Said in the Quran that truly we have
sent down this reminder and we have
taken it upon ourselves to protect it
what you know I would have you home and
this is a departure from previous
revelatory dispensation from Allah in
that a lot
put the task of preservation on the
previous people we won't be masterful
in Qatar Allah they were they were given
his staff of the task of preserving the
book for themselves and this situation
in human history
resulted in the corruption of the
previous books because of the corrupted
nature of human being sold they changed
the book they wrote things in them they
took things out of them and so the
Divine Word was actually changed and so
with the final revelation and because
there would be no profits after to
rectify or to clarify the book the book
of the prophets a lot is to them and
this is one of the blessings of this
Ummah is that Allah Savannah with the
ana promised to preserve the vicar the
reminder so Allah take it upon himself
with his divine aim at how he'll because
our lies the preserver or the protector
he took it upon himself with that divine
name to maintain the Book of Allah
Savannah at the end and what that means
is that not only with the book
we preserved but all of the requisite
knowledge is needed to preserve the
message of Allah also go under that
preservation so from that the hadith is
preserved because without the hadith and
the quran can't be understood in its
entirety because the prophet saw license
life is an example and a practical
application of the Quran itself because
like aisha radi Lynette said can afford
apartment his nature was the Quran WA
indicadata hood opening so the vast
nature of the Quran because it's a
foreigner darling in who Nikita Boone
Ali no kidding
so Allah has made the book in its
greatness embodied in the greatness of
the prophets Allah I am in his nature
and so the preservation of the Sunna is
part of the preservation of the book so
the book is preserved by Allah and the
Sunnah is preserved by Allah and because
of that Allah has had two types of
people the people of Quran and those are
the first people that is Friday near
Tamimi
Robbie lana puts in his category of an
eternity well Jumeirah the people that
preserve the quran and the people that
preserve the Sunnah of the Prophet
Muhammad and from the preservation of
the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad is
the preservation of the understanding of
how the Quran is applied in human life
this is called fit and so the fit of
this Islam is preserved by the folk aha
but because the Quran the Sunnah cannot
be understood without Arabic language in
other words the fill of these two
vehicles of enlightenment awareness of
one's Lord the the two vehicles are
ignited through understanding and the
understanding can only come from the
Arabic language because Allah says
ananza Yahoo or Annan arabiya under
kunitake note we have made this
and Arabic we have made it an Arabic
Quran Ned yeah I know yeah I'm now in
the down oh oh I'm them now and them now
there's two exactly yeah there's two so
one is it was revealed in Arabic another
it was placed into Arabic the Quran or
Jannah can have different meanings in
the Arabic language so the Quran is
Arabic by its nature the Arabic cannot
be separated from the Quran because it's
Oran and out of via so because Allah has
put that attribute with the Quran you
cannot separate the out of via from the
Quran in the same way you can't separate
the the attribute of mercy from Allah
you can't say Allah is not right man
because Allah is rockman it's a it's an
attribute that cannot be separate from
Allah subhana wa to Anna and the allah's
kalam cannot be separate from the Arabic
language you can't separate the two you
can't say Kadam Allah and then you say
it's not Arabic because Allah says that
it's caught on an auto via and in a key
that there's a very fine point of
academic as a Dior Kadampa Dean and the
trans linguistic nature of that column
but you know at the the basic level in
which is Ayesha meant when she said ma
baina def attained and must have or t
tavola medina despot a and must have
Kadam Allah what's between the two
boundaries or the two the two covers of
the most house is the Kurama law that
that is the Kurama law so that is how
Allah chose to speak to human beings in
the Arabic language and therefore when
Allah said that in that level 1/2 alone
we will preserve the book not only is it
the preservation of the book but the
preservation of the Arabic language as
well so the Arabic language is preserved
now if you look at this intern
of traditional sacred scriptures we know
of all of the scriptures that claim to
be divine whether you look at the Hindu
scripture or you look at the Buddhist
scripture or you look at the Christian
scripture or the Jewish scripture all of
the books in which individuals or
communities claim that these books have
a divine status none of them have had
the preservation of the Koran and none
of their languages have been preserved
like the language of Quran now just to
look at the Judaic tradition the first
due date the first Hebrew lexicon is
already in the ninth century two hundred
years after the Islamic revelation they
don't have any dictionaries older than
that they have tradition in their oral
tradition the Mishnah where they study
the Torah of meanings of words in the
Old Testament but they do not have a
systematic lexicography that the Muslims
have in fact they got the idea from the
Muslim they literally got the idea of
preserving the words of their book from
the Muslims this means that a book that
begins its revelation several thousand
years three thousand years before that
we're not talking two hundred three
thousand years before that they begin to
actually write down what the words mean
now it's a known fact now that in Hebrew
studies Hebrew scholars are forced to go
to classical Arabic dictionaries to see
what the Arabs had to say about the root
words because the root structures are
very similar in the Semitic languages in
order to get a more ancient
understanding of their own root
structures so if a Hebrew scholar wants
to know what the root of Shalom which is
like selling my in Arabic they'll look
what see what the Arabs say about the
roots of that word because they're very
related languages so their language
wasn't preserved now we know that Hebrew
was a dead language until the foundation
of Israel like Latin it died now part of
when
which dies is you don't know how it was
originally pronounced they have no signs
of tissue Eid in their language they
don't know how their the Torah was
originally recited you see we know
exactly how the Quran was recited from
the very beginning fish weed was
preserved the Maharaja Haru which is
where the the letters emanate from their
source emanations we know exactly where
they are to the exact degree and we had
scholars and still have scholars to this
day that if you make a slight variation
and he knows it's wrong if you look at
the Greek New Testament they don't know
how it sounded they don't know how the
original Christians who were reading
that book read it so if you study a New
Testament Greek they don't know how
exactly how the vowing sounded they
don't know how though some of the words
sounded and letters and they certainly
don't know what a lot of them meant in
there and Zach meaning because the
meanings weren't preserved so there's a
great deal of debate so the books were
not preserved you see I mean even at
this level we're not talking just about
the the simple level of having the book
with you in its totality which they can
claim like the Jews can claim we have
the Torah in its totality the Christians
can claim we have the Gospels in their
totality but none of them can claim that
we know exactly what every single word
means in the Quran that we know exactly
how sounded when it was revealed or when
the people were speaking it at the
beginnings of the tradition they don't
know the only other linguistic tradition
that has any parallel to the Islamic
tradition is the Chinese there are the
only people that have had a level of
preservation in their language but still
there's much debate because there are
dictionaries although they precede the
Muslim dictionary are not as
sophisticated as the Muslim dictionary
in fact lexicography is really an
Islamic science
and the Europeans learned it from the
Muslims the earliest English dictionary
is already the 16th century in England
so we don't know how what Chows are
meant even Shakespeare you look at any
Shakespearean tradition and you'll see
that there's wide debate about what
certain words meant at the time of
Shakespeare we're only talking a few
hundred years ago 16th 17th century
English and we don't know what they
meant by the words that they were using
this is only a few hundred years ago
five hundred years ago and they don't
know what what they meant by Dahl the
word they were using some of them they
have to just say what we think he meant
this we think he meant that it could
have been this it could have been that
if you look in the Quran you will find
no word in the Quran that the Muslims
don't know the exact definition of the
word the book has been preserved in its
meanings and in its letter to the letter
and to the meanings of the letter so
part of the preservation was the Arabic
language now the other thing is is it
because of the sophistication of the
Arabic language first there's a few
things to to recognize about the Arabic
language one the nature of science is
exactness this is what science prides
itself on exactness of definition one of
the aspects and this is why scientists
have traditionally preferred mathematics
as a language to articulate meanings in
as opposed to linguistic human
communicative languages why because they
are not as exact there's a great deal of
ambiguity in them and so traditionally
the science of or the language of the
scientists has been mathematics the
Quran the Arabic language of all
languages is termed even by Western
students of the language to be a
mathematical language in fact they
called algebraic in nature it's a
precise language but within the
precision is a great deal of room but
it's very precise in its structures and
in it
formats the morphology of Arabic is
fascinating in what it can do it's what
they call in linguistics a fusional
