The Object (Maf'ul Bih)
Understanding the Direct Object in the Arabic Verbal Sentence
- Identify the direct object (المفعول به) in a verbal sentence and distinguish it from the doer (الفاعل)
- Understand the difference between transitive (متعدّي) and intransitive (لازم) verbs
- Recognise sentences containing more than one direct object
- Use attached pronouns (الضمائر المتصلة) correctly as the object of a verb
Video Lesson
Introduction
This lesson focuses on the third essential component of the verbal sentence (الجُمْلَةُ الفِعْلِيَّة): the direct object (المَفْعُولُ بِهِ). Having already covered the verb (الفِعْل) and the doer (الفَاعِل) in earlier lessons, the lesson now completes the picture of how a verbal sentence is built. The direct object is the entity — whether a person, place, or thing — that directly receives the action expressed by the verb. To find it, ask: Who or what received the action?
The lesson covers four main areas: transitive and intransitive verbs, sentences with more than one object, the object brought forward for emphasis, and — a key new topic — the use of attached pronouns (الضَّمَائِرُ المُتَّصِلَة) as the object of a verb. Mastering this last point is especially important: attached pronouns appear on almost every line of the Quran.
Lesson Notes
The Direct Object and the Rule of Nasb
The direct object (المَفْعُولُ بِهِ) is always in the accusative case (مَنْصُوب — Nasb). The doer (الفَاعِل) is always in the nominative case (مَرْفُوع — Rafa'). Word order in Arabic is flexible, but the case endings (الإِعْرَاب) always tell you which word is the doer and which is the object.
Standard verbal sentence order: VERB → DOER (Rafa') → OBJECT (Nasb) Order may be rearranged. The i`rab (case ending) — not position — determines each word's role. To identify the object: ask "Who or what received the action of the verb?"
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Arabic verbs fall into two categories:
1. الفِعْلُ اللَّازِم (Intransitive) — the action stays with the doer and does not pass to any external entity. No direct object is needed. Examples: ذَهَبَ (he went), جَلَسَ (he sat), دَخَلَ (he entered), خَرَجَ (he left). One word can form a complete sentence because the verb contains both the action and the doer (as an embedded pronoun).
2. الفِعْلُ المُتَعَدِّي (Transitive) — the verb's action passes directly to another entity. An object is required. Examples: نَصَرَ (he helped), ضَرَبَ (he hit), سَمِعَ (he heard), قَرَأَ (he read), عَلَّمَ (he taught). If you can answer who or what received the action?, the verb is transitive.
The Object Brought Forward (المَفْعُولُ بِهِ المُقَدَّم)
In Arabic it is grammatically correct — and often rhetorically powerful — to place the object before the verb. The Nasb case ending still identifies it as the object, even in this front position. This is used in the Quran for emphasis, surprise, or rhetorical effect.
Object before verb (maf`uul bihi muqaddam): The object is placed first for emphasis or rhetorical purposes. The Nasb ending still marks it as the object, not the subject. Example: اَلْكِتَابَ قَرَأَ الطَّالِبُ — The student read the book (the book is emphasised). English translation remains the same; the nuance is in the Arabic word order.
Verbs with More Than One Object
Certain verbs in Arabic require two direct objects to complete their meaning. Both objects are Mansub (Nasb).
Verbs like جَعَلَ (he made) and عَلِمَ (he knew) can take two Mansub objects. Example: جَعَلَ اللهُ مُحَمَّداً رَسُولاً First object: مُحَمَّداً | Second object: رَسُولاً | Both are Nasb.
The Pronoun as Object — Attached Pronouns (الضَّمَائِرُ المُتَّصِلَة)
When the object of a verb is a pronoun (him, her, them, me, you), Arabic does not use the detached pronouns (هُوَ، هِيَ، أَنْتَ، أَنَا). Detached pronouns are always Rafa' and can never be an object.
Instead, the attached pronouns are added as suffixes to the end of the verb. When attached to a verb, they are always Mansub, because they are the المَفْعُولُ بِهِ.
Attached pronoun suffix on a verb = المَفْعُولُ بِهِ (always Mansub) Detached pronouns (هو، هي، أنتَ، أنا...) are ALWAYS Rafa' — never used as a direct object. Step 1: Identify the sigha (which of the 14 verb forms is this?) Step 2: Identify the attached pronoun suffix — that is the object.
