Abu Taymiyyah – 10 Points To Master The Arabic Language aadh
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My beloved brothers and sisters, welcome to the
introductory class.
I can already see that many of you
have a lot of questions.
Don't worry,
a lot of your queries will be answered.
Today, what we hope to inshallah
cover is the following.
I want to go through
10
very important points that every pursuer
of the Arabic language is in need of.
These are 10 important points that helped me
out immensely
over the years, and here I am passing
it on to every single one of you
guys who is either,
enrolled on this
Arabic
course or maybe someone who just wants
to take on these benefits
moving forward in his studies.
Brothers and sisters,
before I go into
these 10
important points or these 10 tips, whatever you
want to call them.
Right. I just want to, inshallah,
give you guys
an idea of what
we are going to be studying Insha'Allah.
And the level that I hope that I
hope
every single one of you reaches
by the end of book 1.
It has brought me a lot of joy
and happiness to see
so many of the students,
at least now
being able to understand bits and bobs
of what the imam recites
when leading the salah.
As a teacher,
you always want to see progression,
you want to see the student
in a better place
than what he was,
or in a better place
than where he was
at the beginning of whatever you taught him.
This is something my brothers and my sisters
that can really not be put into words.
Right?
I have come across conversations
of the students in the Twitter,
Majimu'at,
the Twitter groups,
sorry not Twitter, Telegram. I don't think there's
groups on Twitter, right? On their Telegram groups
where they are engaging with one another,
Right. Responding back to each other's questions,
writing down.
Right.
Whatever they want to articulate
in the Arabic language to be able to
write
right even on your phone. My brothers and
my sisters isn't an easy thing. I remember
it took me quite a bit of time
to be able to write on my phone.
So to see them having progressed,
right? Is something that really does bring a
lot of joy to one's heart.
So what I hope inshallah is that every
single one of you
is able to have a basic conversation
by the end of book 1.
A basic conversation. You're not going to be
able
to speak like
a Madinah graduate,
You won't be able to,
speak like,
someone who was born,
right, in an Arabian family,
someone who was brought up in an Arab
country, no. Anyone who tells you that after
12 weeks,
right, that you're going to be at the
level where you're
fluent
in every sense, then this, my brothers and
my sisters, is a myth,
which is extremely far fetched. However,
is it possible?
As they say right?
Which basically means someone who is rare or
a rare situation.
You can't actually apply a general hikum. There
are always going to be those who stand
out from everyone. They are going to put
in
extra hours of work that maybe most won't
be doing. Right.
And of course, they will be different from
the rest. However, as a general principle,
what I hope is that you are able
to have basic conversations.
Right.
And of course, Insha'Allah, when I go through
some of these tips,
I will make mention of what can speed
up your progress.
Okay. You can have basic conversations
in the following. Let me now go through
some of the chapters that we will be
covering inshallah.
Chapter number 1, my brothers and my sisters,
is how to greet someone.
You should be able, after
a couple of weeks,
right to start greeting someone that you meet
to have a basic back and forth with
him.
Number 2, my brothers and my sisters,
or chapter number 2 is speaking about family.
Right. You should have a basic understanding of
who your
uncle
is. Right. How to address an uncle or
an auntie or your father or your mother
and your brothers
and siblings
in the Arabic language.
Number 3, chapter number 3 brothers and sisters
is where do you live?
Any basic questions with regards to,
where one lives?
Number 4, that which relates to your daily
routine.
Number 4, number 5, that which relates to
food and drink.
We should at least pick up,
some vocab
pertaining to the very well known foods
that are eaten.
Number 6, that which relates to the prayer
and the masjid.
Number 7,
that which pertains to studies and education,
Right? There are different sciences,
different specialties. Right?
How to maybe say mathematics,
sports,
what are you studying,
right, and so on and so forth.
Number 8, that which relates to one's occupation,
the jobs,
Okay.
Someone who
works in a pharmacy. How do you say
so and so is a pharmacist?
So and so is an engineer.
So and so is a teacher.
Right? If you're speaking to
a female, is it the same as when
you're speaking to a male,
right? Does the word change?
Number 9 that was related to a supermarket.
Number 10 the weather,
the different seasons.
Chapter 11
the different places that one may go to,
okay,
you may go to the beach, you may
go to
Albar,
right?