language which is the more sophisticated
of the different various types of
languages more can be said in it it has
an inexhaustible source of root
structures and from those root
structures semantic fields of meaning
are created from the root structures one
learns about the source meanings of
words so one can go by looking at a
world if you look at a word like nuts
and nuts is an important word because it
has to do with the nature of the human
soul itself so if you look at the word
nuts
at the root of the word nafs is nafisa
and nafisa there's two forms one of them
has to do with being precious being
precious the other has to do with being
niggardly withholding so right at the
very root of the the word Mouse we're
being told something that is essential
to the human nature that it is precious
but that it's also niggardly you see now
if you begin to move out and move to a
second base which is nafisa neff as a
means to release or make easy what was
difficult manifest occur Burton Omen FSI
corabeth Athena fossil bahudha who
Korriban me Alcor bottom in corrupt
if you somebody who gives tempies for
his brother then allah gives him 10 feet
under llamo Keanu you see so the idea of
the human being is somebody who is
giving help to his fellow human beings
you not fish you know and then if you
move to the third base which is NASA it
means to compete or to vie to become
competitive now this when you start
looking at these semantic fields then
you begin to realize that the language
is not a kit there's what the Europeans
have said about it is there appears to
be an artificial 'ti to the language in
other words that it's a constructed
language that it's not an arbitrary
language because of the sophistication
of the semantic field
it appears that somebody designed the
language that it doesn't seem like just
a group of people just agreed let's
let's call this this and let's call that
this and and you can see the
arbitrariness of English you see you can
see it when they need a word they look
what how did the Greek say that how did
the Latin say that how did the German
say that how did the Celts say that and
so you can see that English language is
pulled from a lot of different languages
but when you look in the arabic language
there's a construction to the language
that would indicate that there's
intelligence behind the language itself
that it's not an arbitrary nurs and
there's debates about where language
originated there are debates some some
believe that and it's called the
dingdong theory in linguistics I think
that language originated from just
imitating sounds like ding dong you know
this is called animal patek were they
called in Arabic is more salt in Arabic
something that sounds like the thing
itself right and there are some words
like Wes witha you see Wes Wes aus we su
it sounds like the thing itself which is
to whisper
and there's a theory that this is where
language originated which is absurd is
this it's ridiculous I mean obviously
there are words that have this
characteristic or quality but there are
many words that don't now the way the
traditional Muslim scholars and this is
really important the way the traditional
Muslim scholars looked at the Arabic
language is that it was not most by the
Holly that it was not something that
people just arbitrarily agreed to call
this a Shahada you see if you look at
the word Shahada and then you get into
kufan and bustle and debates about what
comes first a verb or the noun because
there were debates amongst the scholar
but if you look at the root word of
Shahada the word has to do with
argumentation argumentation who shadow
or yet asadulin to argue to debate with
one another so you say how does the idea
of argumentation come out of the word
for a tree Shahji ah
right and Allah says don't go near this
edge out of this tree how does the word
argumentation come from the word tree
how what do you think one branches you
see where does argumentation come from
it comes from differing branches
differing understanding you see so if
you look at another word for
argumentation which is he loud not
telling fool if you look at the word ft
laughs the word ft laughs has to do it's
an eighth base verb right and the the
root is Khalifa which means to leave
behind in Khalifa is the one left behind
right like the prophets Khalifa is
Khalifa to Rasul Allah is Abu Bakr
because he was left behind to take the
place of the prophet Elijah in the
governmental aspects of the Prophet
obviously not in why because no one has
why after the Prophet but in relation to
the prophets governance there is the
hokum is there we know what the icon
and there has to be somebody to
implement it and abu-bakr took that
place and then all mod and then earth
man and say hi and then to the return of
Halawa at the end of time
so the idea of leaving behind and then
if you look at the 8th base form which
is called the if CI and form if style is
value if Tianna this form has to do with
a reflexive quality or the
internalization it's what they call in
greek they have a middle mood we don't
have it in english but it has to do with
doing something related to the self or
for the self or the internalization of
