BK2-L03-P1

The Doer (Fa'il) — Introduction

How to identify, translate, and work with the doer in Arabic verbal sentences — internal pronouns and external nouns

Learning Objectives
  • Recognise and name the two types of doer in a verbal sentence — internal pronoun and external noun
  • Apply the rule that the doer is always in the rafa state
  • Use Sighah 1 for a masculine external doer and Sighah 4 for a feminine external doer, regardless of number
  • Understand the special rules for non-rational plurals, collective nouns, non-real feminines, and separated doers

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Introduction

Lesson 3 builds directly on Lesson 2 by adding the second essential component of the verbal sentence (الجملة الفعلية): the doer (الفاعل). A verbal sentence in Arabic begins with a verb; the doer follows. In English the subject always comes first, which is a key structural difference that causes confusion when translating. This lesson addresses that confusion systematically.

Two types of doer are examined: (1) the internal pronoun already embedded in the verb's suffix (covered in detail in Lesson 2), and (2) an external noun that follows the verb and names the actual agent. The rule governing which verb form is used when an external noun appears — based on the gender of that noun, not its number — is the central teaching of this lesson. Part 1 establishes the introduction and the full range of rules; Part 2 extends this with further examples.

The lesson also covers several special cases that appear frequently in Quranic Arabic: non-rational plurals treated as feminine, collective nouns, non-real feminines (such as الشَّمْس — the sun), and situations where a word separates the verb from its doer. Each case either permits or requires a shift from the expected verb form.

Lesson Notes

The doer (al-fa'il) is always in the rafa state — without exception. In a verbal sentence: - If the doer is a pronoun → it is embedded in the verb (internal / mustatir or baariz). - If the doer is a noun → it follows the verb in the rafa state. • Masculine noun doer (regardless of number) → use Sighah 1 (e.g., ذَهَبَ / نَصَرَ) • Feminine noun doer (regardless of number) → use Sighah 4 (e.g., ذَهَبَتْ / نَصَرَتْ)

Internal Pronoun Doer

Every verb already contains a doer. In Sighahs 1 and 4 it is mustatir (hidden — representing هُوَ or هِيَ respectively). In all other sighahs the doer suffix is baariz (visible). When translating, the English subject (always first in English) is derived from this embedded pronoun.

Examples:

  • ذَهَبَ — doer: هُوَ mustatir → "He went"
  • ذَهَبَتْ — doer: هِيَ mustatir (تْ marks femininity, it is NOT the doer) → "She went"
  • ذَهَبُوا — doer: waw (baariz), representing هُمْ → "They went"
  • ذَهَبْتُ — doer: تُ (baariz), representing أَنَا → "I went"
  • ذَهَبَتَا — doer: alif (baariz), representing هُمَا (f.) → "They two (f.) went"

External Noun Doer

When the agent is a named person or thing rather than a pronoun, an external noun is placed after the verb in the rafa state. Crucially, the verb form (Sighah) does NOT change to match the number of the noun — only the gender matters.

External masculine doer → Sighah 1 only (e.g., نَصَرَ زَيْدٌ — Zaid helped) External feminine doer → Sighah 4 only (e.g., نَصَرَتْ فَاطِمَةُ — Fatima helped) Number (singular, dual, plural) of the doer does NOT change the sighah used.

Masculine examples — all use Sighah 1 (نَصَرَ):

  • نَصَرَ مُسْلِمٌ — a Muslim helped (singular)
  • نَصَرَ مُسْلِمَانِ — two Muslims helped (dual)
  • نَصَرَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ — the Muslims helped (plural)

Feminine examples — all use Sighah 4 (نَصَرَتْ):

  • نَصَرَتْ فَاطِمَةُ — Fatima helped (singular)
  • نَصَرَتْ مُسْلِمَةٌ — a Muslim woman helped (singular)
  • نَصَرَتِ الْمُعَلِّمَتَانِ — the two female teachers helped (dual)
  • نَصَرَتِ الْمُعَلِّمَاتُ — the female teachers helped (plural)

Note: when the Sighah 4 suffix تْ (sukoon) meets the alif-lam of a following definite noun, the sukoon shifts to a kasra for ease of pronunciation — نَصَرَتِ الْمُعَلِّمَةُ. This is a reading rule, not a grammar change.

Translation Strategy for Verbal Sentences

Because Arabic puts the verb first and English puts the subject first, the translation method must be deliberate:

  1. Identify the type of sentence: begins with verb → Jumlah Fi`liyyah.
  2. Identify the verb and its tense.
  3. Identify the doer: is there an external noun after the verb in rafa? If yes, that noun is the doer (it "cancels" the internal pronoun in translation).
  4. Translate the doer first in English, then the verb, then any object.

