The Object (Maf'ul Bih) — Part Two
Phrases as the Object, Prepositions with Verbs, and the Five Types of Object
- Recognise Arabic phrases (descriptive, demonstrative, possessive, conjunctive) functioning as the direct object in a verbal sentence
- Understand how prepositions (حروف الجر) can alter the core meaning of a verb
- Identify the five types of object (أنواع المفعول) and their grammatical roles
- Apply the rule that all types of object are always Mansub (Nasb)
Introduction
Part Two of Lesson Four extends the study of the direct object by showing how entire Arabic phrases — not just single words — can fill the object slot in a verbal sentence. Since the key Arabic phrases (descriptive, demonstrative, possessive, and conjunctive) were all studied in Book One, this lesson brings them back now in the context of the verbal sentence, showing how each phrase behaves when it is the object of a verb.
The lesson also introduces two important related topics: how prepositions (حُرُوفُ الجَرّ) can change or complete the meaning of a verb, and an overview of the five types of object in Arabic grammar. All five types are Mansub — but each answers a different question about the verb's action and provides a different kind of additional meaning.
Lesson Notes
Phrases in the Object Slot
The object slot in a verbal sentence can be filled by a whole phrase, not only a single word. The first word of the phrase takes the Nasb case ending (because it is the object), and the internal rules of the phrase apply within it.
Any Arabic phrase placed in the object slot takes Nasb on its first word. The internal structure of the phrase then follows its own rules.
1. المُرَكَّبُ التَّوْصِيفِيّ (Descriptive Phrase) as the object
The described noun (الْمَوْصُوف) takes Nasb because it is the object. The description (الصِّفَة) copies all four properties of the described noun — including its Nasb case.
Example: نَصَرَ الْمُعَلِّمُ الطَّالِبَةَ الصَّالِحَتَيْنِ The teacher helped the two righteous female students. (الطَّالِبَتَيْنِ is the object in Nasb; الصَّالِحَتَيْنِ copies its four properties.)
2. المُرَكَّبُ الإِشَارِيّ (Demonstrative Phrase) as the object
The pointing word (اسْمُ الإِشَارَة) is Mabni (does not change form), but the noun being pointed to (الْمُشَارُ إِلَيْهِ) takes Nasb because the whole phrase is in the object slot.
Example: ضَرَبَ حَامِدٌ هَذَا الرَّجُلَ — Hamid hit this man. (هَذَا is the pointing word; الرَّجُلَ is Nasb, confirming the whole phrase is Mansub.)
3. المُرَكَّبُ الإِضَافِيّ (Possessive Phrase) as the object
The mudaf (first word) takes Nasb because it fills the object slot. The mudaf ilayhi is always Jar, as usual.
Example: شَكَرَ الوَلَدُ أَبَا بِلَالٍ — The boy thanked the father of Bilal. (أَبَا is Nasb using the five-noun rule; بِلَالٍ is Jar as mudaf ilayhi.)
4. المُرَكَّبُ العَطْفِيّ (Conjunctive Phrase) as the object
The first word of the conjunctive phrase takes Nasb as the object. The conjunction particle (وَ، ثُمَّ، فَ) then links the next part, which copies the Nasb case of the first.
Conjunctive phrase rule: the word after the conjunction particle copies the i`rab (case) of the word before it. Compare this with the descriptive phrase, where the four properties are copied — here, only the i`rab is copied. Example: شَكَرَ الوَلَدُ الإِمَامَ وَالشَّيْخَ — The boy thanked the imam and the scholar. (الإِمَامَ is Nasb as object; الشَّيْخَ copies the Nasb case through وَ.)
The three conjunction particles differ in meaning:
- وَ (and) — no sequence implied
- ثُمَّ (then) — sequence with a time gap
- فَ (so / immediately) — sequence with no time gap
Prepositions and Their Effect on Verb Meaning
A preposition (حَرْفُ الجَرّ) attached to a verb through its object is called مُتَعَلِّق — connected to the verb. In some cases, the preposition simply adds information (where, how, with what). In other cases, the preposition actually changes the core meaning of the verb.
Jar-majroor linked to a verb is called muta`alliq — it clings to the verb and completes its meaning. Some verbs change meaning depending on which preposition follows them: ذَهَبَ = he went | ذَهَبَ بِـ = he took (away) خَتَمَ = he finished / sealed | خَتَمَ عَلَى = he set a seal upon
Quranic example: ذَهَبَ اللهُ بِنُورِهِمْ — Allah took away their light. (ذَهَبَ alone = he went; with بِـ = he took away. The preposition changes the meaning.)
Quranic example: خَتَمَ اللهُ عَلَى قُلُوبِهِمْ — Allah has set a seal upon their hearts. (خَتَمَ alone = he finished; with عَلَى = he sealed upon. Again the preposition shifts the meaning.)
This also occurs in English: get (to bring) vs. get up / get out — the same verb with different particles produces different meanings.
The Five Types of Object (أنْوَاعُ المَفْعُول)
All five types are always Mansub (Nasb). Each one answers a different question about the action.
ALL five types of maf`uul are Mansub. There are 11 reasons an ism is Mansub; five of them are directly related to the five types of maf`uul.
| Type | Arabic | Question answered | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | المَفْعُولُ بِهِ | Who/what received the action? | خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضَ — He created the heavens and the earth |
| 2 | المَفْعُولُ فِيهِ | When/where did the action take place? | قَرَأْتُ الْقُرْآنَ الْيَوْمَ — I read the Quran today (time) / جَلَسْتِ أَمَامَ الْمَسْجِدِ — You sat in front of the mosque (place) |
| 3 | المَفْعُولُ لَهُ | Why was the action done? | ذَهَبْتُ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ لِعِبَادَةِ اللهِ — I went to the mosque to worship Allah |
| 4 | المَفْعُولُ مَعَهُ | With whom was the action done? | ذَهَبْتُ وَبِلَالاً — I went with Bilal (وَ here is the waaw of accompaniment, not conjunction) |
| 5 | المَفْعُولُ الْمُطْلَق | To what extent / how emphatically? | ضَرَبَهُ الرَّجُلُ ضَرْباً — The man beat him severely (verbal noun from same root = emphasis) |
Key note on المَفْعُولُ مَعَهُ: The noun after the accompaniment واو is Nasb — it is NOT joined to the subject with a conjunction. Contrast: ذَهَبَ بِلَالٌ وَطَالِبٌ (Bilal and a student went — both subjects, both Rafa') with ذَهَبَ الْمُعَلِّمُ وَالطَّالِبَ (the teacher went, the student accompanying — الطَّالِبَ is Nasb as mafuul maahu).
Key note on المَفْعُولُ الْمُطْلَق: When a verbal noun (مَصْدَر) derived from the same root as the verb appears after it in Nasb, it is maf`uul mutlaq and adds emphasis or indicates the intensity/repetition of the action.
Summary
- A phrase — not only a single word — can fill the object slot in a verbal sentence; the first word of that phrase takes Nasb.
- In a descriptive phrase as object, the description copies all four properties (including Nasb) from the described noun.
- In a conjunctive phrase as object, the word after the conjunction particle copies only the i`rab (Nasb) of the word before it.
- The jar-majroor linked to a verb (مُتَعَلِّق) gives additional information; in some verbs, the preposition actually changes the core meaning of the verb.
- There are five types of object in Arabic; all are Mansub (Nasb), but each answers a different question about the action.
- The five types are: مَفْعُولٌ بِهِ (direct object), مَفْعُولٌ فِيهِ (adverbial — when/where), مَفْعُولٌ لَهُ (causal — why), مَفْعُولٌ مَعَهُ (accompaniment — with whom), مَفْعُولٌ مُطْلَق (absolute — emphasis/intensity).
Terminology Reference
| Arabic | Transliteration | Meaning | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| المُرَكَّبُ التَّوْصِيفِيّ | al-murakkab al-tawsifii | the descriptive phrase (noun + its adjective/description) | ISM |
| المُرَكَّبُ الإِشَارِيّ | al-murakkab al-ishaarii | the demonstrative phrase (pointing word + definite noun) | ISM |
| المُرَكَّبُ الإِضَافِيّ | al-murakkab al-idaafii | the possessive/genitive phrase (mudaf + mudaf ilayhi) | ISM |
| المُرَكَّبُ الْعَطْفِيّ | al-murakkab al-`atfii | the conjunctive phrase (two parts joined by a conjunction particle) | ISM |
| المَفْعُولُ بِهِ | al-maf`uul bihi | the direct object — answers "who or what received the action?" | ISM |
| المَفْعُولُ فِيهِ | al-maf`uul fiihi | adverbial object — answers "when or where did the action take place?" | ISM |
| المَفْعُولُ لَهُ | al-maf`uul lahu | causal object — answers "why was the action done?" | ISM |
| المَفْعُولُ مَعَهُ | al-maf`uul ma`ahu | accompaniment object — answers "with whom was the action done?" | ISM |
| المَفْعُولُ الْمُطْلَق | al-maf`uul al-mutlaq | absolute object — emphasises the action or indicates its intensity/repetition | ISM |
| مُتَعَلِّق | muta`alliq | connected to / clinging to (used of jar-majroor linked to a verb) | ISM |
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(0:00 - 1:02:43) As-salamu alaykum. Welcome my dear brothers and sisters to our fourth lesson, second video part two. Alhamdulillah we are making some very good progress. In the previous lesson we've looked at the direct object in more detail and of course we looked at the transitive and intransitive verbs and we also looked at situation where you can have more than one mafoul bihi i.e. object, direct object in a sentence and of course we spent a lot of time looking at the different types of mafoul, primarily
noun and also how it can be a pronoun. Pronoun I remind you is very very important. It is the noun, sorry it is a pronoun that is attached to the end of the verb and of course we use the attached pronouns for that purpose. Now today inshallah and this lesson we're going to look at phrases. As opposed to just one word being the direct object there is another word linked to it in a phrase relationship and if you go back to the map when we did
in book one we went through a number of important phrases as I said these will come again and again and again in your studies so we're going to look at them and something new inshallah today we're going to look at types of mafoul meaning different types of object. This is something new which we have not mentioned before and again usually these things are taught in a very complex way but I'm going to give an overview and inshallah when it comes to the practise session you will
see them more clearly inshallah. I'm also going to give you some Quranic examples and hopefully these will help you reinforce the knowledge that we are acquiring through watching these videos again I remind you to please make your own notes and also to study the videos not necessarily just watch them but with some notebook or some paper and start writing down some of the points I'm given and make sure you understand what is going on in the lessons. So we have a lot to cover so let
us now begin with the blessed name of Allah bismillahirrahmanirrahim making dua rabbi zidni ilma oh my Lord increase me in knowledge. You're already familiar with this map so the point I'm bringing it here is to show you and remind you right at the beginning of a journey I kept on saying that these phrases will continue to come in your studies and it's important that you learn them well and of course they have been covered in detail as much detail as I could do in the lessons
on book one so if you jumping from there to here please make sure that you've done those lessons either through my video or anywhere else that you're familiar with these terms otherwise you may struggle in the lesson as I cannot give explanation for every rule in every lesson that would make each lesson hours and hours long so I'm not going to go through the basic rules but I'm going to show you how to use them in the sentences inshallah ta'ala. So we have our descriptive phrase
muraqab ta'usifi we have muraqab ishaari which is your pointing phrase again muraqab ta'usifi has been covered in book one from I believe lesson number two and three muraqab ishaari at lesson number twelve and muraqab jaari we did in lesson number eight and nine muraqab idaafi ten and eleven and aapfi have been mentioned throughout inshallah ta'ala so we're going to look at how these come in the position of mafoodun dihi which is the object of course we've done the fa'il the doer and these are the three
main components of the verbal sentences so we are magnifying here our focus however we're looking at what we've already learned and using it in the verbal sentences so just so that you're clear where we are what we are doing inshallah ta'ala and this is what we are going to attempt to uncover in this lesson inshallah ta'ala. Let's begin by looking at the descriptive phrase in the box of mafoodun dihi what I mean by that as the object so if you can imagine it to be a
box as opposed to one word we can go through the phases relatively quickly inshallah ta'ala so if we go here and we say for example the the first box will be our verb remember the order we mentioned before the second box will be for example our doer and the third box will be our object so that should look like a D actually so verb, doer, object that's the standard order we went through so in the box here of course we have our verb and verb has
an internal doer as well but there's a possibility of an external doer outside we've already seen that in the first lesson where we said the lesson before this one I meant lesson number three where the fa'il the doer can be one word can be phrase etc now we're looking at this box here which is the object so far we've dealt with objects being either a single pronoun or it being a noun coming outside so here we're going to put in this box okay the object box
a phrase instead of a single word and that's the only difference inshallah if you think that logically it will make perfect sense inshallah ta'ala so we have our verb we have our doer and we have our object and these are the key components that we've already mentioned so in the box itself it has to be nasab there is no question about it the phrase relationship itself will be something else but the whole phrase will be nasab or the first word will be nasab and this is
