1. 1 www.understandquran.com Short Course Begin to Understand Qur’an & Salah – The Easy Way Lesson No. 27 www.understandquran.com www.understandquran.com Make sure you download the fonts sent with the email or visit the website and download them. They should appear like below (slide no. 4). If not, check fonts. To get maximum benefit from the lessons, please download the.wmv or.3pg (video) file or mp3 file and watch it along with the.pps files. Change the slide whenever you hear AllahuAkbar in the background.

2. 2 www.understandquran.com In this lesson… Motivational tip: Are you still busy? ExampleAayatal-Kursi Hope you are doing the 7 homeworks, esp. carrying that vocabulary Card

3. 3 www.understandquran.com Motivational Tips

4. 4 www.understandquran.com Guidance –People equate guidance with the knowledge of rules and regulations, such as those of prayers, Zakat, Hajj, and inheritance. –Rules do not constitute even 10% of the Qur’an. What then does the remaining 90% talk about? –It is addressed to the mind and more importantly the heart.

5. 5 www.understandquran.com Keep the heart clean –We need to keep our heart continuously clean by performing regular prayers, reciting Qur’an, and other good deeds. –NO ONE can claim that he does not need this maintenance.

6. 6 www.understandquran.com How does Qur’an (or Allah) guide? By describing realities of this life through different ways, most prominent among them are: –Allah, his attributes and rights –Prophethood and the Last Prophet, pbuh –The hereafter –Role of a human being –Role of Shaitaan (Continued)

7. 7 www.understandquran.com How does Qur’an (or Allah) guide? –Signs of Allah in this universe –Rules of Allah in this universe –Stories and examples of earlier people and lessons from them –Rights of people –Why people reject the truth (Dawah, its challenges,) etc.

8. 8 www.understandquran.com MOST IMPORTANT –No one can say the way Allah says it. –No one’s words can have as much effect as Allah’s words are.

9. 9 www.understandquran.com Shaitaan’s Strategy is still working –90% of us, the non-Arab Muslims, don’t understand the Qur’an. –We ask for guidance tens of times everyday, yet most of us DON’T EVEN FEEL THE NECESSITY to go to Qur’an for getting it. –We celebrate Ramadan after Ramadan (Qur’an’s month) yet Qur’an is still … –We celebrate Lailatual-Qadr (Qur’an’s revelation night), yet Qur’an is still…

10. 10 www.understandquran.com The ultimate, real solution the problems of Muslims Ummah Our major problems are two: Doubts (not enough belief that Qur’an can solve the problems, that Qur’an guides us to everything, …)Doubts (not enough belief that Qur’an can solve the problems, that Qur’an guides us to everything, …) Desires (Even though we know something to be right, we still don’t do it. Muslims not united; Evils not going out; Morals not good; etc.)Desires (Even though we know something to be right, we still don’t do it. Muslims not united; Evils not going out; Morals not good; etc.) Al-Qur’an solves both. It clears all our hidden doubts. It creates that impulse to overcome all types of desires.

11. 11 www.understandquran.com You are the luckiest –Allah has chosen you to make you students of the Qur’an. –It is the biggest blessing when it comes to learning. –Don’t reject His Mercy by going away –Be the student of the Prophet (pbuh). –Don’t let Shaitaan make you like the example of those who were given a book before us. –Don’t forget that this Qur’an will make us go higher and higher both in this world and in the hereafter.

12. 12 www.understandquran.com Huge Challenge –Educate a billion non-Arab Muslims –Fees of this course: Please teach at least 10 persons in your life

13. 13 www.understandquran.com Game –(Screen)

14. 14 www.understandquran.com Discussion board / Forum launched on the site Topics –Teaching / learning Grammar; –Motivational tips; –Learning tips; –Text selection; –Role of spoken Arabic for learning Qur’an; –Challenges of understanding for new Muslims / reverts; –Teaching Qur’an in Schools; Your input will be very valuable inshaAllah.

15. www.understandquran.com 15 A Quick Revision

16. 16 www.understandquran.com What have you learnt? Daily Recitations Surah Al-Fatihah & Last 6 Surahs Parts of Salah Supplications and some selections Basic Grammar And 114 words which occur in the Qur’an more than 40,000 times. Let us look at 10 Golden Sets. Make sure you learn these sets THOROUGHLY

17. 10 GOLDEN SETS 1. 1. هُوَ، هُمْ، أنْتَ، أَنْتُم، أَنَا، نَحْنُ 2. 2. - هُ، - هُم، - كَ، - كُمْ، - ي، - نَا، - هَا 3. 3. لَِ، مِنْ، عَنْ، مَعَ، بِ، فِي، عَلَى، إِلَى 4. 4. هذَا، هؤلآءِ، ذلِكَ، أُولئِكَ، الَّذِي، الَّذِينَ 5. 5. إنْ، إنَّ، أنْ، أنَّ، قَدْ 6. 6. لاَ، مَا، لَمْ، إِلاَّ 7. 7. مَا؟، مَنْ،كَيْفَ 8. 8. إذ، إذا، بعد، ثُمَّ 9. 9. الله، رَبّ، رَسُول، كِتاب، حقّ، دنيا، آخرة، أرض، سماء، عذاب، قوم 10. 10. فَعَل، جَعَل، خَلَق، كَفَر، ظَلَمَ، عَلِمَ، عَمِلَ، قَالَ، كَانَ، شَاءَ، جَاءَ 35,000 or 45% TPI related: 20,000 or 25%

18. 18 www.understandquran.com An Example – AayatalKursi New words in red color!!! You know the rest!

19. 19 www.understandquran.com An Example … Total Words: 50; New Words: 17 17 / 50 = 34% new words

20. 20 www.understandquran.com Right now… please Make Teams Make Teams Repeat the course Repeat the course If you know it, teach it to others If you know it, teach it to others

21. 21 www.understandquran.com Plan for it now…! Masha-Allah, you already took 1 step (equal to almost 10 hours) by starting this Short Course. Only 19 steps (190 hours) remain! Let us pray that we never stop! Without understanding: ‘Deaf and Blind’ Pondering & receiving admonition 1 2 3 4 5 … 20

22. 22 www.understandquran.com Next Step Start the next course (25 hours) Start the next course (25 hours) 60 Lessons; each of 25 minutes! 60 Lessons; each of 25 minutes! Contains similar items but more extensively covered. (Last 14 Surahs; more azkar of Salah; more supplications; + Spoken Arabic) Contains similar items but more extensively covered. (Last 14 Surahs; more azkar of Salah; more supplications; + Spoken Arabic)

23. 23 www.understandquran.com Urgent Need Start Qur’an circles in every neighborhood (separate for men, women, youth, and children) Start Qur’an circles in every neighborhood (separate for men, women, youth, and children) Every Masjid should promote it Every Masjid should promote it Every School should include it as a part of its syllabus. (Which book is more fitting for “Islamic Studies” than Al- Qur’an?) Every School should include it as a part of its syllabus. (Which book is more fitting for “Islamic Studies” than Al- Qur’an?) Every organization should focus on it Every organization should focus on it

24. 24 www.understandquran.com Sharpen the saw –Our struggle – to make life (of both worlds) happy and peaceful. –Qur’an will take us to that path –Al-Qur’an will sharpen our saw (of attitude) which will solve all the problems. –It will be a tragedy, a huge tragedy if we keep looking for happiness and peace somewhere else while Allah out of His infinite Mercy had placed it right in front of us.

25. 25 www.understandquran.com May Allah reward everyone who helped in developing, promoting, supporting and spreading this noble work.

26. 26 www.understandquran.com دُعَاءدُعَاءدُعَاءدُعَاء رَبَّنَا تَقَبَّلْ مِنَّا إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيم وَتُبْ عَلَيْنَا إنَّكَ أنْتَ التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيم

27. 27 www.understandquran.com جَزَاكُمُ الله ُ خَيْرًا سُبْحَانَ اللهِ وَبِحَمْدِه، سُبْحَانَكَ اللّهُمَّ وَبِحَمْدِكَ نَشْهَدُ أَنْ لاَّ إِلهَ إِلاَّ أَنْتَ نَسْتَغْفِرُكَ ونتُوبُ إِلَيْكَ