MASON, Ohio — “I did not want to do it at all,” Aadam Zindani said with a laugh.

He’s talking about the Quran. Not just reading it, but memorizing it — about 600 pages from cover to cover.

“Memorizing it is the easy part,” Zindani said. “The hardest part is actually retaining what you memorized.”

It took him at least three years.

“For some people, it even takes decades,” said Fawzan Hansbhai, the imam at the mosque next door .

Keith BieryGolick Fawzan Hansbhai, imam at the ICM in Mason, shows WCPO 9 News plans for a new mosque.

Now, Zindani is helping other students do the same thing. I stood with him in the backyard of a new school in Mason. His mom co-founded it, in large part, because of him.

Anila Zindani stands nearby, because she’s almost always here.

“Oh my God, it mea

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