Balaghah

16Apr09

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
One of the branches of Arabic is an ‘ilm called balaghah. If Arabic were to be a cake, balaghah is the icing. And Quran is full of balaghah. The scholars of Islam study this ‘ilm in order to grasp the peak understanding of the Quran. The more we study the language of [...]

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كلنتن

13Apr09

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
I had to cut short my Arabic study in Egypt and now I’m in Kelantan. The good thing of learning Arabic in Kelantan is you could learn 2 languages at the same time. The bad thing is you have to know kelantanese vocabs first. Actually it wasn’t as bad as I thought [...]

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Shaykh Yasir Qadhi vs Tony Blair

07Apr09

Videos of Shaykh Yassir Qadhi asking tough questions to Tony Blair during class at Yale.

Read Shaykh’s thought on taking the class taught by Tony Blair, here

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Arabic

06Apr09

I didn’t realize the beauty of Arabic, not until I started to compare it with other languages. I’ll give you one simple example. How many information can you get if I say
-go
-pergi
-iku 行く
interestingly in Arabic with 1 word of  a verb can tell me as many as 3 more information about the doer which I [...]

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