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June 3, 2012

Take Home Final:

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Due date is extended to Sunday 6/17/2012

Audio Notes:

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Homework:

Solution of Last Week’s Homework:

Notes:

May 20, 2012

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Homework:

Translate the shown English expressions into Arabic. Use the following Arabic words

All	كل
Students	التلاميذ
Pass	ينجحون
Exam	الإمتحان
Except	ماعدا
The ones who	اللذين
Didn’t	لم
study	يدرسون
Muslims	المسلمين
Goto Jannah	يدخلون الجنة
Refuse	يرفضون
Kids	الأطفال
Too young	صغار جدا
Two	إثنين

Solution of Last Week’s Homework:

Notes:

May 6, 2012

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Homework:

Translate the shown English expressions into Arabic. Use the following Arabic words

Solution of Last Week’s Homework:

Notes:

April 29, 2012

Homework:

Translate the shown threatening expressions into Arabic. Use the following Arabic words

Miss	يفوتك
School	مدرسة
Buss	حافلة
Breakfast	إفطار
Postpone	تؤجل
Homework	واجب
Late	تتأخر
You keep doing	ستظل
Become	تصبح
Fat	سمين

Notes:

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April 22, 2012

Homework:

1. Do the same for Surat Al-Falaq

2. Explain the difference between Hallal, Sunah, Macrooh and Haram.

Solution of Last Week’s Homework

Kids had some questions that they asked me.

The first question is about lying. Are we allowed to say other than the truth and it doesn’t count as a lie?

The answer is there are three situations where we can say other than the truth and it is not a lie

There is a special case where saying other than the truth is not forbidden, but it is not recommended. It the case of jokes and fiction stories

The second question was about Hijab. Kids were asking if Hijab is required in Islam or is it just a tradition. The answer is that Hijab is required and there three Ayat in the Quran that mandates the Hijab

1. The first Ayah is Ayah 31, in Surat Al-Noor (Surah 24) This Ayah specifies a long “Khimar” that is long enough covers the chest area. It also lists who are the relatives that can see you without Hijab. Note that the Ayah specifies “Khimar” which is Arabic word for head cover.

2. The second Ayah is Ayah 60, in Surat Al-Noor (Surah 24). It specifies who are exempted from Hijab. The Ayah says that the old women who are too old to marry can take of their Hijab provided that they display no decoration. The Ayah also says that it is better for them to keep their Hijab even if they are old.

3. The third Ayah is Ayah 59 in Surah 33. The Ayah specifies a long “Gilbab” that is long enough to cover all the way down. Note that the Ayah specifies “Gilbab”, which is the Arabic word for a dress that is wide enough not to show the contours of the body.

April 8, 2012

Homework:

Notes:

Background:

We are learning how to understand Surat Al-Nasr. The overall meaning of the Surah is that at the time of victory we thank Allah and seek his forgiveness. The question here is that we understand why we must thank Allah at the time of victory, but why ask for his forgiveness in this particular situation? The answer is that the human always feels pride at the time of victory. This pride makes him/her feel that they deserve some credit in making the victory happen. This feeling is triggered by the Shitan because Allah is the one who gets all credit and we get no credit at all. We seek the forgiveness of Allah from our failure to deny ourselves all credit and referring the entire credit to Allah SWT.

Continue doing the same in Surat Al-Lahab. Surat Al-Lahab basically takes about the punishment of Abo Labab and his wife in hell and relates this to what they have done in this life. Allah gives the punishment from the same kind as the evil deed. Abo Lahab said to the Prophet SAW “may your hand be ruined” and Allah will ruin his hand in hell. His wife used to throw ignited firewood sticks on the Muslims when they went for public demonstration to the Kaba to disperse the Muslims and end their demonstration. She will be gathering this wood in hell fire and she will have a rope around her body similar to the one she was using to gather the firewood sticks in this life.

April 1, 2012

Homework:

Notes:

Today we will learn how to identify verbs in Surat Al-Alaq (Iqra), their kind and to whom they refer.

