L10-P2

Idafah with Pronouns and Adverbs

Attached Pronouns as Mudaf Ilayhi — and Arabic Adverbs in the Idafah

Learning Objectives
  • Explain why an attached pronoun must be used — not a detached pronoun — as the mudaf ilayhi
  • Attach all 14 pronouns to a noun in rafa`, nasab, and jarr and read the resulting forms correctly
  • Recognise the difference between a pronoun following a harf of jarr and a pronoun following an ism
  • Form the complete rabb + pronoun tables in all three cases from memory
  • Define a dharf (adverb) and distinguish adverbs of time from adverbs of place
  • Identify the most common Arabic adverbs used in the Quran and form the idafah with their attached pronouns
  • Explain why ma`a and inda are adverbs (mudaf), not huruf of jarr

Video Lesson

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Introduction

Part One of Lesson 10 established the idafah construct when both parts are nouns: the mudaf (no tanween, no Al, no final noon) and the mudaf ilayhi (always in the jarr case). Part Two addresses the two remaining and highly frequent patterns of the idafah:

  1. The mudaf ilayhi as an attached pronoun — producing forms like بَيْتُهُ (his house), رَبِّي (my Lord), رَبُّنَا (our Lord).
  2. The mudaf as an adverb (dharf) — producing forms like مَعَنَا (with us), عِنْدَكَ (with you / near you), بَيْنَهُمْ (between them).

Both patterns are exceptionally common in the Quran. The word رَبّ alone appears ~975 times in the Quran, with approximately 600 of those occurrences carrying an attached pronoun. The adverbs مَعَ, عِنْدَ, and بَيْنَ each appear more than 150 times, the majority of their occurrences with an attached pronoun.

Mastery of these two patterns is therefore among the most practical and high-yield achievements in the entire course.

Lesson Notes

Why a Detached Pronoun Cannot Follow an Ism

In Part One it was established that the mudaf ilayhi is always in the jarr case. Detached pronouns (هُوَ، هِيَ، أَنَا, etc.) are fixed in the rafa' case — they can never be jarr. Therefore a detached pronoun can never function as the mudaf ilayhi. For this role, Arabic uses the attached pronoun, which can carry the jarr case when suffixed to an ism.

When a pronoun is the mudaf ilayhi — i.e., when it follows an ism as the "possessor" — it must be expressed as an attached pronoun (suffix), never as a detached pronoun. An attached pronoun following an ism is ALWAYS in the jarr case (it is the mudaf ilayhi). An attached pronoun following a harf of jarr is ALSO always in the jarr case (it is the ism majruur). Both cases are majruur for different reasons.

The two uses are distinct in their grammar — murakkab jarii versus murakkab idaafii — but the attached pronoun form and its jarr status are the same in both.

Attaching Pronouns to a Noun

The process for attaching a pronoun to an ism is the same as forming any mudaf: first remove the tanween to make the i`rab light, then attach the pronoun as a suffix.

Example using بَيْت (house):

I`rab of baytStandard formAfter removing tanweenWith pronoun هُ/هَا
Rafa`بَيْتٌبَيْتُبَيْتُهُ (his house)
Nasabبَيْتًابَيْتَبَيْتَهُ (his house, nasab)
Jarrبَيْتٍبَيْتِبَيْتِهِ (his house, jarr)

Note on the first-person pronoun (يَاء): The يَاء of the first person always demands a kasrah on the word before it. This means the irab of the mudaf before the يَاء is always a kasrah, regardless of whether the role of the mudaf is rafa, nasab, or jarr. In all three cases: بَيْتِي. Context determines the grammatical role; the form is identical. This is a consistent feature across all nouns.

The Full Rabb Table — All 14 Pronouns

The word رَبّ (Lord, Cherisher) is drilled as the model noun because of its extraordinary frequency in the Quran with pronouns (~600 occurrences). The three tables below show رَبّ in rafa`, nasab, and jarr, each with all 14 attached pronouns.

