Mapping Arabic — The Three Types of Words

0:00 As-salamu alaykum, in part one we talked about the letters of the Arabic alphabet the most important point being that they're all consonants and there is no vowel within the letters and these are supplied by markings which are called diacritic marking that go above and below the letters. These are the ones you should be familiar with inshallah from your Quran reading lessons or the fact that you read Quran in regular basis you should be able to recognise most of these symbols as they will be used throughout

the course so it's important for us to have an overview of them. In the second part inshallah we're going to particularly start looking at how these are used of course to write words. In Arabic there are only three types of words and they form two types of sentences and there are five types of phrases which we need to become very familiar with and this is the mapping of Arabic which I've developed for your benefit so you can have a graphical representation of what you need to

learn what you need to study for you to gain at least the most basic and most fundamental understanding of Quranic Arabic in particular grammar and morphology which we will be studying in this course inshallah so let's take a look at the components of this map. Meaningful word, kalima, love means utterance this is the term used by the scholars of Arabic grammar when they say that anything a human being utters from his mouth or her mouth can be called a love and utterance and this is represented

by in writing with letters and of course for us also additional markings that helped us represent whatever comes out of the mouth of a human being. Now the utterance of a human being can be meaningful as well as meaningless. Meaningful or meaningless. What do I mean by meaningless? If for somebody who speaks only Arabic there are certain words if you say to them which may mean something else in another language but as far as Arabic is concerned it will be meaningless. For example pen. Pen is

not a word in the Arabic language it has its own equivalent word but as far as the word sound pen is concerned it will be meaningless in Arabic and there are many words like that of course. So meaningful and meaningless. Alhamdulillah as far as you and I are concerned we do not have to worry at all about meaningless because there is no such thing as a meaningless word in the Quran or in the Hadith. So our focus is on meaningful. The scholars of Arabic describe the

meaningful or divide it into two parts one they call a single word meaning when a person utters a single meaningful word it's called a Kalima or when they utter a collection of words which become a sentence or a phrase. So one is called Kalima which is a single word and the other is Murakkab which literally means construct making up from bits. So these are the two parts of the meaningful that we need to study and Inshallah Ta'ala Arabic grammar starts really from here to understand how

meaningful words are combined together to form meaningful constructs. If we analyse the parts of speech in English we find in English all the words in the English language if we were to collect them together we could categorise them in the following subcategories. For example nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, interjections, verbs prepositions and conjunctions. Possibly there are other ways of classifying but this is the most common way that English words are subdivided. Every single English word in the language can be put into one of these columns if

you were to list them in a column one of these categories. Now in English we have around according to some scholars 600,000 words so each and every word should be able to fit into most of these categories. The good news with Arabic there are only three types of words in the Arabic language. Every word in the Arabic language will either be an ismun, fa'alun or harfun. Ismun, fa'alun or harfun.

3:57 Now the word ism normally in grammar books is translated as noun. I am NOT going to translate as noun. I'm going to use noun plus. The reason why I do that right from the beginning I want you to be clear that an ism in Arabic includes nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, interjections and other things besides. So noun plus is more fitting for the translation of ism. Ism is very comprehensive in the Arabic language. So we have one type of words called ismun. The second type is verbs,

fa'alun. Exactly the same as in English as far as the categorisation is concerned and then we have harf which I'm going to translate as particle. A short word preposition, conjunctions, articles etc are called harf or huruf. So these are the only three types of words in Arabic. The good news is Arabic is a very structured language. So there are rules related to ism, there are rules related to fa'al and there are rules related to harf. All you need to remember now there are only three types

of words and inshallah we'll take a very brief overview of what they are throughout the course inshallah. They'll be not only introduced but we will discuss them in detail and also the rules related to how they are used in the particular sentence or in the phrase structures that we will study. Harfun, articles. The definition of a harf is that it is a very short word usually made up of one or two letters. There are some exceptions but mainly one or two letters and their real meaning

can only be understood when they're used in context with another word with an ism or a fa'al on their own they do not really give a clear meaning. For example if I were to say to you in English in you have an understanding what in means but it will not really be clear what I mean by in unless I put something else with it. For example I'm in a hurry, I'm in the house, I'm in work, I'm in trouble or etc etc. So when other things