Examples using نَصَرَ (he helped) with attached pronoun objects:
| Form | Transliteration | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| نَصَرَهُ | nasarahu | he helped him |
| نَصَرَهَا | nasaraha | he helped her |
| نَصَرَهُمْ | nasarahum | he helped them (masc. pl.) |
| نَصَرَهُنَّ | nasarahunna | he helped them (fem. pl.) |
| نَصَرَنِي | nasarani | he helped me |
| نَصَرَنَا | nasarana | he helped us |
| نَصَرَكَ | nasaraka | he helped you (masc. sing.) |
| نَصَرَكِ | nasaraki | he helped you (fem. sing.) |
Phonetic adjustments when attaching pronouns:
- Yaa' of the speaker (يَاءُ المُتَكَلِّم): A noon of protection (نُونُ الوِقَايَة) is inserted before the يَاء: نَصَرَنِي. This protects the verb from taking a kasra on its final letter.
- Third-person plural masculine (sigha 3 — نَصَرُوا): The extra protective alif is dropped when an attached pronoun follows: نَصَرُوهُ.
- Second-person masculine plural (sigha 9 — نَصَرْتُمْ): An extra waaw is added before the pronoun: نَصَرْتُمُوهُ.
Summary
- The direct object (المَفْعُولُ بِهِ) is the entity that directly receives the verb's action; it is always Mansub (Nasb).
- Intransitive verbs (فِعْلٌ لَازِم) need no object; transitive verbs (فِعْلٌ مُتَعَدِّي) require one.
- Word order in Arabic is flexible; i`rab (the case ending), not position, identifies the object.
- The object may be placed before the verb (مَفْعُولٌ بِهِ مُقَدَّم) for emphasis or rhetorical effect.
- Some verbs require two objects, both Mansub.
- When the object is a pronoun, the attached pronouns (الضَّمَائِرُ المُتَّصِلَة) are used as suffixes on the verb; they are always Mansub in this role.
Terminology Reference
| Arabic | Transliteration | Meaning | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| المَفْعُولُ بِهِ | al-maf`uul bihi | the direct object — the entity that directly receives the action of the verb | ISM |
| الفِعْلُ المُتَعَدِّي | al-fi`l al-muta`addii | transitive verb — a verb that requires a direct object to complete its meaning | FIL |
| الفِعْلُ اللَّازِمُ | al-fi`l al-laazim | intransitive verb — a verb whose action does not pass to an external object | FIL |
| نَصَرَ | nasara | he helped / he supported | FIL |
| ضَرَبَ | daraba | he struck / he hit | FIL |
| ذَهَبَ | dhahaba | he went | FIL |
| سَمِعَ | sami`a | he heard / he listened | FIL |
| قَرَأَ | qara'a | he read | FIL |
| عَلِمَ | `alima | he knew | FIL |
| جَعَلَ | ja`ala | he made / he placed | FIL |
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0:00 Assalamu alaikum, welcome brothers and sisters to lesson number four, for those of you are following the series alhamdulillah so far we are still looking closely at the jumla fa'aliya or the verbal sentence. Today's lesson is about focussing on the object, we have already mentioned this many many times even going back from book one but today in this lesson inshallah we're gonna take a comprehensive look at this topic, the object, in particular the direct object. We're also going to take a look at the two types of
verbs in Arabic, those that need an object to complete the meaning and those that don't and of course we will look at situations where you can have more than one direct object and so far we have been dealing with the object which is a noun, we are going to introduce something new in this lesson and we're going to look at the object being a pronoun. We'll also inshallah continue to look at the use of phrases in place of the object and we will briefly look at
the types of object apart from the direct object which is the main lesson also. So inshallah by the end of the lesson you will have a lot clearer understanding of the formation of jumla fa'aliya, rules related to it, how to identify its parts and more importantly inshallah when you see a piece of text within the Quran or the hadith you should be in a position to far better understand it and also translate it correctly. We have a lot to cover so let's begin with the blessed
name of Allah, bismillahirrahmanirrahim, seeking his help and his mercy we make dua, Rabbi zidni ilma, oh my Lord increase me in knowledge. Quick review of the map of the jumla fa'aliya as you already know this map inshallah should be very familiar with it, that in a jumla fa'aliya two of the most essential components are the verb itself which is called fa'ilun or al fa'ilu, the verb and then we have the doer of the verb. We have already covered this in detail, the doer can be an
internal pronoun which is embedded in the verb itself so there are 14 siza each one has an embedded pronoun or it can be an external noun that comes after and of course again I remind you external noun come only after number one and number four the fa'ala and the fa'alat version, nasara nasarat and this is where we've left in the last lesson and in detail and I'm confident and hopeful that inshallah if you've done the the lesson properly and went through the notes you should be
now 100% familiar with these two concepts. Now that leaves the third component of a verbal sentence and again please note not all verbal sentences will have a maf'ool or direct object but where there is a direct object, the direct object again can also be a pronoun or a noun, same noun or a noun and this is what we're going to be mastering in this lesson inshallah so the idea of the doer as you know is the one who does the verb and the object one is
the one who receives the action in the verb and that can either be a noun or a pronoun by noun I mean a name of a thing, a person, place etc and of course it can be more than that and we'll be looking at all of these components in this lesson inshallah. The grammatical term al maf'ool al maf'oolu bihi which you see here it refers to the object in a verbal sentence and this object is the entity the person or the thing that directly directly receives