something so if you look at the idea of
health which means behind its your back
I mean Vania day he woman healthy from
what is in front of you and what's from
behind you mean healthy so health has to
do with the back now if you look at the
idea Halawa you Hari for heal a fan it
means that you disagree with somebody so
why would the word for disagreement be
related to the word which has to do with
leaving behind where's the relationship
where's the relationship
it's something a little bit before that
what's the relationship what do we say
about individuals do you know anything
about his background right do you know
anything about his background everybody
has a background everybody has something
that's following his his behind that
comes with him when he comes to the
table so each individual has a life
experience related to how he has lived
his life what experiences he's had and
those life experiences including how his
parents treated him how his teachers
treated him what he was taught in school
if he had teachers at all what his
friends were like how they treated him
if he's short if he's tall these are
going to have psychological implications
on how a person views the world and so
each person has what's called a
healthier and this is in arabic as
salvia is your background your salvia is
your background when you come as a group
of individuals if you are not aware of
somebody else's background then this is
where disputation horizon
you see argumentation because you're not
seeing it from that perspective of the
other individual and this is why one of
the important components in dealing with
human beings is to understand their
background if you look at the prophet
sallallaahu some them there was a
bedouin once you did you have something
you wanted to share if you look at the
prophets of light Sam the Bedouin came
to him and he jerked his roll until they
said some ephemeral appeared in the neck
of the Prophet some redness and the
Prophet turned him and said what do you
want and he said give me something from
what Allah has given you and the Prophet
said and why should I do that
and he said after what you did to me in
other words and he said because I heard
you're somebody that doesn't repay a
wrong with another wrong right now the
Prophet smiled and gave him something
if you look at that part of it is the
profit understood men better Jaffa he
articulated that whoever lives in the
desert becomes dry now when I lived in
the desert when I had gotten came back
to the desert after a long time when I
first saw my teacher that I wept you
know I had some tears and somebody told
me later he said you know this earth has
dried out our tears we don't cry very
often in fact one of the Arabs said you
Kylie no Alana piata I hadn't then I'll
allow the Ichabod and easily people weep
about us but we don't weep over anyone
our livers are more tough than the
livers of camels because the liver is
the seed of emotion you see in the Arab
tradition and also in the Greek
tradition delivers the seed of emotion
and if you don't believe it is just try
getting hepatitis and see what happens
to you because your liver is no longer
functioning so you become very angry and
irritability is one of the symptoms of
hepatitis in western medical textbooks
you look under hepatitis symptoms
irritability and anger why are they
getting irritable angry because the the
liver is not functioning properly and so
the emotions get out of balance you're
no longer able to integrate them so the
the earth itself is drying by nature and
emotions have to do with robobot they're
wet you see and so these people have
less emotion than other people and also
because of the harshness of the life
they can't be emotional people it's a
very difficult place to live so the
nature of the life necessitates a type
of toughness and so they're not like
other people now because of that the the
prophets Eliza have said men bedded
Jaffa and because he knew salamati S&M;
that these people are are harsh in their
nature that it's really something that
you have to put up with you can't fall
them in that way because it is literally
part of the environment in which they
grow up in and so by understanding their
Haldia
because if you saw a Bedouin and he
comes up to you and he starts behaving
like that you punch him in the face
right which might be a reaction from
somebody you know pulling the profits or
license cloak and this is because they
don't understand the background the
healthiest oh he laughs develops but
somebody who understands the background
can can literally they're able to to
diffuse that type of situation and this
is why the whole idea of Calif being a
Rama ft da Yadav Oh Almighty is
irrational why because each one of us
has literally something to bring to the
table of understanding and so Imam Shafi
Garagiola know his background where he
grew up is not the same as Malick Omaha
navara Delano did not grow up in the
same environment as Imam Shafi each one
of them is different if you look at
matok his his tradition is much more
sympathetic to the Bedouin than the
other met HAP's
he was in an environment in which the
Bedouin were constantly coming into
Medina and asking him questions he was
aware of their social circumstances in a
way that Mohini thought of the lana was
not because of Wahine who was living in
Baghdad and his contact with Bedouins
was minimal but Abu Hanifah Robb Delano
has a certain advantage of being in a
financial center in the Muslim world
that the other Imams didn't have you see
so because of their background also abu
hanifa is an idea me before he's out of
it so Abu Hanifah has an aji me
background and you can see within his
med have an understanding of the atom
that differs from the other three email
so each one of them has a certain
sociological historical background that
is going to enhance his understanding of
the Deen you see it won't be an
impediment it will be in
transmen now it's not for nothing that
Abu Hanifah rubella is the dominant med
hub of the non-arabs
I mean that's an interesting phenomena
that there are more non-arabs that
follow the method of alba Hani for then
of the other three Imam and it's not for
nothing that the vast majority of
nomadic people follow them that have of
Imam Attica of the Olano traditionally
in the Islamic tradition and it's one of
the things even Halden points out in his
mock oedema so background this I'm just
giving you an example of how semantic
fields are created in the Arabic
language and enhance our understanding
of the nature of reality itself and this
is why Allah says or one of the reasons
why Allah says that it was put into the
Arabic language or the Quran is Arabic
by nature lolicon talk alone in order
that you use your intellects it will
force you to reflect a variety the
Beruna for an armada alumina Saroja
don't they reflect deeply about the
Quran or is their hearts or their hearts
locked do they not have access to the
organ of understanding now that's
another interesting word - double -
double because dubar is the end of
something and so part of the double is
to go to the end of a thing to reflect
to the end to take it to its fall and
final conclusion not to simply be
superficial people but to go deeply and
look at what's behind the meaning behind
the thing itself because Dober literally
means the behind it means what you can't
see from an individual when you're
standing in front of them and Obul means
is the front it's what you took are the
louisville bar bill right the hobo is
the the front part and the dover is the
back part and the arabs a layer
yahoo-hoo bloom in degree he you can't
tell the front from the back so the
digger is the back of
thing which normally is hidden from view
when you're talking to somebody or when
you're in the presence of an individual
and so yet a dub bar means to seek out
what you can't see it's not to be
superficial it's not to take the meaning
at face value to go beyond what is
simply there so if you look at the quran
itself when allah says in the quran la
Aqsa mo v maracas and lejeune were in
the hood of assimilated Emunah ameen in
the hula for a non-korean tiki tab in
maknoon lime sue ellen mapa Harun Allah
swears by Milwaukee and knew June by the
places of the revelation now also
maracas and no zoom means by the
constellations of the stars by where the
stars lie when being since the very
beginning of creation since there's been
human beings to reflect the night sky
has been an obsession of human societies
and this is why astronomy is one of the
foundational human sciences and much of
the ancient world has to do with
astronomy if you look at the pyramids
and at all of these things most of it's
done because of observation of stars and
believing you how to align human
structures with the celestial forms and
things like this so you have people
literally those houses were designed
based on planetary design celestial
design but if you as a modern go out and
look at the night sky what do you see as
a modern unless you've studied astronomy
you see just a jumbled mass of lights up
in the sky you see no pattern
most city people if you take them out to
the night sky they don't even know where
the Big Dipper is right they call it an
air pocket double to view the Big Dipper
they don't know where it is
they don't know that you can see the
pole star and that the pole star doesn't
move most people don't know that I'm not
making this up you take them out you see
clear these Suraiya where's your idea
and they don't know even the modern
Arabs don't know anymore now if you go
to a Bedouin or bin Laden home yet a
dune they are guided by the Stars if you
go now to the Saharan desert you can get
a Bedouin who lives out in the desert
and he can show you the whole night sky
you'll say this here's this moffat
here's this mud flap here's this measum
here's this bar there's that idea
there's that there ah why do they
need to know that because they literally
guide themselves in the nighttime when
they travel in the desert by those far
so it becomes an important element of
the life to observe it and to know it
and they learn it from their parents and
from their mentor well the modern people
have lost this science why because even
Izumo me set when the night sky is put
out which elohim adi says is one of the
signs of in the dunya not in the
al-shara that the night sky would be put
