Summary: اَلَّلهُمَّ جَعَلنَا مِنهُم وَمِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُو وَعَمَلُوا الصَّالِحَات وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْر.آمين يا رب العالمين<br> ثم عم بعد فاعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم.انا انزلنه قرآنًا عربياً لعلكم تعقلون<br> Inshaa Allahu t’ala in this hour and 15 minutes or so we are gonna have a session on the brilliance, as it’s entitled, the “Brilliance of the Book”. The way I am gonna conduct this session is not gonna be a lecture. And I know you have heard that before and then you still get a lecture. So I’ll be…try and set some ground roots inshaa Allahu t’ala.<br> Anyone here ever attended a class with me, anyone here? Ok, a good number of you. Those of you who haven’t, good for you. Um what we are gonna be doing inshaa Allah is I am gonna try and present a topic to you as though you and two other people are sitting here. Don’t pretend you’re sitting here with like, 300 people. And I am gonna be repeating things. I am gonna ask you to repeat them with me. And in the middle of it all, I am gonna start asking questions to see if you remember what we just talked about and then we are gonna build ideas one after the other to get to certain conclusions inshaa Allahu t’ala.<br> Before we talk about the amazing features and the brilliance and the inimitable, incomparable beauty of the Quran we have to set some ground work, some foundational work. So we have to talk about that first.<br> So the first thing I am gonna talk to about is, the 3 kinds of Arabic. If you are taking notes, take notes. If not, take mental notes.<br> 3 kinds of Arabic. Now I am gonna over simplify. This is not an academic lecture so I am trying to present this in a way it’s easy to remember, easy to understand inshaa Allah. There are many more kinds of Arabic but for this discussion, 3 kinds of Arabic. I am not gonna list them on the screen. I am just gonna tell you what they are. We’ll call them Spoken Arabic.<br> #1 – Spoken Arabic<br> #2- Proper Arabic<br> And #3- ancient Arabic.<br> Who remembers? Don’t look in your notes.<br> Call it out. Call it out. Call it out.<br> Spoken. Proper. Ancient. Ok.<br> Spoken Arabic is like, another word for it is busted Arabic, or slang, or twisted, demented, mutated, ugly. Also called ‘Ammiyah. ‘Ammiyah is dialectal arabic meaning Egyptians have their own, Algerians have their own, Moroccans have their own, the Lebanese have their own, the people from Khaleej, from the Gulf States they have their own. Everybody has their own, which Arabic?<br> Spoken Arabic. They have their own spoken Arabic. Ok?<br> They can be as far apart for those of you that happen to be desi like, from urdu to Punjabi. Ok? Could be that far apart. Or in English, it could be like English VS Guyanese. If any of you know, if you have ever heard Guyanese, proper Guyanese, you can’t really understand it if you just know English unless the Guyanese fellow decides to use English with you. Otherwise you can’t understand ok? So though they are related, they are not the same. They are not the same.<br> Now, That’s spoken. What were the other two?<br> Proper and ancient. In that order. Remember them in that order. Spoken, proper and then ancient.<br> The newspaper, the Arabic newspaper, the Arabic, you know, news television program, Al-Jazeera or whatever, that’s all in proper Arabic. That’s all in proper Arabic. The Arabic term for that is Al-Fus’ha, Al-Fus’ha. Also if you have taken Arabic in college, they call it modern standard Arabic. What they mean by that is Fus’ha, proper Arabic ok? That’s proper language. It’s correct Arabic. It’s enunciated correctly. It uses the rules of grammar. Spoken Arabic, is it too concerned with grammar? No. But proper Arabic is. Proper Arabic is actually appropriate Arabic, correct Arabic. So when you’re learning proper Arabic, when you’re learning Fus’ha, you’re learning correct Arabic. There’s nothing wrong with it.<br>