the action in the verb so if you have a verb and then you have the ask action question who or what received this action in relation to the verb then you get the answer what the object is of course in English is very easy for us we have the subject always coming first so let me circle that the subject we got the subject here we have a lot we have a lot we have a lot as the subject comes first in Arabic as you know we've
already seen in the previous we can completely move the words around so we have the verb in the middle here so the boy ate what did he eat and that's the answer to the direct object she helped who or what did she help the boy and then he helped you so you can see here the object can be a noun as in the first two example or a pronoun we do the same thing in Arabic but in Arabic there is some differences between the way this
is done and that's what we're going to be looking at in detail inshallah so in simple terms when I say al maf'ool or maf'oolu bihi or al maf'oolu bihi means one is indefinite the other is definite the direct object or a direct object it's the one that receives the action directly receives the action mentioned in the verb from what we have covered so far alhamdulillah including what we covered in book one and the lessons here you should be able to tell me the translation of these
three relatively easily you should also be able to tell me which one's the verb even though I've coloured the verb in red for you which is the ism and not only that which one is doing the action which one's receiving the action so let's illustrate for one more example inshallah to make these points as live examples rather than just theory so in the first one I have the word baraba for those who don't know what that means that means he struck so he hit or he
struck whichever translation you prefer baraba and then after that I have a noun and ism which is rafa I'm sure you can tell that and we have one here which is nasab so the rafa is always the doer and of course the nasab is object so we're going to look at this structure if there's nothing else in the sentence we can analyse that so far very easily that is my verb that is my doer of the verb and that is the object and so therefore the
object is the object so the one that receives the action of hitting to be hit is Hamid and the one who did the action is Zaid so I will translate this as Zaid hit Hamid I hope you can read that inshallah bit of a scribble on the screen next we have baraba Zaidan Hamidun again you easily can identify that this is nasab and this is a rafa so Hamid is doing the action now so we have the fa'alun we have the maf'ulun bihi and we have
the fa'il so you can see here I move the grammatical parts around here the fa'il then the maf'ul which is the standard order here I move the order around but essentially the grammatically speaking is still the same points because of the nasab and rafa endings on those two so the translation of this will be Hamid Zaid how do I know who's doing what who's receiving who's doing based on the arab which is again the subject of book one where we went through this in detail so
the standard order that you see here we have the verb of course Arabic is written that way so I'll go in this way this order verb doer and object that's the standard order of the sentence but here of course I have moved things around I have the verb I have the object then I have the doer and that is perfectly allowed in Arabic and of course this is done for many many reasons one of them could be for emphasis and also for rhetoric and other reasons
also but we have something even more here if you look at this one Hamidan this is nasab Zaidun Rafa Daraba in the middle now if you said that this is a Jumla Ismiya you and I would be wrong why because Jumla Ismiya the Muqtada will come first normally but here we have Hamidan Muqtada has to be Rafa this is nasab so what is this so in grammar now we call this maf'ulun bihi coming early I'm gonna look at this inshallah ta'ala and then we have the
verb fi'alun and then we have the fi'alun so here what we've done is we've taken the object brought it right to the front but we still recognise it as the object not the subject why because of the i'rab so i'rab is nasab it cannot be the subject or the doer in this case so these are the things that you will see so long as you're focused on what we've done and how we went through it in logical order inshallah that you should not get confused at
this stage and of course the last one you translate as Zaid hit Hamid in English the translation you can't do much but in Arabic here I'm emphasising the fact that Hamid was struck or hit so I hope these three examples inshallah ta'ala tell you which is the first point I mentioned back in lesson number one that in Arabic word order is not the most significant part of the sentence more important is the i'rab to tell us what is going on within the sentence transitive and intransitive
verbs sometimes you hear a terminology you've never heard before and completely throws you off what do we mean by transitive and intransitive if you ever studied English grammar maybe you will know but 99% of the English speakers really we won't know what these terms mean and these terms often confuse people a lot of people give up studying Arabic because of terminology trust me you don't need to learn terminology what you need to understand is what it represents so instead of remembering all these English terms like
transitive intransitive etc let's just go quickly to the Arabic terminology and use them as our as our guide but necessarily not even memorise the Arabic terminology just understand what they mean so in Arabic the verbs can be divided into two categories those that need an object to complete their meaning and those verbs that don't need the object to complete their meaning so the lazim verb or a verb that is lazim does not need an object to complete the meaning that's all I want you to remember
so there are certain verbs and we come across quite a few of them already that do not have the action of the verb I should say is not impacting an external entity and that's what we mean so these verbs they stand independently and its action does not directly affect anyone or anything beyond the doer so when I say I slept there is no direct object there or Mariam slept or Hamid went or she walked now you can add lots of bits to the sentence like saying
she walked by the park she walked to the mosque all of that is possible but these are all additional information they're not the ones receiving the action itself and that's all it is really not to need to think too much about it all I need you to do is when you see a verb and you don't see the object afterwards is possibly because it is a lazim verb and it does not require so in these sentences if we attempt to ask the question who or what
like we did in the previous one when it comes to the doer we say who did the action or what did the action there is have we answered that with the verb and then we found our doer whereas in this case we have to ask who or what received the action who or what received the action if we can answer those questions then there is an object there in the sentences that's the simplest way to do it so again just to remind you the actions of
these verbs are confined to the doer no direct object involved and these sentences can exist in their complete form without any additional object for instance Hamid went is a complete sentence and therefore we have here the verb Pa'ilun but the Maf'ulun bihi not required and that's all you need to remember about Fi'lul Lazim and this is why you'll be surprised in Arabic one word can make a complete sentence why because if it's a Jumla Fi'liya for example within that word itself it will contain both the
verb and the doer the both the verb and the doer so please pay attention to this very there's not that difficult I hope but most important is not to get confused and lost in the terminology so Lazim all I mean is that it does not need a object so some quick examples Zahaba Zaydun complete sentence Fa'ilun Fa'ilun we have a complete sentence Zahabtunna you all female went now again if you don't recognise this verb go back and look at the 14 sigha that we did in
the lesson 1 of book 2 so Zahabtunna Zahabtunna you all female plural went again you have to add these details in the translation if you want to give a full translation because in English we have one you and in Arabic we have six six of them to cover the variations in number and gender so we have in there our Fa'ilun Fa'ilun and Tunna of course Tunna representing that so these are your Lazim verbs three four examples very quickly to go through inshallah so I can illustrate
what is going on Zahabna again pay attention to now where is my doer the naa, sigha number 14, Qarajat taalibu, the student left who is the doer at taalibu is there an object no okay Dakhalat meaning it's a feminine Dakhalatit taalibatu again this female student entered and was the doer at taalibatu and Jalasa Zaidun who sat Zaid sat so these four examples here along with the others we've seen now illustrate Lazim verbs and of course if you now did what I advised you to do in
lesson number one is to memorise the 14 sigha make sure you can read them write them down for one or two verbs then these endings you'll be able to recognise are the internal doer pronoun and again it's been illustrated here for you Mutaaddi the verbs that need an object Mutaaddi is the opposite of Lazim meaning they need an object to clarify the sentence so we have here a transitive verb is a action word meaning a verb which directly affects an entity a person place or thing
let's look at some examples and hopefully inshallah the topic will make full sense to you so when I say I ate the mango it's very clear the object here is of course the mango who's doing the action I now if I just said I ate there is a direct object involved what did I eat or who did I eat okay of course I will not be eating you who but this is just for illustrative examples inshallah I ate the mango John kicked what did John kick
the ball so this is our object Khadija taught who did Khadija taught or what did Khadija taught so again we got taught them that is our object now of course in English is easy because of the word order structure in English but in Arabic the word order gets moved around and therefore we need to be able to recognise the object and of course object is Mansoor so these are the few points inshallah Tala which will help you remove confusion in your mind because when we get
to pronouns we get into lots of confusion people get confused can't see where the pronouns are coming from if you follow this method inshallah hopefully you will be fine so what was the eaten what was kicked or who was kicked what was it or who was hit who was taught etc will give us the answer to the object so if there's an answer to this question who or what received the action in the verb then that verb is muta'addi or transitive and that's all we need
to know and of course in this sentence I need fa'ilun fa'ilun and maymaf'ulun pih so I need both of them I need all three of them together to form a complete sentence inshallah these four illustrated examples on the screen will help you reinforce the knowledge I strongly advise you to do to rewrite these in your own notebook even having them in the book is not going to help you as much as rewriting them in your notebook understanding what is going on I'll go through it very
quickly inshallah Tala basically the most important principle as you know already that the the object is always Mansoor Nasaab so Nasaab and the doer is Rafa now the order can be moved around the standard order Arabic of course goes this way if you remember video VDO verb doer object but this does not always happen this is the standard when you move things around you do it for many reasons nuanced reasons but these are the could be for emphasis to bring something forward etc and it will
be looked at in more context inshallah but for now we have example here Samia of course with Samia you will say the doer is Hua but because we have an external doer outside which is Rafa inshallah inshallah that's very clear for you Rafa so we have the so saying he did the action in the verb we say Hamid heard Samia means to hear or to listen he heard what did he hear and again that's the question I told you about earlier he heard the Aadhaan so
Hamid heard the Aadhaan in the second example have Qara'atu now here is a classic example where the doer now is embedded within the verb it is not mustatir so it is Tu and the Tu means Ana who read I read Qara'at is the original verb Qara'at is feminine and Qara'atu I read okay so inshallah this from the conjugation of a first lesson of this book inshallah so I read the object is of course Al-Quran so you can see here the verb and the doer are both
there in the same word and here the the object is outside third example third example Nasarat and again you now should be able to recognise this is feminine there is a here in the do embedded within the verb itself and who did the action of helping of course Fatimatu we have here which is Rafa so that is our doer okay and the object is here Al-Muallimatayni now this of course you know from book one lesson four that this is a dual dual and with Aani in
the Rafa Aini in Nasab or Jar here of course it has to be nothing but Nasab why because of the structure there's nothing else there so we know that this is Nasab so the translation is Fatima helped the two teachers okay two female teachers here we have Nasara means he helped if I had afterward afterward Al-Muslimuna the translation would be the Muslims helped but I have Al-Muslimina this is of course Nasab or Jar there is no reason for it to be Jar we can exclude that
completely we know for certain that this is Nasab why is it Nasab is the object what is the object Al-Muslimina meaning the Muslims so this is our object and of course we have the word Hua which is Mustatir our doer and therefore there is no doer outside we translate he helped the Muslim yes I do appreciate this is a very long way of going around things for those who have already studied grammar this is second nature but for those of you who are following the series
it's important that you go slowly so that you make it make sure you understand because when you get to text that you're not familiar with you need to go through this sort of logic of course it will become instant once you've done it a couple of times so if you're finding the bit videos a bit slow please take your time pause the bits or forward the bits that are not relevant to you I'll try to put timestamps appropriately here but going through the example is a
very very important and later on again I'm just giving my personal experience when I I did Arabic grammar many many times started stopped started stopped went through all this so many times failed until I really you know stuck my head down and went through it in detail and I struggle with this stuff particularly when there is two pronouns you don't know who's done what not what so on it was very confusing for me and Alhamdulillah going through this process it became a lot lot easier so
I'm going through it slowly for your benefit inshallah Ta'ala and again you're welcome to give me feedback on how you finding it is it too slow too fast whatever any feedback you do I'll try to improve in the forthcoming lessons inshallah Ta'ala but please please don't watch this these videos just as grammar book grammar lessons or for any other reason but to learn and make sure that you practise practise whatever I'm showing and go through it understand it I'm happy to answer any question related to
the lessons only please inshallah Ta'ala so let's move on inshallah we've looked at the doer and the object being different positions in the sentence I mean in terms of order we're going to look at now situation where the object comes first so the object coming early maf'oolun bihi muqaddam if you look at the two examples on the screen both of them are translated exactly the same in English I'm sure alhamdulillah by now you know that this is rafa and this is nasab so you can tell
the student read the book karaa whatever we've already done but in the second example I have the same translation in English but we have the nasab noun coming first the verb coming after and the rafa noun coming after that so this is the order we're going through so instead of having Fi, Di, O as we have it here we got here we got the O and we got the V and we got the D afterwards so what's happened here complete moving of the word order so
what have I done I've taken the object early and this is perfectly allowed in Arabic so let's quickly go through the labelling now the next one maf'oolun bihi muqaddam please note this term coming early coming before verb and of course the fa'ilun coming after in English the translation is exactly the same in Arabic there is a nuanced difference nuanced difference in the meaning but as far as the English translation is concerned you'll translate it exactly the same so what is going on this sentence follows the
structure of the maf'ool bihi muqaddam coming first and this is this sentence here is referring to where the object is placed before the verb for emphasis or rhetorical reasons rhetoric beginning to see it in English poetry different order repetition and all of these things are deployed so this is a rhetoric to make the text for beautification for emphasis all of these reasons are there so of course in the context we'll be able to tell this stuff so the reason why you bring the object first and
