Suhaib Webb – The Mutun Series- Ajjurumiyyah – part one
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The challenges of reading in Arabic highlight the need for practicing and educating on fundamentals, including writing in Arabic and the use of grammar for language learning. The text is designed for beginners, including a culture around the speaker. The use of Arabic language in their language is a benefit for their hereafter, but it is necessary to memorize examples and build a culture around the speaker. The importance of understanding "will" in Arabic language is discussed, as it describes the language's language system and is used to explain written ideas. The speakers emphasize the need for a complete sentence to explain what is written in Arabic language and how to correct mistakes in writing.
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Assalamu alaikum, guys. Hope everybody is well.
So what I wanted to do just because
I've noticed
some of the challenges in reading,
I wanted us to actually, next week, we'll
do this live for even our Swiss students.
We're gonna go quickly,
through this text.
And, And, hopefully, by the time we finish,
maybe halfway, we'll start reading again.
But in the meantime, you need to, like,
really practice
what we take here,
to tighten up on some of those, fundamentals.
So this text is actually one I wrote,
like, around 12 years ago. I need to
finish it.
We have a lady that's editing it professionally.
So
hopefully, as we go through it together, I'm
gonna finish up certain things
and, hopefully, release it.
We'll meet at the same time.
We'll meet earlier, though, like, around 10,
instead of late like this. But,
this is really what's called the
is one of those knowledges that's known as
a tool in order to engage,
other sciences.
And it's extremely important,
as we'll see today.
Texas,
Don't say
with the on the jim. People make this
mistake a lot, and,
And I wrote this really for
you know, to really prepare them.
As you'll see, I quote other texts with
inside this text,
sort of like a segue into what's coming.
This book is going to provide us really
with the basic structure of Arabic sentences, which
we're gonna talk about in a minute.
Also allows us to sort of get our
feet wet in the classical method of learning
and understanding Islam,
the normative.
And I put here, like, why I did
it and sort of what my goal was
and so on and so forth.
So the
grammar, it's it's main focus is to to
not focus on words. That's a mistake people
make. They think, oh, when they think of
grammar, they think of, like, individual words.
The science of individual
words is
Morphology.
The grammar is about alakat,
relationships
and meanings,
and how those relationships and meanings come together.
And that's very important, especially as we're trying
to communicate in Arabic, understand Arabic
because our ability to formulate complete sentences, and
it is indicative of our understanding, our correct
understanding of the language.
And we know that communication is important. So
here he says,
You know, half of a person is what
they say and what they feel.
The only thing after that is just our
physical bodies,
the meat and flesh that we have on
our bones.
So a sentence is able to capture our
thoughts. That's why it's called.
If I say,
actually, it means I'm expressing myself.
What's inside me?
And so understanding Arabic,
at least in this context, is the ability
to understand the foundations and components of sentences,
which is super important.
Classical Arabists
called a sentence,
contemporary Eirabists. Sorry. They call it
as well as some of the older ones,
but the classical sort of term is kalam.
Sometimes people get confused to think kalam means
a word.
Kalam means jumbla.
And we know that jumlas
come in 2 types. And and jumla is
an important word because it implies things are
working together.
Right?
So Joomla's come in 2 types only, and
there are only 3 components to every sentence.
That's it. Arabic is made up of 3
3 parts speech.
So the goal of this text is for
you to understand what you read,
the ability to articulate yourself clearly, and to
think grammatically correct,
specifically
in the con in the context of Arabic
sentence. For that reason,
he starts
with the conditions
of a complete sentence.
What are the components?
If we think about sentences as a body,
what are the organs of that body?
The main organs. Nothing you can,
like, you know, donate to somebody. Like, these
have to be there.
So he says, Rahimu Allah,
now we have the Kitab Al Isnat
and Sheikh Hina
Sheikh Mohammed Mohadin Abdul Hamid. I was able
to study
with 2 students
of Sheikh Mohammed Mohadin Abdul Hamid.
This
is There's an opinion that this Huwa is
called Damir Al Faz,
which means
it's
brought here to show that what comes after
Kalam
are its components.
So if I say, like,
Oklahomayun,
Azharayun,
like, those are, like,
those are all, like,
components of who I am. So this is
called Damir Al Fazim.
Good translation for it would be like behold,
like,
Who I hear doesn't mean he.
In Surat Ikhlas,
it's called Damir She'in. And you say behold
But here, strong opinion is this damir
al fasil. It's gonna come in the future
inshallah.
So these these four conditions have to be
there
for there to be a complete sentence.
Later on,
people like even Hisham, because he was such
a genius, he just says,
because if it's it's
automatically all these things.
If dramatic, he says,
Al Haridi, he says in
What is gonna benefit the listener? A, meaning.
So early on, he just says it's.
That's why even Hashem comes later on, says
the same thing. And, actually, it's better. It's
easier.
But imam
is breaking it down, of course, because this
this text
is like
the really wants to prepare
you to see things. And that's why I'm
really not sometimes in favor of teaching to
beginners.
Also,
even
most of the scholars of Andalus, if not
all of them, were not Basri in Madhab
and Arabi.
So that's
why Omar Shaltabi,
he he uses the on.
Because
And that's important for people to know. Like,
if they're reading texts from Andalusia or the
or the Maghreb
in classical times,
they might get lost
because the terminology
to the Kufi school is different to the
Basler school.
So just like we have Madhhabs in fiqh,
we have Madhhabs in Arabi.
Later on, scholars brought them together.
So Al Hari says,
We read it last week. Right?
And if we wanna think about it in
terms of,
this is the and this is the
Like in
it is made up of or it must
consist of.
What
is it what does it mean by love?
It's spoken.
2 or more words.
Is the goal of everything,
that it's beneficial.
Islam is always thinking about.
And here is something for us in Tarbiyyah,
Yani, like, if we're gonna talk, it should
be a benefit.
Gonna listen to something, it should be a
benefit in our hereafter,
ideally.
So the prophet
said
the whoever believes in Allah in the last
day should speak while you
remain
silent.
A
complete Arabic sentence is expressed by construction
of 2 or more words
into a complete thought, and it confirms
to Arabic syntax. You can see I did
not
give the literal translation. I just said it's
expressed,
constructed,
complete
thought, and forms to Arabic syntax. I'm not
someone who believes in word for word translation
if it's gonna create more confusion.
So, basically, what he's doing here is creating
what are the conditions of a sentence.
So Arabic speech has 4 conditions. This means,
in most cases, that one of the if
one of them is missing,
the sentence will not be complete. Therefore, it
will not be an acceptable kalam,
a a complete sentence.
The word sentence is from a Latin word,
which means to feel,
and I put it in the footnotes.
And I made a chart here to make
it easy for everybody.
Is expressed using Arabic letters. It has to
be Arabic.
Murakah constructed. Yeah. I need 2 or more
words.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5 words.
So the listener is not waiting on the
speaker to make sense.
Or the speaker is speaking so badly that
it doesn't make sense.
That's why
when he talks about the
noun predicate,
he says,
We had to memorize the alfia and the
and the.
It's not important, but it's good. Like, if
you memorize these texts, it's not to show
off.
Because if you have a text memorized, and
I know now we're older,
more refined. Let me say we're more refined,
some of us.
The most important thing is to memorize the
examples.
I memorized these texts when I was younger.
Omar asked me, how did you how do
you remember all this stuff?
Because I've been doing it for 25 years.
Actually, Omar, in the beginning, you'll forget. Like,
when we memorize the Quran, like, we don't
remember it till we leave Taraweeh,
Like, 3 or
4.
So the same thing with the mutun, same
thing with the elm, same thing with the
hadith.
Don't think when you read about those early
scholars, like, they memorized it. That was it.
Imam She Imam al Shafi, he has an
incredible memory, but he said
knowledge is to review.
And so the best way to keep it
is to teach
to create, like, a culture and environment around
you. If your thermostat is on 72 in
the summer right,
then you ask yourself, like, how much am
I experiencing this?
I'm creating sort of an environment of elm
in my daily life. So, like, one of
the ways I review the qira'at, I read
at night to my daughters when they go
to sleep. Those girls learning, like, different qira'at
don't even know it.
It was like, may Allah
bless them or protect them. So I'm saying
but, actually, it's for me. Right? I I
review.
So
one who seeks knowledge, Allah loves them. So
you can see I put, like, examples that
are, like,
sort of
oriented. Right? Arabic
syntax,
The adjective comes after what it describes. It'll
say,
That's called
has a whole section on this discussion about
where does language come from.
Means to place.
To her.
When Mariam's mother gave birth, she said,
like, I have delivered.
I have laid it down.
Right?
Love means to express
no one expresses
no one will express
something.
Means to build together,
to place together on top of one another.
So one of the things you wanna do
when you come across words, you wanna try
to find them in the Quran.
He always used to do this. Even I
remember, he's saying
means to say something that makes sense or
not make sense. It's not
means to say something that makes sense. Is
just to express. That's why he has to
say later on.
So that's why Al Haridi says,
he doesn't have to say love.
Mhmm. Says
just wants to emphasize it.
Even Hashem says
and I think and
also in.
Why? Because if you say, you don't have
to say.
But
if Najurim is doing it just to, like,
make sure no stone is left unturned in.
Means how did the Arabs lay down their
language?
So from that, we learned something very important,
that Arabic has reached us through 2 important
mediums,
and that stopped in the 3rd century.
And in the 3rd century around the Abbasi
period,
the the usage of the language by the
Arabic
population
is no longer considered Huja,
because they started to speak slang.
That's why Mutanabbi,
even though he's an incredible Arabist,
his asha'ar
are not Huja,
because he comes in the Abbasi period.
But we don't use
for Huja.
We might use it to build on something
or to show but it's not a proof.
It's not.
Mhmm.
Because he dies 204.
So
means how the Arabs use their language, specifically
the pre Islamic Arabs
and those
recognized scholars of the Arabic language up until
Al Qarn Atharif.
More or less.
So the first condition is that it's expressed.
I gave examples,
Man, Anna,
Iya, Aledi,
Onak,
Yom,
Zahab, Yathheb, Wofi.
So each of those are.
Second condition is constructed, meaning 2 or more
words.
Is not is is not
It's not not
It's not
Arabic is the delight of life.
And.
How do you know it's not?
You see it's only one word.
It's not 2 or more.
The third condition, a complete thought.
Wafid means that a sentence is complete, and
the listener is not left waiting for more
information.
So if I'm listening, I'm saying
ma or man,
that means either I didn't understand the person
or they didn't communicate it correctly.
And
That also implies that in order for it
to be a complete thought,
it has to be a sentence. And in
Arabic,
there's only 2 type of sentences.
Don't say
It's very important when you when you read
to the, you know how to read correctly
because if you don't,
they're gonna start to diagnose you. They're gonna
do, like, a diagnostics
analysis of you.
Say, maybe
it's not time for this person to read
this yet. There's some things that need to
be worked on.
So those little things, I'm saying them because
they're important.
That's why, Al Hariri,
we studied last week, he says,
Right? He said,
So I gave some examples
of means it starts with a verb.
I'll say
doesn't accept Tanween. Why? Adam?
Who says
Yes. I have a question on, like,
Joomla to you said Joomla to list Mia.
What is the actual for this?
Actual what?
How we get the customer under Lam, where
Lam
is second. Because because it's it's is it
called?
So now because Hamzdawasl
connects, you take
the Also, because you have 2 sukun.
When
so when 2 sukuns meet,
the letter before the sukun takes Kasama.
Or
Nasitian.
2 succoons met, so the the word the
letter before the succoon is the actually, this
is not Naqal like wash. Sorry.
2 succoons,
2 meaning 2 succoons are together. You can't
read with 2.
So the
the letter before the succoon takes
kesra. And
also, don't forget
So here, the first, first sukun get Kasrad,
not the second sukun, which is Yeah. The
first sukun. I'm thinking in Arabic. Sorry. So
the if you think in English, the first
sukun.
That's how the Arabs talk to Sheikh.
But also
2
succoons.
So
you don't read the hamza hamza.
That's
in,
This is the verb. This is the subject
of the verb. She's the doer.
What's she doing?
So always remember the doer takes rafru,
The do to takes
always.
Except in the case of
but
we don't need to talk about it now.
Here you can see the ta. When it's
a female, it takes
the subject is female, so the verb takes
that ta. Same sentence with a man,
Also notice I used 2 words without tanween
for the student to think, pay attention.
And also it's the name of somebody.
Then the Ahmedu, I praise Allah.
