how do i start arabic from scratch??
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You cannot learn it for free on the net, on the net you can only find free resources but not things that will teach you arabic. I can send you some programs that can give a start and then you also have to find a person in your area to help you, then together with that person you must find an english-arabic home course. PM if you want the programs....
Peace
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salam mr. humble.
i just read some opening pages of this site www.emuslim.com/quran/lughat.asp , then started reading the Koran's arabic text side-by-side with the translation , and a dictionary . slow and steady . so far so good . -
You cannot learn it for free on the net, on the net you can only find free resources but not things that will teach you arabic.
You cannot learn to become an Arabic Scholar for free on the net, nor can you learn to become a fluent Arabic speaker for free on the net. But we are not talking about achieving neither one of those things. Rifat's goal is to learn to Read and understand one specific document that has only about 2000 select vocabulary words and which only makes use of certain grammatical structures. For that purpose, he can learn it for free on the internet. It's just a matter of visiting the various useful sites and putting the correct elements together into one overall program that he's comfortable with.
While you are at it Rifat, you can also visit http//i-cias.com/babel/arabic/index.htm
If you decide to make use of the information at this site ignore the vocabulary and word lists since they are words that are not in the qur'aan. However, you may find some of the grammatical and structural explanations somewhat helpful.Peace,
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Peace Damon
I got lot of help from eMuslim.com word for word translation of Qur'an. Allah (SWT) bless them all for these selfless efforts. The new link you provided will be extra help. Thank you.
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i also find it interesting that some arabic terms have more than 100 meanings? is that true? no wonder the the quran could be used as a "great defense"
that's true for every language. Almost Every word has more than one meaning.
Absolutely. Now just think for a moment that if the Creator of the heavens and the earth and everything within and eveything beyond, the almighty, the omniscient, the omnipresent, the gracious, the mercifiul can relate a message in multiple meanings of the same word in a man-made book, what do you think the outcome would be???
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i also find it interesting that some arabic terms have more than 100 meanings? is that true? no wonder the the quran could be used as a "great defense"
that's true for every language. Almost Every word has more than one meaning.
Absolutely. Now just think for a moment that if the Creator of the heavens and the earth and everything within and eveything beyond, the almighty, the omniscient, the omnipresent, the gracious, the mercifiul can relate a message in multiple meanings of the same word in a man-made book, what do you think the outcome would be???
peace,
thanks, hopefully, these sources will help. don't you have to take into account those litearal meanings in the quran? allegories, metaphors etc... i mean the combination of words that you are unfamiliar with really confuses the reader, and that is why quranic translation varies. agreed?
peace, rifat
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don't worry, i will use the "quantum vaccum" to my advantage
besides, i seldom study for those anyways. no wonder i never get higher than b+ on exams.
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Peace mquran and all. I recommend quranic arabic by ibrahim r surty as well....Thats what i learnt 'quranic' arabic from...
