ArabicFluency

Assalamu Alaykum!

Fluent Arabic is excited to announce a new live class!

Learn to recite the Quran correctly with Sheikh Ahmed Elashri, an Al-Azhar graduate with ijazah in all 10 recitations.

Study Tuhfat al-Atfaal through live, interactive lessons in English—with guided recitation and personal correction.

🗓 Starts: Saturday, 7 November 2026
🕙 Classes: Saturdays & Sundays at 10 am GMT
⏳ Duration: 4 months · 1-hour sessions
💻 Live on Zoom · Recordings included
👤 Brothers only · Ability to read Arabic script required

Early bird through Sunday, 1 November:

👉 Learn more & sign up:
learn.fluentarabic.net/tajweed-for-beginners

🌍 See the class time where you are:
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Questions? Leave a comment below.

The sister's batch will be announced soon inshaAllah.

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ArabicFluency

I was sitting with my sheikh after ʿAsr in the Prophet’s ﷺ Mosque. He asked me what book I had brought, and when I told him it was Alfiyyat Ibn Malik — a didactic poem on Arabic grammar — he recited a line from it and asked whether I remembered it.

When I admitted that I had memorized it before but had since forgotten it, he told me about how they learn poems in Mauritania.

He said there was a sheikh he knew who would learn half a line from a didactic poem. When he went to his father wanting to learn the second half, his father would refuse and send him away. The reason was that they would first learn and master the explanation of that half-line completely before moving on.

Some of them advise the following method: take two lines and learn their sharh. Then repeat those two lines twenty times after each salah. If you do this after the five daily prayers, you will have repeated them one hundred times in a single day. By then, they will be firmly etched in your memory. The next day, move on to the next two lines.

The sheikh said that if you want to memorize the Qur’an, you can apply the same principle. Take a small portion — perhaps half a page each day — and repeat it as much as you can. He said the best times are before and after Fajr.

But once you choose a time for the Qur’an, you should treat that time like waqf: it cannot be transferred or given to anyone else. If you do this consistently, he said, you can easily memorize half a juz every month.

I realized that their approach rests on two important principles that they place tremendous emphasis on: meticulousness and consistency.

They are never concerned with how quickly you finish the Qur’an. When I asked the sheikh whether I could resume reading to him from where I had stopped during Ramadan (when i was last here in Madinah), he told me to begin again from the start and read it to him from the beginning.

But when it comes to consistency, they are extremely strict.

The last time I was absent for a day, he told me that he accepts only two excuses:

1. You are unconscious.
2. You are in al-Baqiʿ — meaning, you are dead.

Meticulousness combined with consistency is an extremely powerful approach. InshaAllah, these two qualities can help us move mountains when it comes to learning and memorization.

May Allah make this advice beneficial for us, and may He help us apply these principles in our lives.

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 369

ArabicFluency

📚 New Live Course: al-Tuḥfa al-Saniyyah

Studied Ājurrūmiyyah or Madinah Book 3? Take the next step in Arabic grammar with Ust. Abdul Aleem.


Study this classical commentary on Ājurrūmiyyah through clear English explanations, worked examples, and practice in iʿrāb — understanding how words function in a sentence.

This course will inshaAllah help you develop a deeper understanding of nahw, and train you in the process of grammatical analysis (iʿrāb)


📅 Starts September 27, 2026
🕒 Sundays & Tuesdays at 11:30 PM EDT
📖 3–4 months · 1-hour sessions
🎥 Recordings available for one year
💰 Early-bird price available.
👉 Learn more and enroll:
learn.fluentarabic.net/tuhfa-al-saniyyah

1 month ago | [YT] | 43

ArabicFluency

As requested here is the Islamic Research Grok bot:
x.ai/bot/m0BTAkrEh-lsMzq4tGaWZ

Researches Islamic topics & classical quotes from over 8000 verified classical Islamic books. Uses authentic translations from Quran.com for ayat. Never lifts quotes from the web or invents them.

You need the Grok Bot app to use it. I haven't done extensive testing. Always verify quotes and references.

What you can do with it:

Ask it a general question like: "What did umar ibn abd al-azeez say about death?" and it will compose an answer with quotes and references.

1 month ago | [YT] | 48

ArabicFluency

ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz lived in luxury when he was an amīr. When he became the Khalīfa he abandoned all pleasures.

