scott stars it has infinite
possibilities and meaning then there's
the there's in fact more so than the
night sky because the night sky is
finite whereas the quran is from the
speech of allah which is infinite so
it's its meanings are inexhaustible and
they won't be exhausted in any one
lifetime or even the lifetime of the
ummah so it's a deep book and the arabic
language is a deep language because the
arabic language is the vehicle which
which allah subhanho wa taala has
revealed his book it's revealed in the
language of the arm and so the language
itself has a depth which will if you
take it on upon yourself will give you
more depth it will increase your own
understanding and don't think that the
Arabs have access to this because they
don't the Arabs have been cut off from
their language just like the Muslims
have been cut off from Islam and the
Deen and all these things you see most
Arabs are speaking Arabic without
realizing what the meanings of the words
they're saying they don't know they
don't know that about the root system
they don't know they don't see
connections between the words and I'm
not making this up they've been cut off
from their language and partly because
they've adopted Western ways of teaching
Arabic they left the traditional ways of
teaching the language because one of the
sciences of the language called Konoha
which is learning at the the in-depth
understanding of words that words in
Arabic are very specific and it was one
of the traditional sciences that was
taught in in the Muslim University but
people don't know that anymore I
remember years ago I was in bleedin
Algeria at one of the own amaz house and
I was looking in his library and he had
a book by a styler be called saloa and I
opened the book and I was looking at it
is very complicated to me at that time
and I asked him about it and he said he
said
Lindy hack you know this is something
learn your objective first learn the
alphabet and learn then you can look
into this so the language is
inexhaustible and it doesn't stop
but part of learning the language is
recognizing that it is a means and it's
not an int and in the way that I was
taught in from the Mauritanian scholars
is that knowledge goes like this my aha
you don't own a fool what the most
important knowledge is your Arpita how
you understand allah subhanaw taala and
the messenger in the idea ahem ooh ha ha
zoom zoom my for one and then the
follow-up to know the fit of by for what
not by Oh sue see some people now they
want to start fit with a soul and not
learn follow up you know we start with
photo ID just like the tree you first
see the branches you don't see the roots
you have to before you learn about the
roots of the tree you have to learn
about the branches of the tree and when
we think of a tree we don't think of
roots we think first of the trunk and
the branches and so that's what we learn
is the photo I tell so will form and
then Tessa wolf which has to do with
action how you act with what you know so
now you know epatha and you know food or
now you have to act according to it with
sincerity you have to believe in a lot
of applause and you have to do practice
your fifth with a class well not when we
do it let me out with a lot welcome you
seen the who Dean that's all they were
commanded to do was to worship Allah
which is you need up either and you need
fit to do that
you can't worship Allah without our key
then and without fit and you need to be
much less militia in the hoody you have
to have their claws and that's possible
so so often what an attorney has to do
what and you have to have a tool to
begin all of this
with and that's the Arabic language well
adit only has one so the Arabic language
is a tool by which you access the Deen
the meanings of the Deen
now this in no way should imply that a
Muslim can be a Muslim we cannot be a
Muslim without knowing Arabic that's a
false analogy or a false reasoning there
are many Muslims that have lived and
died in Islam and been much better
Muslims than the people who know the
Arabic language inside and out that
never knew any Arabic and that's
possible is it the desired situation no
it's not the desired situation because
it's the desired situation is that your
Deen is complete and part of the
completion of the Deen is understanding
the Book of Allah and that can't be
understood without the Arabic language
it doesn't mean you can't understand the
message of Islam without Arabic you can
the message of Islam can be transmitted
somebody can understand that I hate the
law without being a Muslim and there's
Muslims all over the world that do in
the vast majority of Muslims are non
Arabic speaking but Imam Shafi
in his City sada but of the alarm who
says yes you were adequately more tender
than any autonomy my who do who do who
min it out of the earth or you thought
of it out of the EMA
it's necessary for every McKenith right
which is a person who's reached puberty
to learn what he's capable of the
language of the era
and we know that Imam Shafi or the one
who lives 17 years amongst the desert
Arabs to absorb the language completely
and he is one of the great masters of
the Arabic language he spent 17 years
because he wanted to understand the
Quran and Benny Tamim still had a very
pure Arabic even already in this
beginning of the second century the
early part of the second century so
inshallah what what should happen is we
should make a commitment to learning
language and recognize that the language
can be learned that's an important
