Suhaib Webb – Enroll Now In The Foundations of Arabic The Conditions of Proper Speech
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Welcome to our second gathering
on the book
An Introduction
to the scaffolding
of the Arabic language. The first time we
started, we talked about Kalam.
Right? The conditions of proper speech.
The sheikh said
that proper speech is spoken that is 2
or more words that is a complete thought,
any that is beneficial,
and that it follows the syntax of the
Arabs. That takes us now to the second
chapter. This actually is a very invigorating chapter.
I remember
when I was studying Arabic for the first
time and I was I was intimidated, man.
And my teacher, he said to me,
in Arabic, there's only 3 parts of speech.
I said, wow.
In English, there's 8. I Said in Arabic
there's only 3.
And I got excited and he said to
me,
the Quran and tafsir and hadith and fiqh
and the newspaper, anything,
Any form of Arabic communication,
religious or otherwise,
is only going to be made up of
3 parts of speech. I said SubhanAllah.
So Imam Ibnu'a Jerome now, he begins to
identify the 3 parts of speech in Arabic.
And he says,
The parts of Kalam are 3
He says,
nouns,
verbs
and articles
that come with meaning
or letters
that come with meaning if you want to
translate it literally. Mashallah. That's it, man. That's
all you need to understand and be fluent
in Arabic,
to understand the Quran, to increase your Khushu
and Salah,
to cry when you read the Quran, to
cry when you read hadith of the prophet
salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
To have a more enhanced relationship with faith
that you can find through the portal of
the Arabic language
is three parts of speech. Again, he says,
at the parts of speech are 3.
Somebody may may ask why why the scholars
because you'll notice this as we go through
text together. Our next text after this is
a book called, Muhatu Al Arab.
You'll notice that scholars note
that they would always start you'll notice that
scholars
you'll notice that scholars always start with nouns.
Somebody may ask why because Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
as I heard from one of my teachers
when he created Adam the first thing he
taught Adam was what?
Was the Asma, the nouns, names of things.
So scholars like to follow
that type
of logic, right, the type of logic.
So the first part of speech is a
noun.
Example of a noun Suhaybon,
Al Quran,
Huwa,
Al Levi.
Those are all examples of nouns.
Mecca,
Medina,
Palestine,
all those are examples of nouns.
All those are examples of nouns.
That a noun is a word that directs
to meaning which is not
restricted by tense.
So suhayb
that directs you to me, but it's not
like in the past, present, or future.
The next word or type of speech that
we find in Arabic
is
verbs.
The plural of verbs is
and excuse me the plural of nouns is
So ism
is the singular,
is the plural. For verbs,
Fir is the singular,
Afaal
is the plural.
Examples of verbs in Arabic
The
they said that a verb is a word
which directs to its own meaning,
but is
restricted
by 1 of 3 tenses.
Past, present,
future.
So let's quickly go back.
A noun is a word which directs to
its own meaning, but it's not
related to tense.
A verb,
a word,
that directs
to a meaning
on its own.
However, it
is related to one of 3 tenses
which is past
present
future future
we have 3 type of verbs
And I'm gonna make this as simple as
possible and we'll unpack this in the future.
The first is a past tense verb, it's
called maldi.
Maldi. For example,
jalasa.
Jalasa, he set.
The second type of verb is present future.
Called Mudare.
We'll talk about in the future that the
word Mudare in Arabic actually means Mutasheb.
Something similar to something else. But now most
people think Muldari means most taqbal,
the future. But we'll talk about the story
of Hafiz Ibrahim
and the Ulema of Azhar that happened almost
a 100 years ago, SubhanAllah.
But Al Mudari,
its true meaning
is that it's similar to something else.
Meaning here similar to nouns, talk about that
in the future.
But for the sake of brevity and ease,
let's just say Al Mudaria means Al Mustaqbal,
the future.
An example of Mudaria,
I'll take the verb in the past,
The
you'll notice that suddenly there's a in front
of it.
Means he's sitting.
I can say
or
That scene and that word
take from the present to the future. So
he's sitting now.
He will sit.
He will sit. So how many verbs have
we taken now? 2. Maldi,
past,
present future.
Remember that scene in sofa
that came before Modare because they're going to
come back very soon
and play a pivotal role
in your recognition of verbs.
The last type of verb is called
is an order,
so
sit,
sit down.
It's a command.
It's very important in the fiqh and also
the fiqh because
in in the Quran and in Hadith, when
we find the form of an order, it's
understood that that thing
is an obligation.
Usually.
Usually.
Remember that, that's very important.
So how many types of verbs have we
taken now?
3.
Maldi,
present future.
And the command what's called
amr
amr with hamza,
not ain, amr
amr
amr.
Ijlis
sit
Sit. The last part of the speech
that the Sheikh mentions is
literally translated as a letter that comes with
meaning.
Because there are some letters that come with
meaning like for example,
seen.
I just gave you that earlier.
I said the word the letter seen means
future. So seen is a haraf. Haraf means
letter.
Seen is a haraf
that can have meaning.
Unlike for example, say the letter,
zay.
If you just write down the letter za,
has no meaning.
But if you write down the letter seen
in the right
context that brings with it a meaning.
Ideally, the Sheikh he means
prepositional phrases
prepositional phrases,
but there are also other types of articles
letters that are not prepositional phrases
that also come
with meaning
that also come with meaning
So how to Jare Alimah,
so he took 3 parts of speech, Masha'Allah.
Some examples of how quickly
men from
fi, in, ila, to an, from
fi, inside,
li, to,
and so on and so forth.
So
Again, the Sheikh he says,
Next time we're going to pick up
something really important and I'm assuming that that
question may be stirring
in your head right now