are added the real meaning comes out. So this is what particles are or huruf. Harf singular, huruf plural. They are short words but they are very powerful in the language. They actually bend the shape of sentences and of course they have a very very powerful influence on the final meaning of a sentence. So inshallah we'll study them. Here are some examples for you to note for now. So be translated normally in or with. Al, the, min, from, ala, on, fi, in, inna, indeed, aw, or, wa,

and, fa, so or thus. So these are the huruf. There are many others inshallah ta'ala we are going to categorise them and study them in categories in this session. For now just note they're called harfun singular, huruf for plural and they are short words whose meaning can only be understood when it is used in context with other words. fa'alun, verbs. Fa'alun singular, af'alun plural, verbs. Very similar to what we have in the English language in the sense that a verb is a word that tells us

about work or action taking place but please not always in reference to a tense. If there is no tense there is no verb. So a fa'al must have a verb, a tense. A fa'alun, a verb, must have a tense. No tense, no verb. Let us look at some examples which you should easily recognise from your daily Quran reading or your salah. A'udhu, I take refuge. Na'budu, we worship. Nastaeenu, we ask for help. An'amta, you have bestowed favours. Ihdina, guide us. So from here you can see

that all of these words have a tense and they talk about some action, some doing word. So this is literally a verb and the same thing as in English they are not a verb unless there is a tense. I'll give you an example with English for example if I say I love eating mangoes or I like to eat mangoes. In both of these cases the word eat and eating are not verbs because there's no tense here. I like eating or I like to eat. In both

cases eating and eat are not verbs.

8:19 They are part of the sentence, they are another category in English. As when I say for example I was eating a mango now it becomes a verb. I am eating becomes a verb. I will eat now it becomes a verb because there's a tense. In Arabic is a little bit easier than that you don't have to have additional words from the shape of the word you can tell whether it is a verb or a noun but the most important thing for you to note a verb

can only be a verb if it is to do if it has a tense. Ismun, noun plus. Ismun is the most important of the three because it's most widely used and it's most varied. Ismun means noun plus we're going to translate. Singular ismun, asma'un plural. Please note ismun is also little meaning of it in English in Arabic is name name okay name of someone or name just the word name so it's a meaningful word but most importantly it does not have a tense it does not

have a tense so it concludes nouns pronouns adjectives adverbs interjections so in English name of a person place or a thing are all nouns so for example it can be name of a person animal place thing and action and idea and emotion feelings etc so the meaning of action is also a noun even though in itself it is described an action for example eating it's a noun in Arabic because it's just the meaning of the action name of an action it is not actually does not

have a tense so all of these are ism so it's a very very big category now for you and I simply all we need to note is that an ism is every single word in Arabic that is not a fa'alun or a harfun is a very logical approach if I say to you there are only three rooms in a house or three rooms in an office if you don't find me in the first two I've got to be in the third one so again this is

the same way that an ism is a very wide correct category of words and as long as it is does not fit into the the definition of a harf or the definition of a fa'alun then it is an ism and therefore it is the third category so this is very very important definitions inshallah one of the key skills that you need to develop is to look at the whole Quran any ayah any line any page as soon as you open it you should be able to

tell me which of the words that are in that ayah which one is an ism which one is a fa'al which one is a harf and if you know that alhamdulillah you made a huge leap in your Arabic standing understanding so this is a big achievement for us and inshallah you'll be able to do that very soon but just as a hint for you a tip for you there are three signs there are three signs that are exclusive to an ism you will not see them

anywhere else so the first sign is tanween and when remember only appears at the end of words and I mentioned to you is going to play a very important role in your study so anytime you see a word anywhere in Arabic that ends with a tanween you can be certain that that word is an ism so again you don't have to worry or ask any further question anything that has tanween at the end will be an ism the second sign which we will look at in

lesson number three when we look at gender this is called ta marbuta now this ta is written like so when if it joins a letter before it or on its own it will be written like so it has these two dots which distinguishes from the ha so this is called ta marbuta if you see that on any word any word in Arabic that is also your ism meaning a fail or an half cannot have these two signs the third sign which is very common almost eight

thousand eight hundred times in the Quran is the word for the in Arabic T H E and the and it is al al and it only appears the beginning of a word so if you see I'll at the beginning of a word you can also be 100% certain that word is an ism so these are three tips please do write them down in your notebook inshallah even though you may have my original book and you may have the videos please do make notes as you're watching

these videos other will just be me talking and you will not be able to gain the knowledge that we need you we all need to acquire so please do keep a notebook with you and inshallah throughout the video anything that is new anything that you haven't understood do write it down pause the video if you have to inshallah you think I'm going too fast but please do that as an as a practise so this these three points you need to note inshallah in your notebook nice

and big beautifully written inshallah these three points that any time you see these three words three signs then we know at the end of a word time I will thought the end of a word or Allah the beginning of a word you can be 100% sure that word is an ism so the category of ism is very varied includes nouns what we call nouns in English it includes pronouns it includes adjectives it includes adverbs and much much more the three signs I mentioned you will see

for example in the words here we got one of the signs there we got all here and we got then we there and we in there etc and of course this has got even two signs of being masculine has been noun is fun and then you've got all here which is also a sign of an ism it's it being an ism the point I'm trying to get you to understand is that not every ism will have these three signs there are other signs of ism which

you learn inshallah as we go through the course but this these three are very very common of course the last list are adverbs and they do not have a tanween nor do they take al in any of these examples here so you have for example qabla, ba'da, bayna, inda these are all adverbs and there's a particular shape of adverbs we'll learn later on inshallah so point to note three signs exclusive to ism but not every ism. To illustrate the importance of this please take a look

at the text on the screen I've taken this from surah al-baqarah ayah number one to six I'm sure you may be familiar with this already now let me highlight for you all the verbs in red so these are the verbs in these six ayat that I've identified for you as an example only so just don't worry about the details of knowing them at the moment just take a look at how you will look at Quranic text in the future inshallah as you go through studying this

structured format so the verbs are now highlighted in red I can also highlight for you in blue all the huruf, harf, the particles verbs are fa'alun, huruf in blue and then all the other ones and in black are all ism category so every single word in the Quran has to be in one of these three of course as well as in the Arabic language one of these three parts of speech as soon as you reach that milestone where you can recognise 70 80 90 percent of

the words and tell me whether there is an ism, fa'alun, huruf you can be convinced alhamdulillah you made a huge leap in your Arabic study by the time we go through the lesson by lesson inshallah you'll learn the categories of words and we're going to start off with the most common types of words first which will enable you inshallah to make this step a lot quicker than you would have done if you went through a long long study programme so inshallah ta'ala just be patient but

this is a goal for you so I wanted to share this with you right from the beginning but at least you can see alhamdulillah when you open a page of Quran you're able to identify certain categories of words and you'll be able to do that very very soon inshallah I'm confident by the time you get to lesson number 10 you will be able to recognise I would say around two or three grammatical structures in every line of Quran at least and inshallah by the end of

the book you'll recognise almost every second word of Quran every single in every line more than 50% of the words inshallah if you follow the programme you'll be able to go but this is a target for you inshallah so please make a note of this so in conclusion every single word in Arabic will be either ism, fa'alun or harfun and this is a summarised note please don't worry about writing it all down while watching the video just make the main points but inshallah ta'ala in the

book itself I have given you all of these diagrams and charts that you need also you can see here a number at the end in the corner of the page which refers to the number in the book itself so there is a correspondence there but for now please do take a note of this inshallah that there are only three types of words some examples these are summarised sheets and there's lots of like like this for you summarise diagrams just to save you writing pages and pages

of notes as well as of course to give you a quick reference to be able to tell the most key important points that you need to know about the subject so I'll show you the full screen please do take a picture of it if you haven't got access to the book itself so you can you can make a note from here construct Murakab when we normally combine two or more words to give additional meaning that is in grammar called Murakab or meaningful construct meaningful construct so

in ismun faal and harfun they're combined two or more of them in certain rules to produce Murakab a meaningful construct so what we mean by meaningful construct is not words thrown in random you cannot do that in any language take a look at what I've got on the screen ah beautiful the new now I don't think it makes any sense to any of you of course you know what car means you know what beautiful means the means new means but you have no idea what I'm

talking about ah beautiful the new if I said on the other side tree root a is this now again you'd laugh because you even though these all of these words are meaningful to you you know what a tree means you know what a fruit means you know what a is is is this it doesn't make any sense or the last example wise was man the makes no sense on the other hand if I were to say the beautiful new car now this makes sense to you

