Read Arabic From English

AT-TIBYAN - BY DR. V ABDUL RAHIM

Easy way to Quranic Reading 

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

This book was first published in the year 1994 in Tamil. This book which is meant to teach the reader the Arabic alphabet with Qur’anic orientation is based on one of the latest advanced teaching principles and has considerably cut down the learning period.

The English version of the same was long felt and is now become a reality, Alhamdulillah.

We hope this English version will prove as useful as the Tamil book has proved to be.

M.A. Jameel Ahmed (General Secretary) | 01-01-2000 | Chennai – 12

PREFACE

All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the universe, and peace andblessings of Allah be upon His messenger Muhammad, hishousehold and his companions.This book is meant to teach Indian students how to read theQur’anic Arabic through English. It is presumed that those who usethis book are familiar with the speech-sounds which are common tomost Indian languages.This book is based on the following principles :
a. The speech-sounds of one language vis-a’-vis those ofanother fall under three categories :

1. Completely identical,
2. Similar but not identical,
3. Totally different

The Arabic sounds have been presented in this book in thisorder.

 b. From the very outset the consonants are taught with thevowel-signs.

c. In each lesson only one letter, vowel-sign or rule oforthography is taught.     

d. Words in the exercises are made up of only those letters,vowel-signs and orthographical rules which the students havealready learnt. So the students can read the words by themselves.The teacher explains the new element in each lesson. Then thestudents read the words by themselves without the help of theteacher. The teacher moves to the next lesson only after all thestudents have thoroughly understood this new element.May Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala make this book useful, and helpthe students learn the language of the Quran better.

Madinah Munawwarah
Ramdhan 16, 1420 AH V. Abdur Rahim

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