Fundamentals of Grammar | Unit 1

Lesson Number: 4
Lesson title: 1.3 Properties of the Ism-Status (Ending Sounds Practice)

Quick Review: What are the 3 kinds of status? Doer

, Detail

and After Of Status.

From now on, we will only say

& status, but keep in mind the English definitions

Lesson Objective: Importance of ending sounds of Arabic words,

- Exercise: In these sentences, the same 3 Arabic words are used.

means Helped (Fil) / means 'Teachers'

means Students

- Try and guess the translation of these following sentences one by one (let student translate all)

.1

.2

.3

.4

.5

.6

- The students were wrong most of the time, and thats part of the exercise.

- English examples, find the Doers in the following sentences.

Bob kicked Joe Bob Joe kicked Bob Joe I chased a Lion I
A Lion chased me A Lion The teacher taught the student The teacher

In English the Doer came before the Fil and the Detail came after. Thats in English.

- In Arabic When you hear U or a Oona at the end of a word, That must be the Doer/ helper in
this case

- Read the above sentences again, figure out the doer, then translate it using the U & Oona rule.

- 1. Teachers 2. Students 3. Teachers 4. Students 5. Students 6. Teachers

- Write down the following: In English, we discover the Doer according to the order. In Arabic, we
discover the Doer according to the Ending Sound of a word. In Arabic, sound is more important
than the sequence.

-

at the end of this word, put a Dammataan & Damma on it:

&

,
Put a Fathataan & Fatha on it

&

, put Kasrataan & Kasra on it

&

- Theres 2 Damma U sounds, KitaabUN and KitaabU.
- Theres 2 Fatha A sounds, KitaabAN and KitaabA,
- Theres 2 Kasra I sounds, KitaabIn and KitaabI

Fundamentals of Grammar | Unit 1
- Must Remember: Raf means U or UN sound at the end. Nasb means A or AN sound at
the end. Jarr means I or IN sound at the end.

- UN, AN, IN are heavy versions, U, A, I are light versions

- *This UN AN IN/ Raf, Nasb, Jarr is only for the Isms and not for Fil and Harf.
Raf is? Doer. Nasb is? Detail. Jarr is? After Of


- 2 examples from the Quran to show how important it is to get the ending sounds right in Arabic.

1. In these Aayat, pay attention to the word Rabb (Master) and the name Ibraheem
You have to tell me which one is Raf and which one is Nasb, by listening to the ending sound



- You dont know what the Aayah means, but can you figure out who the doer (Raf) is, and what
the detail (Nasb) is?

Rabb is the Raf doer, because it has U sound.

Ibraheem is the Nasb detail because it has the A sound.

- The meaning of this Aayah is. And when his master (Allah) tested Ibraheem

- Whos giving the test? Master/Allah how do you know? Because it had the U on it

- How do we know that Ibraheem a.s didnt do the testing? Because he was Nasb/Detail



2. Pay attention to two words in this Aayah; word Allah and Al-Ulamaa (Scholars)

We have to figure out whos Raf/doer and whos Nasb/Detail



- In this Aayah, someone fears somebody, who fears who? The scholars fear Allah

- How do we know that the scholars are doing the act of being afraid? Because they are Raf

- Do you see how bad a mistake it would be to recite Allahu here instead of Allaha
and Al-Ulamaa-a instead of Al-Ulamaa-u

The mistake is so BAD that we cant even say the translation of that!

Thats why it is so important to learn this properly