Rafa` (رَبُّ + pronouns):

PersonFormMeaning
3rd m. sg.رَبُّهُhis Lord
3rd m. du.رَبُّهُمَاthe Lord of them two
3rd m. pl.رَبُّهُمْtheir Lord
3rd f. sg.رَبُّهَاher Lord
3rd f. pl.رَبُّهُنَّtheir Lord (f.)
2nd m. sg.رَبُّكَyour Lord
2nd m. pl.رَبُّكُمْyour Lord (pl.)
2nd f. sg.رَبُّكِyour Lord (f.)
1st sg.رَبِّيmy Lord
1st pl.رَبُّنَاour Lord

Jarr (رَبِّ + pronouns) — partial for reference:

PersonFormMeaning
3rd m. sg.رَبِّهِhis Lord (jarr)
3rd m. pl.رَبِّهِمْtheir Lord (jarr)
2nd m. sg.رَبِّكَyour Lord (jarr)
1st sg.رَبِّيmy Lord (jarr — same as rafa`)
1st pl.رَبِّنَاour Lord (jarr)

When Context Disambiguates Identical Forms

Because the يَاء always forces a kasrah on the preceding vowel, the form رَبِّي is identical whether the mudaf is in rafa`, nasab, or jarr. Meaning must be derived from context. This is not a weakness of the language but a feature: Arabic relies on sentence structure, word order, and surrounding words to communicate case when the pronoun itself does not show it. This principle is called understanding from context (السِّيَاق).

Adverbs (الظَّرْف) as Mudaf in the Idafah

Arabic has a set of words that describe time and place — adverbs (ظُرُوف / dhuruf). These words can also function as the mudaf in an idafah construct, with the following noun or attached pronoun serving as the mudaf ilayhi.

An adverb (dharf) can be the mudaf of an idafah construct. When followed by a noun, the noun is the mudaf ilayhi (jarr). When followed by an attached pronoun, the pronoun is the mudaf ilayhi (jarr). The resulting phrase is called an adverbial idafah (idafah dhurfiyyah).

Important distinction from huruf of jarr: Words like مَعَ (with) and عِنْدَ (with / near / at) look like they might be huruf of jarr but are in fact adverbs (dhuruf). They form an idafah, not a murakkab jarii. This matters grammatically: a harf of jarr produces jarr in the following noun directly; an adverb produces a mudaf-mudaf ilayhi structure. The practical difference becomes clearer in advanced lessons.

The Most Important Adverbs and Their Pronoun Tables

AdverbTransliterationMeaningQuranic frequency
مَعَma`awith, together with~159
عِنْدَ`indawith, near, in possession of~160
بَيْنَbaynabetween, among~244
قَبْلَqablabeforecommon
بَعْدَba`daaftercommon
فَوْقَfawqaabovecommon
تَحْتَtahtaunder, beneathcommon

مَعَ with attached pronouns (partial):

FormMeaning
مَعَهُwith him
مَعَهُمْwith them
مَعَكَwith you
مَعَنَاwith us
مَعِيwith me

عِنْدَ with attached pronouns (partial):

FormMeaning
عِنْدَهُwith him / at his place
عِنْدَكَwith you
عِنْدَنَاwith us
عِنْدِيwith me

بَيْنَ with attached pronouns (partial):

FormMeaning
بَيْنَهُمْbetween them
بَيْنَكُمْbetween you all
بَيْنَهُمَاbetween them two

Summary

This lesson completed the study of the idafah construct by covering its two remaining patterns:

1. Attached pronouns as the mudaf ilayhi. When a pronoun is the "possessor" in a possessive phrase, it must be expressed as an attached pronoun (suffix) — never a detached pronoun. The attached pronoun is always in the jarr case as the mudaf ilayhi. The word رَبّ was used as the model noun, since it appears ~975 times in the Quran with approximately 600 occurrences carrying an attached pronoun.

2. Adverbs (dhuruf) as the mudaf. Arabic adverbs of time and place (مَعَ، عِنْدَ، بَيْنَ، قَبْلَ، بَعْدَ, etc.) frequently serve as the mudaf in an idafah construct. The word or pronoun that follows them is the mudaf ilayhi (jarr). These adverbs are not huruf of jarr — they do not produce a murakkab jarii but rather a murakkab idaafii with a dharf as its first component.

Between Part One and Part Two of Lesson 10, the full range of the idafah construct has been covered:

  • Noun + Noun (kitabu muallimin)
  • Noun + Pronoun (rabbuhu, rabbii)
  • Adverb + Noun (ma`a al-sabireen)
  • Adverb + Pronoun (ma`akum, baynakum)

Terminology Reference

ArabicTransliterationMeaningType
ظَرْفٌdharfadverb — a word describing the time or place of an action; functions as mudaf in an idafah constructISM
ظَرْفُ مَكَانٍdharf makaanadverb of place — describes where an action takes placeISM
ظَرْفُ زَمَانٍdharf zamaanadverb of time — describes when an action takes placeISM
رَبِّيrabbiimy LordISM
رَبُّنَاrabbunaaour LordISM
مَعَma`awith, together withISM
عِنْدَ`indawith, near, in the possession ofISM
بَيْنَbaynabetween, amongISM
قَبْلَqablabeforeISM
بَعْدَba`daafterISM

Linked Arabic terms open their full entry in the Arabic Grammar Glossary.

📖 Grammar glossary. Every grammar term in this lesson is defined in the Arabic Grammar Glossary — 193 vocalised terms, searchable in Arabic, any transliteration, or the English meaning.

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0:00 The language of Quran, easier than English, lesson 10, part 2. As-salāmu ʿalaykum and welcome to lesson number 10, part 2. Al-ḥamdu li-Llāh, in part 1, we covered in detail the rules of the Idāfah. We also learnt about the two parts and all the variations and rules with many, many different examples of mudāf and mudāf ilayhi. There should be enough wealth of information, in shā'a Llāh ta'ala, now for you to begin to appreciate the Idāfah.

0:25 There's also two very important aspects of the Idāfah still remaining that we're going to cover in the rest of this video, in shā'a Llāh ta'ala. The first one is the mudāf ilayhi being a pronoun. Instead of it being a noun, a pronoun.

0:40 And of course, how adverbs are used in the Idāfah. So, the adverb being the mudāf and the pronoun being mudāf ilayhi. We're going to look at extensively these examples as they're very commonly used in the Quran. In shā'a Llāh ta'ala, by the end of this lesson, all the basic and essential and most important rules and examples related to the Idāfah, we would have covered by the grace of Allah Azza wa Jal. And as I mentioned to you before, that this is one of the most common grammatical structures in Arabic. That you will come across almost every line, whichever text that you pick up.

1:14 And without it, really, you cannot begin to appreciate any Arabic text. Let alone, of course, Quranic text. So, let's begin by starting with the blessed name of Allah. Bismillāhir-Rahmānir-Rahīm And making du'ā' رَبِّ يَسِّرْ وَلَا تُعَسِّرْ وَتَمِّنْ بِالْخَيْرِ The Idāfah with attached pronouns. Part 1, we learned how to say Hamid's pen. This should be very easy. قَلَمُ حَامِدٍ And of course, you note the mudāf has no alif-laam. And it has no tanween. And, of course, the mudāf ʻilayhi is in jar, a majroor.

1:57 And this is the basic rule and the most important rules related to the Idāfah. Now we want to say, instead of Hamid's pen, we want to say his pen. His pen. Grammatically speaking, it's the same structure, same possessive structure. Instead of being Hamid, it's the word his. So the word his is coming instead of Hamid.

2:15 And here we have to use قَلَمُهُ قَلَمُهُ I cannot say قَلَمُهُ That would be totally wrong. Because هُ is, of course, A'rāb is always rafah. And I need something to be majroor. So the attached pronoun can be jar. And therefore we use the attached pronouns. قَلَمُهُ His pen. قَلَمُ is your mudāf. And هُ is mudāf ʻilayhi. And of course that mudāf ʻilayhi is now jar. Why? Because it is attached to an ism. And it is mudāf ʻilayhi. Mudāf ʻilayhi is always majroor.

2:48 So in this lesson, insha'Allah ta'ala, we're going to learn how to attach pronouns to an ism to form the idāfah construct. Alhamdulillah, you'll recall that in lesson number 5 we learned the detached pronouns. And I went through lots of exercises to make sure you learn it.

3:06 Please believe me, the pronouns are the backbone of your understanding of the Arabic text. And it is absolutely critical. And insha'Allah ta'ala you'll see even more value in pronouns when it comes to learning verbs, which will be covered from lesson number 16 onwards. So by now you should have mastered this. These are your 14 detached pronouns. Again, please recall the key points about them. Number 1, of course they're called detached pronouns. Why? Because they're not attached as a suffix to anything. They come on their own.

3:37 And, of course, they do not change their ending. They're always, always marfoor. And all pronouns are always definite. Then in lesson number 7 and 8, I introduced you to the attached pronouns. And there we went through the key points of the attached pronouns. And that was, of course, they're mabni. They do not change their ending. They're always definite. All pronouns are definite. But this set can be either jar or nasab. Nasab or jar. So mansub or majroor.

4:06 Can be both. Or any of them. Now they can also be attached to an ism, fa'il or harf. Ism, fa'il or harf. And why are they called attached? Because they always come as a suffix. Suffix, i.e. the ending of one of these three types of words. And again, note, their a'rab can never be marfoor. But either nasab or jar. So the attached pronouns, when they are attached to an ism, fa'il or harf, their a'rab will be understood as follows.

4:41 And this is a very short summary for you. We're going to go through all of this aspect in detail. Because pronouns are critical in you understanding Quranic text. They appear on almost every line of Quran. Sometimes two, sometimes even more. And every verb has a pronoun embedded in it.

4:57 And therefore it is very, very important that we get our head around the pronouns. And we will build them on a solid foundation in an incremental study. And insha'Allah, I hope the way I'm laying them out for you, they're of benefit and you'll be able to recognise them in every line of Quran.

5:13 Almost where you see them, some two and three. So let us note the following points. Whenever a pronoun is attached to a harf of jar, please refer back to lesson number 7 and 8. And as a quick reminder, you remember min, fee, an, ala, ila, bi and la.

5:33 Where the pronouns were attached. When they're attached to a harf of jar, they will always be majroor. They will always be majroor. Why? It will form the muraqab jari. And we went through this in detail. Now in this lesson and next lesson, we're going to learn how they're attached to what? They're attached to an ism. They will also be majroor. Why? Because they're mudaf and mudaf ilayhi. Mudaf ilayhi, always majroor.

6:00 So when are they mansub or nasab? Number one, when they're attached to something that's called a harf of nasab. Don't worry, we're going to cover them in lesson number 12. We're going to go through them in detail inshallah ta'ala. So whenever they're attached to a harf of nasab, they will be mansub. And lastly, whenever they're attached to a verb as a suffix. As a suffix, whenever they're attached to a verb, they will always be mansub on account of being the object of the verb.

6:30 Object of the verb. And if you get this, alhamdulillah, then you have gone through a major leap. Often I say to people, the 20% of the grammar rules make up 80% of your understanding. This is a guesstimate from me, I think it's probably more. But just basic rules that are most commonly used in the Quran. If you get your head around them and master them, inshallah ta'ala, most of the text you can grasp relatively easily.

6:56 And that's the approach I'm taking, inshallah ta'ala, by focussing on the most important. So this is all you need to know about attached pronouns. It is not complex, it is relatively simple. And if you can remember those four points at the end of the course, not now. For now, you only need to remember the first two. Okay, that when they're majroor.

7:14 So this is what we're going to cover inshallah ta'ala in this lesson. Their attachment to an ism. As a quick reminder for what we've learned in lesson number 8. When a harf of jar is attached to a pronoun. Like we see in this example. But I want to say from him. I need to say min, plus I cannot use hua because hua means he which is in the rafa.

7:41 I have to say min hu. And please note here we have jar, majroor. And this is called a muraqab jari. And this hu at the end is your attached pronoun. Again, go back and see those lessons inshallah. If you've forgotten, review them. And this will now cement those ideas in your head. And you would have had hundreds of examples in the previous ones. That which you will practise inshallah ta'ala to get this.

8:04 So this is its use with huroof of jar. A simple example inshallah. So in part 1 we learned how to say amid book. In this part we're going to learn of course how to do this. His book. His book. And then we're going to another example here. Your book. His book. Your book. So if we attach that we can see the two parts of it. Kitabu is my mudaf.

8:36 And hu is my mudaf ilayhi. And kitabuka is exactly the same. Kitabu and ka is my mudaf ilayhi. Which are both attached pronouns. So please note these two points. I'm repeating again and again for your clarity inshallah. Please note them down. Number 1. That whenever an ism is attached to a pronoun. Meaning if the pronoun is a suffix to an ism. The attached pronoun will always be mudaf ilayhi. So point number 2. Mudaf ilayhi is always majroor. And that is it.

9:09 As far as the understanding is concerned. So of course there are 14 pronouns. We've only looked at two examples here. But of course we have for example. Just like we did in lesson number 7 and 8. And all of them can attach to these isms or any ism for that matter. And of course then we will end up with this structure.

9:37 So we're going to go through this slowly. To make sure that inshallah you have covered them again. And you've learnt the attached pronouns very very well. These are your detached pronouns. And I hope you've memorised them by now. That's your 14 pronouns. So the attached version is. And then we have. And then we have.

10:13 And then we have for the first person. This has been explained in detail in lesson number 7 and 8. The point here for you to note. How will you then distinguish between for example. Again I repeat it so many times. But please note. The second version is always a suffix. It's never written on its own. The first version is written separately. So even they look like two different. The same word. They're not. They're distinct words. Distinct words. The second version is always written attached. So inshallah.

10:53 You will not get confused with them. Because they look the same. They're not the same words. So how do we attach them to a word like bayt. We have. No problems here for you to recognise. That the first one is rafa. The second one is nasab. And the third one is jarb. So rafa. Nasab. And jarb. That's easy. So the first step to do is to make them into mudaf. So in order to make them into mudaf.

11:24 I have to remove the tanween. So instead of baytun. It becomes baytu. Bayta. And it becomes bayti. Then I want to attach them to a pronoun. For example hu. So it will be baytu hu. Elongated sound. Bayta hu. And because bayti ends with a kasra. It will be baytihi. Again I went through the attached pronouns. And why they change from for example hu. To elongated sound hu. Etc. In lesson 7 and 8. Please review the video. The rules are very simple to know.

11:59 But that's how you attach them to an ism. So hu changes slightly. From the pronunciation hu. A little bit elongation. And hi. Because of the kasra before it. Otherwise the word is exactly the same. On the other hand. If I attach them to ya. Which is me or my. I end up with baytihi. Baytihi. Baytihi. Now you are going to ask me. They look the same. How do I tell they are Arab. Why are they. When are they nasab.

12:26 When are they jarb. How do we know. In sha Allah. Let's go through it slowly. But remember what I mentioned earlier. That the ya mutakallim will always prefer a kasra before. So it forces bayt to take a kasra. Whether it is rafa, nasab or jarb. It does not matter. So how will we know. We will know from context. Again remember rice. Roll. Arab. And then the type or the category of ism. And lastly the expression. Here the ya mutakallim. It's Arab of the previous word.

12:59 Is always kasra. Because it prefers it. How will we know. In the context. I will give you some examples. In sha Allah. To clarify. So I want to say. My house. This is my house. In Arabic I will say. Hadha baytihi. Hadha baytihi. I want to say. I saw my house. Ra'aytu baytihi. I saw my house. Sallaytu fee baytihi. I prayed in my house. Now in sha Allah. By now. We have taken it step by step. You can easily tell me. That this is now rafa.

13:39 This is nasab. And this is jarb. Why is this jarb. Because it's coming after fee. Why is this nasab. Because it is the object of the verb. Ra'aytu. I saw. Why is this rafa. Because this is the. Muqtada. And this is your khabr. So this is the. Predicate. This is your predicate. And this is your subject. Let me write that as a proper p. So you can see here. Very simple. Even though they look identical. From the context. I can tell.

14:06 They are arab. Oppose that with the other example. In sha Allah. Of his house. His house. Okay. Baytuhu. Hadha baytuhu. This is his house. I saw his house. Ra'aytu baytahu. I prayed in his house. Sallaytu fee baytihi. I prayed in his house. So you can see here. Alhamdulillah. It is not as complex. Provided we follow these steps. So when it comes to the pronoun. Ya. You cannot tell the arab.

14:37 Very easily of what before. It will be not clear. You need to look at it in context. Forming the edafa. With the word. Rab. The word rab. Has been used in the Quran. Around 975 times. It's a very very important word. Of course. It has a very deep meaning. Means Lord. Cherisher. Master. Owner. Plus other connotations of beautiful meanings. But this word here. Rabbun. Rabban. Rabbin. Exactly the same principle. As we looked earlier. As baytun. Baytan. Baytin. So when it becomes mudaf.

15:13 It will become. Rabbu. Rabba. And rabbi. So. Mudaf. Rafa. Nasab. Orjar. I hope this is easy for you. Mudaf. I made it light. By removing the tanween. But when I attach the pronoun. Exactly as the previous example. I end up with. Rabbuhu. Rabbahu. Rabbihi. So you can see here now. The word in the middle. Or the middle of the word. I.e. Before the pronoun. We can see the arab very easily. The rabbuhu is rafa. Rabba. Is nasab. And rabbahu. And rabbi. Is jar.

15:48 Rabbihi. Again. If I want to say my rab. My rab. It will be. Rabbihi. Rabbihi. Rabbihi. In all three. It will be exactly the same. How will we know? Just as the previous example. We will know through examples. In sha Allah. In context only. So please note that. In sha Allah. In the Quran. You find. Rabbana. Many times. You will see. Rabbuhu. And rabbahu. And etc. etc. Rabbihi. Of course. Is also there. So these are very. Very commonly used words.