aspect of all of this the language can
be learned but it's it's literally once
you've said about learning the language
and insha Allah what what I think what I
can do for you in this month is to
really maybe give you some basic because
for an agony to learn the language is
not like an Arab who's learning the
language somebody who's Arabic by tongue
their mother tongue it's not the same as
an ad Jimmy who's learning the language
from start an Arab even though it's a
dialectical broken Arabic despite that
they have an advantage in some ways and
in some ways a disadvantage but they
have an advantage over non Arab because
of the
that they got from their childhood and
then also they studied even in the
modern schooling most of the primary and
secondary education is in Arabic but for
them to really study the language they
have to break a lot of bad habits and
things like that for a non-arab to learn
you're starting without the bad habits
right so you can learn the language in a
different way so there's advantages and
disadvantages to having dialectical
arabic or not having it but for the
Ajami person to learn Arabic the best
way to go about it I think is to look at
how the grammar the morphology and the
grammar is structured because the
Persians did this work for non Arabs
really I mean even though say now Ali is
attributed out of the Ilan who with
giving the first guidelines to putting
down the Arabic language to avoid us
what it do any was one of his companions
he was given the the guidelines for
doing this and he told him he said he he
told him that a lot of Vietnam kazuya
data data is form of animal holophone
and he said somehow had a now you have
ISM a ISM and you have a feral and a
house you have nouns which include
adjectives and pronouns and all
then you have verb time related words
and then you have conjunctions particles
and prepositions and then he said go
this way fun who had a now and that's
where you got the word now for grammar
but the reason that that's what a doily
came to him and complained to him was
that his daughter made Al and she
mispronounced something or she actually
made a grammatical mistake which worried
him now the reason she did that is
because what was happening is many
people were marrying Persians women
and/or having servants who were non Arab
and just like today in the Arabian
Peninsula you have now this phenomenon
of a lot of indo-pakistani or
Bangladeshi
or Filipino servants from Indonesia
coming and they learn a very broken at
Arabic and the children will often
because they speak more with the
servants they'll get these really bad
habits of broken Arabic right now
already they have a broken Arabic but
now they're getting a even more
transmogrified version of the language
it's it's gotten worse and this is a
danger always and so what grammar was
established as a way one of preserving
the language of the Quran but to of
taking non Arabs and and giving them the
ability to understand because people
native speakers tend not to know so much
their their grammar there are many
English people walking around speaking
excellent syntactical English and not
making any mistakes in their in their
language but if you ask them to give you
a grammatical analyses of a sentence
structure they might not know at all
they might have had it back in school
but they can't remember
anymore but because they've learned the
language like this they don't really
need it whereas for the eruv and the
non-arab now in order to understand the
quran you have to have an understanding
of grammar you have to and the Quran
cannot be interpreted without
understanding the nature of the grammar
of the Quran and the morphology and and
the semantics of the language because
that's one of the sciences of Islam is
understanding what the words meant at
the time of the revelation not later
you can't take a word like for instance
in modern Arabic muta ser means backward
in the sense of like a Dola muta Azshara
a country that's back technologically
and Dolan with the edema so the
Europeans are called muta at the moon
and the Muslims are called muta a
theorem that's what in modern linguistic
discourse they'll say you know they'll
say something like tuna stolen go to
akhira for firaon Saddam attack oedema
Tunis is a backward country and France
is a progressive country well if you
take that same vocabulary and look at
the Quran it says quite the opposite it
says Neiman Sanya - aha and yet Adam oh
yet aha that this book is for those who
they want to get up at them by believing
in it and following it or yet AHA by
just believing it and not following it
so the Quranic nature of the pediment
offer has to do with belief and Cooper
so by our if we're using Quranic Arabic
we would say Forenza is Delta Akira and
Tunis is dolomitic Idina by the language
of the Quran so we can't take how the
moderns use the language and try to
apply it and this has been done very
stupidly you know I've heard people say
things that have nothing to do with the
nature of the Arabic language and then
they
somebody's tried to say that Adam was
meant human beings and wasn't an
individual she's a woman she teaches
Arab Islamic history in Kentucky
PhD but a fact Assam and I heard her
give a lecture and she said o Adam means
the human beings
it doesn't mean an individual so when
the Quran says Adam the oh and then what
this is even more absurd she said that
when Allah says Allah vihara hokum in
Neffs and wahida wahala Amin ha ahaaaaa
the one who created you from one nafs