Example: نَصَرَتْ مَرْيَمُ زَيْدًا Step 1: begins with نَصَرَتْ → verbal sentence. Step 2: نَصَرَتْ = she helped (Sighah 4). Step 3: مَرْيَمُ is rafa after Sighah 4 → external doer; cancel "she" in translation. Step 4: "Mariam helped Zaid."

Special Rules — Four Cases Where Either Sighah 1 or 4 May Be Used

1. Rational broken plurals (e.g., الرِّجَالُ — the men): Standard rule → Sighah 1. Option → Sighah 4 also permitted. ذَهَبَ الرِّجَالُ OR ذَهَبَتِ الرِّجَالُ — both correct. 2. Collective nouns (e.g., الْقَوْمُ — the nation/people): ذَهَبَ الْقَوْمُ OR ذَهَبَتِ الْقَوْمُ — both correct. 3. Non-real feminine nouns (e.g., الشَّمْسُ — the sun, grammatically feminine but not biologically so): طَلَعَ الشَّمْسُ OR طَلَعَتِ الشَّمْسُ — both correct. 4. Real feminine doer separated from the verb by another word: دَرَسَتِ الْيَوْمَ خَدِيجَةُ OR دَرَسَ الْيَوْمَ خَدِيجَةُ — both correct (الْيَوْمَ separates the verb from the doer خَدِيجَةُ, allowing Sighah 1).

Non-rational plural rule (always applies, no option): Non-rational beings (not human, jinn, or angel) in plural are always treated as feminine singular, regardless of their original gender.

  • جَمَلٌ (jamal — male camel): singular → جَلَسَ جَمَلٌ (he sat, a camel sat)
  • dual → جَلَسَ جَمَلَانِ (two camels sat) — standard rule
  • plural → جَلَسَتِ الْجِمَالُ (the camels sat) — treated as feminine, Sighah 4 required

Summary

  • A verbal sentence (الجملة الفعلية) begins with a verb; the doer (الفاعل) follows.
  • The doer is always in the rafa state — the same rule as the mubtada' and khabar in a nominal sentence.
  • Two types of doer: internal pronoun (embedded in the verb, hidden or visible) and external noun (in rafa, after the verb).
  • External noun doers can only follow Sighah 1 (masculine) or Sighah 4 (feminine).
  • The verb form is determined by the GENDER of the doer only — not by its number (singular, dual, plural).
  • Non-rational plurals (not human/jinn/angel) are always treated as feminine regardless of their original gender.
  • Four situations allow optional use of either Sighah 1 or 4: rational broken plurals, collective nouns, non-real feminines, and a real feminine doer separated from its verb.
  • In English translation, always place the doer first — even though the Arabic verb comes first.

Terminology Reference

ArabicTransliterationMeaningType
اَلْفَاعِلal-faa`ilthe doer — the subject/agent of a verbal sentenceISM
اَلْجُمْلَةُ الْفِعْلِيَّةal-jumlah al-fi`liyyahthe verbal sentence — a sentence that begins with a verbISM
اَلْجُمْلَةُ الِاسْمِيَّةal-jumlah al-ismiyyahthe nominal sentence — a sentence that begins with a nounISM
مُسْتَتِرmustatirhidden — a pronoun doer embedded in the verb, not separately writtenISM
بَارِزbaarizvisible — a doer suffix that appears on the verbISM
رَفْعraf`the nominative grammatical state — always carried by the doerISM
غَيْرُ عَاقِلghayru `aaqilnon-rational — beings other than humans, jinn, and angels; their plurals are treated as feminineISM
نَصَرَnasarahe helpedFIL
ذَهَبَdhahabahe wentFIL
سَمِعَsami`ahe heardFIL
جَلَسَjalasahe satFIL

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0:00 Assalamualaikum, welcome to lesson number three. In this lesson we continue to develop our understanding of the verbal sentence. In the previous lessons we focused on Al-Maadi, the perfect tense verb or an action that has been completed. In this lesson we're going to look at the other component of the verbal sentence which is the doer and as you know from the introduction there are two types of doer, one that is inside the verb, the pronoun and then we can also have an external noun. So you're going

to understand all you need to know about it in this lesson Inshallah Ta'ala. Then we will add on to that knowledge the difference between Jumla Ismiya and Jumla Fi'aliya. This area causes a lot of confusion when you jump into the lessons what are the difference between the two how do I translate them correctly or how do I understand and recognise them correctly. So Inshallah we'll spend a few minutes looking at that and then we'll look at the Maadi. Sometimes it is also used to express an

action that will be done in the future, how that is done and of course we will conclude with some examples from Quranic text and some hadiths looking at the examples of verbal sentences Inshallah. So we have a lot to cover again let us begin with the blessed name of Allah, bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Seeking His divine help and His mercy and His forgiveness, making dua, Rabbi zidni ilma Oh my Lord increase me in knowledge. In the introductory session we mentioned that the verbal sentences has a number of components

most important of course is the verb that the sentence begins with then we have the the doer of the verb and then we have if required we have an object and there are many many other components of the verbal sentence and Inshallah you're going to become familiar with all of these and plus more and of course with some of the some of the parts we've already studied. So this lesson we are focussing on the doer which is the alfa'ilu, the doer of the verbal sentence, how

to recognise it and more important how to translate it correctly and also if you recall I did share this slide with you at the beginning in the mapping session where I mapped out the three big parts or at least the first two and we're looking at alfa'il and of course you know that there are three types of verbs we are starting with the maadi, so for example here so Hamid went and of course you can tell from the English that this is past tense and if

you note from the previous lesson you know that of course this is al maadi and then we have so again you've got here Hamid goes to the mosque and then if I want to tell somebody to go to the mosque it will be and again you can see and this one of course we're going to learn later so these two we will cover later. Please note when I shared this slide in the introductory session there was a spelling error on the dhahaba and Jazakumullah for the

brother who pointed this out to me it was a slip of the mind you know I didn't check it properly therefore it got through but I haven't got the time to redo that video in the inshallah in the future when I do I will correct it but please note that just in case that has bothered you I do apologise sincerely for it human beings no matter how hard we try we're still prone to making mistakes so anyhow these are the three verbs we are of course

using the maadi the past tense the perfect tense and this one in this lesson but the ruza we are learning will apply equally to al mudari also so this lesson is about the fa'il or al fa'ilu the doer and there are two types of doer again from the introduction you know one is the doer is a pronoun so the pronoun in and we're going to call this one internal doer a rafa pronoun you don't have to say that but internal doer will be fine internal doer

pronoun will also be fine but I'll explain to why it is rafa so here we have they helped Zaid so that the subject in English is they but in Arabic they is here within the verb itself there is no separate word for day so Nassaru Zaidan again Nassaru you should recognise from the previous lesson and then we have Nasarat and we have Mariamu which you can see here so here the pronoun is not the doer in English we translate Mariam Mariam helped Zaid so the doer

is Mariamu we're gonna understand this part aspect of it and it's a very very important lesson it causes a lot of confusion for English speaking students I myself struggled a lot at the beginning but inshallah I'm hoping this approach will avoid the standard confusion and errors that can occur in our understanding if we don't approach it in a systematic way so we're going to look at the two types of doer either the pronoun or the noun coming after the verb which expresses the doer of the

action mentioned in the verb so this is what this lesson is primarily about on the screen we have the English structure on this side English of course stating the obvious goes this way Arabic goes that way so in English the subject comes first and the rest is predicate so this part is your predicate predicate can have lots of things but in English generally the noun will come first or the thing that is introduced as the subject comes first and the rest of it is just information

there are rare occasions in English you can have for example in questioning words if I ask you are you a Muslim and that is not yours now it is technically a verb in English but these are very rare mostly this is the structure so we subject verb and object so the translation is Hamid heard the Quran for example of this sentence so heard the Quran is our predicate and then that's for first part is the subject we've done that in the previous previous lessons in book

one however when we have in Arabic Arabic I can have both ways I can have the verb coming first so Samia means he heard and again you've seen the scale already it should be able to recognise far he left I think I did Alima in the previous lesson so you exactly the same the middle root register taking a customer so this is your verb the verb comes first then we have our doer of course we can have it now in Arabic the doer and the object

can be moved around it will not really affect the sentence meaning but in this case I put the doer straight after so then we have our doer and then we have our object which is I'll put as number two so this is the order of the verbal centre the standard verbal sentence in Arabic now even though the sentences began with a verb in Arabic when I translate into English I will always translate the doer first the the subject first and it is for this reason even

though some books will call the file as the subject I will not call it that because it that is where the confusion comes so with verbal sentence we will say file that is the classical Arabic way of doing it with nominal sentence we will call it move to that which is the subject so if you can just get your head around that in Charlotte are you understand the difference between the two so in verbal sentence the verb comes first and then we have a doer the

doer can be in the prone in the verb itself or it can come afterwards as an external noun which is the doer and that is the major point in Charlotte you get that the rest will be easy so I put the notes at the top that jumla failure begins with the verb it has two key components number one the verb number two the doer and of course it can contain lots of other things in more complex or very sentences English sentence do not begin with verbs

Arabic sentence can begin with an is moon or a fairly on both we've seen that is moon version in some detail in the book one but the subject in the jumla is near we call it move to that and of course the predicate is called cover in jumla failure even though in English it will be still called subject we are going to call it the file which is a classical Arabic way of doing it in the Arabic grammar books you will find it the doer and

this will remove in Charlotte Allah a lot of the confusion so when you translate into English and this is the crux of the matter when you translate into English irrespective of whether it is the jumla is mere jumla failure you will have no choice except for rare occasions but to put the file first in a jumla fairly of course in the move to the and the cover scenario jumla is me it will be the same but you will have to put like I had to do

here I couldn't say heard the Quran Hamid that wouldn't make sense in English I couldn't have said heard Hamid the Quran again that is not really correct so here I'm translating with the subject first and this is the point in Charlotte why I wanted to highlight this very important point and we will not avoid confusion so first thing you do is identify the type of sentence this is whether it's jumla is mere jumla failure and again the hint is jumla is mere begins with an is

moon jumla failure begins with the saloon or a verb once you identify the verb then you identify the doer and if there are other things objects etc you can identify those but this is the most important two points that you need to note when understanding the difference between jumla is near and jumla failure so on the screen I've got got some random words just to show you how this works in English we're going this way again so we have the doer first okay I'm calling a

doer from now on so that avoid confusion we have the doer first which is of course technically is the subject the doer can be he she it they you we etc etc a pronoun or it can be a noun any kind of noun in English for example Hamid Mariam the boy the bird anything so a thing an entity a person or an entity doing the action or has done the action and then you have the verb so for example he went she slept I came you

came we came we ate Hamid ate Mariam came etc etc so you put your verb then and then whatever else you want to put in so this is the structure so the doer in English can also we could technically say be there be a pronoun and there are many different types of pronoun and of course it could also be a noun noun meaning a name of a thing a person an entity then the verb comes in Arabic this is also exactly identical except for the the

ordering so what we have is two types of doer the doer can be a pronoun like for example here Nasaru Zaidan they helped Zaid of course the word they is coming first even though I got the verb first in the Arabic language or they it can be a declared noun that is coming after and you can see here Mariam so Nasarat technically speaking she helped Mariamu and here is your doer Mariamu Zaidan how do I know Mariamu is my doer again this has been explained in

book one in detail it is Rafa the doer is always Rafa and that are that is the two main categories of the types of ism or asma that can be used in verbal sentences as a as the doer of the verb be it the etc so point to note here either it is be a pronoun or a noun that is representing of course a person a being a thing etc who has done the action or is doing the action or will do the action so this

is the what I mean by the doer doer is a person or the being or entity a person a thing whatever it is and now do or a pronoun doing the action and in Arabic we'll have two types either the pronoun or the noun so this should be familiar with you now because this is from the previous lesson so here we have two option and again I want to just explain why I'm using this terminology so we will not get confused the doer in Arabic is

always always Rafa the doer in Arabic is always Rafa remember last book one where I went through this in detail what I mentioned the different reasons why an ism is Rafa so so far if you're following this lessons in series you have the subject is always Rafa, Muqtada, Khabar is always Rafa and this is the identification of course there are other things which are Rafa and the third thing that you've learned which is Rafa is the doer of the verb if again if you remember Ja'a

Rajulul, who came? Iman came or Ja'al Imamu, who came? the Imam came so it has to be Rafa now the doer can be two things and the first one I'm going to call is the internal pronoun okay which is has to be Rafa so the internal pronoun that's embedded with it every verb which we did very slowly and in detail in the previous lesson could be our one type of doer or it could be an external doer which is the noun that comes after the verb

and that's exactly what we mean so going back to our previous lesson all of these the doers that are there which again I'm not going to go through all of them if you missed the lesson please go back I've explained this in detail so all of them are the doer and hence because they're a pronoun they're an ism they have the four properties and their property or irab is that they are Rafa so that is why I'm calling it internal doer pronoun in brackets you can

put Rafa pronoun so it is an internal doer which is the pronoun you do not need a separate pronoun in in Arabic it's embedded within the verb and it is Rafa and the noun that comes after the verb if it is Rafa then it is the doer of the verb but it can only come after number one and number four and again I'll explain that in a little bit more detail so let's take a look at the internal doer Rafa pronoun the internal doer pronoun mentioned

in the previous lesson in detail can be of two types either it is mustatir and again I'm sure you can now recall that I went through this in detail so it either be number one or number four why is it called mustatir because there is nothing there in the scale of the verb that has an indication that it is the doer when all the others you will see there are some letters which represent the pronoun and therefore it is the Rafa pronoun that is the first

point so they're called mustatir so in in the maadi number one and number four and that's why I've coloured it black as well but because another reason I'll explain that shortly but the rest of them are called baariz which means the the pronoun is visible you can see it there is something there that indicates the doer and of course all of them are mentioned on this slide and it has been mentioned in the previous lesson in detail so these are the two types mustatir hidden or

baariz a pronoun which is visible in the scale of the verb so when you're asked who is the doer you can for example with number seven you will say ta is my doer anta representing anta if you were asked in number four for example who's the doer you'll say here which is mustatir that is indicating that it is feminine number one you will say the doer is mustatir representing Hua and that's all you need to remember inshallah ta'ala so the if you want to express the

sentence with a pronoun you don't need anything else you will use one of the 14 whichever pronoun you want to say so you want to say hey he she they you we you will use one of the 14 and it is for this reason I repeatedly reminded you in the last previous lesson to memorise and to conjugate yourself on a piece of paper the more you practise them easier this will become so if I want to say in Arabic he went all I need to do

is simply say dahaba he went and that would be with any maadi verb dahaba he went so I have my verb where is my doer okay I got my faalun from the three root letters where is my doer I will say the doer is Hua faal is Hua mustatir there is nothing there to indicate that is the doer so that's how we will say it and this is how I know it's bit laborious at this stage but that's how precision you need to be in order

to translate correctly inshallah if I want to say I went I went this should be easy for you now you should be able to tell me dahabtu dahabtu I went so again I have my doer and my verb faalun and I have my faal in this case I will say the faal is tu, tu ana representing ana but the actual doer is tu and the ta at the end which is highlighted in blue for you if on the other hand I want to say she went

I will say dahabat, dahaba is my verb ta is not the doer okay the doer is hidden here mustatir so every verb has a doer whether it is hidden or it is expressed and that's the only thing you need to know about the pronoun doers inshallah and this is the point that you will note so if I ask you who the doer is dahabat you say here but it's not a letter or anything it's here mustatir it is hidden within the verb itself that ta is

a sign of feminine so whenever we wish to express a sentence where we are saying a pronoun is has done the action or is doing the action he she you I it they we simply use these versions as I've already shown you so let's go through it slowly dahaba I will say the doer is hua mustatir and what is it he went and that's how you'll translate it again I repeat sorry forgive me for repeating again and again but these things you need to get the

he will come first why because in English the subject comes first then you have dahabat you'll say here is the doer mustatir there's nothing there but here is the doer and the translation will be she went and if I see something like dahabtum you should be able to translate this yourself now who is the doer tumtum meaning you all so in English I have to say you and if I want to be precise masculine plural went because in English there are six Arabic words which are

you representing one you in English so you can see here that we have three sentences where we are expressing the doer only with the pronoun let's look at three more examples here where we're expressing the doer with a pronoun so we don't need anything else the Haboo again it should be very easy for you to tell me that is the wow is the doer they went representing whom of course they have tea you should be able to tell me the doer is he representing auntie you

feminine singular and again again you can see why if we want to express in English the full details we need a lot more information the hub now and again this one should be easy represent now equivalent to national the doer is now what is that we went so this six examples we should be enough inshallah because we went through this in detail in lesson number two so all of the pronouns whenever you want to express a sentence where the pronoun is the doer you will choose

one of the 14 so again example of the verb Nasara all of the 14 you should have been out by now memorised and Nasara means he helped or it it can be also it Nasara Huma etc so if you learnt lesson 2 well the rest of our lessons will be relatively easy as far as precision in understanding which pronoun is doing or has done the work in this case so again please conjugate as many verbs as you can I've gave you three examples if you've done

them of course this will be now inshallah beginning slowly slowly to become second nature to you so get the external doer the external doer is a noun or an instrument to be more precise which comes after the verb after the verb which which is the doer of the action it again you should know this but a part of now that the doer will be Rafa Rafa has to be so doer has to be Rafa and examples of that you can see on the screen the Hamid

helped so in Arabic you have to express that with a noun you cannot do it with a pronoun Mariam helped again you have to express it with an ism you cannot do it with a pronoun the teachers heard again you'll have to do that with a noun coming after the verb which is Rafa so the point to note here now is that if the doer coming after the verb is masculine again you remember the gender only two type masculine or feminine so if the doer coming

after the verb is masculine then you have no option but to use Sighah number one so by that I mean Zahaba which is before he went Nasara he helped Alima he knew Karuma he was noble these are just a few examples of the verbs we've already done now it does not matter whether the doer is definite or indefinite it does not matter whether doer is singular dual or plural you will only use Sighah number one when it is masculine okay now on the other hand if

the doer is feminine and again it does not matter whether it is definite indefinite singular dual or plural you will only use Sighah number four so you'll not change the verb depending on the number you'll only change the verb depending on the gender please note that depending on the gender so this is the most important point to grasp inshallah in verbal sentences whereas in Jumla Ismiya you have to match the gender and the number here it is the gender only that we are concerned with so

pay attention to the two examples I'm giving you inshallah we have Zahaba he went ilal madrasati you went to the school you went to the school who's the doer he there is no noun coming afterwards as you can see which can which is expressing the doer of the action if I on the other hand said Zahaba haamidun ilal madrasati now what we do we translate the he first in English because that's the one set within the Zahaba bit but then we cross it off why because

we have haamid afterwards which is the Rafa and that's the logic you follow and they won't get confused so if you see a ism after number one or number four you you will delete the translation in your head I don't need to say he anymore so in English I can't say he haamid went to the school it doesn't make much sense so we will say haamid went to the school and that's the rule that you will follow inshallah for very simple translation so normally Zahaba you

would have translated as he went but because haamidun is coming it cancels the internal doer cancels the pronoun and you put haamid at the front so to explain the two points about the gender matching within the verb what we do is samia haamidun haamid heard samia haamidun if I want to say that of course I got my verb and I've also got my doer already which is mustatir huwa because haamid appears after I will cross the huwa off in my translation I will simply say haamid

heard so who's my doer my doer is an external noun now which is haamidun again in the feminine version nasarat I cannot say nasara here because the external doer is mariam which is feminine so I have faalun and of course that's my verb and where is my doer here but because I see mariamu afterwards I will cancel the here in translation and of course the doer is expressed as an external noun now which is mariamu and that's how easy it is inshallah if you follow the

steps that I've shared with you so please note the gender of the doer will dictate whether I use number one or number four so I've got quite a few on the screen now I'll go through this slowly inshallah hopefully this will trigger your memory and you will be able to now use these examples I would do recommend strongly even if I give you the slide is not the issue but you actually write these down by your own hand and this is the only way it will

stick in your head and your heart inshallah because Allah subhana says in the Quran the one who taught us by the use of pen otherwise you just watching it will not go in but if you actually get a book notebook a piece of paper whatever it is even a whiteboard and you write the English and the Arabic and you can then follow the steps I'm showing you this will help it stick in your head and there is no other way of learning something without practise so

first again the rules of learning is I listen I forget I see I remember I practise I learn I teach I master so when you practise this the way I've laid it out for you you can write it whichever way you like as long as you're practising so again Nasara you simply translate as he helped Nasara he helped but if I say Zaid helped I would say Nasara Zaidun I will now cross off the he and I will translate simply Zaid helped a Muslim helped a

Muslim helped Nasara Muslimun a Muslim helped okay which is my doer Muslimun so I've separate them on in the column just to make things easy for you so you cannot miss the point inshallah the Muslim helped will be Nasara Muslimun the Muslim helped okay what what is my doer al Muslimun again I'm not written I'm ignoring he in the translation the two Muslims helped you should be able to work this out very easily inshallah before I give you the answer we have Nasara Muslimani again lesson

number three and lesson number four in book one Muslimani rafa two Muslims who helped the two Muslims helped again I have al Muslimani has to be rafa then the Muslims helped again this should be easy I'm still using the singular version of the verb please note Nasara Muslimun Nasara Muslimun and therefore my doer is al Muslimuna which is plural masculine and it is the doer al fa'ilu I hope these illustrated examples really highlight to the point that it does not matter whether it's definite or indefinite

singular doer or plural you'll only use Sighah number one only Sighah number one can have an external doer coming after masculine only Sighah number four can have a feminine doer coming after that is the general rule I will do all the variations shortly inshallah don't worry but important that you understand this point otherwise you will get confused so that is the illustration inshallah ta'ala how verbal sentences work so the opposite now we're going to look at the feminine version was a feminine doer we have in

the first line Nasarat if I see Nasarat on its own I will just translate she helped no need to worry about anything if I don't see a doer afterwards again with only number one and number four we're looking for external doer I want to say Fatima helped they should be very easy Nasarat Fatimatu again you can see here Fatimatu is my doer so the opposite next I want to say a Muslim bracket female helped so again we have Nasarat because it is feminine Muslimatun Muslim a

Muslim and of course that Muslimatun is my doer I ignored the here version Nasaratil Muallimatun the teacher female teacher helped and I put this example just to illustrate to you what I've done here again please note this is Nasarat so the opposite so the opposite here why did I put T here because of Al I cannot read this with a sukoon I'll end up with two sukoons meeting which is impossible in Arabic to read and this is not that nothing to do with the rules of

grammar it's to do with rules of reading and therefore the T with sukoon is changes to a kasra so the opposite to facilitate the reading when two sukoons come together this has been covered in book one inshallah just in case you've forgotten so I'll share that with you so Nasarat and Nasarati is the same is because of the meeting of two sukoons so here we have Nasaratil Muallimatun who helped the teacher female helped definite here because of Al then we have the two teachers again we

have Nasaratil Muallimatun the two teachers helped I want to say the teachers feminine plural three or more again we have Nasaratil Muallimatun Al Muallimatun again if you go back to book one lesson number three lesson number four where I went through the duals and plurals and singulars inshallah and I mentioned there I'll repeat again for you most of what you've learned you're gonna repeat again and again and again until it becomes second nature so this is your singular dual and plural definite indefinite feminine I'm using

Siva number four which is the here version Nasarat it will be the same for every other verb if I wanted to put an external feminine doer I will use Nasarat Zahabat Samiat Alimat Karumat etc etc so whichever verb I'm using this is the rule for the feminine doer or the one where the doer is feminine in the previous slides we dealt with the masculine doer and the feminine doer gone but there are some exceptions you should be aware of they're not really exception there is a

very important rule in Arabic which causes a lot of confusion to English-speaking students I'm sure it does to others but it's basically the principle that non-rational plurals in Arabic are treated as feminine and that has been covered in book one with the Jumla Ismiya and the descriptive phrase etc where we looked at it in some detail it applies throughout the language including with verbs so here I have Jamalun Jamalun means a camel male camel so if I wanted to say a camel sat I would say

Jalasa Jamalun very easy two camels sat Jalasa Jamalani again we are following our rules there's no variation but on the other hand if I want to say three or more camels sat camels are what non-rationals okay they're plural now the word for camels in plural is Jamal and non-rational meaning it is not human jinn or angel so camel of course it does not fall into these three categories so I will have to treat it as feminine here I will say Jalasa Jamalun and you can see

that is the doer of course if I put al meaning the camels sat I would say Jalasa til Jamalun again I'm using the singular feminine I'm using the feminine version of the verb even though the one doing the act is masculine because it is a non-rational plural it is a rule in the Arabic language non-rational plurals are treated as feminine does not matter what they are originally and non-rationals again I repeat are non which are not human jinn or angels that's a general rule so the

word for feminine or female camel is Naaqah Naaqatun now I want to say a female camel sat I'm following the rule I'm using the feminine singular number four singular number four Jalasat Jalasat Naaqatun if I want to say two female camels sat again Naaqatani Jalasat Naaqatani which you can see if I want to say Nuqun which is a plural of female camels again rule still applying Jalasat Nuqun Nuqun so doesn't matter with male or female you will treat it broken plural of non-rational beings will be

treated as feminine you can see that here applying and then of course if I had Al afterwards it'll be Jalasatin Nuquh Jalasatin Nuquh so again Anuq meaning the female camels I hope this is making sense it's a repetition work we've already done but it needs to be highlighted you because you're going to see it again and again in in Quranic and hadith text or occasions where either Sighah 1 Sighah Faala or Sighah 4 Faalat can be used there are four occasions where you have the option

of either using Sighah 1 for example Faala or Faalat Sighah 4 you can use either and these sometimes throw you off but if you remember the the general idea that you can use either of you'll be fine because you don't have to reproduce the language but just when you see it I'll give you the four occasions just make a note of them inshallah as they will prove it to be a benefit inshallah now we have the doer being number one being the doer is a rational

okay rational broken plural so Aqil that is human broken plural so for example Zahabar Rajulu the man went the man went if I want to say the man went of course I can follow the rule and I can say Zahabar Rajalu is being the plural of Rajul and Rajalu will be the doer here plural is broken masculine but is rational is broken so we using the standard rule however I can also use the feminine here I can say Zahabat Rajalu Zahabat Rajalu Rajalu again you can

see again don't let these things confuse you just be aware that that's how the language works that when it is for broken plural you have the option of using both if it is rational if it's not rational as with the previous example you follow the standard rule so women entered the women entered so far we did the men so what would happens I can say Dakhala Dakhala meaning enter An Nisaoo Dakhala An Nisaoo the women entered again I'm using a strange rule here feminine plural I'm

using the masculine verb I can also use the feminine verb here Dakhala Din Nisaoo An Nisaoo the women entered now you're gonna get yourself into a big mess if you start saying why and what and what are the rules and sub rules there's so many things to learn but if you just accept that that's what happens you'll be fine inshallah as you see more and more examples we do not need to go to advanced here we just need to be aware that this happens so in

language remember our job is to translate from Arabic to English we will see these things and that is why I am sharing them with you and it is a more of a comprehensive lesson where all the points are covered and when we see example they can point you back and say please refer to that and inshallah that if you've got the notes whatever you can always refer back to it the second equation where I can use the either of them is when it comes to collective

nouns again we did collective nouns back in lesson number four where I mentioned it briefly and of course further down we also mentioned it so the nation went the nation is a masculine word Dahab Al Qawmu I can also say Dahabatil Qawmu Dahabatil Qawmu even though it is masculine I'm treating it as feminine as per the rule above so if the doer is a collective noun I can use both or both has been used in the language I think we saw some examples of it in

the in book one also so Al Qawmu masculine but I'm using Dahabat the third occasion where we can use either Sighah 1 or Sighah 4 is when the doer is non real feminine what do I mean by that that's been covered in lesson number three in book one what is meant by that is something treated in the language is feminine but biologically it is not feminine for example the Sun is feminine in Arabic but it's not biological it's not in English we wouldn't use she with

it or he with it it will be it so Tala'a Shamsu Tala'a means to rise and of course is the past tense you can recognise it Fa'ala, Dahaba, Nasara so it is a verb Tala'a Shamsu the Sun rose I can use the masculine version here I can also use the feminine version exactly the same translation in English Tala'a Shamsu Tala'a Shamsu so that is your third occasion the fourth occasion when we got the option of using either Sighah number one or Sighah number four is when

the doer is real feminine but something comes in between the verb and the doer anything else and as I said mentioned many times in Arabic there's flexibility and this flexibility gives a nuanced differences so here I have the feminine because Khadija is feminine Khadija studied today if I said Khadija studied today and I had the word Yawma Al Yawma at the end I couldn't do this so here I've got in the middle so I got the option of using number four which is Darasati as it

should be Al Yawma Khadijatu Khadija studied today I can also now because the there is something between the doer and the verb I can also use Darasa Al Yawma Khadijatu Darasa Al Yawma Khadijatu so Khadijatu is the doer again there is a separation with Al Yawma coming in between so that gives me the flexibility all of this might sound a lot to remember but really look your job and my job is not to really know all the rules just need to know how to apply them

and understand them and translate so if you just remember this possibility and of course plurals in Arabic can be quite confusing at the beginning once you say it once twice three four five times ah that's what's happening you'll remember it forever and the same thing happened I tried to remember lots of Arabic grammar rules and I was just failing for years and years Alhamdulillah when one of the teachers just said relax just let's apply and let's look at some surahs of Quran and slowly slowly Inshallah

Ta'ala all of this became second nature so again it's all to do with practise at the moment please don't worry about the reasoning and don't ask kindly a detailed question about isn't it because sometimes to type pages of text in feedback is not possible but by all means be aware of these four and I'm really trying to make this lesson comprehensive so we don't have to go back to it again in terms of relearning everything just mention it and then when I go back as it

I did mention it to you that these are the four occasions or I did mention it to you that broken plurals are treated this way rational plurals are treated that way non-rational plurals can also be treated this way etc etc and that's all the idea you need to have the rest is just simple application practise and Inshallah through practise you will master so Alhamdulillah I've got a very good overview of the doer as the pronoun and all the variations of the doer as a noun coming

after which is in Rafa that's the rule that's been followed all the way through yes we did the variations at the end but those are the two points that you need to remember very well and a lot of you requested there's quite confusing on the video which lesson they're watching so I inshallah try to remember I put this at the bottom and I'll try to copy that across all the way so that you're gonna have a clarity which lesson you're following because in YouTube I believe

the lesson gets not in the same order but the playlist inshallah inshallah I'll try to maintain so I've done that from your feedback but if there's anything else I can do to improve do let me know inshallah and of course if you find any mistakes kindly inform me and I will try to correct them after all human work is full of mistakes and errors may Allah accept our good deeds and forgive our mistakes so Alhamdulillah I'm going to conclude the video now we have already covered

the verbal sentence we looked at the doer the two types in detail next video inshallah I'm going to cover these three points in some detail so fear of making this one too long we'll conclude here in part two inshallah Tala we will continue with this lesson and complete it be in the left so may Allah bless you for watching the lesson and all your feedback and I'm really heartfelt and grateful to the brothers and sisters for all your doors and your support without which of course

to find the motivation and the energy required I believe your doors are helping me may Allah subhan Allah accept your doors from you from your heart and I make dua for every single one of you and make dua for the Ummah that Allah subhan Allah unites us and keeps us together and all of us inshallah Tala myself first may Allah grant us Tawfiq to make Tawbah to return back to him and seek his forgiveness and his mercy through serving this Ummah so may Allah bless you

from the depth of my heart I am trying my level best to continue to increase the resources and the quality of the lessons and I will continue to do so based on your feedback and your support inshallah Tala kindly remember me in your duas and may again please kindly remember to share and like and whatever else you need to do I'm not that familiar with how the technology is working but do that inshallah Tala to encourage as many people as possible to learn Arabic to understand

Quran and Allah give me Tawfiq to complete the whole series Jazakumullah Khayran we have ended the lesson 3 part 1 I shall see you in the next video may Allah subhan Allah keep you safe may Allah subhan Allah bless you your family your loved ones with the very best in this world and the hereafter may Allah subhan Allah come to the aid of our Muslim brothers and sisters throughout the world until the next video kindly remember me in your duas Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

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