The wilderness.
Number 12, that which relates to hobbies and
passion.
I think that was number 12 that I
said right. Number 12, that which relates to
hobbies and passion. Number 13,
how you can get by, Insha Allah,
when traveling.
Right. I'm sure most of you guys
want to have an idea of what is
happening when you go out on Umrah,
especially at the airport when you're extremely tired.
Right.
There are,
labels that you see. Right?
This says this. It tells you now to
go to the section of Jawazat. It gives
you a good idea of what's happening,
what the,
maybe the,
I think they call him, the inspector over
there.
Right?
What his, Wadhifa actually is, what he's there
to do, and what he's saying to you.
Chapter number 14, Hajj and Umrah.
I'm sure most of you guys want to
travel out for Umrah and likewise Al Hajj
to have at least a basic understanding of
the places you're going to be going to,
some of the things that you have to
be doing.
Right?
Chapter 15, brothers and sisters,
is what concerns your health.
Number 16, vacations.
Right?
As you can see, my brothers and my
sisters, there's quite
a bit
of Arabic that one will be
familiarizing himself with,
right? It helps
you reach a level, right? Where you can
do
that which relates to your day to day
dealings,
okay, especially now when you go abroad
these words inshallah
can help you get by. The vocab that
we're going to be taking inshallah
will help you get somewhere.
Right?
A lot of you guys
are sending private messages asking,
right? And they've always been asking whenever we've
taught it, how long did it take me
to study the Arabic language?
Right? We will come into that inshallah.
Brothers and sisters,
this is, the part that I'm really looking
forward to that which relates to
the tips that I could pass on,
to every single one of you who's looking
to become
proficient
in the Arabic language.
Okay.
These are points that I have gathered
over the years,
and some of these points
I've taken also from the experts
of languages,
right? As Allah
mentions
ask the people of expertise,
when it comes
to sacred beneficial knowledge, we will go to
the ulama
of the Sharia, the scholars of the Sharia.
If I'm in need of medical advice, I'm
not going to
go to a sheikh, I'm going to go
to a medical expert. Likewise, if I want
to build a house abroad,
I will make sure that I,
find
an engineer that can be trusted and so
on and so forth.
So
just as you find
experts in these different fields, there are experts
when it came to languages, that we shouldn't
just overlook when they
give advices.
The first one my brothers and my sisters
or the first tip
that I could give you guys Insha'Allah is
that which relates to motivation.
Motivation.
You may want to write that down.
If you don't have a good reason
to learn a language
you are less likely to stay motivated in
the long run.
I'll say that again,
if you don't have a good reason to
learn a language
or to do anything in fact,
right? You are less likely to stay
motivated
in the long run.
You have to ask yourself my brothers and
my sisters, why are you
studying the Arabic language? Why have you enrolled
on this course with myself?
Is it because
you want to be able to get by
when you go to an Arab country?
Is it because
you are looking forward to making hijrah
to one of the Arab countries.
Right? And you are in need of the
Arabic language.
There are many people who travel out, brother
and sisters, to places like Saudi Arabia,
expats.
Right? However, they are just there to teach
the english language.
Their motivation of being there is to stack
up
the rihalat,
the monies
that is there to offer, that is there,
right, being offered.
Does that make sense?
So it doesn't necessarily
really concern them as to whether they learn
the Arabic language or not.
Okay.
Someone to be there maybe for a year
or 2 in order to pay back
some of the debts that they have back
home.
Right, there are people there my brothers and
my sisters who are teaching the English language
however
it is just a means for them to
increase
on sacred knowledge.
So it's very very important that you write
down my brothers and my sisters why Ask
yourself this question
right? Am I enrolled on this course? Why
am I learning the Arabic language?
Is motivation enough my brothers and my sisters?
They say
motivation
gets you going,
consistency
keeps you going.
Right
and I've come across other statements as well.
Motivation
gets you going,
discipline keeps you going.
Right? It's extremely extremely important my beloved brothers
and sisters that we remain disciplined.
If you look at all of
and I put this in quotation marks right,
all of the successful
in their different spaces and fields,
you will see that
you will see my brothers and my sisters
that
what's the term that I just used?
Successful.
Now motivation
gets you going. Because this is what keeps
you,
motivation.
I'm going. I'm just basically asking you so
to see as to whether they're paying attention
or not.
Motivation
gets you going. Discipline
keeps you going.
Right?
There are sacrifices that you have to make
my brothers and my sisters.
And excuse me for using these names, right.
However,
they are personalities
that many of you can relate to.
Right? Just to realize that it's not just
about motivation
and that discipline is an integral part of
what we are speaking about. You look at
Cristiano Ronaldo my brothers and my sisters,
Sure. We have
quite a few bowlers in the Arabic course.
Right? Cristiano Ronaldo, at the age of 37,
is still at the top of his game,
still scoring hat tricks, my brothers and my
sisters.
Does that make sense, my brothers and my
sisters?
What keeps him
consistent my brothers and my sisters? You ask
yourself the question,
Right?
And I'm sure a person like him,
time and time again, as time goes on,
right? He asks himself this question,
Subhanallah.
And with consistency my brothers and my sisters,
right?
You have to make a number of sacrifices,
I looked up his life many years ago,
right? He's somebody my brothers and my sisters
who
makes a huge sacrifice with his food,
he makes a huge sacrifice with his time,
he makes
a huge sacrifice with his sleep. SubhanAllah.
So it's diet, it's time, it's sleep. SubhanAllah.
It's not surprising that he has now
reached these levels
when it comes to
his field of expertise.
Because discipline
is a huge aspect of his life.
As opposed to other footballers who retire at
maybe the age of 31 32,
right,
are not maybe looking after their diet. Some
of them they smoke. This of course is
going to have
a huge impact on you
in the long run.
Likewise, when it comes to a Taliban,
his students of knowledge, my brothers and my
sisters, right,
he has to be disciplined with this time.
There are going to be brothers
in his university abroad, as you say goes
to Al Madinah,
who are going to be spending their Fridays
and their Saturdays and their evenings throughout the
week,
maybe playing football,
maybe
going past different restaurants every single night. There
are people like that brothers and sisters, subhanAllah.
However if you remain,
if you remain my brothers and my sisters,
consistent in that which you do and disciplined,
you constantly keep reminding yourself why am I
seeking this knowledge.
There are brothers that I've come across,
the way they motivate themselves is I have
a family that I need to go back
to, that are in need of this knowledge
that I have.
Right? You look also at Elon Musk, my
brothers and my sisters, he's disciplined, extremely disciplined.
I came across a tweet, I believe it
was maybe what?
7 days a week or 6 days a
week. He puts in 16 hours a day.
Is it surprising now that he has reached
the levels that he is currently at?
It really isn't.
Right? I've heard statements such as
it doesn't matter how strong you think you
are,
Mike Tyson.
And other than him, Khabib had a similar
statement. It doesn't matter how strong or how
tough you think you are. If you are
lacking discipline,
you're going to get nowhere.
Right? It's important my brothers and my sisters
that we remain disciplined
throughout our journey.
Right?
Even Imam Shafi'i Rahmatullah
says the following, and this might be most
relevant
to what,
you brothers and sisters
are looking for, right? He says
In accordance to how much effort
and work you put into something,
right?
Due to how much work you put into
something it is based off of that that
you will acquire
loftiness.
SubhanAllah
Whoever wants to acquire loftiness
he will have sleepless nights,
he will have sleepless nights.
I'm not saying that halas you're going to
have to give up
every single night.
All what all that which we are saying,
my brothers and my sisters,
All the people of intellect have unanimously agreed
that you cannot acquire
success
with ease.
SubhanAllah.
This is something that is common sense.
There has to be times that you sacrifice
maybe
you going out with your friends,
if you really really want that which we
are going through, if you really want to
be able to reach a level where you
understand the book of Allah
while there are people who will enjoy themselves
you are at home
right
your head is stuck in the books,
stuck in the work papers,
really trying your utmost best
in acquiring
that which you have signed up for.
Number 2 my beloved brothers and sisters
is that which relates to carrying a notepad.
When I was in Medina, even just before
I was leaving,
I always run into brothers who are freshers,
new students
asking for advice. The first thing that I
would look at is
you know how you have these pockets. Most
students over there they would be wearing soaps.
First thing that I would look at is,
is he carrying a notepad?
Is he carrying a notepad?
This notepad my brothers and masters is essential.
You write down every new word that you
come across.
Otherwise you will struggle to progress. You'll always
be,
the same place.
