On learning classical arabic
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Peace friends!
Straight to the point I'd like to start understanding koranic arabic for myself without being so dependent on the few people from this forum that actually speak arabic wow. Could you make any recommendations as to the books to be gotten, stuff I should do. My main problem is resources because when I go to bookshops around London but there aren't many (hardly any ) helpful books and I am quite didstrusting to buying books off internet that'll dissappoint me. Also I have peace at my mind when I can learn the grammatical rules before attempting deep vocabulary.
Thank you! sun
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Peace be with you as well
If you can read Arabic, learn the Roots of words in the Quran... The Quran is made of around 80,000 words, however, these 80k words are made of around 2,000 root words.
So save yourself the time and learn the root words, which is what other words are made of, and consequently, woyuld have a similar meaning with other words made up of the same root.Corpus.Quran.com has these roots online http//corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp
you can also look at roots transliterated into english (quranic roots dictionaries)
http//www.studyquran.co.uk/SearchByRoot.htmOf course, you can also pray for knowledge
"...do not hasten with the Qur'an before its revelation is completed to you, and say, "My Lord, increase me in knowledge." (20114)If you do not know Arabic, then i suggest looking at side by side translations of the Quran, you can use this site
http//www.islamawakened.com/quran/default.htmWEBSITES
www.Quran-Islam.org (as an intro)
www.Quransmessage.com (articles +)
www.progressive-muslim.org/ (articles +)
http//learn-about-islam.com/
http//www.detailedquran.com/
http//misconceptions-about-islam.com/www.Ourbeacon.com
www.ProgressiveMuslims.Org
www.ahl-alquran.com/
www.19.orgRecommended readings
Why language is irrelevant!
http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9603266.0
The Original purpose of our creation
http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9603282.0
God's System of Righteousness (The Reward system for those who are Nice/Benevolent)
http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9602900
God's Systems of Guidance and Misguidance
http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9603904.0
7 "Hells", 2 Heavens, and a "Purgatory"
http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9603259
~ God's Unconnditional servants ~
http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9603053 -
Thank you very much for the support yousef! laugh I agree, language doesn't really matter. The main inspiration as to why I would like to learn Arabic because I woul like to publish a Polish translation of the Quran and I feel like doing it from English wouldn't be feeling so "authentic". You see, there's absolutely no Quranist community that I know of in the Polish speaking world, there are muslims but they're all hadithers; most of the from north africa, few Poles.