First let us learn the different kinds of verbs

Then let us apply to Surat Al-Alaq

Here we are giving an example to illustrate how Allah is feeding us. The example is for a father who lives in New York and sending an Eid gift to his son in San Jose. The son doesn’t see the father sending the gift but what he sees is the mail person giving him the gift. Should he thank the father for the gift or should he thank the mail person. Allah sends us food through farmers. We see the farmers giving us the food (like the mail person) but Allah is the one who actually sent the food.

March 25, 2012

Homework:

Notes:

By the sun and its shine
By the moon that follows the sun
By the day time when the sun is seen
By the night time when the sun is covered
By the sky that is well built
By the Earth that is well spread
By the soul that is well created
And given the choice between right and wrong
The one who does the right is successful
And the one who does the wrong is a loser
The people of Thamood were so bad to call their prophet a liar
The worst guy among them wanted to kill the she camel
But their prophet told them,”This is the she camel that Allah has sent. Leave it alone and let it drink its water.”
فَكَذَّبُوهُ But they didn’t listen
فَعَقَرُوهَا and killed the she camel
فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُمْ بِذَنْبِهِمْ فَسَوَّاهَا so Allah got angry at them and he punished them all
وَلَا يَخَافُ عُقْبَاهَا And for him he has no fear of consequences

Here we are trying to learn the composition of sentence in a simplified way just for the purpose of being able to understand little bit of the Quran.

Noun sentences is made of Mobtada (subject) + Khabar (description, information or news about the Mobtada).

Let us now apply these principles to Surat Al-Shams

March 18, 2012

Homework

In a table format similar to the one shown below, identify the verbs, subjects and objects in Ayat 7 to 12 of Surat Abasa

Notes

March 11, 2012

Homework

See this example for Surat Al-Shams

By the sun and its shine
By the moon that follows the sun
By the day time when the sun is seen
By the night time when the sun is covered
By the sky that is well built
By the Earth that is well spread
By the soul that is well created
And given the choice between right and wrong
The one who does the right is successful
And the one who does the wrong is a loser
The people of Thamood were so bad to call their prophet a liar
The worst guy among them wanted to kill the she camel
But their prophet told them,”This is the she camel that Allah has sent. Leave it alone and let it drink its water.”
فَكَذَّبُوهُ But they didn’t listen
فَعَقَرُوهَا and killed the she camel
فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّهُمْ بِذَنْبِهِمْ فَسَوَّاهَا so Allah got angry at them and he punished them all
وَلَا يَخَافُ عُقْبَاهَا And for him he has no fear of consequences

Notes:

We continue to learn the expressions in Surat Al-Tin.

Here we are learning about what the pronouns refer to.

Now we are learning about the expression of saying, the wisest wise, the tallest tall, the shortest short, …etc in the Surah

Now we are learning the exception expression in Surat Al-Tin. Allah in Ayah 6 gave the exception to everything that was said before in Ayat 1 to 5.

Then Allah is ending the Surah with a rhetorical question. When we read this rhetorical question, we say answering the question “Indeed He Is”

Now we are learning about the verb, subject and object sentences in the Surah

This is an example where the verb, subject and object are all in one word.

March 4, 2012

Homework for this week due on March 11, 2012

State what are the circled pronouns refer to.

Solution of Last Week’s Homework

The worksheets for this week

Now Brief explanation of the Surah before going into the pronouns.

The letter WAW is the letter used in the Arabic language to swear. It also means AND

Allah is swearing by four things. Human swear to assure that they are saying the truth but Allah swears for a different reasons.

One of the reasons is to highlight the greatness of the thing that Allah has sworn by. This greatness may be known or unknown to us.

The important message comes right after the thing(s) that Allah is swearing by, which in this case are the following

Now we play the game between the two teams in the class by asking questions about the referrals in the Ayat as follows

When Allah uses WE to refer to himself, this is called the Royal We.

