Bismillah
Assalaam alaikum wr wb,
I recently joined an Al-Huda Taleem ul Quran course. Alhamdulillah, it's the best thing I have ever done in the way of learning the deen. Before taking this course, I never knew that studying the Quran (for which we get tremendous reward, inshallah) could be so easy, fulfilling, and FUN!
However, as the course starts, there are some issues that intimidated several students, including me. So my intent in posting this blog is to help out anyone who might be going through a similar experience. All of these difficulties revolve around Juz 1.
1. First of all, it is a fact that whatever it is that's sooo scary in the begininng (learning the translation, root-words, wahid-jama), becomes a piece of cake before one knows it.
2. Root words can be confusing because of huroof e illat (hamza, waaw, ya), letters that change shape. But the only way to overcome them is by studying them over and over again.
3. Wahid-jamaa (singular-plurals) are a big concern because even though Ustaza Farhat Hashmi mentions all the ones we need to know, the difficulty arises due to lack of knowing how to write them in arabic. So I'll post a link for them.
4. While taking notes for word analysis, make sure you write root-words and singular plural. While listening to tafseer, you have to be smart and know what to write. Make sure you are writing when Ustaza mentions types of things (e.g two types of hidayat), characteristics (who is a mu'min), or lessons we learn from a specific ayah.
5. In the translation exam, there are 3 sets of ayahs. Each set has 3-4 ayahs, so a total of about 10 ayahs. You have to write word-to-word translation, not the running translation. Then, there are 8-10 words for which you have to tell root-words and their exact translation (eg. yakdhiboon: k, dh, b; they lie). There are also 5 wahid-jama'.
6. In the tafseer assignment, you have to answer based on the Quranic ayahs and your notes (so it's very important that you have good notes). Good news is that it is an open book exam.
7. Ustaza mentions wazan of words. You have to know these! They seem confusing, but they are actually very easy: Wazan is written in the form of fel-- fa, ayn, lam. So, for whatever word you have to write the wazan, you find its root-words, and just replace them with fel. For example:
yak-dhi-boon (k, dh, b): yaf-ai-loon (ya zabar, fa sakin, ayn zer, laam waaw pesh, noon)
Ra-h-maan (r, h, m): fa-a-laan (fa zabar, ayn saakin, laam zabar alif, noon)
