Arabic? Anyone?

Last time I came across this video. It's about why study Arabic?



I didn't mean to watch it in the first place. I just suddenly click it and listen to it. I am glad to watch the video since it made me realize about something that I just take for granted before this.

The speaker is Brother Nouman Ali Khan.

"Why Arabic is important?"
Generally, for average Muslims, doesn't matter where they come from, the answer were pretty much the same,
"Arabic is important because of QURAN"

When we come to Rasulullah saw, the final messenger, What do Allah give him?
Allah give him message, we call them Quran..
Allah give him miracle, what do we call them ? QURAN..
Quran is the message and Quran is the miracle. Two things at the same time..
There is a fundamental different between what Allah gave to the other messengers and what Allah gave to Rasululah saw, the final messenger.

Isn't that unfair?
Other messenger got all sorts of cool stuff..
eg: dead man come to alive...
cane turn into a snake...
a river completely apart...
and all we got is a book...?

Allah put 2 things in the Quran
-The message and the miracle..

Quran is a book that demand the reciter to read over and over again to UNDERSTAND
we cant reat it once and claim that we understand..
It's not that cheap the understanding of Quran.
You have to pay for it with TIME n EFFORT.
NOT just by reading it casually.

The translation, even the very best translation, the most we can get is only the message but not the miracle..
The miracle of Quran is only in the words of Allah.

Those are snippets that I quote from the video. Watch the video for yourselves for more input. You'll get something InsyaAllah.

Lets learn Arabic. In the next post, I'll address some of common questions about Arabic language and how to answer them.