and created from that nufs its mate she
said nuts is feminine and xoj is
masculine so the woman was created
before the man so this is type of
stupidity and ignorance that exists in
this day and age you know because people
don't there's no traditional knowledge
anymore being imparted and so everybody
you know Kulemin have bola de bay if
they can and everybody that can get up
on their two feet and put sentences
together can lecture and and do things
and this what's happening and so a lot
of false information is being spread
about Islam so inshallah hopefully in
this month you know we'll we'll we'll
just try to look at at some of the basic
structure of the Arabic language for
some people there's going to be some
review and and that's always good
generally
is not a bad thing if you look in the
traditional pop apart they'll say things
like Walker Al Jarreau Nia Allah and
foolin and then Walker on edge oromia
a la una Black Hills have read the edge
over Mia several times it is true or not
true yeah
they'll take one same book and read it
with several different teachers and part
of it is the reinforcing of knowledge
right and the other thing is that we
forget when Takata Crawford Abood onion
said the one that leaves repetition they
forget so there's no harm in going over
things a second time if you've already
done some of the things before it's
always good and what I found is
generally when you do things the second
or the third time you get openings that
you didn't have the first time so
there's always a blessing to that also
so hopefully you know during this time
my recommendation to myself and and all
of you is like one of them said what
what walk to emphasis or not we need to
be ugly he was had a cameo bo time is
the most precious thing that you're
concerned with preserving and I see it's
the easiest thing that you can lose time
is the most precious thing that you
should conserve and it's the easiest
thing that can be lost so you have a
month and a month is actually in this
day and age toward the end of time the
awesome as Nina time begins to be
constricted it goes very fast I was just
in a two-week teaching thing in New
Mexico and it was gone just like that
so today inshallah we ask a lot to give
us Baraka at the time because if there's
butter cut you'll find that there's you
have more time when there's less Baraka
then time goes faster right
so hopefully Allah give us Baraka so
there's more time more
managed to the time we have but what I
would really highly recommend is just to
really take take the time here seriously
to just study and for those of you who
have been studying in the university or
have recently been in courses and things
like that it's going to be a little
easier because you're used to to doing
some study for people who haven't you
just have to you know subdue the nephs
attic a useful man Dan and EPSA who well
I mean any neither animal being the one
who has intelligence subdues his self
and works for what's coming after death
and part of this learning all of this in
Charlotte is Armin Lehmann about the
molten Chama learning because learning
any signs of the Dean is for a fella
it's not for dunya although it has dunya
application is for Ashura so you should
consider in Java all of this that s
event of law you know to consider in
shallow that Allah will give you reward
for it and it's for your eyes that are
not for your dunya and so that's the one
who has intelligence subdue the self and
work for what's after death and
inshallah that's what we're going to do
here for this month and people in
shallow they'll be benefit for all of us
and see ya unless you have dollars here
so people who have questions especially
concerning v matters and
like that you know he's much aa good
resource for us while we're here and
then inshallah when the other teachers
come about halfway through other things
will happen so hopefully you know this
will be just a harmonious month United
what I would warn all of us against
myself first is not wasting our time in
frivolous talk the Prophet said cutting
along with a comma beta will con will
cut about the suit ad what you're buying
that Allah dislikes for you empty talk
and too much questioning and wasting
wealth and part your most precious
wealth that you have is your own life
you know it's high up itself
that's your rocks mad that's your
capital is your life so shall I try to
avoid vain taco will live in home I
don't know we might home malleable those
who turn away from the level right and
lava is from lava language is from empty
talk because the vast majority of what
people talk about is meaningless right
if you think about what everybody on the
earth right now is talking about
subhanAllah really think about that all
this five billion people now right now
what they're saying and then he did this
and then he did that and old tomatoes
are so expensive now and oh I have to go
pick up my laundry and you know oh he's
an idiot or oh I'm so worried about my
mortgage payment and I don't know
and this is what people are talking
about all over the world you know you
hear a language that you don't
understand it sounds very interesting
and then you've learned the language and
they're talking about the same empty
things that people in your language are
talking about
so lava is from lava you know to be have
empty talk for mine lava filleted you
moretta hole and the one who speaks has
no Joomla and you can get into a whole
other meaning of that about the nature
of Jemma
because language is separateness and