as an English speaker you know so I haven't thrown words in random in English to produce something I needed to follow the rules of the English language the same thing with the second example this is a fruit tree now you have a clear idea what I'm talking about and then we look at the man was wise complete sentence so this is called meaningful and again it's the same thing in Arabic you can't throw words in random and hope to you know hope to have something which

is a meaningful to the person on the other side so learning words on their own is not going to help you and learning endless list of vocabulary is not going to help you gonna have to know how to use those words so this is what we mean when we say meaningful construct something that makes a meaning or something gives a clear meaning to the person who's listening to what you are saying so we take words in English student most clever on 8 etc and these are

single words so they will be called kalima in in grammar in Arabic grammar and then we can make construct using those words or other words for example a clever student now you have an idea what I'm talking about these are not random words on the table this mosque now all of these are called incomplete why because when I said this mosque you are still waiting for something else you don't really know what I mean by this mosque on what am I going to say about this

mosque this mosque is new this mosque is beautiful this mosque is ancient whatever something else additional is required this these all of these are called incomplete and then we have complete meaning in the sense that when I say the new mosque is open clear it's a sentence the book is on the table now you know what's on the table I ate Hamid's cake who ate his cake I ate Hamid's cake so here you have clear meaning and this exactly the same in Arabic when you say

two or more words which have a partial meaning is called incomplete when you say two or more words which has full meaning it is called complete so you have now this one incomplete and we have that one which means complete and that's all it is as simple as that so words can come together to give us incomplete meaning or complete meaning and these are the grammatical structures inshallah at this stage do not worry about Arabic terminology we will learn them through usage just have the clear

map in your head that this is what we're trying to achieve complete construct so our map now develops we have kalima a single meaningful word can be either an ismun, fa'ilun, harfun they come together to give us meaningful construct for simplicity I'm going to refer to ta'amun as sentences that's literally what they are because they give us a complete meaning naaqisun I'm gonna give you the word phrase meaning it's short of a sentence clear meaning has meaning has value tells us something but it is short

of forming a sentence so we have naaqis and we have ta'am so please again just focus on the the meaning of the English word at this stage do not worry about the Arabic words at this stage so we have complete which we're going to call sentences naaqis which we will call phrases according to the Oxford Dictionary a sentence is a set of words that is complete i.e. gives us a complete meaning typically in English contains a subject and a predicate I've collected for you the most

standard English sentence structures so for example I have Hamid came this house is big he ate the cake Hamid walked away Hamid is a teacher in all of those sentences the basic rule of the English language is that it has two parts subject and a predicate so for example here we have Hamid came subject is here and here this house that is your subject Hamid is your subject here he is your subject here and Hamid again is your subject in the fifth example the point here

to note couple of things where English sentences differ from Arabic in Arabic we can form sentences just with nouns ism noun plus in English we need a verb to form sentences in Arabic in English please note that so there is no sentence in English here without a verb so the word is is actually a verb in English is is a verb is am or are so what just as a tip for you whenever you see is am or are anything before it will be the subject

in English as a general tip so we'll have two parts subject and predicate predicate can have lots of different things in some cases just a verb in some cases verb plus other things etc but that's the general structure of the English sentence that where it differs from Arabic is that Arabic can have sentences without verbs the second major difference is Arabic can have sentences that begins with a verb in English we normally do not begin sentences with a verb please take a look at the five

structures here none of them begins with a verb how do you know because I've collect coloured the verbs in red so you can tell here that the English sentences do not normally begins with verbs and the fact that in Arabic we can and this is what we look at the two different structures in the Arabic language so the two types of sentences in Arabic one which is called Jumla Ismia which you can see here nominal sentence so just all you need to remember for now nominal

sentence and in order to make study easy I'm going to call them JI for short Jumla Ismia okay so if you see that in the notes JI means Jumla Ismia the Jumla Ismia the most only important rule I should say you should remember about it is that it begins with an ism and this is why so important for you to be able to recognise which word is an ism which word is a verb in Arabic anyhow the any sentence that begins with an ism is called

