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LEARN THE LANGUAGE OF THE HOLY QUR'AN
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 Learn The Language Of The Holy Quran
  • Book Author:
Abdullah Abbas Al-Nadwi
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431
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PREFACE – Learn the Language of the Holy Qur’an

Arabic, as the famous linguist A.L. Schlozer (d. 1781) has pointed out, belongs to the Semitic group of languages. More specifically, it is an offshoot of the language of south-west Arabia. While its origins lie buried in remote an­tiquity, by the third century (C.E.), Arabic has developed into a full-fledged language.

In our time most of the Semitic languages have disappeared. In addition to Arabic, the only living Semitic languages are modem Hebrew, Amharic and a dialect of Aramaic. As for Arabic, it remains not only a fully living language but also enjoys a unique importance. It alone can serve as the source of knowledge of all Semitic languages. Whenever the grammarians of these languages are heed with intricate grammatical problems, they are forced to have recourse to consulting parallel grammatical rules in Arabic, particularly as they are exemplified in the Qur’an. ((Sabatino Moteati, An Introduction to the Comparative Grammar of Semitic Studies, amply illustrates this.)) Moreover, enormous change has taken place in the vocabulary of all Semitic languages. Change in word?meaning alone is consi­dered. The present versions of these languages have little resemblance with their original versions. The only exception is Arabic, the language of the Qur’an, which retains its old grammar, syntax and vocabulary that makes it the archetype of the entire family of Semitic languages.

Since the language of the Qur’an is Arabic, it is the main source of knowledge about Islam. About one billion Muslims of the world recite the Qur’an in its original language regardless of whether they understand it or not, and a good number of them do cherish the desire to comprehend the Qur’an without the medium of translation. Moreover, there are a large number of people around the globe who wish to learn this language because of its political importance, for it is the official language of no less than the twenty-one member states of the Arab League. Gradually the importance of Arabic has also been enhanced be• cause of the overwhelming importance of the Arab countries in international commerce and finance. Thanks to these, a number of text books and grammars for learning Arabic have been appearing in the Western countries and the volume of these publications is on the increase. The authors of these works have taken pains to make the learning of the language easy for beginners. The pro­cess of learning that one encounters in these works appears somewhat mechan­ical as many of these authors had little appreciation for the literary beauty of Arabic. Some, one might even suspect that their intrinsic prejudice against

Arabic had convinced them that it could not be presented in an interesting, sys­tematic and simple manner. This being the state of affairs, it is the duty of Mus­lim scholars to make concerted efforts to produce good text books that would facilitate and speed up the process of learning Arabic among those that are conversant with English and other international languages. Unfortunately, this challenging task has not been taken up by many scholars. Mine is thus an effort which has been taken up to fill the gap.

Qur’an the prime source of teaching Arabic language

Professor Abdus Salam Kidwai• of India pioneered a method for teaching Arabic in 1942. His main idea was to make the Qur’an the prime source Of teaching Arabic language. He compiled a book consisting of ten primary les­sons for this purpose and it proved very useful. The present work is an adoption of the idea originated by Professor Kidwai. • • His work was designed for Urdu speaking adults or the Subcontinent who were acquainted with the Arabic al­phabet and with some Arabic vocabulary. While attempting to present this lan­guage to English-speaking people, the present author was in a far le advan­tageous position since the greater number of readers will presumably have little or no knowledge of Arabic alphabet and vocabulary. This made my task an ex­ceedingly difficult one.

The lessons of this book have been arranged in simple grammatical classifications supported by verses of the Holy Qur’an as illustrations of the postulated rules in Philology, Morphology and Syntax. It is an attempt to assist those who wish to acquire proficiency in this language for the sake of understanding the Qur’an. It is hoped that they will get used to the Qur’anic style and language and in the process of learning be: able 10 develop a degree of familiarity with Arabic idioms as well.

This is an experimental attempt which, the author hopes, will be conducive to a speedier and easier teaming of Arabic. The author has made efforts to c-0ver all the essential elements for learning the language. It goes without saying that there will always be scope for improvement. Suggestion or advice that would enable me to improve this work will be more than welcome and will be greatly appreciated.

The author is greatly indebted! to Mr. Sayyid Muhsin Ba-Roum for publishing the first edition of this book through the famous publishing house of Dar Al-Shurouq. l am also grateful to IQRA’ International Educational Foundation for adopting this work in their series, The Arabic and Qur’anic Studies as part of their Comprehensive and Systematic Program of Islamic Studies.

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