it is allowed in Arabic is because of the emphasis part or rhetorical purposes within the text itself now what is important for you and I to note is the point that I said right at the beginning in book one I mentioned that in Arabic word order is not as important as Arabic it is the Arabic that will dictate for us who the doer who the object and all the other roles within the sentences and it will make it clear and this is a very beautiful illustrated
example of where we began our journey yes it's been a good journey alhamdulillah we got to book two we are on lesson number four but we are seeing now the nuanced difference between them so the literally in English translation with the book read the student if I put the subject the in that word order but that of course is not correct so rather we should say the student read the book so the while the sentence follows the non-standard word order al-kitabah, al-qara'ah, al-qalibu what is going
on it is grammatically correct and conveys the meaning the student read the book with the object the book coming being emphasised or highlighted by its placement before the verb and that's all we are doing we are emphasising on the book itself maybe I want to surprise you for example I want to say the students very young let's say is a very you know a primary school but he's reading a very advanced level book I want to emphasise that so I'm telling somebody the book the student
read you know in that sort of way and bring the book first so this is an example of how emphasis can be done something surprising something important something significant this book you wouldn't expect that student to read but he's read it right and he understood it so I would put in that sentence I would put that first so the readers immediately know there's something surprising something different so these are additional meaning which is often lost in translation because you can't really translate this and this is
why when we read the Quranic text is better for us to focus and learn the language to try and understand the more deeper meaning within the text than what a straight dry translation can give us of course the translators of the Quran will always deploy many many techniques in order to get the message as best as they can to us but it is never as good as the original or never as exact as the original I should say because in the language in Arabic itself there
will be lots of for that you go to Tafsir and other details so again I'm just encouraging you just to learn this simple stuff first very well so you can recognise the more complex stuff two more examples of exactly the same thing here as you can see Zaidan has been brought first Al Muallima has been brought first and the translation Mariam helped Zaid of course exactly the same but here Zaid is coming first for emphasis and again these two boxes are explaining what is going on
for you so the first box has the doer two more box has the object and of course Rafa and Nassab is your friend to help you recognise what is going on so Mariam helped Zaid the student helped the teacher the student helped the teacher again again for emphasis I'm bringing it first sentences with more than one object we look at in situations where we have a verb that requires an object but there are certain verbs that require more than one object and here is one example
Bilal knew Bilal knew that Hamid was a scholar in order to say this in Arabic I can do it by using two objects first of all Alima of course you can see is the verb to know or he knew so you can see here Alima first Bilalul so again doer Bilal knew Hamidan that Hamid so in English I have to add the preposition to make sense so this is an additional word that Hamid and of course because it is the past tense I will translate was
a scholar so we have Fa'ulun, Ma'fulun Bihi and Fa'ulun in the middle there and Ma'fulun Bihi number one and Ma'fulun Bihi number two and this is not uncommon there are certain verbs that require two there are ones that can have up to three but most commonly you'll see or more likely you'll see the two so I've included this as an example so here another two examples for you using Quranic text Ja'alallahu Muhammadan Rasoolan I don't mean verses from Quran I mean the wording or vocabulary from
Quran so Ja'alallahu Muhammadan Rasoolan Allah made Muhammad a messenger so the first Ma'ful is Muhammadan second Rasoolan so I hope this is clear for you Ja'alallahu Arda Allah made the earth Firashan spread out something spread out so you can see here the employment of two Ma'ful Bihi in the same sentence because the verb requires it and again you may see it so again the most important point to note is your Rafa Nasab insha'Allah that is the key for you to unlock Arabic insha'Allah the pronoun as
object so far we are focused on looking at the object as a noun coming afterwards for example here I helped Hamid I helped Hamid but if we wanted to say that you helped her for example where the object was a pronoun then we would have to use what's called an attached pronoun attached pronoun now if you've been following our lessons insha'Allah book one we covered the attached pronoun is exactly the same set of pronouns again those are the set of pronouns that can attach to an
ism, fi'al or harf now we're going to look at them being attached to a verb we've already seen them being attached to an ism back in lesson number nine and ten where they attached to become mudaf ilayhi and in lesson seven and eight we did huruf of jar where they became majroor because they attached to harf of jar and of course lesson number twelve I believe if I remember correctly inna and her sisters they attached to the harf of nasab so they became mansub here we're
going to look at them coming attached to a verb attached to a verb and they of course will be mansub why because they will be mafroodun bihi and therefore these attached pronouns play a very important role in the language I believe from what I've seen you cannot pass a single line of Quran single line within the mushaf where you will not find one maybe two attached pronoun and that is why they're very very important to master we've already done them in detail we're going to now
look at them being attached to verbs inshallah so the pronouns are again I repeat this is a revision for what we did in book one there are two of two types the detached pronouns detached pronouns are and again you should have memorised these by now I did strongly recommend that you do so in lesson number five book one I went through them Hua, Huma, Hum, Hia, Huma, Hunna, Anta, Antuma, Antum, Anti, Antuma, Antunna, Ana, Nahnu so these are your 14 detached pronouns they are always always
definite all pronouns are definite lesson number two book one and then Mabni they do not change third these ones and this is the most important they're always Rafa so you cannot put these pronouns after the verb the sentence will not make any sense because they are Rafa and when you use a pronoun with an object as an object to a verb it needs it cannot be Rafa okay Rafa is the doer so it has to be Mansub and therefore these pronouns cannot be used so you
cannot have for example Ja'ala Huma afterwards for example that would be nonsensical in Arabic okay so this cannot be our doer so this kind of thing is not allowed why because this set of pronouns are always always Rafa or Marfur now the other set of pronouns which are the detached pronouns which you attach pronouns I should say these are the ones that are only attached they don't they don't come on their own they have to be attached to something after as a suffix they're never a
prefix as a suffix so at the end of the word they come and they are Huu Huma Hum Haa Huma Hunna Ka Kuma Kum Ki Kuma Hunna Ii Naa again if you practised lesson seven eight nine ten and also twelve and plus all the other lessons you should have memorised this by now so these are your attached pronouns they only come as attached as a suffix at the ends of words so please note that and the things about them to note is of course they can
connect to anything they can connect to an Hars, they can connect to Ism, they can connect to a Faalun all three and they are definite of course and they do not change there are some changes at the end but the phonetic I'll cover that inshallah don't worry but it is not that changing be due to Arab and they can be Jar or Nasab whenever they attach to a verb they will be Mansoob why because it is Mafoolun Bihi and that is all you need to know
as a brief summary of the differences between attached and detached pronouns and they can attach to a verb when they attach to a verb they will be Mansoob on account of being Mafoolun Bihi so the attached pronoun that is attaching is Nasab Mansoob why because it is Mafoolun Bihi to the verb so whenever we want to say a pronoun being the object we have to use one of these depending on the pronoun that we want to use so this sheet inshallah I'll give you the full
summary of what you need to know about Haroof again a very complex a lot of people get confused but I hope this sheet on its own inshallah that I'll give you the summary that you need so the detached attached pronouns can be Nasab or Jar and these are the occasions when they are Jar and these are the occasions when they are Mansoob and so if we did the example only with Nasara kept that as the verb all the way down and we attached to that one
of the 14 pronouns you can see we will end up with the following chart of course it could be Nasara, Nasaru, Nasarat, Nasarata, Nasarna, Nasarta, Nasartuma, Nasartum, Nasarti, Nasartuma, Nasartuna, Nasartu, Nasarna could be any of them if any of them has any of these attached pronouns to them you will translate it in this way so we're using Nasara just to make it simple otherwise we'd end up with 14 times 14 combination and it would take a lot of time and plus probably five or six screens
just to cover those so just to illustrate the example so he helped him Nasarahu, Nasarahuma he helped them okay Nasarani he helped me Nasarana he helped us that's the point I'm trying to get through inshallah ta'ala I hope this example will suffice to show you the variation that you're going to see but in simple terms it is the attached pronoun coming at the end as a suffix that is your object so these are the verbs that are conjugated again I'm using the Nasara version here only
and I've gone through this in detail so we're going to look at a few examples where we attach the pronoun attach pronoun to any of these 14 zira's and please note two points I did mention it before this one ends with a sukoon so and also we have a special alif here few things happen to these and also when we add the mutakallim few changes that will occur I'm going to show you those inshallah ta'ala now so everything you need will be covered in this lesson
as far as attaching pronouns are concerned so let's use four illustrated examples to illustrate the point of having the doer and the object as pronouns again I'm going to be using this sheet I'm sorry it's a bit small but I've shown it to you earlier and you should by now be able to recognise the the zira very very easily inshallah so in the first example I'm saying Nasara hunna Nasara hunna Nasara you should be able to tell is this form so these so these I've attached
the hunna to it so whatever I got here I've got the so I've got my verb I've got my file which is hua mustatir and I've got my mafroud bihi so what is the translation he helped them them being of course feminine plural next example we have on the screen is she helped you Nasarat kuma Nasarat kuma of course Nasarat is number four so these so these so these kuma is our attached pronoun and of course we have our fiilun and the fiil is here mustatir