So some people say,
Here
also,
same
sentence meaning, but it starts with a noun.
You can
say You can use the same verb, but
here I use
on purpose.
She's praying Fajr.
And, of course, if you have smart students,
they're they're gonna say, oh, wow. The female
verb starts with a ta. The male verb
starts with aya.
The past tense verb has a ta second.
The male verb, there's no ta.
Important point is that these are examples of
which are key to being.
In other words,
what's
is.
And that's why here I introduced this now.
I don't like it.
The
goes through a lot of important things, but
it doesn't tell people, like, about and.
So people have no idea. They don't have
a of a sentence.
But we want people to be able to
see the sentence, to envision.
So correct noun sentence contain
contains,
thank you, AI,
a subject
such as Ahmed or Fatima
above.
The subject of another sentence is called.
Remember that word is important.
The second
is this noun sentence or it's noun in
is is predicate called.
It's telling you about the
and the job of the is to make
the meaning
of the complete.
That's
why
says,
Jews.
Jews what? Of Jews of the Jumna?
Part of the sentence.
To complete
the benefit. The benefit of what?
We'll talk about that in the future.
So, therefore, we see these are the components
of
complete sentence.
Also, verb sentences,
this
the verb and its subject, the doer
I don't like the word subject, actually. It's
too ambiguous for people. The doer. What does
things?
Here's examples of non mafid sentences.
By itself revealed,
sent down.
Has no meaning.
You're gonna ask me.
Who sent it and what was sent?
So Allah is the doer. Al Quran is
the do too. Yeah. But
sorry.
Yeah.
The is gonna be the passive part of
the pushing. Yeah. I I understand, but that's
what I'm trying to clarify is what
what would not have revealed. Right? Something would
have been revealed. It's the if it's the,
then it's
Okay.
Because the subject is here. Okay.
Yeah. The only time only time you'd say,
right,
is in the present tense.
But here we're talking about Allah. Is the
past tense verb. Yeah. Yeah.
Islam
Islam.
Yeah. Yeah.
But if you say
someone sent.
So
Quran now became
what was the object became now the representative
subject, which is gone.
So that I ask,
who sent
it? Like,
someone
beautified for people the desires for women.
So the the purpose of that passive tense
is to make me stop and ask myself,
So
sometimes it's a good question.
The fruit sometimes of the passive tense is
to
encourage the listener to stop and ask.
But here,
is the past tense.
Sent.
Sent what? Who sent?
So the that form, it needs a subject.
It doesn't have to have an object, by
the way,
but it needs a subject
in order for for it to be.
But, actually, it needs a subject an object
because of its form,
That's why this is called a hamza
to. This hamza is added to the front
of the verb so that it has to
have a object
usually.
Meaning in transitive
No. Means in transitive verb.
It needs an object. Yeah.
If the word if the verb is weak,
as we'll talk about in the future,
it it then it needs.
Some verbs, they can't make
on their own.
It says is the case for all,
verb like,
Afala was no Afala?
Yeah. I mean, we don't say every single
time, but usually.
Let's stick let's stick to, like, just the
the the general rule.
We'll talk about that in soft.
Yeah. Islam
too.
I became Muslim.
The
it
needs
like Amana. Amantu
billah. Meaning I believe in Allah.
But Amana, it it can't make maf'ul on
its own.
Because it's not a strong verb.
I don't wanna get too much into this
now, but it's good to know. So some
verbs,
they're not strong. They can't they can't bring
about
so they need help from.
Maybe people confuse. What do you mean? What
does mean?
Now b is here to strengthen
the verb, meaning I believe.
Without the verb,
doesn't make any sense, but just so you
can see.
But
it needs that.
Does it
But also sometimes it doesn't
need
We'll get to that in the future. But
just remember this,
sometimes verbs are are weak or between strength
and weakness, so they need
half job sometimes.
Mhmm.
But that's that's not our subject. Our subject
now is.
The 4th condition is has to be
the best way to explain what there is
syntax, like how the Arabs use their language.
Like, when you ask me, like, where do
we get this?
That's how the Arabs say
it. Before the 3rd century, more or less.
The Arabic language is ancient.
So, for example, they don't put the adjective
before what it the noun it describes. Means
some guy, you know, named Jamil, he's a
house.
