Madinah Arabic Language Course

Based on one of the most popular courses being used today - the Madinah Book Series which are used by Madinah University to teach English speaking students the Arabic language. The course tutorials are being compiled by Shaykh Sulayman Gani and checked by Dr V Abdur Rahim (the author of the Madinah Book Course)

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  • Lesson 1: The phrase haadhaa which means 'This is..'.
  • Lesson 2: The phrase Dhalika which means 'That is..'.
  • Lesson 3: The Arabic Definite Article - Alif Laam - which corresponds to 'The' in English.
  • Lesson 4: Prepositions - i.e. words showing the relationship of one noun to another (e.g. to, from, in, at etc). Masculine and Feminine Pronouns - i.e. He and She.

We aim to release new lessons every week Insha'Allah (God-Willing).  Please click on the lesson number to start the lesson. If you cannot read the Arabic script then please complete the Arabic Reading Course before starting this course.

Lesson 1

Lesson 1 - هـٰذا - 'This is..'

  • Please read the sentences below.  After completing the sentences we shall go over the rules for this lesson.
     

  • In Part 1 of Lesson 1 we learn how to use the pronoun هـٰذا which means 'This' (called the demonstrative pronoun in grammar).  haadhaa is pronounced هَاذَا  but is written without the first alif.  The second word is the noun (object) being referred to e.g.  بَيْتٌmeans house.
     

  • Please click on the words or pictures to hear speech, i.e. how the words should be pronounced.

 
 

هـٰذا  كِتَابٌ .

هـٰذا بَابٌ .

هـٰذا مَسْجِدٌ .

هـٰذا بَيْتٌ .
This is a book This is a door This is a Mosque This is a house

  • Arabic has no word which is equal to the English word "is" which is referred to as a copula in grammar.  We can see this rule demonstrated above where we see the words for هـٰذا and the noun/object مَسْجِد being referred to without any copula. i.e.  هـٰذا مَسْجِدٌ . If read literally this sentence would read "This Mosque", however, the word "is" can be implied in this sentence so that it reads "This is a Mosque"

  • There is no word in Arabic corresponding to "a" in English as in: "This is a book". The n-sound, i.e. the tanween (doubled vowel sign) at the end of the Arabic noun (kitabu-n, baitu-n, masjidu-n) is the Arabic indefinite article corresponding to the English "a/an".
     

  • Please click on the button for part 2 below to move onto the next section where we will practise this principle further Insha'Allah.

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