n sahoor together. Though challenges in communicating n broken English here n there, we r able to have a grasp of each others' life
I just realised recently that the Quran in Madinah hafs has changed. The fonts changed. Thus the placement of some ayat r not the same as the old ones. For visual peeps who memorised the Quran, they can detect it easy. I used to be visual. I memorised the placement/location of the Sura (right or left of page) and the location of the sentences (I remembered Al-A'laq is complete in 1 page for old ones whereas the new ones, some continued in another page. I remembered cos of The sujud tilawah/prostration symbol). For many decades, all haj pilgrims got a free Mushaf Quran. And it has been the same only in my recent Umrah, I noticed the changes. And I used the new Quran, recently unknowingly n I felt that my visualed memory of past hifz was a bit off. Me n my kids - we have memorised using the Old Quran. Thus to change is challenging. We r often advised to use only 1 same type. Anyway, it's no biggie for some. The words r still the same. The meaning too. Just the visual of it..