Learn Quranic Arabic Lesson 1

Pretext:

Inshallah from today we will be disseminating Quranic Arabic. These lessons are organised in a way that you will learn Arabic to understand Quran without translation. You need to be motivated to learn and implement it onto your life. Understand the Quran as a first source of information, not via translated versions.

 Take a bold step in understanding what exactly is in the Quran  and what exactly you say while praying. Remember Quran is revealed on a common man, Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him (PBUH)), and the addressee is a common man. Therefore, you are the one who has to learn and understand it. The only barrier to understanding is the Arabic language, which inshallah we will cover in lessons. You must also note that these lessons are designed to learn the Quranic Arabic so all the example, text , words will be taken from Quran. However, if you want to learn Arabic language as a language then Quran is the best start, because Arabic grammar is derived from Quran not the other way round.

All humans throughout the life learn different things and the key to harness those is dedication and motivation. Inshallah if you have those two qualities which ofcourse you have then Allah will help you in learning this easy Quranic language. So benefit from your qualities to secure a place in paradise by following and implementing the teaching of Quran. May Allah help us all... Ameen

In this course special lesson delivery techniques have been used. First few lessons level will be easy, however, if you skip those you will not understand the subsequent lessons.

Lesson 1: Alphabets and Vowels 

Difficulty Level: 

Easy

Duration:

30 minutes

Prerequisites:

Recognition of  Arabic Text

Lesson Objective: 

At the end of this lesson you will able to know Arabic Alphabets, vowels (called as vibrations)

Alphabets:

The first and foremost step in learning a language is to learn alphabets of a language. There are 26 alphabets in English language like:  a,b,c ... z, while in Arabic, the number of alphabets are not the same as English. There are 28 alphabets in Arabic given below:

Arabic Alphabets

  Hamza is an extra Alphabet

As you can see from the alphabet chart , there are 28 letters. However, in Arabic Hamza and Alif are counted as one. 
Sometimes you may see  the following alphabet written in the list

it also sounds "yaa", however this is similar to

The only difference is usage in the word. Don't worry much at this stage, it will be cleared as you learn more and more. You need to recognise the thing only at this stage 

To pronounce alphabets  correctly watch the following video:




Unlike English, Arabic text is written from right to left.

Vowels:

To make words from alphabet, you need to insert vowels at appropriate places. In English there are five vowels: a, e, i ,o, u. However in Arabic vowels do not belongs to alphabet set. Arabic vowels are different entity as those are use to vibrate the alphabets, that is why I have used vibration in the brackets in front of vowels. There are three vowels (single vibrations) in Arabic.

Short vowels

Fatah : it look like forward slash on your computer keyboard and is drawn above the alphabet . All the alphabets along with their vowels are given in the chart below

Fatah

Fatah extends the sound of an alphabet, it work like English vowel "a" 

To pronounce  Fatah  correctly watch the following video

 

Kasrah:it look like forward slash on your computer keyboard and is drawn below the alphabet. All the alphabets along with their vowels are given in the chart below

Kasrah (Zair)

Kasrah extends the sound of an alphabet, it work like English vowel "i"

To pronounce Kasrah correctly watch the following video

 
 
Damah: it look like single quote on your computer keyboard
and is drawn above the alphabet.All the alphabets along with their vowels are given in the chart below

Damah (Paish)

Damah rounds the sound of an alphabet, it work like English vowel "u"

To pronounce Damah correctly watch the following video

  

Besides vowel you have a rest (commonly known as Jazam or sakoon) on the alphabets , which give you a stop, this rest can be drawn on any alphabet. You will see  rest in two shapes: one look like Damah but is not fully rounded and the other look like circle. The reason for difference in shape is due to font used on computer, see below:

Remember: There will be no vowel (vibration) or rest on Alif. If you put vowel or rest on Alif, then it does not stay as Alif but convert to Hamza, and that is why Hamza and Alif are counted as one alphabet , as I mentioned in the beginning.

Don't worry about the following text, only read it for now and keep in mind

Fatah sound can be extended by adding Alif at the end

 

Kasrah sound can be extended by adding yaa with a rest (Jazam) on it

Damah sound can be extended by adding waaw with a rest (Jazam) on it 

Wow, lot of work to digest, but it provides a good foundation to build on it.