Jumla Ismia so take a look at the example of one sentence that I've got on the screen for you Muhammadun Rasulun translation would be Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is a messenger so the first part Muhammad is our subject called Muqtada in Arabic the second part is called Khabar predicate Khabar predicate the translation Muhammad peace be upon him is a messenger so the English equivalent is that Muhammad is the subject and of course is I've told you earlier is a verb and a messenger is a

noun combined together that's our predicate so we have subject predicate in English in Arabic we have exactly the same in some slight different terminology but nonetheless the same thing the subject and the predicate the important thing for you to note is that we formed a sentence in English with only two words both of them are nouns ism and we cannot do that in English how do you know they're both ism well you don't have to take my word for it if you just look at the

Tanween at the end and remember I told you before only an ism can take Tanween so both of these are nouns ism noun plus so it formed a complete sentence with two words only two nouns and this is the flexibility and the beauty of Arabic of course these are simple sentences and you can have now verbs in sentences of course and you do have them but you can form sentence just with two nouns in Arabic the second type of sentence in Arabic is called Jumla Faaliyah

and again you can see it written here and for short we're gonna call JF in our note just to make life easy for everyone and it is a sentence that begins you probably guessed it with with a verb Faalun and that is the definition of Jumla Faaliyah any sentence that begins with a verb and please note this is where the difference is between Arabic and English one of the major difference in Arabic it is very common to start a sentence with a verb so for example

here we have Khalaqa, Khalaqa is a verb you don't have to take my word for it because I'm told you the signs of verbs yet but that is coloured in red so I've coloured it in red to just show you that it is a verb Khalaqa he created and the next word is Allah and then we have Alinsana which means mankind Allah created mankind so these are the components of a Jumla Faaliyah which we will study in detail so Khalaqa the verb comes first and then

who created was called the doer in Arabic Faalun and the thing that received the action of the verb is called an object exactly the same as we do in English Maf'ulun please do not be frightened with this terminology we will understand all of this in detail inshallah when we come this is just an overview to again tell you that there is second type of sentence in Arabic and it begins with a verb and it's called Jumla Faaliyah please write this example down on in your notebooks

so the two types of sentences in Arabic are Jumla Ismiya which begins with an ism, Jumla Faaliyah which begins with a Faalun this this is it and inshallah we're going to learn all of their detail notes how to use them how to recognise them how to translate them etc as we progress through the Jumla Ismiya will be introduced from lesson number two again this is the whenever you see this marking in the notes it tells you the reference of which lesson it is that we will

be studying them in Jumla Ismiya will be Jumla Faaliyah will be introduced Jumla Faaliyah will be introduced inshallah in the first book but it'll be studied in detail in book two its rules how to recognise verbs and all of that will be taught together because this is the most logical way of approaching it inshallah. Incomplete construct Murakkab Naaqis an incomplete construct is basically two or more words that form a meaningful grammatical unit but do not form a complete sentence so anytime you have two or more

words come together to give us some meaning but the meaning is not complete it will be called an incomplete construct for as far as we're concerned I'm going to call them phrases to make life easy for us now when we look at the text here on the screen a clever student on the table this mosque the his pen Amit's car a man and a woman all of these have meaning on their own they have some meaning they give us good information but the information is not

complete what do I mean by a clever student for example I could say this is a clever student so now it would be a sentence but a clever student on the table this mosque on their own are not sentences and this is what we mean when we say incomplete construct the incomplete constructs can be categorised many different ways with many different names to make life easy for us I've categorised the five most important ones in my opinion that you need to learn for you to be

able to understand significant portions of the Quran and they are listed on the screen here I'm going to very briefly go them in this session inshallah these are the ones we will be studying in this course in some detail and not only will you be able to recognise them but you will also be able to understand them and translate them correctly inshallah when you see them in the Quran or Hadith and these are descriptive phrase number one number two pointing phrase number three prepositional phrase number

four possessive phrase and number five conjunction phrase of course all of them have a lot more detail let me allow you to take a full screenshot of this if you don't have the book inshallah you can make a copy of this and this will give you a summarised notes of all you need to know for now about the five different constructs or incomplete contracts constructs that we need to study descriptive phrase Murakab Tawseefi a descriptive phrase is one in which one or more word give description

of another word what I mean by that if you look at the translation here we have the straight path I'm using the word the straight to describe the path so the noun that has been described is underlined as path in the second example I have a clear book I'm describing the book with the words a clear meaning the book is clear clear book plain simple book easy book that kind of meaning or plain book which makes everything clear so a clear book so the book word

book and path are both words we can which way we can call a noun being described before that the descriptions come adjectives it can be one more many doesn't matter but they will come before in the English language most important thing to note with Arabic we have exactly the same but in Arabic the noun being described always comes first then the adjectives follow whether it's one two three or four and it's for example here a syrup which means path the path almost a Pima which means

straight so again it's the other way around same thing here kitabun movie noon movie noon is the adjective so here a clear before but in Arabic is after so the book comes first and that's the major difference between the two in Arabic and English in English we're going to simply call them descriptive phrase in Arabic they're called more a cup those TV and of course I've make thing things easy for you I put a short form m-t you please not make a note of that just

just save this writing a lot of Arabic terminology two more examples the first one a beautiful mosque second one a beautiful old mosque in English and in Arabic the word mosque double underlined to show you that it is the noun being described and the word for mosque in Arabic is masjid so you can see that in red and it is exactly the same as coming first and the adjectives beautiful and all coming later so we can label these parts as follows so a masjid and Jameel

and the second one masjid but even Jameel again the noun being described is masjid so again this is the will come first in Arabic and the description whether it's two three four or one will always come after so this is description number one and we have description number two so you can see here description number one and we will have the description number two afterwards so two descriptions of the word mosque and this is a descriptive phrase in the other example only we have the noun

been described with only one adjective or one description and that is their label for you so you can see here the rules are very simply illustrated we're going to go through in detail in just want you to be aware of one of the types of phrases which is very commonly used called muraqab tawsifi or descriptive phrase. Pointing phrase muraqab ishari. Muraqab ishari is basically made of two parts where one pointing word points to something else so here for example if I said in English this pen

so you can see this pen here the word this pen the two words this pen it's not really a sentence I'm just saying this pen okay this pen is black for example so that is a sentence but when I point this pen on its own that's a construct it's called muraqab ishari or pointing phrase for simplicity in English of course they're called demonstratives demonstratives so there again formed with two things first word is a pointing word pointing words like this these that those these are all

pointing words in English we have similar in Arabic and then another noun that follows afterwards and it begins with al in Arabic so that's the only basic rule for this stage inshallah that book this Quran so you can see here a muraqab ishari or pointing phrase where pointing word points to a noun an ism and that noun begins with an al and this is the basic rules again has two parts just like the what we've seen with the descriptive phrase prepositional phrase muraqab ishari the most

common construct you will find in the Quran almost 13,000 times and remember I told you there are only 9,000 lines in the Quran so you'll find this on almost in every line of Quran sometimes two on the average at least one every line of Quran it is actually made up of two parts the first part being a preposition and there are 11 prepositions that are used in the Quran 17 total in the Arabic language and it followed by an ism and that's it two parts again

a preposition called a harf of jar in Arabic followed by an ism and noun plus two examples for you here on the screen we have ilal jannati towards the paradise so ila means to or towards ilal jannati so the first part is the point is the preposition the short word and the one that follows afterwards is the noun so they always an ism afterwards and this is the structure and the other one you should be very familiar with minash shaytani again from the shaytan the first

word min is a particle in Arabic harf and a shaytani is an ism of course you can tell now because I told you the rule there's al in front so it is an ism so this is it prepositional phrase used almost 13,000 times in the Quran muraqab idaafi possessive phrase along with the prepositional phrase the possessive phrase also is one of the most commonly used structured structures in Arabic you'll find it everywhere and it is a very important structure as far as Quranic Arabic is concerned

it shows a relationship between two ism that's all it does it shows two connection between two isms and usually in English we use the word OF to signify such a relationship for example son of Hamid Hamid's son we can say son of Hamid or we can say for example house of Hamid or Hamid's house so apostrophe s or OF shows this kind of relationship in English in Arabic there is no word for OF is how these two words come together that tells us it is a

muraqab idaafi and again very very commonly used in the Quran the short form I'm going to use is M plus ID they're mentioned in every slide you can see it on the top inshallah so again two parts two nouns two isms coming together let's look at some examples here from the Quran Nasrullahi the help of Allah so you can see in the translation OF here which is not there in the Arabic we only have two words then we have ahlul kitab the people of the book

and of course Rasoolullahi which you should be familiar with as far as Arabic words are concerned messenger of Allah so you can see very clearly relationship between the two parts connected in English usually with the word OF we need to learn this one thoroughly and inshallah I'm going to devote two lessons to it as the because due to its importance conjunctional phrase muraqab apthi on the face of it this phrase is very simple is basically two parts coming together here we have two pronouns in the

first example anta wa ana you and I so exactly the same as the word you and I in English the word wa means and and simply so two parts joined together the second example I have Hamid went then then Zaid so the word summa here means then is joining two parts together this these there are about ten articles which actually connect things together we will learn them inshallah in a separate lesson in book two because they're pretty simple but in order to fully understand complex sentences

we need to develop understanding of verbs as well so again a very very commonly used construct in the Quran and inshallah we will be studying it also so two parts joining together muraqab apthi and again short form m plus 80 is all you need to know for now this is another very common phrase so these are the five phrases that we're going to be studying and it's in your map of Arabic and this should be in your milestones lists inshallah as you go through them understand

them it will help you develop your understanding of Quranic text the first one descriptive phrase we're going to start learning from lesson number three and inshallah we'll continue of course using that phrase structure very soon and you'll be able to understand it relatively easily inshallah ishari is covered in lesson number 12 for two reasons one that it there is almost a thousand and sixty times these words are used in the Quran so very important again inshallah it forms sentences as well as phrase who can learn

them as together in lesson number 12 and muraqab jari as I mentioned almost 13,000 times in the Quran so we're going to devote two lessons to them lesson 8 and lesson 9 and then muraqab idhaafi again very important for us to understand Arabic lesson 10 and lesson 11 inshallah so by the time you reach lesson 9 you will be able to recognise something in every line of Quran long as you follow this method inshallah and of course atfi will pick up in detail in book 2

but we'll be mentioning it even from lesson 2 onwards when we look at sentences so this is the this is the plan by Allah's grace inshallah and we will progress through our understanding through this way may Allah grant us tawfiq let's conclude our mapping of Arabic whenever you find difficulty in studying Arabic please remember the dua one of the biggest mistakes we often make is that we rely on our own resources rely on our own time we get motivated then when motivation goes we forget always

rely totally upon Allah subhanaw taala so please remember the duas are there on the top to remind you and myself that it is through Allah's mercy that we will learn so continue to ask Allah subhanaw taala rabbi zidni ilma make a habit from now on inshallah whenever you finish your salah maybe whenever you make dua add this short dua in English if you have to if you know it in Arabic great in your everyday life and inshallah you will see blessings of knowledge inshallah and Allah

grant us tawfiq all of us to increase our knowledge let's conclude our map every single meaningful word in Arabic will either be an ismun, fa'ilun or harfun only three there's no others these will be combined in two or more to give us a meaningful construct meaningful construct can either be complete in that case it has two types only jumla ismiya we will write ji for short jumla fa'ilia jf for short jumla ismiya begins with an ism jumla fa'ilia begins with the fa'ilun which is a verb

as far as incomplete constructs are concerned the constructs are two either complete or incomplete there are many ways of categorising five are absolutely essential muraqqab tawsifi descriptive phrase muraqqab ishaari pointing phrase muraqqab jarri prepositional phrase and muraqqab idhaafi possessive phrase and muraqqab aqfi which is conjunctional phrase two parts joining together these are the key components key study milestones that you need to have in front of you as you go through following the videos on YouTube inshallah and of course writing notes and making a structure but

most importantly inshallah make sure that you're constantly reading the Quran and looking out for what you've learnt in these lessons so that you can actually truly benefit from these lessons inshallah priceless gems on the screen I've given a sample of the categories of words that you'll find in the Quran and of course in the Arabic language one of the biggest challenges that we face or we think we face is the challenge of learning vocabulary many people give up study of Arabic and many other languages because

they're faced with endless vocabulary lists you know this list that lists and people collect them they got them an Excel sheet and computers books that are never read nobody has ever learnt a language ever from a dictionary it just doesn't exist anywhere that far as I know lists are important dictionaries are important because they provide us with resource to learn words that we do not normally know but they're not the route to understanding Quran to illustrate the point I wanted to emphasise a very very important

point that it is Allah who has made it easy for us to learn Arabic to understand Quran it is Allah's mercy let me give you an illustration inshallah in the few minutes so we conclude with this topic of mapping Arabic because of the fact that words almost always frighten people just look at this as a scenario for yourself Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has used a total of approximately 78,000 words in the Quran of course these are words from the Arabic language Arabic language is the richest language