He says about himself:

إن نفسي تواقة، لم تعطَ من الدنيا شيئًا إلا تاقت إلى ما هو أفضل منه، فلما أعطيت ما لا شيء فوقه من الدنيا تاقت نفسي إلى ما هو أفضل منه — يعني: الجنة.

“My soul is one that yearns (for that which is better). It was never given anything of this world except that it longed for what was better than it.

So when I was given what has nothing above it in this world — i.e., the khilāfa, my soul longed for what is better than that” — meaning Paradise.

Source: al-Suyūṭī, Taʾrīkh al-Khulafāʾ, p. 177

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ArabicFluency

“Increase your remembrance of death. If you are in hardship of livelihood, it will widen it for you; and if you are in ease of livelihood, it will tighten it for you.”

— ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz

Source: al-Suyūṭī, Taʾrīkh al-Khulafāʾ, ed. Ḥamdī al-Damardāsh, Maktabat Nizār Muṣṭafā al-Bāz, 1st ed., vol. 1, p. 174

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ArabicFluency

🗣️ Last chance to join the Arabic Speaking Workshop

Our new batch starts in roughly two days, on 5 September, inshaAllah.

If you’ve studied Arabic, learned the grammar, and built up vocabulary — but still struggle to actually speak — this workshop is for you.

Over 16 live sessions, you’ll practice:

💬 Real-life conversations
🎤 Spontaneous speaking
🖼️ Picture descriptions
👥 Group discussions and debates
📚 Practical vocabulary
✅ Real-time correction and feedback

The goal is simple:

To help you turn the Arabic you already know into Arabic you can actually use.

📅 Starts: 5 September 2026
🗓️ Saturdays & Sundays
⏰ 5:30–6:30 pm EDT
💻 Live on Zoom
⏳ 2 months / 16 sessions

⚠️ This is the final chance to join before the workshop begins.

👉 Register here:
learn.fluentarabic.net/workshop-b4

1 month ago | [YT] | 13

ArabicFluency

How???!!! 😮

I read in the biography of Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik:

وكان من الأكلة المذكورين؛ أكل في مجلس سبعين رمانة وخروفا وست دجاجات ومكوك
زبيب طائفي

“He was one of the renowned great eaters. In a single sitting, he ate seventy pomegranates, a lamb, six chickens, and a makkūk of Ṭāʾif raisins.”

مكوك (makkūk)
is an old unit of dry measure whose exact quantity varied by place and period.

Tarikh al-Khulafa, p. 370

1 month ago | [YT] | 40

ArabicFluency

🗣️ Arabic Speaking Workshop – Batch 4

You’ve studied Arabic.

You’ve worked through the grammar.

You’ve built up vocabulary.

But when someone actually speaks to you in Arabic… you freeze.

The words are there, but they don’t come out fast enough.

Speaking is a separate skill, and the only way to improve it is through practice.

That’s exactly what we’ll be doing in our upcoming Arabic Speaking Workshop, inshaAllah.

💬 16 live speaking sessions
📚 Practical, theme-based vocabulary
🎤 Presentations, discussions and spontaneous speaking
🖼️ Picture descriptions and real-life conversation practice
👥 Small, friendly and encouraging environment
💻 Live on Zoom

📅 Starts: 5 September 2026
🗓️ Saturdays & Sundays
⏰ 5:30–6:30 pm EDT
⏳ Duration: 2 months

💰 Early Bird: $120
Regular price: $150

⚠️ Early bird pricing ends 29 August.

If you’ve been learning Arabic for a while but still struggle to actually speak it, this workshop is designed to help you turn what you know into Arabic you can use.

👉 Register here:
learn.fluentarabic.net/workshop-b4

1 month ago | [YT] | 40

ArabicFluency

Want to speak Arabic more confidently instead of just learning grammar rules?

Our upcoming Arabic Speaking Workshop – Batch 4 is designed to help you turn the Arabic you already know into Arabic you can actually use in conversation.

Over 16 live sessions across 2 months, you’ll practice:

- Spontaneous speaking
- Real-life conversations
- Presentations and Q&A
- Describing pictures and situations
- Group discussions and debates
- Building practical vocabulary

📅 Starts: 5 September 2026
🗓 Saturdays & Sundays
💻 Live on Zoom
🎯 Beginner speaking practice
💰 Early Bird: $120 until 29 August
Regular price: $150 (One-time payment)

If you’ve studied Arabic but still struggle to get the words out when you speak, this workshop is for you.

👉 Learn more and register:
learn.fluentarabic.net/workshop-b4

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