Summary:

You have covered in this lesson alphabets and vowels. Along with videos you know how to pronounce it and finally you touched some information about the vowel sound extension. 

In the next lesson we will be covering parts of speech. Don't be afraid and compare it with English language grammar. Arabic grammar is easy to understand but it needs  motivation, and with Allah's help you will succeed, Inshallah. so see you on next lesson.

Test: 

Look at the following chart and recognise the different  vowels (vibration) used and then practice on sounds

Ajmal Killing

Our correspondent reported today that "Ajmal"  is shot dead by unknown killer. He started his career as Businessman by managing a cornershop in Skhotabar, later on continue to progress as politician where he was elected as member of Shakot council back in 90's.  His political career doomed and so as his business.

Today on 4th November he was shot dead. In Salehkhana, there has been rise in target killing, once known as peaceful village, it has now became the vengeance hell

If you have any story, facts or photos of Ajmal please share it with salehkhanatube on:
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Salehkhana in Press

Following is the section from a book "The Grand Trunk Road: From Delhi to the Khyber Pass" written by Tim Smith and Irna Qureshi (Amazon Link), the book was published in Jan 2011.  Tim mentioned about Salehkhana as:



"... Then we were tipped off about a village called Saleh Khana, made famous in migration terms by its men running canteens for the locals that were recruited into the British Army’s lower ranks. This became the village tradition, to the extent that when the British invaded the Falklands, the canteen workers were from Saleh Khana!

image 1: British Pakistani holidaying in Saleh Khana
 with family members © Photograph Tim Smith

Though a small Pakistani village, Saleh Khana has a bank on every corner, to receive remittances from the community now settled in Smethwick and Dudley. The main shop is stocked with bottled water and cornflakes, ready for the comparatively well-off holidaying Brits. We met countless women with British spouses, waiting for their visa applications to be processed, and dreaming of their new lives in the Midlands. The mansion-like houses, built with UK savings were hard to miss. Saleh Khana’s links with Britain today are clearly visible. No wonder then that the locals still regard Britain as a land of opportunity, and the reason that Tim’s presence created great excitement.
My most in-depth interviews were those that involved speaking to several members of the same family. In the village of Saleh Khana near Peshawar in Pakistan, I met a British born Pakistani who was enjoying a family holiday (image 1). Following his interview, he introduced me to his father and uncle. Interviewing several generations of the same family was very insightful and produced a much more rounded picture of their migration experience.

An elderly chap, bearded, stooped, walking stick in hand, shoved a tatty envelope towards my colleague:

Image 2: Elderly gentleman holding photo of himself as a young man
 with a colleague from his
army days © Photograph Tim Smith

“I served with the British Army but I don’t get a pension. Look at this paperwork. Can you sort it out?” he implored. A well-presented Englishman, emerging from an air conditioned car, with driver and assistant (me!: Irna Qureshi ) in tow, could only mean one thing in Saleh Khana! They thought Tim was from the British Embassy in Islamabad, sent to issue visas and resolve pension problems. Since Tim didn’t speak the local lingo, it was up to me to relay the bad news to the crowd...."

Tim Smith also recorded audio during the trip, since the interviewee accent can hardly be picked up, thereofore the transcript is given along with the audio. To get to the actual source you can click here

Audio Transcript:There is a village near our village in Cherat which is very important. It is called Saleh Khana and you will hardly see any young boy there, because they are all in England. Saleh Khana the entire village, only the old or the women are there in the village.  See, it’s a very hard village like my village was. People either go into the army or if the education is not there then they do this army canteen. Today traditionally Saleh Khana people are suppliers of army canteens. They were running the canteens for the army – cooking, making chapatti, curry, selling tea. They were supplying to the troops, not to the officers because the officers would eat in the officers’ mess, but the British troops would come and eat. The troops were actually local Indians and Pakistanis but the ranks were of course British. So they would have these canteens for them. And the Saleh Khana people picked up this profession and they carried it on, so much so that when Falklands was invaded by the British, the canteen people were from Saleh Khana! And the Saleh Khana people were also in Northern Ireland during the troubled times running canteens for the British troops there as well.

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