Studying Nahw: Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen

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Taken from http://www.tayyibaat.com, translated by sister Amatullah may Allâh reward her with good.

Studying Nahw: Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen.

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Bismillah

Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen rahimahullah says:

The science of nahw (grammar) is a noble science tha is a means to two important things:

1. Having an understanding of the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam). Comprehension of these two will give one understanding and knowledge of grammar.
2. Establishing the tongue upon the Arabic language that the words of Allah were revealed in; this is why having an understanding of nahw is a very important matter. Although, nahw in the beginning stages is difficult to comprehend, it becomes easier in the end. The similitude is given: a house of straw, but a door of iron, meaning it is difficult to get inside, but once you are in, everything is easy for you. This is why it is necessary for the people to have a strong desire and motivation during the beginning stages of learning until it becomes easier upon them in the end.

Download `Arabiyyah Bayna Yadayk Books

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All three `Arabîyyah Bayna Yadayk books are now available for download and can be accessed in The Library or Course Material page.  Click here for a direct link.

The Importance of Nahw and Sarf

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An excellent set of notes highlighting the importance of nahw and sarf and how changes of a harakah in the Qur’an can be very serious.  May Allaah reward the brother and sister who put these together for their efforts and granting me permission to share this.

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NAHW: focuses on words and the harakah on the last letter of each word in a sentence

SARF: focuses on how different words are conjugated from one source and defines the harakah of every letter in a word except the last letter

How did the science of nahw come about? During the caliphate of ‘Ali ibn Abee Taalib, radhiyallaahu ‘anhu, a Bedouin man came from the desert to the town and was praying behind one of the Imaams and the Imaam was reciting soorah at-Tawbah and when he recited the following aayah:

The Library is here

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A new page has been added which links to the English Islamic e-books library I announced earlier.  You can visit The Library by clicking here or the menu button at the top of this page.

Update:  As of 16/09/2011 I have closed it down.

Excellent Sarf Reference Book

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First of all, I apologise for the severe delay as I did aim to post this some months back.  Since then I’ve totally changed this ‘review’ and feel it’s about time I put it out…

Practicing sarf (morphology) is a very important aspect of learning Arabic that I’ve noticed many neglect early on.  It requires a degree of time, practice, memorisation and revision.  Alhamdulillâh, while for some I may have jumped the gun, one of my first and most important purchases when I took my Arabic studies seriously was a dictionary called, “A Dictionary of Arabic Verb Conjugation” (معجم تصريف الأفعال العربية) by Ambassador Antoine El-Dahdah and reviewed by Dr. Georges M. Abdul-Massih.  I now recommend this dictionary to pretty much everyone who is learning Arabic.

Temporary Downtime

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Over the next few days or so, links to downloadable files including the Texts page will be down temporarily.  This is to clean up my iDisk, allowing for a new pdf library of ‘authentic’ Islamic books that have been collected from various sources, in shâ’ Allâh.

UPDATE [17-09-10]: The files on the ‘Islamic Texts’ page are down and should be rectified by tomorrow.

UPDATE [20-09-10]: The transition is complete and The Library is now ready.

Download the Mus’haf [Qur’an]

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With the arrival of Ramadân, I’m sure that the dust on our copies of the Qur’ân has been wiped off.  So what better time is there to post a link which allows you to download a variety of different masâhif (scriptures), just like their hardcopy counterparts?  The brothers and sisters behind the quranflash.com project (may Allâh reward them with good) have a download section which allows you to save particular Qur’an’s to disk, or even better, the whole QuranFlash program.  Somehow I didn’t notice this before.  Alhamdulillâh, I’ve already found this useful; we’re away from home and I forgot to pack my wife’s mushaf – she can’t recite without this particular copy.  So I downloaded it from the link given below…

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QuranFlash Downloads