I'll give you guys,
a personal experience. I remember
when I left Hadhermote, I spent a year
in a place called Hadaromot.
It was a completely different institute to
the,
Darul Hadith, the Institute of Hadith that I
studied at later on. I spent then another
3 years in a Yemen at this institute
called the Institute of Hadith.
Right? When I first arrived,
I really struggled to understand the Sheikh over
there because there was there was the Sheikh,
if you wanna call it that. The sheikh.
Right? There are so many different who teach
throughout the day. However, there was one sheikh
who was the successor of the founder
of this institute
after Duhr, after Asr, after Maghrib, especially after
Maghrib, the sheikh would have,
long discussions about different issues in messai, some
contemporary issues which I really struggle to understand
at the time.
I would write down every word that I
didn't understand. Wallahi, brother, it says it was
only a matter of time, maybe within a
week or 2, that I was unable to
understand most, or should I say maybe what?
95%
of the Sheikh will say.
As we will mention time and time again,
my brothers and my sisters,
and this is, of course, from a person
to person basis. Right?
The vocab that each Sheikh or that each
individual uses is only a set amount.
So now it may well be that there
are 30 words
that is extremely extremely consistent in this individuals
conversations
that you now need to pick up on.
So you take 5 today,
you already what? 5 better than yesterday.
You've taken these words, you started using it,
you've become familiar with it, the next time
you hear it my brothers and my sisters,
halas, you already got it. Your 5 better
and there's only another 25 remaining if that
makes sense.
So you write down
whatever new word that you hear.
That's extremely extremely important.
So when this brother now is asking for
advice, I will check his. What do you
guys call this pocket, front pocket?
Maybe they don't even have a word for
it in English.
Chest pocket? Maybe somebody can help us out
here.
Right. Excellent.
Number 3, my brothers and my sisters,
is
that somebody said, chest pocket, the other one
said pocket square.
Taib.
Number 3 my brothers and my sisters,
speak the language at all costs.
And this is
one of the
main principles, you can even maybe call it
number 1 principle for every language that is
learnt.
You have to speak the language
of the people,
right, whether it may be French, whether it
may be Spanish,
right?
It's more practical than theory my brothers and
my sisters when it comes to learning a
language.
Of course you have the theory side of
things, however
when you practice it you will see my
brothers and my sisters you taking huge strides
forward.
It's a little bit like learning how to
drive. I can sit for days brothers and
sisters right
explaining to you what to do with the
how to push it and this and that
and rev it for this much and press
the brake and
you're probably not going to have a clue
of what I'm talking about up until
you start practicing it.
Whatever you learn, speak it brothers and sisters.
Right? I know this might sound a little
bit crazy.
What I say to students is even if
it means that you speak to a pillow
or a plastic doll
and, yes, I did not,
and shall I say maybe, no, I haven't
become crazy, but it's something that I've been
doing for years.
When I was in Yemen, I lived by
myself.
Right? I lived by myself.
You guys are laughing. Keep laughing.
Now I lived by myself and I was
in a room by myself, right?
And sometimes I would pick up a pillow
and I'll start speaking to it, be walking
around practicing whatever I learned.
Now,
and also what I tend to,
inform the students is if you have a
young child,
right, he doesn't have a clue of what
you're saying but you are practicing. Sometimes when
my daughter, may Allah is the only preserver
and give her a long life. There is
a quote that I'm trying to memorize, which
I need for a Khutbah
or a Hadith that I haven't memorized.
Right. One of the quickest ways, my brothers
and my sisters, there's quite a few studies
that have been done on this. Right? One
of the quickest ways of taking information is
to what?
To speak it on your tongue, to articulate
it
out of your interior. That makes sense.
To say it.
This is why me and my Russian friend,
one of my closest friends in Al Medina
was a Russian brother.
His name was Hakim.
Right? However, one of our fiqh teachers
called him Hakimov, and he stuck with him.
Because, just about most names, right? In Russian,
they have of at the end.
We used to call him the Klashenkov.
We had another brother. His name was Ibrahimov.
So anyways, my friend Hakimov,
we would normally revise before the exam.
We normally revise before the exam.
Sometimes we're studying subjects that
Ola brothers and sisters, we absolutely
hated with a passion.
Hated with a passion. It would be like
one of those
subjects which is for an hour a week.
No. You have these subjects. Right? One of
them I remember was,
the history of Saudi Arabia.
I personally hated it with a passion because
of the teaching, how he was teaching it.
I really didn't like it. I'm like, how
is this going to benefit me?
This has absolutely nothing to do with me.
There's other ways I can maybe take all
of this information. So we hate to do
a passion. They made us memorize
over 50 dates.
This year, this happened. On this year, that
happened.
And it really drove
me nuts. So what do we do? What
do we do in these kind of subjects
that we have no passion to learn? We
would sit in front of one another. We
would take the information in the
in
the file that we've been given and we
would start relating it to one another. We
would start what? Throwing it to one another.
It would really really stick. So sometimes I
speak to Temia brothers and sisters.
She's one and a half years of age
and I start what?
Relating to her whatever I want to stick.
Number 4, brother and sisters,
go to where the language is spoken.
And it doesn't necessarily have to be overseas.
Yes, of course. If you can go overseas
to a country that speaks the language that
you are learning, then that is the most,
wonderful thing or greatest thing that you could
do.
Right? So you've taken out the basics, and
now you go to a place
that speaks the language.
Right? I'll tell you guys about a good
friend of mine called Amar. I think he's
only 1,
16 or 17 years of age, I recently
met him. We read on the same teacher
in Birmingham, Sheikh Jalal Salim.
And I was totally amazed by his,
level of Arabic. For someone who has not
left the country, I asked him, how did
you pick up,
right, the Arabic language? He said to me
in the COVID period,
I think he said to me, he would
go to the Masjid and this is where
the Egyptians were.
Allah, you think that he's an Egyptian. I
think he's what Pakistani
or Indian? I think he's Pakistani, right? But
he sounds like an Egyptian,
and he would just practice with them whatever
he learnt, subhanallah.
He would converse with them up.
Well, my brother says he's extremely fluent now.
When I listen to him,
I'm thinking Allahumabarak.
The brother has never left the country.
The brother has never left the country
to go,
and he's never gone to
an Arab country to practice the language at
all. However, he went to a place where
they
excessively speak the language and he picked up
like that.
Number 5 brothers and sisters,
that which relates to translating
whatever passage
or whatever conversation that you come across in
the textbook.
Rebecca Braun,
a senior lecturer
in German studies at Lancaster University says
it is typical to feel
a slowing down in progress.
She then says
translation
is such an important
exercise
for helping you get over a certain plateau
that you will reach as a language learner.
Translation exercises
don't allow you to paraphrase
and it will force the learner onto the
next level, and this is something that really,
really helped me as well.
I would take a passage where there are
so many words that I don't understand and
I would look it up.
I would look it up
okay
and this now brings me on to the
next point number 6 which is what?
Buying the hands wear dictionary.
Okay
so now you come across
a paragraph, there are so many words that
you don't understand and now you're looking up
these words.
The more you look it up my brothers
and my sisters, the more it sticks
and then you write it down. You write
down the translation
and while you're translating my brothers, you're repeating
the word that you are translating.
Just see my brothers and my sisters the
kind of effect that it has on your
progression.
So the translate,
the, the dictionary is called Hansware.
It's called Hansware dictionary.
It is called Hans,
h for Harry, a for alpha, n for
November, s for Sierra,
w for Washington.
Okay.
E for echo, I for India, r for
Romeo, hands were dictionary.
Well my brothers and sisters this dictionary
helped my english,
okay.
It helped my english, honestly it really really
did,
k. Because I come from a background where
we would always just
speak a street language.
How many are we on? We're on number
6. Right?
Is that correct? I think we just covered
number 6. There's number 7 now.
5, 6 type. We finished 6.
We are now on number 7.
Number 7 my brothers and my sisters is
learn
vocabulary
in context.
Okay. You might be studying
There are a set number of vocab that
you will see reoccurring
in that particular science or in that particular
topic or field.
Right?
Up until this very day, my brothers and
my sisters, I don't understand half the words
that are used in the hospital.
I don't even think if I go now
to,
an English hospital, right, I'll understand
whether it's an,
a hospital in an Arab country or in
an English country, half the terms I don't
understand.
Why? Because I personally have not gone out
of my way to learn,
right,
the set
few
vocab
that reoccurs in this kind of environment.
