Abu Taymiyyah – THE BIG DEBATE Madinah Books or Al Arabia Bayna Yadaik Sh Abdulwahid

Somebody asks now what the best place to

go and learn Arabic, I'll say them go

to Egypt. Yeah. It's not Madina. Yeah. It's

not Aliamat. Yeah. I'm totally against the Madina

books that we all study. I'm totally against

it. Because what you are in need of

is conversational Arabic. Yeah. You need to understand

what the teacher is saying. Yeah. You need

to understand basics. I I don't necessarily believe

that these Medina books read it to the

top of me. I disagree with them with

teachers books at Medina College. I'm a 100%

against that opinion.

But we can differ and not hate each

other on the line. I agree.

It's not a big show. Well, I'll I

might have to get off this interview I

didn't actually know that. Keep putting it down.

I know. I'm not going in. I've got

Egypt.

They study Yeah. Like, even this is the

type of Arabic that I studied when I

was

in Hadramot. Yeah. A private class that I

was having with this, Syrian teacher. I think

they call it the books. Yeah. I've

got them over there actually. Oh, and he's

got in there. Yeah. I've got the

lattice in there? I've got a plant at

some stage. We have to get through them

to uni pots first, but I've got Arabic

Arabic any other day I'm gonna ask a

question. That they teach in Egypt that I'm

not fond of. If someone

doesn't understand a teacher Yeah. Okay? Like you

are somebody who doesn't understand English Yeah. Is

the first thing you're going to teach him

English grammar?

No.

Doesn't the Medina books really heavily revolve around

that? The Medina books do. Yes. I agree

with you. And just to support your claim,

just to show I'm not biased completely. Right?

I'm gonna agree with you here. There was

one guy that I've mentioned this before. He

was English

brother, convert,

white, blue eyes, all that stuff, 100% like.

He went to, Medina and I remember one

time the teachers asked him to answer the

question, obviously in Arabic. Right? He looks at

him frustrated, he says,

I don't understand that in English. How can

I ask you? I don't understand Arabic basically.

You're asking me something in Arabic and he's

meant to answer and he was frustrated. He

ended up not completing and leaving it. So

you're right. You do need to have a

little a level of Arabic for you guys.

I remember when I attended a class. But

but quick but quick but,

the syllabus as you know isn't just the

grammar books. They've got the guitar bar, they've

got tabi, they've got for example, and then

they've got in the second one. We start

study some basic and some basic hadith and

If you study all of the books alongside

the Medina books Yeah. Then we're going to

be on the same page. Yeah. I remember,

SubhanAllah, when I was in in the in

the just after I studied

conversational Arabic in Hadhramaut.

I was attending the class,

a nahal class,

And that's an explanation of the main one

that they used to teach. Yeah. And it's

translating English as well. I'm not sure. So

we can just show show people the book.

Carry on quickly. Yeah. That one.

Just so you people can benefit. Yeah.

This is the

book.

I know you don't like me doing that,

but maybe you can zoom in at one

point.

Okay. So that's the book and they've actually

translated. It's still got Arabic in it as

well. Arabic and English. Why would you try

to do a Nahu book you wonder?

Because there's people that just like, they like

Nahu, isn't it? I think it helps the

teacher as well. It helps the teacher. Yeah.

Yes, I go in. So I looked around

and I said, you guys are Arabs. Yeah.

And your understanding

is no

different to mine now Yeah. The teacher speaks.

Yeah. Right? And it might be at times

that I understand it better than you. Yeah.

Because I I I I learned,

like, right? Yeah. Yeah.

I think they call it colloquial.

No.

Classical or Yeah. The classical way of, you

know, speaking the Arabic language. Yeah.

Just general commoners who haven't necessarily studied the

rules of speaking Arabic or reading. Yeah. I

said, we're exactly the same. However,

that which we both have is that we

can understand the teacher Yeah. When he speaks.

Yeah. If someone doesn't understand basic conversation Arabic,

he's going to struggle. Yeah.

Right? Because even Arabs, they go and study

Nahal. Yeah. Yeah. They have to study Nahal

a 100%. Yeah. Because the majority of the

Arabs that live today, they don't understand Nahal.

That's right. Yeah. They're just commoners. Yeah. You

see? Yeah. It's like we are in the

English language. We've generally don't know the grammar

of the English language. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

So, I I genuinely would advise somebody to

go to Egypt. Yeah. So this brother, I

was seeing, he came martialized Arabic at some

point. Yeah. As for other brothers, I could

see that,

their their their their speaking wasn't up to

Yeah. Scratch. Their understanding wasn't up to scratch.

And I asked the question, why? I never

actually discussed this with

those who were struggling,

but I could it was it was pretty

clear to me, a system, there wasn't actually

like a proper system there. Yeah.

Even in Medina, there is a system. Yeah.

But it's not as good as Egypt. It's

not as good as Egypt.