silence is gathered miss when you speak
you lose gathered 'no sand that's why
silence is the prophetic nature you only
spoke when he had something to say
they say the focus of lies in an
automatic nests were either take a limit
they can never be fair he was thus most
silent of people but when he spoke he
spoke good things
what doesn't mean that we have to all
become morose and somber and because the
Prophet wasn't morose he wasn't a
Puritan alhamdulillah
and he wasn't morose he was a very happy
person he smiled all the time they
called him a Bach it's one of the names
imam see all he said was given to him he
used to tell funny things that made
people laugh he sat with his wives he
spoke sweet things you know so he was
he's not morose and we shouldn't become
morose and when you start seeing people
get morose you need to like tickle them
or something like that just you know
lighten up the Muslims have too much
heaviness on them nowadays you know
which doesn't mean we come frivolous
people right it's a balance between the
two not become morose not become
frivolous it's the balance between the
two and that's the middle way of the
Prophet Elisha he's a man who was GAD
that when they're needed to be did and
he was sweet when there was time for
sweetness that's his nature so Allah
knows
Shalala give us the benefit of his son
and it was to follow any question or
well I think you know part of what's
happened Arabic has become they called
the modern what they teach in the
university is use it and looked at what
is the standard language of the average
educated Arab now what's problematic
with that is a great deal of modern
Arabic is in fact English translated
into Arabic because what happened is the
newspapers traditionally the Muslims did
not have newspapers which was very
intelligent on their part but what
happened when the newspapers began to
come into the Muslim world and the first
one one of the first started was by
Allah Frannie and the Ottawa that was
pod and they they began to write these
articles now when they began to get on
to the news wires of the West
Reuters Associated Press United Press
International UPI they would get these
news things right in Cairo there'd be
some Arab in Cairo and then this news
story would come in and he would get it
in English and he would just translate
it into Arabic and most of them were not
educated islamically and or even very
well in Arabic their hack writers just
like most journalists are and so they
would say something like today America
played an important role in the talks
between the Israelis and the Egyptians
so he would look at that and he would
just say today Eliam America played an
important role naivet America Delrin
Mohan Minh right in the talks between
Israelis and eat chips and film ofawadh
Daniel is Sarah a Tegan one more serene
and they would literally do a direct
translation and then they would write
the whole article like that so for
instance lavador on started to become
used by Arabs it's now
two Arab idiom you won't find it in any
classical Arabic because the Arab don't
talk about playing roles because they
don't have a history of theater so it's
a metaphor that comes out of European
language because Europeans
indo-europeans have a long tradition of
theater so they have the whole idea he
played a role where as Arab don't have
that they have no idea of playing a role
because they don't have theatre
traditionally so there's an example of
an alien idiom being introduced into the
Arabic language that has become part of
modern Arabic discourse so you'll hear
Arabs all the time saying how the yet
adorable him or something like that and
he doesn't even know that it's not even
from his language now one can argue well
that's a Puritans view and language by
its nature is moving and blah blah blah
but from another point of view note
there's a platonic language and there's
a classical Arabic which is the language
of scholarship and and that's the Arabic
that traditionally was adhered to so so
what's happened is you get a lot of loan
words now and Arabic language another
example is the whole idea of point of
view which is alien to the Arabs
you know from so-and-so's point of view
min which has another fool and which had
another is a modern idiomatic
expressions taken from a European
expression so so modern Standard Arabic
you're going to learn a lot of these
modern idioms right and an interesting
book to read is a book called the Erebus
I think it's by Mac could be called the
Arabist a romantic of an American elite
I wouldn't buy it but if you happen to
see just one of the books you can skim
read it was written about the people who
studied Arabic in order to
for the American State Department and
it's very interesting because they used
to study quite extensively and then now
they're having more and more difficulty
but they had one man Hume Horan who was
the ambassador to Saudi Arabia and
because he spoke such good Arabic King
Fahad was very intimidated by him
because it was hard for him to you know
if I had speaks broken Arabic and this
guy would come and he was speaking
really good classical Arabic and new
poetry and things like that and so they
actually the Saudis asked for him to be
taken out and they sent some cowboy
rides he couldn't speak Arabic because
then they feel more comfortable because
they're uneducated people and sudden you
have a an ambassador who knows Arabic
better than you do and you're the king
of the place called Arabia the land of
the Arabs and it looks pretty bad so but