16:20 In the Quran. Just be aware. Those points. In sha Allah. And please do. Rewrite this. So you can see the steps. That I have gone through. And this will help you. Remember. Them. In sha Allah. Now we are going to attach. The word. Rabb. To the 14. Pronouns. We will do the rafah version. First. In sha Allah. And again. You will see. Exactly what we did. In lesson 8. 8 and 9. We did exactly the same here.

16:44 But please note. The arab. With the huruf of jar. We didn't have to worry. About the arab of the. Harf. Because it doesn't have one. But with an ism. It does. So please pay attention to. The whole of the. Please. Please. Memorise these charts. And rewrite them out. A couple of times. Because the word. Rabb. Appears in the Quran. Almost 975 times. Out of which. 600 times. It is with pronouns. Almost 600. So it is very. Very important. One on every page.

17:12 So let's practise. This. This. Chart first. In sha Allah. So let's begin. Rabbuhu. Rabbuhuma. Rabbuhum. Rabbuha. Rabbuhuma. Rabbuhunna. Rabbuka. Rabbukuma. Rabbukum. Rabbuki. Rabbukuma. Rabbukunna. Rabbii. Rabbuna. Rabbii. Rabbuna. So you can see. All 14. Please. Do say it out. Exactly. I have shown you. Rewrite it. Until it becomes. Second nature to you. And you can recall it. Without looking. In sha Allah. On a blank sheet of paper. You need to be able to. Reproduce these 14. Because they will help you learn. All the attached pronouns.

17:52 And of course. They come in the Quran. Thousands and thousands. And well above 9000. I believe. So please. Please. Practise this chart. The nasab version. Is exactly the same. Except it is. Rabban. So it becomes. Rabba. So let's just go through this once. In sha Allah. Again. Do write it out. So. Rabbuhu. Rabbuhuma. Rabbuhum. Rabbuha. Rabbuhuma. Rabbuhunna. Rabbuka. Rabbukuma. Rabbakum. Rabbaki. Rabbakuma. Rabbakunna. Rabbi. Rabbana. Again. You can see. Rabbi. Exactly the same. As we've seen. And of course. Rabbana. Is very commonly used. In the Quran.

18:30 Dajjar version of Rabb. Rabbin. And this is exactly. What we are learning here. Again. Please note. The changes to the pronouns. Ending. Is to do with reading rules. It is not to do with arab. Of the pronoun itself. It is always majroor. So we have here. Rabbihi. Rabbihima. Rabbihin. Rabbiha. Rabbihima. Rabbihinna. Rabbika. Rabbikuma. Rabbikum. Rabbiki. Rabbikuma. Rabbikunna. Rabbi. Rabbina. You can see. Very very easily. Fourteen pronouns. So these three sheets. That I've gone through with you. Are very very important.

19:06 And they are all summarised here. This set. Appears in the Quran. Six hundred times. Words from this set. I should say. So if you learn these. You've got six hundred words. Of Al-Quran. In Sha Allah Ta'ala. And in this chart. I've shared with you. Detached pronouns. Attached pronouns. All the translations that you need. And all of those words. In Sha Allah. In the three different arabs. So there is no more confusion. Just learning this. You will master.

19:33 Idhaafa. With pronouns. I will not need to do any more examples. All you need to know. That it is an ism. And by now. In Sha Allah. You should be now familiar. With an ism. When we do verbs. You will be able to distinguish them. Very very easily. And by now. And please note. Is Rabbi in all three cases. And I explained to you. Why? And this is exactly. What you need to learn.

19:51 It is available in the book. For those who haven't got the book. You can take a screenshot of this. But I still recommend. Whether you've got it. Or not. Please do rewrite. The entire sheet. Now time for you to do. An exercise. What I'd like you to do. Is translate. This is their house. Their house. Okay. Their. Masculine. And this is your house. This is my house. And the next one. I saw their house.

20:21 I saw your house. I saw my house. I prayed in their house. I prayed in your house. Which is the singular version. Of the your. Or your. I'm looking for. Just so that you're not confused. And I prayed. In my house. So these are the three different versions. Pause the video. Take all the time you want. In the world. Please don't come back. Until you've done the exercise. And Inshallah Ta'ala will look at it. After the pause. So this is their house. Their is.