very very important inshallah ta'ala as we go through and of course the doer is always rafa this will inshallah help us move faster in this lesson so the first point we have here if the first word we have here is a verb so we have after that al muallimu I'm sure you know that there is an ismun and it is in rafa so we can put our first box here because the second one is not rafa so we can put our first box here and say
this is our doer it is rafa so we can say al muallimu means the teacher nasara al muallimu who helped the teacher helped of course there will be hidden who are here and we will cross that off because we have a actual doer outside again this is just revision now when we come to this set of next words here we see appaliba and that is nasab we see al jadeeda and that is also nasab so if we say appaliba that is the nasab is the one
that receives the action of the verb so the one who was helped was appaliba which is the student now what we remember about the muraqab tausifi and that's what we are studying of course the descriptive phrase is that the description which is called a sifa I do apologise it is very difficult to write on screen like this but we'll give it a go inshallah so the sifa will copy the four properties of the mausoof so whatever this is this one will copy that it's four properties
so this the main rule regarding the descriptive phrase so here instead of helping or he helped a or the student he helped the new student so we can now say let me change the colour we now can say that we put the whole thing in the slot where the object goes in and that is exactly what I mean why can we do that why couldn't we include the box and say that this is part of the file of course it would not be correct why because
the file is rafa and therefore next word we see is nasab there is no relationship between the two of them I hope inshallah Allah this is a clarification and makes it very very clear to you of course the apoliba is nasab why because it is taking the slot of the object inshallah so if you got that it has to be nasab can't be anything else because it is the object that is a logical way of thinking and analysing the sentence so the translation would be the
teacher helped the new student the teacher helped the new student the next sentence example is we have so we have the first word here our verb because they don't is rafa we're gonna say this is our doer then we have al baba I'm sure you can remember these words inshallah this is door this is nasab and this is also nasab so we're going to say that the the whole box here is our object okay the whole box of course this one al-kabira is taking the arab
from this one and all the other properties as mentioned earlier so the translation would be here Zaid opened the big door Zaid opened the big door so I have to put Zaid first in the English translation even though of course it is coming after the verb in Arabic because there's no way of doing that in the English language without altering significant amount of wording so the second sentence exactly the same principle said we know that this is the object why because it is mansour and the
reason reason why Kabira is mansour because it is copying the Bab and the Bab is mansour because it is fitting into the role of the object because in theory the actual thing that is receiving the action is the Bab yeah and the door sorry big the big is just its description third example inshallah we have is shakarat now again I hopefully you can easily recognise that this is here meaning she what did she do who did it sorry this she is of course Mariam because Mariamu
so this is our file box and the mafudun bihi will be the next but how do you know it is the mafudun bihi and what is this word I hope you all recognise that this this word is dual it is not singular it is not plural it is dual and of course you recognise that this is dual now the dual ending in Arabic we covered this in book lesson number four in detail in book one the dual ending is ani and ayni ayni so here we
have muslima ayni if it was masculine it will be muslimani muslimayni so this is we can also say this is feminine this is feminine the object so what's happening here now we need to look at the arab arab here because there is no reason why it should be jar we can say that this is definitely nasab and this is definitely nasab remember jar is when it is two reasons of course one is that there's a harf of jar there's no such thing anywhere here before it
and of course it is not mudafilayhi so we have now here a descriptive phrase so this is the one the muslima ayni is being all its four properties and being being copied by aswalihatayni which means righteous so Mariam thanked the righteous teachers the two female righteous teachers will be the correct translation two female righteous teachers because of course these teachers helped her so she thanked them so shakarat Mariam al muallimatayni and if you read it together al muallimatayni aswalihatayni okay can you can see here that
we have here a very clear descriptive phrase all of them fitting into the slot of mafudul bihi there is nothing more complex here to worry about so whenever you see a descriptive phrase anywhere you need to see how it is it related in the sentence what is it if you look at the first word which is always will come first the noun being described and then you see it's arab and of course the sentence is jumlah fa'aliya because how do we know that the verb is
at the beginning and that's how logically you will follow the processes inshallah next we have nasaru and this wow is the wow of um again if you remember our journey at the beginning and that's why I went through it very very slowly is critical do you recognise which form of the 14 form this verb is so nasara is the verb in form one nasaru so it's nasara nasara nasaru nasaru meaning they help so I've got my doer here okay this is my doer and of course
this is my root these three letters here and then we have a fa'ali ba ta so this is nasab that does not look like an N that looks like an N and then we have al jadidata again you can see here now we have the four properties matching and therefore we're gonna say this is our mafoolun bihi slot so they helped the new student brackets female so you can see here alhamdulillah the descriptive phrase now again fitting into the mafoolun bihi slot the next example we
have is patahna again this na here is national meaning we so who did the action the pronoun did the action remember I told you before other than signa number one and four signa number one and four there is no possibility of an external doer now okay there is no possibility so if you had a rafa now near it would be wrong but it would be something else if there's other things in between but it is wrong it has to be it has to be the object
text because that's all we've got in the sentence so here we have very clearly nasab nasab and patahna we opened what do we open we opened the new mosque we opened the new mosque al masjid al jadid al masjid al jadida we opened the new mosque so you can see here alhamdulillah we have seen the practise of the pronoun being the doer and then previously looked at the noun being the doer and we've seen here now four examples of descriptive phrases all coming in the slot
of mafoolun bihi inshallah ta'ala this will help you recognise the structure of course we're gonna go to live examples and forthcoming lessons where I will repeat this but most important that you understand the rules and then the rest of it is relatively easy inshallah ta'ala next we're going to look at the demonstrative phrase demonstrative phrase as mafoolun bihi now okay again if we look at this we have the word hatha here dharaba haamidun dharaba haamidun haamid hit what did he hit he hit this that's all
I've got so don't worry if the sentence is not full but just as an example so dharaba rafa now I don't know what this is because it could be rafa nasab or jar why because pointing words are mabni the two percent we mentioned in book one so because of the structure of sentence and we have nothing else in the sentence we're going to say this is nasab it cannot be the object otherwise you will not make sense here so in simple terms we're gonna say this
is nasab imagine instead of saying hatha has I had something afterwards as a descriptive phrase so dharaba haamidun haamid hit so we have here dharaba haamidun this is rafa so this is our doer haamid hit who did he hit hatha this we said earlier that we're gonna assume that this is nasab how do you know it is nasab look afterwards is arrajula and that's nasab so even though it is mabni doesn't change the word after which is called the musharun ilayhi lesson number 12 when something
is pointed to and that thing that you're pointing to has got an al then the structure is the pointing phrase or demonstrative phrase in English murakka bishari again I went through all of this in book one so I'm going to go through all the terms and everything here but the rule is very simple it follows by an ism that says al al very very important al and therefore that is a murakka bishari if it had a indefinite noun it would be a sentence if it had
a proper noun it would be a sentence we went through this in lesson 12 so remember here dharaba haamidun haamid hit this man this man not this is a man this man and that is how we know so what is the rule here murakka bishari the four properties musharun ilayhi will copy the four properties to this one so this is definite this is definite okay this is masculine this is masculine this is singular this is also singular and of course this is nasab and this is
nasab how do we know it how there is nasab because it is the object and that's how logically it will follow the sentence sentence structure so the last example is we have fatahat fatahat of course you're gonna look for a external doer possibly not possibly so we have zainab so zainab opened not here anymore because we have zainab there and zainab of course is a name of a female and we have fatahat fatahat she opened who opened zainab exactly the same principle as before she zainab
opened this albaba this is nasab this is nasab and this one is copying the four properties from there this is definite this is definite etc so we have zainab opened this door zainab opened this door so these three examples inshallah show us how the murakka bishari now the whole thing is sitting into the or fitting into the maf'ulun bihi slot and the copying of the four properties you see which is a little bit more technical here than we saw in the previous example because the ismul
ishara singulars and the plural are mabni they do not change but the musharun ilayhi if it's changing it's irab will have to be in mansub when it's in that slot next we have the mudhaf mudhaf ilayhi al-idhafa the most famous phrase I told you about at the beginning I'm not gonna go through all the examples because that's been exhausted in lesson eight and nine but just two examples inshallah which we'll show you but I've chosen a non-standard one just for your information but it will be
the same principle we have shakara al-waladu again of course this is my doer let me write it on the top doer and this is my verb now this is abaa biwai because these are the five nouns remember the five nouns and they do not change their irab based upon fatha damma kasra or combination of words they are mansub with alif rafa with waw and jar with yaa so it's abu abaa abi please make a note of that inshallah if you've forgotten it but otherwise revise lesson
number ten so after abaa we have haamidin haamidin will be now jar and that's obvious why because this is mudhaf and this is mudhaf ilayhi so mudhaf and then we have mudhaf ilayhi so those two inshallah combining together is my phrase and the whole phrase is now sitting in the maqoolun bihi box again as I said to these are non-standard the five famous nouns okay that we covered in detail in lesson 10 11 the ones we needed to learn so it could be the same if
it was akha okay akha meaning brother so akhu akha akhi in the three states this is how it so these are very very important words inshallah ta'ala and please make a note of that let's look at one more examples here we have two just to really illustrate that point we have the fa'il which is our doer here how doing it is the fa'il because of the wow so shakara he thanked akhu zaydin he thanked the brother of zayd now what we're gonna retranslate it now the
brother of zayd akhu zaydin the brother of zayd thanked because the huwa now is no longer required so we have the brother of zayd thanked who did he thank abaa and again you can see here this is now nasab bilalin so we got our rafa here and we got our nasab here indication of that this is jar this is jar and this is your structure of mudaf mudaf ilayhi we have the mudaf mudaf ilayhi coming here as fa'il and we also have it coming as mafoolun
bihi and they would have to reflect their own irab the whole thing will be in the mafoolun bihi box so you can say the whole thing is mansub but the point is the first word of the mudaf always changes is irab does not have a fixed one depend on the role that it is playing and here you can tell that if you follow this simple method so shakara thanked akhu zaydin the brother of zayd who did he thank abaa bilalin so the brother of zayd thanked
the father of zayd of course you'll say zayd's brother thanked bilal's father that's how you'd normally say it in English but I'm doing that so that the mudaf mudaf ilayhi structure is clear in your mind let's take a quick look now at the murakab atfi we have here shakara al waladu the boy thanked al waladu who thanked the boy thanked okay who did he thank the imam so this is nasab was shaykh and the scholar the shaykh so here you see what's happening the waw it's
copying or the what's after the waw copies the four properties so let's now look at murakab atfi which we have done many times but let's quickly review that inshallah shakara now let us look at the conjunctional phrase or where two parts join to each other called murakab atfi in Arabic we have shakara al waladu so this is rafa this is nasab and we also got this as nasab so what is going on here we are saying shakara who thanked al waladu the boy thanked who did
he thank the imam and please pay attention here we can look at another example in the next section where the confusion will be removed inshallah but and the shaykh why is shaykh nasab and why is imam nasab imam is nasab because it is the object and waw murakab atfi remember what happens murakab atfi there are many words that can fill in this slot waw is the most common that it copies the arab or what is before it doesn't have to copy the four properties only the
arab why because it will copy whatever the state the other one is this one will be so I could have said shakara al waladu al imama wal muallimata could be feminine or it could be muallimatun a female teacher so it could be any of those combinations but the arab must be copied and this is exactly what you see here so murakab atfi where the the arab is being copied from the other and the same thing happens in murakab tausifi where the four properties are copied in