this man Hume Horan studied with a man
named Hamilton give who was one of the
big Orientalists and he was a head of
the Harvard School of Oriental Studies
and Hume was reading a book which was
written by an American at one of the
Arab Syrian Arabs of the 1930s and he
said it was all really lousy half-baked
philosophy that didn't really have
and he asked give you know and give told
him he said Hume you're dealing with the
Arabs now and this is as good as it gets
and this is the way that they look at
the Arab that there is no inter back
there anymore nothing so modern Arabic
what they teach in the Universities is
basically this kind of you'll read
things like it again you know
you'll read the OP card and and follow
saying the people of the Namib are
what's called the Renaissance of late
19th century Egypt that's at best they
won't give you for Edina vazhi or a
Muhammad's or really they don't and some
schools like I think Cambridge and
Oxford and things you know you'd
probably read some classical poetry but
in America in a lot of the universities
there they literally you end up MoMA
Hamid you're in that course what are you
reading
they're very superficial very
superficial I mean I know people that
went to Georgetown which is one of the
number one universities for
international study and they read so
that they can learn political language
just diplomatic language things like
that but to get into depth in the Arabic
language there's in the West there's
very few places where you'd have really
serious training and in the end also
you're not learning Arabic the way the
Arabs view the language and that's what
we want to see is how the era's
understand their own
not how the West has projected their own
ideas onto the Arabic language we want
to understand Arabic from the way it's
you know it was R was revealed the
meanings were revealed to the Persians
in the Arab Muslim because they had a
Muslim world view so while I wouldn't
discourage you know people that are here
in the West I think it's important that
we start getting into the departments
you know and displacing a lot of the
Jewish and Christian elements in the
department because they're very
antagonistic to Islam and there can be a
lot of good work done in middle-eastern
departments whether we can get into
those departments is another matter you
know because these have traditionally
been strongholds of Orientalism and the
enemies of Islam but it's it's a good
opportunity for for Muslims because of
the whole nature of what's happened in
the West now you know because they've
set forward these all these politically
correct ideas of multiculturalism and
pluralism and all of these things
whether or not they're going to fulfill
them is another matter and historically
one would tend to say no because they've
always talked about the rights of man
long and and
they're basically hypocrites so Allah
Adam but I think now in the United
States there's several very good Muslim
people that are in Middle Eastern or
Islamic Studies departments and they're
having an impact
you know people become Muslim in these
programs and this is important for us to
infiltrate these very
but I would tend to say the first thing
you know you can learn very good Arabic
I think probably I think you could get
to a proficient level in in a year and
and if you're starting with just reading
here in a month I think
inshallah in a month you can get to a
reasonable level of understanding how
the structure of the language structure
of the morphology and and and get to a
point where you can read the whore on
with a dictionary and be getting a lot
of the basic meaning but to move into
nuance of the language to get into
subtlety that's a lifetime study it just
goes on and on
so but the the language you know with a
serious commitment to the language I
think it can be learned in a reasonable
amount of time it's not it's not an
impossible task by
anything
the
I mean traditionally the anima they have
our books whole books written because
Muslims specially medieval Muslims were
very obsessed with like the Europeans
with memorizing vast amounts of
literature and being like that so they'd
say eat raisins and don't eat sour
things and use a see wax stick there's a
whole bunch of them but one
or on
I think the best what I've heard from
people is the best is tapped uh falafel
la Hamlet on you know memories a gift
from Allah
people have different degrees of
memories some people are very quick
memory some people takes them longer to
memorize in Mauritania traditionally
they've said and those people have
phenomenal memory they've said that it's
actually a curse to have a very fast
memory because people with fast memory
tend not to appreciate what they've
learned and they lose it faster and
people have to work harder tend to
appreciate it more and they don't tend
to retain it longer that's been their
experience of the difference between the
two you know there is the Muslims have a
lot of mnemonic devices as well for
memorizing things and poetry was one of
them learning things in didactic poems
and things like that so that's one of
the reasons why so much of the Islamic
knowledge was put into two PI G's which
jouza is a very simple type of poetic
schema that can be memorized easily so
that was one of the ways so but I think
part of it I have inshallah they're
coming on I guess on Saturday or
something like that but I have very good
series of handouts you know the
can use to learn and I'm going to cover
that follow on what what to do