in terms of vocabulary scholars say that some were some some things in Arabic have five six seven hundred words like for example camel horse or even sword things like these are very commonly used a hundreds of words for them in fact Arabic according to some websites has almost 10 12 million words others reckon about three four million compare that to English which has about six hundred thousand so it's a very very rich language as far as vocabulary is concerned so this is one thing that frightens

but what Allah has in his infinite means done he has Allah in his infinite mercy has chosen from the Arabic language words which he has used in the last and final final revelation to mankind Al-Quran and each in every single word as far as you and I are concerned are a priceless gem priceless gem we cannot put any value on it it is more value than all the things we possess be it if you're a trillionaire is more valuable than that each and every word and

these words are very precious and we need to treat them very precious but look how Allah has made it easy I made a list for you now and you they're numbered one to eight numbered one to eight let's quickly go through them the first list is actually not list of words but patterns Arabic is very very fascinating in the way words are shaped and it's the pattern that tells us a lot of meaning and I call it the Muslim pattern and we will learn this in

lesson number four if you learn this inshallah these patterns become familiar you'll be able to recognise thousands of words in the Arabic language in Quran and Hadith and immediately be able to tell me whether the word is definite or indefinite whether a singular dual or plural whether it's masculine or feminine whether it is in the three different cases which case of Arab it is all that information simply from looking at the words and inshallah we'll learn that in lesson number four next we have detached pronouns

these pronouns are used in the Quran almost 1400 times please note these are only rough numbers here so that you focus on the idea 1400 times and we learn them in lesson number five then we have attached pronouns which are very commonly used in the language and very commonly used of course in the Quran almost 8,000 9,000 times but that means every line of Quran you'll find one or two examples of attached pronouns we learn them from lesson number eight and we of course learn them

in book two also then we have pointing words I've already mentioned them we'll learn them in lesson number ten more than a thousand words just pointing words like this that these then we have relative pronouns which we will study in lesson number 15 which are three hundred three thousand five hundred times and then we have the huroof the particles which are called huroof of jarb which we will study inshallah in lesson eight and nine and then we'll study another set of words called inna and her

sisters which are 2,200 words of Al-Quran this list on its own as an example as an illustration for you we have almost I would say about 27 28,000 words just there so you have eight plus one thousand four hundred and one three and so on thirteen and so on you can count that together see how many words just on that one sheet of paper so if you will just learn these and which we are going to study in book one inshallah in detail how much of

the 78,000 words of Al-Quran you will be able to acquire and that's the process we're going to follow inshallah then I've given you another number of 24,000 24,000 words here includes verbs as well as derived nouns and these are basically patterns very similar to the Muslim pattern I mentioned if you learn patterns and shapes of words inshallah you will be able to recognise almost 20,000 plus words of Al-Quran which we'll cover in book two and you can see now here all you're doing is a series

of lessons but not only are you learning the words recognising those but you know you know how to use them and that is more important than learning endless list of words so within this sheet of paper you have words inshallah with which you can make significant progress in understanding Quran not only that alhamdulillah what I've done is I have collated that together is I put in the book 439 words categorised in the list I showed you earlier but more detailed inshallah and categorise them into singular

dual plural etc masculine feminine and all of that and these 439 words are used in the Quran 44,603 times that's more than 57% of the words of Al-Quran so if you follow the lessons the 15 lessons only not only will you learn the the grammatical structure but you'll have the necessary vocabulary to be able to look into the Quran and begin to understand rather than looking into dictionaries and things which can be rather complex at the beginning so this is just to illustrate to you that

it is Allah subhana wa ta'ala who has made it easy so along with the vocabulary we will learn the grammatical structures which will follow in this route for us inshallah giving us the yield again I remind you myself and you it is Allah who has made it easy for us to understand Quran it is Allah who has made it easy for us to learn Arabic to understand Quran and if we must believe this and we must act upon it whenever we find any struggle in our

studies go make dua ask Allah to open doors for us just as Allah has made it easy Allah will open doors for you and I to learn more and more of the Quran understand it more and more and inshallah grant all of us Tawfiq to learn and teach others and benefit from the blessings of Quran inshallah you will find all our videos freely available on YouTube to for you to help learn the 15 lessons that I mentioned in this series and I will be uploading the

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