this one only the arab is copied so please make a note of that inshallah let's look at one more example dharaba zaydan okay again he struck zayd so there is huwa there's no ism afterwards which is in rafa so you say he struck zayd umma which means then t-h-e-n I'm sure you can remember this word then haamidan so he struck zayd first and then he struck haamidan so we have nasab and nasab and thumma and waa exactly the same construct different meaning waa means and thumma
means then so waa doesn't have any sequence it could be that she thanked the sheikh first and the imam later there's no sequence there just in both of them were thanked whereas with thumma there is sequence there's a pause in between but this sequence so for example he hit zayd in the morning and then thumma maybe next day or the day after it could be within the next minute he struck haamid and that is how thumma works it gives us a sequence whereas waa does not
necessarily give us a sequence meaning both of them were thanked but we don't know which order etc or whether there was a long pause between the two etc so just a indication of the two differences how waa and thumma is used then we have another example daraba zaydan faa haamidan so zayd sorry he hit zayd faa exactly the same structure muraqabati why the conjunctional phrase but now instead of using thumma I'm using faa what does faa do faa means immediately there was no pause so it
gives a sequence and time so with thumma there could be a pause between the action we knew the order with waa we don't know the order we don't know sequence and with this one we don't know the time delay sorry I should have said with waa as well with this one there is no time delay it was done immediately so that's what faa and the difference is of course in Arabic it means in English it could translate as so or that's that kind of meaning but
it means zayd he was hit first and immediately haamid was hit so daraba zaydan faa haamidan so these are the three differences between these three and there are others but these are the three that are most common that you will see so the principle is in muraqabatfi the two parts this part coming after the particle will copy the arab or what is before and if you don't remember that inshallah taala you will be fine but it does not matter the other properties using muraqab jari in
jumla faaliyya alhamdulillah we have done a lot of work on the muraqab jari jar majroor we did that in book one in detail from lesson number seven and eight and if you remember there we mentioned that the jar majroor and also zarf and mudaf ilayhi these are special mudaf they cannot be the subject of a sentence similarly we've seen them work within the sentence as khabar and how do they work of course the term shibu jumla is used what happens when they come in verbal sentences
how do we deal with them in verbal sentences now we've got a sentence here let's go through it inshallah the first word of course is your verb so we have tathaba meaning he wrote he wrote so this is your verb which you can see here is our verb of the sentence so tathaba he wrote who wrote Ibrahimu of course this is rafa so Ibrahimu wrote ad-darsa means lesson so that will be our object bi harf of jar and we have the ism majroor afterwards bil qalami,
bi can be in or with with the pen so what we have here in the sentence we just go through the grammar parts first we have fa'ilun and we have our maf'ulun bih the one that receives the action of the verb ad-darsa what did he write he wrote the lesson bil qalami now of course that is with the pen so here it will be jar majroor and we will say here for simplicity muta'alliq, muta'alliq literally means connected to or clinging to connected to what is it
connected to is connected to the verb tathaba he wrote with the pen and that's basically how we understand this structure so jar majroor muta'alliq it can be other things we will look at in a second but jar majroor will now be muta'alliq and it will be the same also of course with dharf and mudafi ilayhi but there are other details which we look at in the next section inshallah ta'ala so please note we cannot directly say here that this is not the object he wrote with
the pen and what with the pen is we will look at later and of course what did he write was the darsa and that is in nasab so jar majroor is a phrase in itself and here it is clinging to the verb in to give us the meaning if we go back now to right at the beginning of our course I said that there are three types of words in Arabic ismun, fi'alun and harfun and one of the definition of harf is that is the real
meaning is contextual meaning can only be understood when it's connected to a verb or an ism that's when we understand what the harf is giving the meaning and it does therefore when you translate into English it can have different meaning in different circumstances so this is the most important point to realise that it is muta'alliq clinging to or connected to the verb so our whole sentence is now fi'alun, fa'ilun, mahfulun bihi and muta'alliq coming together to make our jumla fi'aliyya our verbal sentence if we look
at the next sentence is almost identical we have the first here the verb sha ra ha meaning explained explained okay apologies for that it's difficult to write here explained who explained al muallim the teacher so this is rafa so this is your doer the teacher explained ad-darsa the lesson this is nasab now this is the object of course and filfasli in the classroom that the teacher explained the lesson in the class in the class not classroom in the class and you can see here that is
exactly the same as what we have before this is your harf of jar and this is your ism majroor and of course those both together becoming muraqab jari and that is clinging to the verb where did he explain the lesson sha ra ha filfasli in the classroom so this is how the muta'alliq will cling to the verb we will give other names to this in a shortly inshallah but for now this is the most important part that it is part of the jumla fi'aliyya and it
is clinging on to the verb and that is why they normally call this muta'alliq one very important topic in Arabic grammar is the use of prepositions or huroof now huroof are very very powerful in the language in fact they can actually alter the meaning of the of the verb alter the meaning of the verb what do I mean by that you see the word dahaba means he went we've done many many times he went but when dahaba is used with be dahaba plus be it changes
the meaning to took okay it may change the meaning to took okay so for example Allah took away their light dahaballahu be this be here binurihim so you may be surprised well we said dahaba means he went here we are saying it took he took so what is the difference how is it happening it is happening due to the preposition due to the preposition so the preposition can change or alter the meaning of the verb meaning the essential basic meaning of the verb let's look at
one more example we have khatamallahu ala quloobihim khatama means to finish something okay something was there it's no longer there so khatama or to take something to his final conclusion so here we have he ended he finished but with ala it means to set a seal to set a seal so khatamallahu ala quloobihim now quloobihim I'm sure you recognise as mudaf mudaf ilayhi so Allah has set a seal upon their hearts Allah has set a seal upon their hearts so preposition have the power in some