Or we say
And that's what he means by
Here's the questions you need to have ready
for next week.
Then he gets into the parts parts of
speech. In Arabic, there are only 3 parts
of speech.
Says
You hear the word no? It means it's
part of a gents.
Like,
Pakistani,
Bengali.
It's important in also important in logic
and.
The imam,
this is why some people find it hard
to study.
He's very logical.
You stick into a classical system.
That's why that's why Harry says
So a complete sentence only has 3 parts
of speech, not like English has, like, 8
parts of speech, man.
This is something which is brought in to
limit
the implication of the word harf because there's
harf that has no meaning.
There is harf without meaning. Correct? Like
doesn't have meaning, but
has meaning. Mhmm. So what did it say?
If he just
said,
That's why he says,
So, like, men means from, but
so in a way, he is excluding
any of those huroof.
He is excluding any of those
that don't have meaning.
Well, Hunaka, you're gonna hear from some people.
They say,
Ada Ada means a tool.
What they mean is like an article,
but they shouldn't say that. This is a
mistake
according to Sheikh Abdul
Arraji
in on page 15.
I believe page 15.
He says that
no. Because you should call them.
Ma is either gonna be ism or
haraf. Lan, n,
len, n, ethan, k, lam okay, all those
different.
Don't say
now is a word. Nobody it's only 3
parts of speech. Now you made a 4th.
Because if you ask someone, they say, you
know,
But if you ask them, what's that? They
say.
It's a noun. Why you say?
But the inspiring thing for all of us,
if you look at the Quran or any
of the books behind me,
they're only made up of 3 things.
Mhmm.
So whoever wants to be strong in Arabic,
they need to be able to recognize what's
a noun, what's a verb, what's.
That's that's very important.
Because based on that,
then they're gonna be able to start to
scale the language.
Next week, we will pick up with
how do we recognize nouns? How do we
recognize verbs?
How do we
recognize?
We're gonna go we're gonna go, like,
not fast,
but this is just like the appetizer, man.
Would would you would you like us to
answer the questions on page 6 in Arabic?
Yeah. If you can. Yeah. And then send
them to you?
Yeah. Or we can go through them together
Okay. At the end of class. And you
can use chat g p to help you,
like, first write it, then ask chat gbt,
like,
GPT.
Okay.
It is I I can it's a it's
an amazing tool for these things. Amazing. Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Can can can I share one thing with
everybody just on this language
thing? I was talking to it in Urdu
a few weeks ago.
Okay?
So we use, you know, we use the
word,
just the Arabic.
Right?
We use that all the time.
And this is, like, maybe 3 months ago,
4 months ago.
And Sheikh was saying Balkul.
Okay?
By mistake, it was it was saying Balkul.
It it what it knew what it was
trying to say, but the pronunciation was wrong.
And then I when I was talking back
to it, I didn't correct it. But in
my in my answer, I said Bilkul,
and the machine learned it in 30 seconds.
Wow.
I'm gonna chat GBT. You're you're that was
sad.
I asked
I asked it one time to analyze an
Arabic poem. I knew the Bahar was,
and it said Bahar.
Then I wrote back. I said, no. This
is Bahar.
And it said, oh, yeah. You're right. And
then it gave me the breakdown.
It does that. It does that.
Yeah. Yeah. And then it was like, thank
you for like like, thank you for telling
me. I was like, woah. Shaytan, man.
Aside from that, yesterday, I had it produce
an image for me,
and I told it the image you produced,
I want you to remove a particular element
for me,
and I want you to redo the image.
It tried to redo the image 3 times.
Each time, without me prompting it, it said,
I'm sorry.
I messed up the rendering. I I could
not remove the element from it. Let me
try again. Let me try again. Let me
try again.
In the end, it still failed,
but it knew that it was failing.
Yeah. It's because it has trouble with images
because of its text based sort of Yeah.
Like, it can't spell correctly sometimes.
Yeah.
They're saying in 2025, you can ask it
to program anything you want.
Yeah. Wait till, wait till it, hits it's
it hits quantum computing.
Yeah. Coders coders beware, man. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Coders beware, bro. But yeah. So
we need you guys to do this,
homework.
Inshallah.
And then next week.
And then we'll finish
the signs of the three parts of sentences,
and then we'll stop at.