So this is very very important when you
move from one science to another.
There are a set number of vocabulary
terms that are used,
or set number of vocab that is used
in this particular field or setting or science.
So you should what?
Keep that in mind, brothers and sisters.
Well sometimes tends to happen, one has been
studying for a whole year.
Allahumab Barik, he can have a conversation, he
can understand most people. However, he opens a
book in Aqeedah
and you see him becoming extremely demotivated,
heartbroken.
I don't understand. I thought I knew the
Arabic language. I put a whole year in
And that is because, brothers and sisters, for
every science,
there is a set number of vocab,
right? That reoccurs.
Right?
Don't worry,
you haven't failed. Right. It might just take
you what, a couple of days now to
pick up all of these different words. And
now you're so much more better than how
you were 24 hours ago. And that is
because these words will reoccur.
How many is that? Number 7. Number 7.
Yeah. We finished 7. Right? Yeah. Right. We're
now on number 8.
Number 8, my brothers and my sisters,
is find a partner.
Find a partner.
Matthew
is a polyglot.
Do you guys know what a polyglot is?
Let's see who knows. Polyglot. Does anybody know
what a polyglot is?
A polyglot, my brothers and my sisters, is
someone who speaks
9 languages. Somebody said,
someone says someone with
multiple wives.
No. No. No. No, brother.
Why we always taking the conversation to that
which relates to wives and polygamy?
Polyglot is somebody who speaks 9 languages.
He says that I learned several languages
together
with my twin brother Michael.
So you have Matthew Yoden and also Michael
Yoden.
They tackled their first foreign language, which was
Greek
when they were only 8 years old.
Right?
They are known as the super polyglot bros.
Right?
Subhanallah.
And it is said about them that they
gained their superpowers from a good old sibling
rivalry, Allahu Akbar.
And I quote,
Matthew says
we were very motivated
and we still are,
We push each other to really go for
it,
right? So if he realizes that I'm doing
more than he is, he'll get a bit
more jealous
and then he will try to outdo me.
Maybe because he's my twin and the other
way around.
I know that there are couples who have
joined this course and that's wonderful, mashallah.
Right?
This good old rivalry is healthy at times,
and you motivate one another.
Right? So the fact that you have a
spouse that has joined with you on this
course, it's an opportunity now to really practice
with them. That makes sense.
I'm not going to mention any names but,
I know some couples who have joined, Barak
Laficom.
Allah will just give you guys more and
more.
Taib,
that's number 8.
Number 9 my brothers and my sisters,
the willingness
to make mistakes.
The willingness
to make mistakes.
Learning a language my brothers and my sisters
right requires
bravery and courage.
You have to be able to leave your
comfort zone
Right means
and this means brothers and sisters that you
are ready to put yourself
in potentially
embarrassing
situations.
And this my brothers and my sisters can
be extremely scary
however this is the only way to develop
and improve.
I remember all my brothers and sisters,
when I first
was learning the Arabic language,
I would be ridiculed and laughed at.
I would be walking around with my notepad
outside of the Institute,
and I would try to converse
with the different people that I would come
across. I would just make random conversations.
There would be times that
the person I was speaking to,
right, he would already gather that this individual
is just here
to practice his language or what he's learning
with myself. Why am I even standing here?
That's how he would look at
me, right? And he would start making jokes,
right? Ridicule me in front of his friends
and all the people that he was maybe
with.
So you have to practice, but who cares?
At the end of the day that which
really really matters to me is for me
to become a fluent
Arabic speaker, right? So I have to practice.
And going back to our brother Amar,
this is exactly what he done.
Right? This is exactly what he done.
Subhanallah. He would be practicing with the Egyptians
up until now. He became very, very fluent.
May Allah
increase him.
However, my brothers and my sisters also, there
were brothers
that I personally came across.
And this is very common in places like
Al Madinah
and others as well. There was a brother
in a Yemen.
Right?
I remember having a conversation with him in
the English language and he was saying that,
yeah, he's been here for 2 years,
Taib, can he speak the Arabic language?
He couldn't, subhanAllah.
Can you speak the Arabic language?
Yes. He may have been able to understand
bits and bobs, and even then,
it wasn't enough for someone who was there
for 2 years. What was the reason behind
this my brothers and my sisters?
I put it down to two reasons.