20:54 Remember. Who. Whoma. Whom. So it'll be. Hadha. Baituhum. This is their house. This is your house. Hadha. Baituka. This is my house. Hadha. Baiti. Then I want to say. I saw. Their. House. Baitahum. Baitahum. I prayed in your house. Baitah. Ka. And if I say. My house. Baiti. Sallaytu. Fi. Baitihim. I prayed in their house. I prayed in your house. Sallaytu fi baitika. And I prayed in my house. Sallaytu. Fi. Baiti. I hope this exercise. Inshallah. Is practising everything that we went through.

21:41 And these very simple sentences. Are the foundation of your study. Do rewrite them out. Don't worry if you got them wrong. Only worry if you didn't do the exercise. Because you're not going to learn. Doing things wrong is very important. That's why we must learn most things in life. By making mistakes. So do not be embarrassed of making mistakes. Only be embarrassed of not trying. So may Allah grant us Tawfiq. All of us. Inshallah Ta'ala. To practise. Practise. And practise. Examples from the Quran.

22:11 The Idafah with pronouns is very very common in the Quran. Some of them are used many times. For example. Their selves or themselves. That is used for my count 38 times. Their selves. His messenger. Myself. 10 times. His messenger. 31 times. Before you. 15. Okay. And our signs. Ayah. Ayat. Sorry. Plural. Our signs. Our verses. And of course. My nation. So I've given them in the original Ayah that I need them in.

22:47 Sorry. The Ayah that I need the Muda'af in. So please pause the video and complete these and Inshallah Ta'ala you can see how many times they're used in the Quran and how important they are. Practise them. Do them. Take your time. So we have. Anfusin. Anfus is the plural of Nafs. Nafs. Singular self. Selves. 38 times in the Quran. So that will be. Anfusihim. Anfusihim. Then. Anfusan. Of course the Tanween goes. We have. Anfusahum. Anfusahum. Rasuluh. Plus Hua.

23:30 Rasuluhu. We've done this example quite a few times. And it is used in the Quran 31 times. Nafsun. Plus Ana. Will be. Nafsi. Myself. Myself. And. Qabli. Plus Antum. Will be. Qablikum. Before you all. Before you all. Qablikum. And. Ayatin. Is verses. Plural of Ayah. So we'll have. Nahnu. Ayatina. 41 times. Qawmin. Plus Hua. Meaning. His nation. Which is used in the Quran 25 times. We have. Qawmihi. His nation.

24:10 I hope inshallah ta'ala I've convinced you. That these are very commonly used in the Quran. And of course we've seen now examples of them being used with an ism. Lesson 8 and 9 we did many examples of them being attached to Huruf of Jar. Adverb. Zarf. Zarf is a word which describes really an action taking place in a container of either time or place. For example. I met him yesterday. So I'm telling you about yesterday. That is a time. Adverb of time.

24:42 I met him in the masjid. So in the masjid is a place. I met him in front of the house. That's the place. I met him before Isha. That is a time. So you can see here that both of these are adverbs. But one set is using for time. And the other for location. Now these are used thousands of times in the Quran. I have listed for you the most common. Most common ones.

25:09 And some of them of course can be used in general nouns as well as an adverb. So just note them down inshallah ta'ala for your notes that these are very very commonly used words in the Quran. For example. Itha. 415 times. Idh. 239 times. Lamma. 156. Bayna. 244. Inda. 160. Ma'a. 159. For example. So these are adverbs. They also form the idhaafa.

25:37 Whenever these are attached to a pronoun, they will form the idhaafa construct. When they are followed by another noun, that will be the normal idhaafa. But these will be now examples of them being attached to a pronoun. So here we have two examples. Tahtashajarati. Tahtashajarati is from the Quran. Under the tree. And of course you have no problem recognising this jar. And it is the mudaf.

26:06 Mudaf ilayhi. And this time I'm going to say the mudaf bracket, dharf, i.e. an adverb. What is the adverb telling us? The location under the tree. Under the tree. And then we have the other example. Ma'ana. With us. Again another adverb. And again, mudaf, dharf, mudaf ilayhi. So in terms of grammar, it's exactly the same. But this is where the mudaf is a special word. And they form a very important construct in Arabic grammar called shifu jumla.

26:35 We'll look at it in the next lesson, number 11, in some detail. But just for now, note them down. That it is exactly the same idhaafa, same rules, same everything, except that the mudaf is a special type of word called an adverb. An adverb can be of time or place. On the screen, I've got two examples of muraqab idhaafi. First one, tahtashajarati, under the tree.

27:00 This is your mudaf and the mudaf ilayhi. Exactly what we've seen. Ma'ana, exactly the same what we have seen with rabbuna, our lord. Mudaf, mudaf ilayhi. Except the difference is that in both cases, the mudaf is actually a dharf. Dharf is a special type of word, which is an adverb.

27:19 They form a very important role in the sentences called a shifu jumla, which we will cover briefly in the next lesson, lesson number 11. But for now, for us to note, that the idhaafa construct includes what's called an adverbial phrase in Arabic. Adverbial phrase. That's all this we need to know for now. Where the first part is an adverb, so it's mudaf, dharf, mudaf ilayhi is that. So ma'ana, exactly the same as rabbuna in terms of construct.

27:49 So please note these two examples. In the first example, shajarati of course is a normal noun, whereas na in the second example is a pronoun. I've given you the meaning of these words before in the slide, but ma'a basically has the meaning of with, or with me for example, that kind of meaning. And they've been used in the Quran 159 times, significant number of times with pronouns. So let's practise this chart. ma'ahu ma'ahuma ma'ahum, ma'aha ma'ahuma ma'ahunna, ma'aka ma'akuma ma'akum, ma'aki ma'akuma ma'akunna, ma'i ma'ana.

28:30 Please note, very simple inshallah, exactly the same principle, nothing new, except for the first part is an adverb. inda also has a basic meaning of with, near, to have, to possess, etc. So inda is also used in the Quran around 160 times, majority times with pronouns.

28:48 So let's practise this chart inshallah. indahu indahuma indahum, indaha indahuma indahunna, indaka indakuma indakum, indaki indakuma indakunna, indi indana, again you can see here exactly the same what we've been doing even in lesson number seven and eight. There's a lot of confusion with students. Many people think that ma'a is a harf of jar. It is not. Okay, it is a dharf and it is treated as mudaf, ilayhi, not a harf of jar and ism majroor.

29:25 Please note that just in case you read it somewhere, but ma'a, inda, these are not prepositions, they're actually adverbs in Arabic. The last example we're going to look at is bayna which has been used in the Quran 244 times, about 160 of them with pronouns. So we'll take this chart inshallah as our final. We're not going to go through all of them. The others are less frequent, but if you get these three, the rest is exactly the same principle. So let's go quickly go through.

30:08 Again, you can see here, nothing new, nothing new except that please note this is an idafah construct. Examples from the Quran. Alhamdulillah, these words are used many, many times in the Quran.

30:24 So what I'd like you to do is using the knowledge that we've just learned, you'll pause the video like before and inshallah translate those two combinations together in Arabic. So I've given you the words, so there's no confusion which pronoun I'm looking for. The rougher versions in on the second column, the first one being your dharf or your adverb as we call them in English.

30:45 So pause the video, complete the task before continuing. So between them, between them will be baina hum, I hope you got it. Between you, antum, antum will be this one. So what is that? Baina kum, kum. And then we have baina huma. Of course it is exactly the same ending, but this huma is attached, baina huma.

31:13 And inda huwa will be inda hu, inda hu, maa antum, maa kum, maa kum. Fawqa, again another adverb, fawqa, which means above, will have fawqahum. Many many times these are used in the Quran. Many many times inshallah ta'ala. Next we have another set, you know what to do, pause the video and come back. The first one, before them, qabla hum, qabla hum, qa'da plus huwa, ba'dahu, ba'dahu, qabla plus ana will be qabli, min qabli, okay, it's another word we'll find in the Quran.

32:00 Okay, ladayna, laday, and then nahnu, ladayna, inda, then ana will be indi, and baina, ana, baini. I hope this is easy for you inshallah ta'ala. These many many times in the Quran.

32:16 Alhamdulillah, between part one and part two of lesson number ten, we've covered all the most common constructs as far as the idafah is concerned. All the combinations I could find in the Quran, I've taken the majority of them and ordered the lessons that way. So you now know alhamdulillah what to do when the mudaf is an adverb, you know what to do when the mudaf is a pronoun, and of course you know what to do when both of them are just simple standard nouns.

32:42 And alhamdulillah that is covering overall bulk. In lesson number eleven, we will do the additional rules of the idafah when they particularly join other constructs and form a chain of constructs. We'll also look at two or more idafahs joined together, which are also commonly used in Arabic.

33:00 I hope alhamdulillah you've done the exercises. I hope you've also benefited from these lessons. May Allah subhanallah bless you, reward you with the very best in this world and in the hereafter for your du'as, for your support, for watching our video, for sharing them with everyone, and encouraging yourselves and all your loved ones to learn Arabic to understand Quran. Until the next video, Asalaamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu

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