5 Powerful Tips for Learning Arabic for Beginners
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the universe, who sent down the Qur'an as a guide for mankind in influencing life and make Arabic the language of the Qur'an.
Shalawat and greetings may continue to be poured out for the chief of the prophets, Muhammad bin 'Abdillah sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam and his those who follow them well.
Of course, there are a million wisdoms that Allah has inserted in every thing that He has outlined, including the wisdom of the Arabic language which Allah chose as the language of the great Qur'an. And the Muslims realized that the Arabic language is so important for Muslims studied. It's just that not a few are confused about how to learn Arabic effectively? What to learn first?
Here we summarize the tips that we think need to be applied so that novice students can achieve ease in learning learn this great language.
First: Sincere Intention
Truly, a sincere intention is like a light. The more sincere a person is in his intentions, the brighter his heart and steps will be Allah is making things easier every step of the way. The sincere intention in learning Arabic is to make it easier a Muslim learns the religion of Allah because the texts of the Shari'a are contained in Arabic and also learn the language Arabic is a part of religion.
Second: Studying Nahwu and Sharaf
The knowledge of Nahwu and Sharaf is among the greatest wasilah that will bridge you in understanding Arabic texts both the Qur'an, hadith and the works of scholars. Of course this is a must for beginners to understand these two sciences because the texts or texts will not be well understood without this knowledge. If someone asks, which ability should be learned first, is the ability to speak or enough? study nahwu and sharaf? Or a similar question, which is more important, just understand the Arabic text or not? ability to speak Arabic?
The ability to speak Arabic is a good thing. Likewise with the ability to understand the text. If you can and being able to reach these two skills is certainly even better.
The ability to speak certainly must be learned for those who want to enter the world of education or become educators, workers in the Middle East, and others because this is a required skill for them.
Meanwhile, for those of you who are not interested in the job, it is more important to only focus on studying Nahwu and Sharaf because anyone who wants to study the contents of the Qur'an and as-Sunnah must learn that knowledge and not required to be proficient and proficient in speaking Arabic.
Third: Take Online Class
Basically, following Arabic learning in places of study, either cottages or learning institutions, is more important compared to online classes because offline class learning is certainly more structured, you can meet face to face with the teacher at once a different learning atmosphere, of course, with online classes.
It's just that, it's inevitable that every individual Muslim has their own busyness: taking care of the household, children, working to earn a living for their family and other activities so that they can't take offline classes – and classes. offline is not spread in every area-. Some can leave their busy lives, and some can't. This is very common.
Therefore, online classes are an effective alternative in accommodating Muslims to learn Arabic.
The benefits are clear, they can gain additional knowledge and understanding of the Arabic language without leaving their activities important daily.
Fourth: Familiar with the Qur'an
We found that daily recitation of the Qur'an would be very helpful for novice learners in learning Arabic. Because These recitations will help the heart and mind become familiar with Arabic vocabulary so that – knowingly or not – someone will be easy understand and even memorize the vocabulary given by the mentor/tutor.
We also found the translated manuscripts, both word-by-word or not, contributed to beginner students' understanding Arabic. This is reality and that's how our online class participants admit it. Those who are easy to learn Arabic it was found that they were consistent and still took the time to read the Qur'an per day.
Can you afford one juz of recitations per day? Try it and you will find yourself familiar with the vocabulary Al-Qur'an.
Fifth: Pray
Learning Arabic is like entering the arena of war where the outcome is clear: win or be knocked out of the battlefield. What's more Satan certainly will not be silent at the same time pleased to see the Muslims flock to learn Arabic because the purpose of learning this language is a religious motive and is a part or phase in studying syar'i.
It could be, a Muslim is so passionate and fiery at first but ends up crashing and dying in the middle of the road because Satan managed to whisper to him to just stop the learning he was taking. And this is a reality that happens a lot.
Therefore, it is true that the Prophet sallallaahu 'alaihi wasallam said that prayer is the weapon of the believer. So dangerous if a soldier does not use or does not even carry his weapon when on the battlefield, in the presence of the dignitaries of his enemy.
There are many kinds of prayers that must be part of the series of prayers that are said in this regard. Do not Do not hesitate in praying for yourself so that you are consistent and consistent in learning Arabic, it will be easier for you to accept explanation of the mentor/tutor, easy to memorize and do the exercises given, it is easier to manage the time behind the activities that are carried out, or pray to Allah so that the teacher is blessed who makes the knowledge gained too get a blessing.
