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[quote]Assalamo allaikum wr wb,

I think Arabic is the language of Quran, our Prophet (saw) and the language of Jannah. Hence every effort must be made to stick to Arabic and in trying to learn it.

It is basically a verbal language which makes it all the more easier. There are just set rules that you need to stick to. I am currently residing abroad and there is such a lot of interest in learning Arabic that it is simply unbelievable.

Remember that translation can never tell you the exact meaning. Knowing Arabic is such an unexplainable, wonderful feeling because you TRULY feel Allah swt talking to you personally. Really I am serious! The 1st time I experienced it, I was like shocked!

What we need to seriously realize is that Qur'an is a miracle of the language...its all in the words...the words that drove the kuffar of makkah crazy because they were great linguistics..they were struck by its language construction (tashkeel).One  arabic-speaking collegue of mine used to tell me that only a student of Arabic can understand and love the Quran. This is because he/she is best able to SEE the message in the amazing word and sentence construction that Allah swt presents.

Plus people who know Arabic letters have already won have the game. Abroad, people are struggling so hard in learning the letters first, i.e. learning how Arabic is written, letters are combined, the sounds, fatha (zabar), kasra (zayr) etc..... I simply feel ashamed of myself.

I have a Russian non-muslim collegue with me who knows many languages. According to her comparitive linguistic analysis, Arabic is the only language with the MOST logical and easy to understand structure. But she said, you know the only hurdle is learning the letters/alphabets.

I mean, we spend more than 10 years of our life and paying quite a lot of fees at school for learning English language, but when it comes to Arabic.........uhhummm...

If you want to start learning Arabic, there are manyyy resources available online, including the most effective http://www.madinaharabic.com/

This has very well planned lessons with SOUND files to listen to the corect accent.

Oh and as for the Friday Khutbah, if you have even the slightest knowledge of Arabic, you can follow

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFridayKhutbah/

This is a great group for receiving Friday Khutbah every week in Arabic as well as English. This not only gives you great knowledge stright from the primary sources but also improves your arabic, as it has been designed in 2 colors to assist learning Arabic.

fe amman Allah.[/quote]

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