out so now you go outside here in
Nottingham and centuries ago or even 60
years ago 50 years ago or a hundred
years ago when they didn't have lights
in these areas you could see the whole
night canopy now you can you don't see
the lights anymore you'll just see vague
few stars up in the sky right so when we
look at the sky we don't see the the
extraordinary nature of the sky but the
ancients did but they didn't see it by
just going out one night and looking
and saying oh I see all the patterns no
they had to watch it night after night
they had to make what's called to dub
ball right and watch it so that they
could see oh this did this last night
now tonight it's doing this then the
next day it's doing this and then and
then they watch it over the course of a
year and they realize oh in the in the
summer all the stars are here in the
winter they're over here and it's
repeated every year so then they start
working out about the whole nature of
the earth you see so all this
extraordinary knowledge was acquired
simply by observing the star so Allah
swears by Mohammedanism by the places
that he has put the stars were in Nevada
parsimony dote on the moon Arlene it's a
vast hustle if you thought about it that
Allah is maintaining and even more
fascinating for me is that the modern
astronomers say that what we're seeing
although it appears to us all to be
simply a one dimension or
two-dimensional canopy that many of
these constellations have stars that are
millions of miles apart from each other
right so we see them together a
constellation that's fixed when in fact
they're incredible distances between
them but Allah has made them what
happens a young nurse Emma Dounia be
Mossad yak
we have ornamented the night sky with
these Mesabi air now
the other meaning of the Moapa and the
jewel is the places that the is fall
into and this is called Tartabull quran
and this is one of the secrets of the
book of allah you see is the actual
turkey before on where the verses fall
into why they fall one comes after
another and this is why Allah says it's
an album it's a it's a great oath in the
hula for Anwen kareem it's a generous
quran sheikh eat a bin McNown in a
hidden book kena means to hide or be
hidden from ki tamanna McNown means a
book that's hidden leia mu so they don't
have intimacy with it el el mapa Haram
that are purified by Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala it's not mapa here on those who
purify themselves or an muthappa here on
its and ma Pajaro those who allow
purifies them those who are law gives an
access to this book so it's a hidden
book it's hidden from ignorant people
and that's why it's the ulil and bab the
people of inner most pit or core those
are the people that can understand the
Quran l'homme kublai f kahuna be have
they have hearts but they don't
understand with them so they have organs
of understanding but they're cut off
from it right so on edema and optimum
them soon there won't let you be known
Hatem allahu allah who will be him they
don't have access to their hearts while
asami him wander about Saudi Malaysia WA
and over their eyes is a he's a veil
they can't see it so somebody looks now
if you read the early Orientalist not
the later Orientals because they become
more clever because they started reading
tough seer right this true
the early Orientalists just looked at
the Quran they didn't look at tafseer
and so they said this is just garbled
mash of it doesn't make any sense just
like some ignorant person looking up at
the sky and saying this is just chaos
it's the jumble of just a bunch of
lights thrown together there's no
pattern here this is ignorant you see
ignorances is people that make hokum
make a judgment about something that
they have no knowledge about right they
have no knowledge of it but they yet
they make judgment and these are this is
the stupidity of man you see it's like
in the Arabic the modern Arabic you call
the appendix ze de right because the
modern Arabs falling into the trap of
ignorant Western people named it an
organ like an X
organ because the traditionally the
Europeans thought that the appendix had
no function meaningless organ is just so
this little thing at the end it just
sticks out of the colon and it has no
purpose right
so they called it Aida extra well now
recently they discover oh what actually
it does have some immune we can't fully
understand what's going on here but it
seems to have some immune function that
it's functioning to enhance the immune
system so because they couldn't work out
that it what it meant they have to say
it means nothing which is the height of
arrogance that O'Malley said I could be
and don't follow up things you have no
knowledge about you know don't say oh it
doesn't mean anything because you don't
understand its meaning right and this is
what ignorant people do so the whole
nature of looking at the Quran is
recognizing that the Quran takes years
of serious deliberation and in the end
you will only know just like the
astronomer will only know in minut
amount about the night scott star we
will only know a small amount about the
quran itself because like the night
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