Understanding the Linguistic miracle of the Quran

بسم الله الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ Asalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu A common question I get asked by students is " How can I read and understand Arabic fluently without the harakat (Vowel marks)? ". It will probably come as a little surprise to most students that this process will take years and years of dedicated study. Yes, those 'Learn Arabic in 40 Days' programs are very limited and don't deliver what they promise. I have included advice for students who want to achieve this goal biithnillah ( with the permission of Allah). Intention and aim We all need to ask Allah to help us in any task we undertake. There is nothing difficult if Allah makes it easy for one. One of the ways he makes something easy is to create a desire for it.  The majority of people learning Arabic today are Muslims who want to understand the Quran. Students with lofty aims and aspiration reach their desired goal more than often. I remember once hearing a university ...

The word masdar ( مَصْدَر ) linguistically means means "source" and from the perspective of Arabic linguistics it denotes the word which all other derived verbs and nouns originally came from . There has been a debate by Arabic linguists  as whether this original word was in fact the verbal noun or the verb The verbal noun is a noun that denotes an action devoid of a time frame For example: eating, sleeping, reading, writing are all considered verbal nouns. If we say " Eating adequate fruit and vegetables is essential for preventing a wide variety of health conditions". The word Eating  denotes the act of eating without a specific time frame linked to it. In Surat Al Naba, Allah (Most High) says: وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَ كُمْ سُبَاتًا And made your sleep [a means for] rest Once again sleep denotes the act of sleeping without an associated time frame. A verb on the other hand denotes an action with a time frame. such as in the sentence نَامَتْ فَاطِم...