cases to alter the meaning of the verb and this is very very important and of course the preposition has a special meaning in grammar called sila these are all things we're going to cover in advanced lessons but since we're going to look at Quranic examples we need to be aware of these things what's happening and inshallah through examples you'll see how this works and there are many verbs that have specific preposition that always work with them so let me give you an example in English if
I say I went in English I would have to say for example I went Makkah that doesn't really make sense so I will say I went to Makkah he said me that wouldn't work unless I put he said to me so there are certain prepositions are used with certain verbs and this is also very very common in Arabic so as we go through developing our vocabulary we will start learning which preposition often comes with a verb or sometimes is necessary always to come from with this
particular verb so for example he returned Makkah it does not make any sense in English at all until I say he returned from Makkah he returned from Makkah so you can see Alhamdulillah how even in English we have the same sort of thing that certain verbs require certain preposition to complete its meaning now one thing does happen in English and Arabic as well which is the point I made a little bit earlier that the preposition can change the meaning of the verb you say well that
doesn't happen in English it does let me give you an example if I say to you brother get me some water of course I would say politely please get me some water what does that mean it means for you to bring bring some water to me that's the basic meaning of get here to bring something right get me some water bring me some water that's basic meaning now if I say in English now instead of saying get me some water I say get up so I'm
saying get up it's got no link with bringing now get going get in get out get lost etc etc etc so you can see here using other words with verbs the essential meaning of the verb is changed and this happens in English and it happens quite a bit in Arabic so in the example I've shown you before Dahaba means he went of course that's what we've been saying so far but when it's used with the preposition be it means to take to took so Dahaba Allahu
binoorihim Allah took away their vision or their seeing or their light and this is what happens inshallah so don't get confused with these things this happens in English it happens in Arabic I'm sure it may happen in other languages also so the basic essential meaning of the verb or the the the way the word is constructed can change with the preposition that it uses so in the again going back to the introduction right at the beginning I said Haroof they don't have a basic meaning of
their own a fixed meaning it will be they depend on what it is used with so if I said to you if you ask me hello assalamu alaikum I say in you'll be confused what do we mean by in if I repeat in 20 times you're not clear but if I say I am in in the house I'm in a car I'm in trouble anything of those things you could gives you a lot more clarity what the word in means and therefore the same thing happens
in Arabic so we got to pay attention in verbal sentences to the Haroof in particular that is coming after the verb and of course there'll be something linked because they don't come on their own so please pay attention to this few things inshallah and a lot of our confusion will go also there's needs to be some patient from all of us we haven't really covered all the rules and all the examples we're just focussing on certain bits so when we see it again and again by
the time we see it second time third time fourth time inshallah it'll become very easy for us and we'll be able to relate to it the five types of my fraud there are actually five different types of my fraud alhamdulillah we know the first one very very well my phone be he but there are four others what are they my photo fee and we have al-mafool lahoo al-mafool mahoo and we have also al-mafool and with love now please don't worry about it the principle is the
same they're all Mansur but what they do is they will give us additional information depending on which of the type of my phone that we have in the sentence let me quickly go through this with you we can only study this really at more advanced level because in the position of these we are more complex structures coming with our a and others will coming in charlatan so once we've done it we can now begin to make sense of it and inshallah in the future we're going
to have more detailed discussion of what can be where and so on but just to clarify here I'm going to briefly introduce them with some examples so you're clear what type of my food we are dealing with and as you go through practise and more advanced lessons this will make more sense so I'll my phone will be here we said many times it answers the question who or what who or what received the action okay who or what received the action my phone on fee on
the other hand deals with the question when or where the action took place so my phone really is given us a detail of the action so second example we have is where or when so this is called adverbial or love in Arabic we can cover two things time or space okay so this is covering or answering the question when or where the action took place and I love my food now who means why why did I do certain action where did the the doer of the
action do a certain action and this is called a muffled level why and then we have the accompaniment now it's a mile with with him literally so I'm a fool my who answer the question with who or what did we do this action okay accompaniment and last one is the muffled of emphasis how or to what extent that an action is done you can also include repetition emphasis that kind of meaning in charlatan so these are the five different types I'm going to quickly go through
them with just one or two examples and in charlatan when you go to advanced lessons you will see me mention that this is actually I'll my pool or mutlaq or this is my pool Mao then we can see how the translation of this is more accurate in the English language when we understand the five different types of my fraud please note they're all mansoob they're all mansoob all my food are mansoob by default so therefore if you recall right at the beginning we mentioned that there
are 11 reasons why an ism plays the role which is 11 roles at an ism place that it makes it mansoob five of them directly related to my food there are others we will look at them in charlatan later on so please note this very very important lesson and the mansoob is not complex really is giving us a lot more detail about an action so the first one no stranger to us alhamdulillah my full be he refers to a direct object of a verb which answer
the question what or whom received the action of the verb so here we have a very beautiful example halakha means he created that's the verb some are worthy the heavens and well although and of course this is your half of a maraca philosophy copying the Arab so very simple the first one is the muffled on me and the second one links it to the other through another phrase which is called the maraca party or maraca the conjunctional phrase so this is a very simple example we've
seen this many times now let's look at one more example of my golden be here this one's a bit more complex it's actually from the Quran I've given you the reference point there in Charlotte Allah so you can look up the ayah yourself whole reason I'm showing you these examples is just to prove to you that you have learned quite a bit of Arabic and you just need to apply it more and more often in Charlotte on so the first thing we have is we have
