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Book Contents

Section 1: The Arabic Language

• Chapter 1: Introduction to the Arabic Language (Why it’s Unique): 4
• Chapter 2: Etymology of Arabic (Base Letters & their meanings) 7
• Chapter 3: Grammar vs Phonetic Languages, and Arabic (Letter Sounds & Shapes): 15
• Chapter 4: Richness of 3 Letter Arabic Vocabulary (Rich Meanings): 28
• Chapter 5: Words longer than 3 Root Letters (Fusing words) 35
• Chapter 6: Synonyms and Antonyms: (Words are known by their ‘Relatives’) 38
• Chapter 7 – Classical Arabic Poetry: 41
• The Generous man & the Mu’allaqah of ‘Amr bin Kulthum 41
• Palindromes (spelling something the same in reverse): 44
• Chapter 8: Balaaghah & Eloquence (Subtle meanings) 45
• Past tense (maaDiy) vs Present-Future tense (muDaari’): 45
• Noun (constant) vs Verb (temporary): 46
• Female Plural used for non-Female objects = ‘Handful’ (less than 10) 47
• Chapter 9: What is the ‘Perfect Language’? 49

Section 2: The Qur’an 52

• Chapter 10: Introduction: 52
• Chapter 11: Qur’an Gems 56
• Chapter 12: Sounds [Onomatopoeia] in al-Qur’an 57
• Chapter 13: Qur’an Gems: Precise Word Choice, Word-Play, Palindromes, Imagery, & Movie-Epic scenes! 61
• Your Life Summarised in 1 Aayah/verse! 62
• Quranic Palindromes 63
• Precise Word Sequencing 71
• Replace the word Sky with Man, and Earth with Woman 72
• Repose, Affection & Mercy 63
• “Her heart became empty” 74
• And Jaheem [Hell] will be Pulled out for those to See 75
• His mother is Hell, the War Horse & Description of Paradise 76
• Chapter 14: How to Extract Quran Gems 88
• Step 1 – Focus on Words and their Power: 88
• Step 2 – Sentence structure – Placements of words in an Ayah – p84 95
• Step 3 – The Location of an Ayah within a Passage of Discussion 86
• Step 4 – See how all the Passages Connect to work Together to produce ‘Themes’ 88
• Step 5: Produce an overall Conclusion 89

Section 4:- Science

• Chapter 15: Scientific Marvels in the Qur’an 100
• How do Arabic Definitions work? 101
• Scientific Miracle 1 – Sulaalah: 104
• Definitions: 104
• Nutfah: 107
• Two meanings of Nutfah combined: 109
• Amshaaj: 109
• Maniy 110
• 1st General Meaning: 110
• 2nd Meaning: 110
• 3rd Meaning: 111
• 4th meaning: 111
• Relation to Modern Science: 112
• Even More Amazing! : 113
• Male’s Sperm Determines Gender of Child: 113
• Alaq 114
• Summarised: 115
• Section 5: Qur’an Challenge 118
• Chapter 16: Unique Qur’an Structure 119
• Chapter 17: Understanding the Qur’an Literary Challenge: “Bring Something Like It” 121
• Chapter 18: Responses to the Qur’an Literary Challenge: Musaylamah 124
• ‘Surah’ Iman [Faith]: 126
• Our Refutation: 130
• 1 – Incorrect Plagiarism of: 130
• 2 – Incorrect Useage of: Reeh & Riyah – Wind 131
• 3 – Use of Comical Expressions: 133
  • Lack of Smoothness/Flow in Recitation: 133
  • Unnecessary Words – could easily be Removed – without altering it’s Meaning 133
• Words/Phrases which could be Summarized: 134
  • The Story itself has a Lack of Thematic Connection & Meaning: 134
• The Beginning Verse, & the Last Verse were Plagiarised from the Qur’an Purposelly 138

Section 6: What Experts & Orientalists said about the Qur’an Language: 139

• Section 7: Meaningful Prayer 146

Introduction to the Arabic Language:

The Arabic language is a unique language, and has many special and unique features which make it suitable for it to convey; many meanings in few words, subtleties, emphasis and powerful imagery through speech alone.  If God was to convey a message to mankind, it would be through a language which is easy to learn, and has the highest form of expressiveness. I believe that Arabic is that language by which He communicated His final Message to mankind, and I will try to prove it through this Book – Qur’an, the Linguistic Miracle.

In the first section of this Book, I will be introducing Classical Arabic (a more in-depth version of the language in comparison to the Modern Fus-ha Standard, Spoken Arabic aka MSA).

 I will explain the literary tools of Classical Arabic, with examples, and later near the end of this section, I will share a few gems of Classical Arabic language, to give you a feel of how the Classical Arabs expressed themselves through Poetry, and what powerful literary tools they used to convey their message to an equally praiseworthy literary audience. 

What is the Arabic language?

Arabic is an ancient Semitic language, believed to be over 2000 years old. So it has had alot of time to develop, and enrich its meanings and linguistic beauty. Some say it – the language- has been inspired and preserved miraculously in its pure form.

It has stayed firm and pure to its roots, meaning that words and their meanings which were said over 1,400 years ago are still preserved and documented for us uptill this day.

Unlike many other languages where words change meanings every few generations, and the meaning of the original word is lost.

An example in the English language today is the word ‘wicked’ which meant ‘evil’ last generation, but in this generation it means ‘good.’ It may be that 2 generations ahead, ‘wicked’ may only be recognized as meaning ‘good’, possibly making future readers of the language confused.

How is Arabic Structured?

Arabic works with a triliteral root system, which means that most words are made of 3 Root Consonant letters, and other 1 and 2 letter words with different meanings surrounding that word. It is then for the reader to use his knowledge of the language to separate and distinguish between the letters to understand which letter means what.

This will be explained later in the book, and is a fun part of learning the language. (Almost like connecting a jigsaw puzzle.)

How does Arabic language work?

Arabic 3 Consonant lettered words are usually ‘Descriptions’. These Descriptions will then fit into Contexts for Objects. 

For example; the word ‘sayyaarah’ means ‘Car’. But in reality, it comes from the root meaning of the 3 Root Letters: Siin-Ya-Ra (s-y-r) = Meaning: ‘Travelling through Movement.’

We therefore see that other words like i.e. ‘he went for a walk’ (saara), or “siiyrah” (a walk through a journey), which have similar Root letters have similar meanings, simply due to their Root letters being the same.

This makes it extremely easy to know what a word means in Arabic, because you might see a long difficult word, but you break it down to look at its root 3 letters – and voila!

 You know what root meaning and description is being hinted at. This allows you to visualize the picture being portrayed through the Arabic. 

This root system is also found partially in other languages, but Arabic sustains this rule throughout its entire language consistently, which makes its richness even more exciting to explore. 

What makes it even more exciting is that the Arabic language has one of the richest sets of Vocabularies in the world, probably more than any other language. (For example: the Arabs have over 1000 words just for describing the Camel, and over 60 different words for Love!) And the amazing bit is – every word has its own shade of meaning, so two words could be similar, but they both would have a slightly different implication in meaning.

Arabic has no unnecessary words in it:

Arabic is extremely concise i.e. A sentence of 7 words in English can be said in just 7 letters of Arabic!

Example;

English: ‘Both are at war with each other.’

Arabic:  yu-Haarib-oon. [pattern 6 on the Arabic verbs scale.]

(Note: vowels are not included as ‘letters’ in Arabic language since they can be omitted and the word is still readable.)

See how concise Arabic is?

Arabic is a language which is directly to the point, and removes all unnecessary words from a sentence, so that only the necessary words remain for the sentence to be conveyed, spoken and understood quickly.

The example above proves this well.

What have we Learnt in this section?

1 – Arabic language is based on a Triliteral (3) Root letter system.

2 – Each Noun (Object) is infact a 3 letter ‘Describing word’, and if an Object matches a certain Description, the Object is called by that Descriptive word. I.e. Sayyaarah means [Description:] ‘that which always Travels’ (= Car [Noun]).

3 – We have learnt that the Arabic language is Pure to its Roots, and words can be traced back to their Origins from over 1,400years ago through Lexicons.

4 – We have learnt that Arabic is one of, or the biggest Vocabulary filled language in the world.

5 – Arabic is directly to the point and a concise language, conveying long sentences from another language into just a few words of Arabic.

Etymology of Arabic

What each Letter Etymologically means?

Etymology (Ishtiqaaq) of Etymology:

If you’ve studied how words in a language originated, you have probably come across Etymology. Etymology allows us look into the history of words and their origins to get a fuller and more pure understanding of a word.

For example in modern English, the word; ‘texting’ can be broken down into two words; text (meaning ‘writing’), and ‘ing’ (a suffix meaning; ‘to do’). Text-ing therefore = ‘to do writing.’

This mixing of words is common in all languages, and this is how vocabulary increases over time. But not surprisingly, Arabic goes a step further.

Why is Arabic special in regard to Etymology?

We know already that Arabic has short 3 letter words, each word covers a huge range of descriptive and visual meanings (and will be explained further with examples in a later chapter).

This 3 letter words system is special to the Arabic language, and although this triliteral root system is also present in some other languages, the Arabic language goes one step further – the 3 root letters of a word can be further broken apart one by one to gain even more understanding of how even that 3 letter word was made.

I have produced a table (see next page) with examples later on, wherein each letter of the Arabic alphabet has a meaning assigned to it. A big jazaak Allahu khayran (may God reward you) brother Mansour for producing this amazing research.

Note: The meanings on this etymology table may not directly mean what they are spoken to mean in full speech. T

he reason for this is is clear; etymology works on base letters and their base meanings, and requires some knowledge of Sarf (Arabic morphology), aswell as reflection on similar words and sometimes deeper research. 

Etymology Table: