Short Course Begin to Understand Qur’an & Salah – The Easy Way Lesson No. 1 (Introduction) unders

1. Short Course Begin to Understand Qur’an & Salah – The Easy Way Lesson No. 1 (Introduction) www.understandquran.com Make sure you download the fonts sent with the email or visit the website and download them.

2. جَزَاكُمُ اللهُ خَيْرًا May Allah reward those Who made arrangements to get it delivered or informed you about it. www.understandquran.com

3. Lمُبَارَ ك Congratulations To those who will attend this. Allah made us reach the month of Ramadan And gave a chance to study the Qur’an too. www.understandquran.com

4. In this lesson… • An ayah from Qur’an • Introduction of the course • Relationship with Qur’an and a simple model to interact with it. www.understandquran.com

5. Clarification of my position Scholars My Position General Public www.understandquran.com

6. Style This short course is based on modern teaching techniques taken from: • Brain (Tony Buzan etc.) • Lateral thinking (De Bono) • Positive thinking • Effective living (Stephen Covey, etc.) • Time and Resource Management • NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming) • Second Language learning (Latest style of teaching English to foreigners); Word power; etc. • Review of books published in India, Pak, UK, USA • Teaching models (interactive, lecturing, …) www.understandquran.com

7. Objectives of the Short Course • Convince that Qur’an is easy to learn • Encourage to recite Qur’an again and again with understanding • Help in interacting with the Qur’an (to bring it into our lives) • To pray Salah effectively • To generate the team spirit www.understandquran.com

8. What will we study? • Surah Al-Fatihah, and last 6 Surahs • Parts of Salah • Supplications, etc. • PLUS grammar rules in every session www.understandquran.com

9. How will we study? • 15 minutes sessions for 27 days • Each Session will have: • Qur’an / Hadith • Grammar • Educational and motivational tips www.understandquran.com

10. Our Strategy Through these common recitations, we will learn almost 100 words that occur in the Qur’an almost 40,000 times (50% of the words of the Qur’an) www.understandquran.com

11. Understanding Qur’anvs.Learning Arabic Language 4 Major Differences in our approach www.understandquran.com

12. No. 1: Smooth Start • Start from Salah (Why use any other text, when you want to understand Qur’an)… • If I want to teach you french and if I know that you speak something in french for 1 hour, I will say: Let us learn that first! • A common sense approach • Valid for every Muslim man, woman, old, and young, and even for a child because he is… www.understandquran.com

13. No. 2: Focus on Listening and Reading www.understandquran.com

14. No. 3: More Focus on Vocabulary • More focus on Vocabulary (just the way a child learns…) • Less focus on grammar; otherwise if we teach the way shown below, people will run away! يُؤمِنُون غائب، جمع، مذكر، مهموز، باب إفعال فعل مضارع مرفوع بثبوت النون لأنه من الأفعال الخمسة، والواؤ ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل www.understandquran.com

15. No. 4: More Focus on Sarf In Grammar, we give • More emphasis on Sarf (word construction) • Less emphasis on Nahw (sentence construction) Because: • We are familiar with the topics of Qur’an; • We are learning from existing English translations; • We are learning to repeat the translation, rather than ‘translation’ itself. www.understandquran.com

16. Rules of the Short Course www.understandquran.com

17. Rules … • We will learn with love, smiles, and relaxation. • This is a thoroughly interactive short course therefore listen attentively, and participate continuously. • Listen interactively, with your HEART and have faith that Allah will teach you. Don’t doubt about yourself. (الرحمن علم القرآن) www.understandquran.com

18. Rules … Remember the gold rule: • I listen, I forget. • I see, I remember. • I practice, I learn. • I teach, I master(more later) www.understandquran.com

19. Repetition of words in Qur’an كِتَابٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ Noun (singular + plural forms); Verb (all forms) Repetition in Qur’an 261* www.understandquran.com

20. Today’s Verse www.understandquran.com

21. DPPR Ask Propagate Understand I+G Evaluate Plan Check Purpose of Revelation 261* كِتَابٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَمُبَارَكٌ لِّيَدَّبَّرُوا آيَاتِهِ وَلِيَتَذَكَّرَ أُوْلُوا الْأَلْبَابِ (ص: 29) 382* www.understandquran.com

22. DPPR Ask Propagate Understand I+G Evaluate Plan Check Purpose of Revelation 261* www.understandquran.com

23. DPPR Ask Propagate Understand I+G Evaluate Plan Check Purpose of Revelation 382* www.understandquran.com

24. Pondering: What & How? You don’t need it while you read a newspaper! You can’t read a book of science without pondering at each sentence! You can ponder only when you understand! www.understandquran.com

25. Before we ponder, Let us look atOur Relationship with Qur’an • Direct • Personal • Planned • Relevant DPPR www.understandquran.com

26. تدبُّر & تذكُّر : A simple method • ASK: Each verse of the Qur’an demands something from us. To fulfill it, start with supplication. • EVALUATE (your past day or week in the light of that supplication) • Make a PLAN of the next day / week. • PROPAGATE the message (The Prophet pbuh said: Convey from me even if it is one verse). www.understandquran.com

27. DPPR Ask Propagate Understand I+G Evaluate Plan Check تدبُّر & تذكُّر : A simple method In the next slide www.understandquran.com

28. Check Check! • When it comes to group or Fiqh issues or any new idea, then please check with scholars before you mention it to others or implement it. Then what is the real area for common people like us? • Relationship with Allah, Following the Prophet pbuh, planning for the hereafter, Zikr, Worship, Morals, Dealings, Dawah, Preaching and Propagation, Ordering good and Stopping evil, Team spirit etc. www.understandquran.com

29. DPPR Ask Propagate Understand I+G Evaluate Plan Check Example: تدبُّر + تذكُّر Just Prayer / supplication is not enough. One should evaluate his performance and make plans. Example: Do you think a student who just asks Allah to help him succeed is sincere if he does not follow it up with studies? The real target of this course is: تدبر +تذكر www.understandquran.com

30. Rights of the Qur’an • Believe in it • Read it • Understand it • Ponder its verses • Act upon it • Spread it www.understandquran.com

31. What have we learnt today? The following words which occur many times in the Qur’an: • From Qur’an : كتاب، آيات، لِ Our relationship with Qur’an and an interaction model. www.understandquran.com

32. From next session, we will have… • Introduction • Today’s lesson • Text – 6 min. • Grammar – 6 min. • Educational / motivational tip. - 2 Alhamdulillah, you have started! Don’t give up!! www.understandquran.com

33. MashaAllah you have started! Don’t give up!! • Ramadan is the month of Qur’an – Each day we should get closer to it. • Don’t fail yourself! Don’t say you don’t have time! Snatch those 15 minutes from your day anyway! • Don’t forget to become the ‘student’ of the Prophet pbuh! سُبْحَانَ اللهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ سُبْحَانَكَ اللهُمَّ وَبِحَمْدِكَ نَشْهَدُ أَن لاَّ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ أَنْتَ أَسْتَغْفِرُكَ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْكَ www.understandquran.com