here child now who so what is it made out of now hopefully you recognise the ja la means he made but we have not only that we have the now afterwards this now of course represents national national which means who it means national means who we very good okay in Charlotte we got that so we made John who what is this who doing here well remember I told you very simple rule if you see an attached pronoun and this I hope you recognise as an attached
pronoun at the end of a verb it cannot be anything else but the my phone be so I'm going to use MB here just for short in Charlotte my phone be he so this my phone be he is the direct object of the verb so John who we have made it or we made it and you can see the translation here we have made it now here Quran and again you I'm sure you know that this is Nassab and Arabian Arabian means Arabic Quran and you
already know the meaning so we have the translation here we have made it an Arabic Quran we have made it an Arabic Quran so you have Nassab and Nassab this is your noun being described and this is your description of it so Sifah Mawsuf so this is what is this now this is your number two is what we example we looked at earlier this is a Quranic example here now in Charlotte and of course the number two is now your Murak up those Sifah so you
can see here in the slot of the my phone be he we have a descriptive phrase I hope inshallah this is making sense to you though all the bits I've mentioned of course we could do so many examples that I'm just going to give you a few so this is again dealing with my phone be he let's now quickly move on to the other types of my phone I'm a hollow be he now this one is in love love means an adverb in English but really
it's a container within which something happens so it will be two types either of time or the other one is our space okay and we did this when we did the moda moda villa he lessons in book one so this is now an action taking place inside a container and the container is either time or space so we've got an example here Cara to which I suppose you should remember inshallah I read what did I read I read the Quran when we have another word here
Alia Omar Alia Omar this is also NASA here the Alia Omar is not a description of the word Quran what is telling us it telling us the time within which the action was done I read the Quran today so you cannot now argue that the today is an description of the order Sifah of the word Quran okay so this is now the meaning of the word telling us what it is it was this action was done today and this in itself now is called my phone
on fee okay fee means in he means it okay so this is an action taking place within a time and the time being here today so this is a simple example of al-maful fee the adverbial object so again you can see why the additional translation will come so we have another one jealous T see if you can work this one out jealous that means he sat so what is this T doing here jealous T so this is the this this is your verb okay and what
is this T he is the same as auntie sorry auntie there should be a dot here so I'm auntie means you feminine you female singular you auntie feminine so jealous T you I'm talking to a lady or selling a cell jealous T you sat am I must GD now a mama is not here a time a mom is front and you'll notice that of course it is NASA and this is job so what's happening here a mama must GD in itself now is a mood of
modality I hope that takes make sense inshallah a mama must you didn't remember I said being an adverb so this is now that what is it playing the role of it is now my fraud on al-maful fee an action that took place within a space space not time this time and so we have she sat in front of the masjid she sat in front of the masjid so this is front of the mosque front of the mosque she sat in front of the mosque so you
can see here on the left very easily what is happening here so we have now two examples one or time and one or space so we will not call this my phone on B because it is not the direct object is telling us where the action took place or when the action took place and this is what it answers and it is al-maful fee so again when you see NASA you need to understand it what type of months or my fool it is another example of
and so quick example of my fool fee he and my fool fee he from the Quran labis to labatha labitha sorry I should say that be labitha mean to remain he remained but here labis to which is I'm sure you hopefully recognise Anna I remained or I have remained here yeoman yeoman a day so it is not the direct object of remaining I remain this is the period of time linked to the verb so we have here yeoman a day or which means or baaba yeoman
again this is your mudaf and mudaf ilayhi so you got your mudaf mudaf and your mudaf ilayhi okay connected to so you have here baada yeoman so you can see here how this is now telling us that I remain a day or part of a day so this hour is joining these two together but this is now the hour my fool fee he an action was taken within that time I remained when I remained a day the time period is given here in shahada that so
again these are nothing to worry about it just you need to be aware of the Arab and slowly slowly through practise you will know how to translate correctly in English inshallah the next one we have is Alma fool level this answer the question why I did an action why did I do an action so the causal effect in English drama is called I believe express the reason for or purpose for the action okay why did I eat why did I do this thing I ate because
I was hungry so telling us why did you eat it answers the question why and it often is introduced with preposition for example Lee it's commonly used so that to illal masjidi I went to the mosque I hope this is easy this is your jar majroor so this is your let me see if I can write that here and this is your majroor so jar plus majroor is now the place you're going to illa the have to there is no direct object with this verb so
this is not the going to somewhere with the addition of a preposition Lee so that or for okay for a bad that illa the worship of Allah okay so this is your mudaf I'll try inshallah to write this I can mudaf and this is your modality so this is a verbal sentence so how does it linked this is telling us why why did I go to the mosque I went to the mosque to worship Allah the reason for me going is to worship Allah and may
Allah accept it from us so you can see a valve to illa masjidi I went to the mosque so this is now joining to the verb okay I went to the mosque to worship Allah again these are all subtleties and I can assume that there must be hundreds of questions in your head related to it but just simply see it as structures Lego pieces that need to be put together to understand the sentence correctly so what does it do this is my fool lahoo or my
fool Lee Agila now Lee Agili so this is just pieces of structure that we need to understand of course now quickly overview verb this part is your muta lick okay joining to the verb but I look this part the Ibada till that is your al Mahool lahoo and it's also called al Mahool Lee Agili now please don't worry about these terms but my fool lahoo is an easier term to use it answers the question why why did I do this action I did it because I
went to the mosque to worship Allah so again I hope inshallah Allah this example number three third type of my fool is a little bit clearer for you but again I reassure you not to worry about these things it will become very clear inshallah Allah once we go into you know using more and more examples inshallah the next one is al Mahool lahoo now this is very very important because a lot of people get confused with this one the hub to what Bilal and so this
is I went I'm trying to keep the verb simple so inshallah we can see the reality let me write that down again I went I went what Bilal and if it was Bilal don't remember I said to you about the earth we need to be careful then it would be Bilal and I went but here is not Bilal is Bilal and it's NASA so this is called al Mahool Mahool and Mahool Mahool the accompaniment object indicates with whom I did this action so instead of saying
Bilal and I went I will say I went with Bilal I went with Bilal maybe the example in English is very subtle but in Arabic is very very important this is NASA pay attention okay so it's not the joining the two parts together I went to I sorry I along with Bilal went to the school meaning when I went to school we were accompanying each other oh he was accompanying me while going to the school let's look at one more example inshallah Tala where we have
a the hubba al muallimu the teacher when this is your doer now of course it was if it was the teacher and the student went then it'll be a Taliban but this Wow is there Taliban this is NASA the hubba al muallimu Taliban the teacher and the student went ila or ila masjidi to the mosque but the correct translation is the the teacher accompanied the student to the mosque the company went together all right they accompanied each other so this is what this my full now
is the fourth one is my full Mutlaq this is a very beautiful one because what it does just about very basically inshallah once we've learned the derived nouns we will see it and also looked at the master which is the verbal noun inshallah that I mentioned it briefly in the introduction session Darabahu Darabahu Darabahu he hit who did he hit him so this is your maful be he so he hit him a Rajulu so who did the hitting the man okay so this is now your
file okay so file and the my phone will be the object who received the action is a pronoun Darabahu okay he hit him a Rajulu the man Darabhan so what is this word doing here if the in most cases there are other circumstances but in most cases if it is a master which is a noun it's got Tanween master if it comes after the verb in Nasab state from the same verb then this is called my full Mutlaq what does it do is very difficult to
translate into English but it emphasises so he beat him or the man beat him severely meaning this is coming for emphasis okay with a big beating of that kind of thing it'll be the example so Darabahu Rajulu Darbhan the man beat him severely or very very repeatedly meaning it was a nasty incident so again this is how it is used and there are few words in Arabic can express a lot of meaning so Darabahu Rajulu Darbhan the man beat him with the excessive beating that could
probably be a good translation of that so these are the five types you are going to see many many examples of them inshallah as we go through but just be aware all my fool are Nasab so quickly look at this example from the Quran it is from the reference given here for you inshallah in indeed we we've done this in lesson number 13 in plus now so it means indeed we but that's not but that's not we have opened or we have granted victory in the
both meanings there but that means to open also means for victory Laka that's your job much rule joining to the verb but hun of course now I'm sure you can recognise the fatah and fatah and ha same root so this is a verbal noun it's called verbal noun master but hun we have granted for you or we have open for you victory will be none so this is your noun been described so this is your mouth so and this is your Sifa this is your Sifa
so they both together becoming of course you're more acceptable Sifi but this is them here this noun here is my phone and what the the the emphasis is there for emphasis it told tells us the absolute object to extend to which an action has been done so this now is referring to the great victories just wasn't an ordinary victory it was a clear manifest great victory that was granted to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so you can see here how they are used it was
a very quick overview the reason I really want to include it here is because it will allow us in the future very soon once we learn the mudara and few others we look at more and more Quranic examples we can then give a little bit more analysis so this is again normally taught a little bit further down but I thought that if I bring it first at least you are aware that there's not only one type of my phone there are five all of them and
soup and all of them have different structures and so on and of course within the box itself you can have different types of phrases coming in and each phrase we look after itself but the thing itself will be one of them are full and therefore of course we can say that it is in a state of Mansur on NASA alhamdulillah brothers and sisters we reach the end of lesson number four part two alhamdulillah all that I wanted to share with you regarding the object has been
shared in the two videos some of the points a bit more detail and I do appreciate you need a lot more than what I've shared with you but this is an overview and I believe that if we give an overview right at the beginning it would really help you with your understanding in Charlotte Allah when we look at more and more practical example because we could learn learn and endless rules but really that will not help us until we can go to practical examples so we've
done the phrases now inshallah there's five types of my phone that you've looked at and that is in Charlotte Allah your bulk of what you need to know regarding their muffled the object and of course the types of object types of phrases that come in in Charlotte Allah thank you brothers and sisters for all your feedback and your support please do let me know in the comments if there's any other way I can make the lesson better for you I'm trying my level best but in
reality I'm a one-man one-man band and I'm trying my level best ideally I really wanted to record the lessons in front of a whiteboard but to find space to rent and also somebody to film is quite expensive in the UK and I don't have those resources at the moment but in the future Allah willing I would be recording them in more of a classroom environment and I think that will help some of you have given that suggestion but I apologise the resources are not available so
I'm having to record them in offices and my office or at home so it's difficult to create the environment to do that but apart from that if there's anything else I can do to make it easier better for you and if you've seen other ways of doing it that makes it easier I do understand writing it on the screen is very very difficult but if there's any other way you'd like it I'll see what I can do to accommodate my intention behind these videos is to
make resources available for you to learn that's the purpose if you're not learning then the aims and objectives are not being fulfilled so please do give me feedback and I will try to adjust the best way I can within the resources that I have so may Allah bless you once again for your duas and your support and your comments and your feedback but please feel free to make suggestions and I will try to adjust anyway until the next lesson may Allah subhana Allah bless you may
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