Number 1,
not practicing what he learned.
Number 2, there was an element of
I think maybe you could call it pride.
Because he wasn't really putting in the effort
right he wasn't speaking the Arabic language whatever
he learned he wouldn't go and practice it
right.
Halas time was going on
Right. Time is not just going to wait
for you. There's always new students coming.
Right.
So now a year has gone. A new
student will come
and see this brother
attending an Arabic class, and he will ask
himself the question, why is his brother still
studying this very basic Arabic class?
Why is he still attending this very basic
Arabic class when he's been here for a
whole year?
And due to that, he stopped attending classes.
And then the time just went on and
on and on.
Being pride my brothers and my sisters can
be extremely detrimental. This is why being humble,
right, especially when it comes to beneficial knowledge
is key.
It's extremely, extremely important.
You have to be ready you have to
be ready to
be humiliated,
right? You may well have to sit in
a class where there are little kids. At
times I tell some of the brothers who
seek advice,
okay, about memorizing the book of Allah because
you need a system.
I tell them, go and join the madrasa.
He'll the brother will say to me, there's
only little kids there
and What's the issue? Go and sit with
these, rub shoulders with these little kids.
Right? At secondary school maybe and you're what
25, 26, does it really, really matter?
If you really want something,
you're ready to overlook everything that comes with
it.
So it is very very important my brothers
and my sisters
that we are willing to make mistakes
And as they say, practice makes perfect.
How many is that? Yeah. That's,
9. You added 2 more points
with that, but yeah. So,
I think that's 8, right?
How many are we on brothers and sisters?
So have we finished 9? Are we on
the 9th point?
Okay. We finished 9. Excellent.
Number 10, brothers and sisters, you need to
learn to listen
before you can learn to speak.
Every language, my brothers and my sisters, sounds
strange the first time you hear it.
The more you expose yourself to it,
the more familiar it becomes. Making it easier
to speak and comprehend.
I remember when I was growing up as
a young child,
by the way brothers and sisters I was
not born in the UK, I was born
in the Netherlands.
I grew up watching Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon
Okay.
And I would listen listen listen. I'm not
speaking English to anyone because everyone speaks Dutch
there, but I'm listening, listening, listening, becoming more
and more familiar
to the terms
that are being used in these cartoons.
Not that I'm saying you should start watching
Cartoon Network now brothers and sisters.
But the point of the matter is listening
can really, really go a long way.
Right? Especially when you're attentive.
There are some Arabic cartoons. You put it
into YouTube, you'll see cartoons coming up.
When you learn
bits and bobs brothers and sisters and then
you begin to hear, you'll see it sounds
a certain way and Arabic my brothers and
my sisters is
just a bunch of consistent
patterns that you would have to keep on
coming across.
One of these students is saying me too.
The little bit of Arabic I know was
from the Arabic cartoon channels.
I'll give you guys an 11th tip as
well, my brothers and my sisters, watching others
talk.
Different languages
make different demands
on your tongue,
lips, and throat.
Pronunciation
is just as much physical as it as
it is mental.
Right?
At times it may sound strange brothers and
sisters, right?
However, when you look at the way that
individual speaks,
right, the sound that he makes,
and then you try to imitate that sound
as much as you can.
It might be difficult at the beginning my
brothers and my sisters, but you will master
it. It is something in essence that is
pretty easy when you think about it.
It just requires practice.
I hope my beloved brothers and sisters, these
are 10 points inshallah
that you could,
take benefit from.
The recording will be made available.
The recording will be made available.
Right?
So inshallah, for those who missed it and
came in late,
can have the opportunity to,
maybe jot down all of these 10 points.
These are 10 points that I personally really,
really benefited from,
and I hope you guys benefit from it
as well.
Today was just an introductory lesson.
Right?
But before we finish, my brothers and my
sisters, I quickly want to mention the following.
These are house rules
for our classes.
These are
house rules for our classes.
The first my brothers and my sisters is
that
you have a pen and paper at your
disposal. You must write
that which I mentioned from time to time
brothers and sisters.
You must write down
at which I mentioned.
Sometimes I give some key benefits
that could save you
maybe hours, walaai.
Right?
And that's because I'm sharing
maybe a method that really really helped me,
right, after maybe having stumbled over, tripped up
time and time again.
Right? So now I'm just sharing it giving
it to you on a plate.
