Author: Saodat Alimi

BismiLlahir Rahmanir Raheem In the Arabic language, the “tanween” represents the English indefinite articles ‘a’ or ‘an’ . The definite article ‘the’ on the other hand is represented with an ‘al’ ( ال ) at the beginning of an Arabic word which eventually displaces the tanween. Here is an example: Saodat AlimiSaodat Alimi holds an ijaaza in Qur’an Memorization, a higher diploma in Arabic and Islamic studies and a Bachelor degree in Chemistry education. Her works include Quran Arabic for Beginners , Qur’an Reading Made Easy and Arabic Reading Course 101 among others. Connect with me on my social media handles below:...

BismiLlahir Rahmaanir Raheem A preposition in the Arabic language is called ‘حرف الجر’ and it usually comes before a noun ‘اسم’. Prepositions change the case ending of the nouns they precede from the nominative case (مرفوع ) to the genitive case (مجرور ) Here are more examples: ِالطَّالِبُ فِي الْفَصْل خَرَجَ الْمُدِيرِ مِنَ الْمَدْرَسَةِ ِذَهَبَ مُحَمَّدٌ مِنَ الصِّينِ إِلَى الرِّيَاض ِهَذِهِ الْبَقَرَةُ لِلْفَلاَّح ِالْحَمْدُ لِلَّه Saodat AlimiSaodat Alimi holds an ijaaza in Qur’an Memorization, a higher diploma in Arabic and Islamic studies and a Bachelor degree in Chemistry education. Her works include Quran Arabic for Beginners , Qur’an Reading Made Easy and Arabic Reading Course 101 among others. Connect with me on my social media handles below:...

Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem هذا و هذه are two of the demonstrative pronouns (اﻷسماء الإشارة ) which both mean ‘this’ in the English language. But unlike the ‘this’ in the English Language, Arabic Language differentiates between the demonstrative pronouns used for the male and the female gender. The male gender here does not mean only a boy or a man; it includes every noun (living عاقل and non-living غير عاقل ) that do not have a ‘closed taa’ while the female gender covers all the female (human)proper nouns (with or without a closed taa)e.g مريم، زينب، فاطمة e.t.c and other non-living things and animals that have a closed-taa e.g مروحة، نظارة ، بقرة e.t.c   In addition to the above, the body parts that are in twos such as the eyes and the legs are used with the demonstrative pronoun هذه. All nouns in the Arabic language therefore are either masculine or feminine. So when students learn a new word, they must learn its gender also as some words do not follow the general rule stated above. As regards the pronunciation of these pronouns, the ه in each of هذا and  هذه is pronounced with an alif madd but it is never written with the alif. Saodat AlimiSaodat Alimi holds an ijaaza in Qur’an Memorization, a higher diploma in Arabic and Islamic studies and a Bachelor degree in Chemistry education. Her...

Arabic Grammar for Beginners Arabic grammar (النَّحْوُ الْعرَبِيُّ ) according to Arabic linguists is the principle by which the case endings of words are known. These words as I have previously explained may be any of the اسم، فعل or حرف. Most Arabic nouns (الاسم) are declinable i.e changes in their functions in the sentence are indicated by their endings. These endings are three: accusative, nominative, and genitive. As for the verbs, only the mudari’ is declinable while the maadi and the amr do not undergo any change and are therefore mabni. The declinable nouns and the verb i.e (الْفِعْلُ الْمُضَارِع) are referred to as مُعْرَبٌ (mu’rab). The mudari’ has three cases just as the nouns. These verb cases are called moods and they are marfu’ (مَرْفُوعٌ), mansûb (مَنْصُوبٌ) and majzûm (مَجْزُومٌ). The Arabic nouns in a sentence may function as a subject (فَاعِلٌ) in a verbal sentence or مُبْتَدَأٌ in a nominal sentence. The predicates (خَبَرٌ) in nominal sentences are also nouns. The case ending of these nouns in all these three states is regarded as الرَّفْعُ i.e nominative. A noun with this ending is called مَرْفُوعٌ. The primary sign of this case is the dommah. Nouns that function as objects (مَفْعُولٌ بِه) in a verbal sentence are in the accusative case (النَّصْبُ) and are said to be مَنْصُوبٌ. An-nasbu is indicated by the fathah. (جَلَسَ سَعْدٌ (فَاعِلٌ)...

There exist some differences in the Quranic orthography and the Arabic text’s style of writing. One of these differences is in the writing of alif-hamza in words. Watch this video to find out! https://alhudaaislamicschool.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Com.-in-the-writing-of-Hamza.mp4   Saodat AlimiSaodat Alimi holds an ijaaza in Qur’an Memorization, a higher diploma in Arabic and Islamic studies and a Bachelor degree in Chemistry education. Her works include Quran Arabic for Beginners , Qur’an Reading Made Easy and Arabic Reading Course 101 among others. Connect with me on my social media handles below:...