and that becomes she helped you mafroud bihi kuma which is dual okay dual masculine dual then we have the third example where we're going to say you masculine singular helped her so of course that will be the anta version which is here so these so these Nasarta and then of course we add to it ha at the end so Nasarta ha and again you can see the fiilun you got your fiilun which is anta and we got our mafroud bihi which is ha so all of
it that you've learned so far is coming together inshallah and of course lastly we have so these so these so these so these Nasartu ka Nasartu ka I helped you Nasartu the dual version so these so these dual is ana I should say and this is the version that we need number 13 so Nasartu I got my fiilun I got my fiilun and I've also got my mafroud bihi I hope inshallah all of this is now making absolute sense and the reason why I went through
all this pain of showing you all the bits and pieces is that you will not get confused so the first thing you need to do is identify the sigha and then look for the attached pronoun identify the attached pronoun otherwise you will get confused so please pay attention to these points inshallah that I do rewrite these down and you'll be able to retain the knowledge for a lot longer and when you see them in the Quran or any Arabic text you'll be able to understand what
is going on few changes that occurs to the attached pronouns due to phonetic reasons they're not the actual change of the word but phonetic reason we add bits and pieces so the first one is with the yaa mutakallim now if you remember when we did this in book one lesson seven eight I mentioned that the yaa mutakallim always prefers to have a kasra before it so wherever you add it you need to have a kasra before this yaa or the yaa in general it prefers that
so it's a natural flow of sound so here I want to say nasara then I want to say yaa nasara can't be said so what happens in Arabic a noon of protection comes at the end so this is the noon and it's that noon that takes the kasra and therefore we have nasarani so please that the noon is an addition to help you to attach the yaa to the verb otherwise the verb would be forced to take a kasra and verbs don't like taking a kasra
at the end as a general rule so kasra is not in the verb as a last letter the haraka on the last letter please note that so nasarani okay so here he helped who is my doer mustatir he helped me yaa is the actual object the noon is there for protection next we have the female teacher helped me so nasarat ni al muallimatu of course you read it together nasarani al muallimatu but that's a different issue so we go back here al muallimatu and yaa as
my doer the noon is there for protection and the next example we have nasaratani yu anta ta ni yaa utakallim you helped me so when joining with yaa we need to make a note that the verbs this happens in the mudare also you see it in the amr the noon of protection will come in to help in the pronunciation and easy and correct reading next we have the siga which if you'll recall is siga number three where we have this extra alif this extra alif is
for protection it is not the pronoun so we have nasaru they helped that is your nasab that is your object but i want to say they helped him so here when i attach the who to the end of the verb what happens the alif is now removed so there's no alif there it is removed it is no longer required so this is nasaru who nasaru who they helped him please note this alif will disappear when it comes to the attached pronoun being attached to it next
is version now again you note that this has got a sukoon when we add the attached pronoun we have you all helped hamid very easy but if i want to say you helped you helped him then i have to put the ha at the end here an extra wow is added okay you all helped him so these are the additions that you will see they're not really changing the word they're for phonetic reasons and making it easier so just in case you were surprised with the
noon and the wow and the alif removing these are the reasons why they why they do so when attached pronouns are attached to them you so let's conclude inshallah with a few very quick examples nasaraka who is my doer ka is the object you he helped you she helped them here is the doer whom is the object i helped you nasar to ki please note ki is feminine singular nasara hunna hamidun hamid helped them feminine plural hunna is the object and nasara ki mariam oh sorry
i should have put mariam afterwards my apologies you you you you you please note that change inshallah uh apologies i'm not sure how that pissed out anyway so mariam helped you okay you all mariam helped you all mariam is coming after the verb in the rafa and that is why we know mariam so please apologies for that if you're writing it down please um do change it so this is the yeah mariam mariam alhamdulillah by the grace of allah we have come to the end of
part one where we've covered the object in detail we looked at the transitive and the intransitive verbs we looked at more than one maful bihi we looked of course mainly at the noun now we also are familiar with the pronoun with lots of examples inshallah in the next part we're going to cover a few more points phrases coming in as maful bihi and also a few other points related to that and also types of maful so this will cover in the next video inshallah i hope
and pray that you are benefited from this lesson and i hope and pray inshallah a lot of the confusion and questions that are coming to your mind as you're going through or if you studied or if you are still studying grammar in any way these videos are helping you uh inshallah do feel free to make comments please restrict the comments to the lessons only i will not be able to answer uh translate text or give detailed commentary on grammar rules by writing because it takes ages
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