Arabic students are often hard on themselves. They constantly feel like they are behind.
To be honest, if you want to get far, you gotta be consistent and be ready for a lifetime commitment.
I've been studying and teaching Arabic now for 15 years. I've translated entire books, taken extra classes, joined Arabic forums, read a tonne of books, and have been one of the main contributors to a grammar series.
Yet, I constantly reach for the dictionary while I'm reading. I stutter in basic conversations (and God forbid they are in Ammiya). I cannot understand nuance, or sarcasm, or taste!
I'm often embarrassed but have to remind myself about the journey.
My journey has given me so much. Every stage has been fruitful.
Stop and smell the flowers. It's about the journey not about the destination.
REASONS TO LEARN ARABIC
1. It is the language of the Qur'an and the Holy Book is just not the same in translation. So learning Arabic will help you to better understand the words of your Lord and have more certainty in them.
2. Arabic is the most glorious, rich, beautiful, dignified and honourable language in the world. When spoken properly it is the perfection of human speech.
3. If Arabic once again becomes the common language of Muslims all over the world, it will tighten our bonds and unify the Ummah.
#WorldArabicLanguageDay
Under the right to defend itself, do they have the right to commit a genocide & countless war crimes, drop bombs equivalent to a nuclear warhead & destroy an entire region with everything in it? Is this how they think they will be safer and live happily ever after? The Lord of the Worlds sees and knows and He is the Most Just. His Help is near.
The lightweight king turns away another challenge!! ๐
@MakhachevMMA defeats Alex Volkanovski by knockout in the rematch to defend his title at #UFC294!
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From a friend
Something is changing in America
I saw Dave Chappell last night at Boston TD Garden. It was sold out so I would say 22,000 people there. 3/4 into the show he said I want to address whatโs going on in Palestine and Israel. ๏ฟผ
He specifically said Palestine and said it before Israel. He said what happened on October 7 wasnโt right but also whatโs going on isnโt right and not just. You canโt kill innocent civilians like that and the whole world sits silently and watches. Then someone shouted at him from the crowd shut the F up Dave. He then went nuts and yelled back no you shut the F up. you donโt take tens of billions from my country to go kill innocent women and children and come and tell me to shut the F up.
He said donโt come begging for money from my country and then go drop bombs on children and cut off innocent people water and electricity. You have the audacity to pay to come see me and then tell me shut the F up no you shut the F up. The crowd started clapping and cheering for him and saying yes Dave and chants of free Palestine and then he said youโre damn right free Palestine.
He went on a 15 minutes rant about being a Muslim and that the Israelis are projecting whatโs wrong with them on Muslims and the crowd kept on cheering. It was surreal.
Crowd was typical Boston demographic 80% white. 5% black and the rest Latin and others.
#Gaza_Genocide #PalestineGenocide #Palestine
This man lost two sons on the same day. Yet he is full of iman and absolute certainty that they are with their Merciful Creator and will bring their family into heaven in the afterlife (shafa'a).
More than one million Muslims marched in solidarity with Palestine today in Karachi, Pakistan.
The demonstration was organised by the Islamic political party Jamaat-e-Islam.
Even the nicest people have their limits. Donโt push them too far; donโt try to reach those limits. Once the boundary is crossed, theyโll never be the same person you used to know. If you canโt be kind, remain quiet. Donโt hurt people.
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With his third touchdown today, @jordantrav13 has accounted for more touchdowns than any other player in FSU history!
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Sheikh Saud Al Shuraim:
"No one will love you like your parents, they won't give you everything you want, but they will give you everything they have."
[Khutbah | 17/12/2021]
Yโall gotta let me in on the secret!!
How do people making $90k drive a $75,000 truck, pulling a $50,000 boat, park it and hook up their $30,000 RZR, and live in a $500,000 house with 3 kids, a wife, 2 dogs, and 10 acres?