So you need a pen and paper,
if that makes sense.
Number 2 my brothers and my sisters,
no private conversations
when we have the lesson. This will only
distract you as a student
and it will distract the others.
And thirdly,
I will lose focus when I keep seeing
these messages popping up, unless of course
I ask you all
for an answer.
That's number 2.
Number 3, my beloved brothers and sisters, what
I
require from every single one of you has
joined the course is to revise before
and after the class.
Don't be like the one who goes to
a class
with his books. As soon as he's done
with the class, he puts the books in
the back of his car, he puts in
the boot,
and that's the last time he sees these
books up until what?
The next class.
Don't be like that.
That's number 3.
Number 4,
please my brothers and my sisters I take
punctuality
extremely serious. The way I look at punctuality
is
if you're early
expect inshallah to
be granted that knowledge
before everyone
else. That's the way I personally look at
it.
However you are late,
expect to be from amongst the
lost
when it comes to acquiring the knowledge.
I
took this from Hadith.
It's a different context, but
if you're always late expect
to embrace or to consume that knowledge
after everyone else.
The class starts at 9:30.
Please brothers and sisters,
be there 5 minutes prior to that as
much as you can.
If you make it a habit of being
late, you will sometimes miss out on some
key information or benefits that I'm giving.
How many is that? That's number 4. Right?
Number 5, my brothers and my sisters.
Having close relation with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
by constantly
making Dua,
asking him to open doors
of knowledge for you.
There are 2 main components
I tend to emphasize, brothers and sisters, when
it comes to
beneficial knowledge.
Number 1 is working hard.
You need to put the work in, I
can't feed you this knowledge brothers and sisters.
The Sheikh of our Ma'am Shayef Mukbil
who founded the institute
that I studied at in a Yemen, he
would say if I had the ability to
pour the knowledge
into your mouth I would have done so,
however the only way you're going to acquire
this knowledge is by the scraping of the
elbows and the scraping of the knees.
Like I said before brothers and sisters
it requires a sacrifice,
It may well be that at times you
will have
eye bags.
That's what they call it, right? Eye bags.
Are you sleeping bags?
No. Sleeping bags is the actual thing that
you go inside of, but this is called
eye bags type.
Eye bags brothers and sisters,
don't worry Insha Allahu Ta'ala,
you are putting in the work because you
have an objective.
You
Use a bit of Vasili Insha Allahu Ta'ala
and you look better.
However, brothers and sisters,
right, it's important that we realize
you need to really put in the work.
It's not easy. It's not easy for me
to be sitting here
every
couple of days, right,
going through it.
However,
everyone has objectives.
Everyone has reasons as to whatever they do.
Does that make sense?
You won't understand the book of Allah Azza
wa Jal, it's not going to come easy.
You have to put in the work.
It may well be that you have to
stay awake after Fajr, you have to get
up earlier than usual,
right, because you have kids.
Right? When they go to sleep, you're still
awake.
Right?
It's going to, of course, affect your sleeping
pattern,
your day to day lives. However nothing comes
easy. Number 2 my brother, the most important
thing is that you make Dua to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
There are a number of videos that I
would like you all to watch,
right?
Mainly that which relates to the purification of
the heart. One of them is
5 sins that prevent knowledge.
Five sins that prevent knowledge.
Inshallah,
I will send the list with the admin,
and he will pass it on to you
guys, and
also which release memorization.
A
dua a dua brothers and sisters.
Could be that you wake up in the
last set of the night and this is
the
most perfect time to be asked Allah
said the Dua that you make
in the last study is like the arrow
that does not miss its target.
It's better in mind.
And with Sheikh Salihim Abdulai bin Hamre Hussein
would say
it doesn't matter how hard you work, if
Allah doesn't open it for you then
It's very different to pharmacy,
it's very different to engineering brothers and sisters.
This is a gift from Allah
so go and acquire that gift from Allah
So these are very important points my brothers
and my sisters that I wanted to mention
before we start the lesson next week,
also that which I forgot to mention right
at the beginning, is we will be going
through
a good amount of Arabic grammar
and some morphology as well,
that which is required in order to understand
the different conversations that we are going through.
Because like I said, Arabic is,
consistent patterns.
And when you go through these patterns, you
will see
that it will become easy
Bini Laylatla.