February 26, 2012

HW

You can use a dictionary like this one http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=80&verse=1

Notes

February 12, 2012

The class pictures are deleted by accident. Students should use their notes.

February 5, 2012

Homework:

Click here to download and print Surat Abasa Vocab and bring it with you to class

Don’t leave any pronoun or implied pronoun without filling in the noun it points to. For example:

Ayah (1) (The Prophet) Frowned and (the Prophet) Ignored (the Blind man).

Ayah (2): (The reason for frowning was that) the blind man came to him (when he was too busy talking to the elites of Makkah)

Ayah (3): (Allah is saying) “How do you (Mohamed) know that he (The Blind Man) may purify himself (The Blind Man)

……..Continue to Ayah 17. You can use a dictionary like this one http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=80&verse=1

Solution of last week’s homework

Notes:

January 29, 2012

Homework:

Ha in Surat Al-Shams refers to a noun, state the nouns in All Ayat of the Surah in the following table

Notes

January 22, 2012

Homework:

Going over Homework:

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January 15, 2012

Homework Due next week

Class Notes:

Continue Surat Al-Layl (Has lots of opposite words)

December 18, 2011

December 11, 2011

December 4, 2011

HW is

Notes: It is about the Vocab of Surat Al-Falaq

The Surah is about seeking the Protection of Allah against four things. Today we will address one of them, which is the envy eye.

People misunderstand the Hasad (Envy Eye) and they have superstitious believes about Hasad. They hide things and lie thinking that this is the way to fight the envy eye. This is false. This causes a lot of social problems. If you are paranoid about Hasad, just read both Surat Al-Nas and Surat Al-Falaq and you are guaranteed Allah’s protection from the worst envy eye you can ever imagine. Lying and hiding cause a lot of resentment and social problems because people take it as an insult. On the other hand, when you mention something good about someone, always say “Masha’a Allah”.

Another thing is that you can envy yourself or your loved ones. This is none sense because Hasad has to come with hate and evil desire that you lose what you have, and no one hates himself or loved ones or have ill wishes towards them.

Jealousy is okay as long as it doesn’t come with evil wishes that the others will lose what they have. It is a nature human feeling and it is not recommended because it makes us belittle what Allah gave to us by unfair comparisons. We don’t see the blessings that Allah gave to us and we only see what we are not given.

The jealousy that Prophet Mohamed SAW has ordered us to have is jealousy that the other knows more Quran, or do more good deeds than us. The companion of Prophet Mohamed SAW used to have a lot of this kind of jealousy.

The basis for this definition is the Hadeeth of the Prophet that says “Hasad is the evil wish that the others lose the blessings that Allah gave to them”.

November 20, 2011

Midterm Test

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Test Solution is due on December 4, 2011

November 13, 2011

The notes

Surat Al-Ikhlas Vocab

October 30, 2011

HW:

Download the Surat Al-Fatiha Vocab Sheet

Today in class we took a quiz:

Answers:

Notes:

October 16, 2011

Homework:

Click here to download Surat Al-Fatiha Vocabulary Sheet

Today we took a quiz in Arabic class and corrected it.

Notes:

October 9, 2011

Homework:

Click here to download Surat Al-Fatiha Vocabulary Sheet

Notes:

October 2, 2011

Download the Surat Al-Fatiha Vocab Sheet

Homework:

The homework needs to be a t-table with at least 10 examples.

Notes:

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September 25, 2011

Download the Surat Al-Fatiha Vocab Sheet
Homework:

Homework Solution:

Notes:

September 18, 2011

Homework:

Notes:

Surat Al-Fatiha Vocab

September 11, 2011

Class Information:

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· We will contact parents if the students are doing badly in class.

· Students are expected to bring their notebooks and pencils to class.

· We have a system of checks and minuses in this class.

Homework:

Give 2 examples of how Arabic script is different than Ottoman script and explain the reasons.

Notes: