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The Best Way to Learn Arabic & Quran (Study Motivation) - Q&A 3 with Nouman Ali Khan

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00:00But I don't want any one of you to study Arabic until your thirst for it becomes uncomfortable

00:06But you can't take it anymore

00:09Because if you don't have that kind of fire in you, you will quit in a week

00:27Okay, last one I'm hungry

00:31Yes

00:32first of all, I'm really impressed always by your lectures if you talk about the Arabic language and

00:40how

00:42Insightful the Arabic language is yeah, and how?

00:47Comprehensive and like I'm always fascinated how he explained it

00:50And my question is how could I get a deeper understanding of the Arabic language?

00:57How could I study it where could I study it what methods are the best and

01:02to get a deeper insight inside of the Quran because if I read just a translation in

01:08in German when I've run in Pashto or something like that, I

01:13Don't really get it. And if I hear your lectures, I I try to I get a deeper understanding and

01:21My goal is to go deeper into it by myself. And how could I achieve this goal? Good job

01:27This is what I want to hear

01:33I

01:35Want to make you guys

01:38feel

01:40disturbed

01:41Why don't I have this access myself? I

01:46want to make you feel uncomfortable and I want to turn that discomfort into a

01:54passion

01:55Because when you say I want to learn Arabic, it's so cool. Then you're gonna get lazy when you feel the pain of not knowing it

02:03Then you will keep going until you know it you understand me

02:08part of the reason I'm giving these little and

02:10Showing you things on the screen and things like that is because I want you to feel the pain. I

02:16Really want you to be hey, I want to know that. I don't know. How can you how do you know?

02:20Now the thing is I'm just telling you for myself. I studied

02:24Arabic I've talked about this a bajillion times with this for you guys. I

02:29Couldn't I was in New York. My parents left. I was living by myself. I couldn't afford the rent by myself

02:35so I had to get a shared apartment with a roommate and his family lived upstairs and I shared the basement and

02:43I couldn't afford to go and study Arabic in some fancy place

02:47I couldn't even afford a train ticket much a plane much less a plane ticket

02:51So I'm sitting in the are working full-time going to college full-time and I have the dream of learning Arabic and I found somebody

02:56Teaching an Arabic course. I'm like, okay, I'm gonna do it

02:59I would go to college in the morning work in the evening and late at night

03:02I'm going to this Arabic class after two two trains and a bus and then a long walk to get to the the class

03:08I'm taking this Arabic class, which means I at least I got a start and I you know

03:13How long that class was three weeks long? That's it. This is three weeks and then the teacher left

03:17They're like, what do I do now? Then I found some used books outside the bookstore that I could afford it was $4

03:23I bought that and the book already had all these markings in it. I was like, I don't care

03:28I'm gonna learn from this and I didn't understand 90% of the book

03:31So I kept taking a train from Queens to Brooklyn to ask the imam followed up and some Arab imam was like

03:37Mahada Mahada Mahada. That's the only thing Mahada. What's this? What's this? What's this?

03:41and he'd be like and then he just keep answering my questions and

03:45Then like that I was like, okay, I need to save up a little bit get the next book then get the next book

03:50I bought whatever used books I could find in Arabic because this is in 1835. We didn't have Google

03:55We didn't have PDF downloads, you know

03:58this is before those days I come from the ancient times of cassette tapes and

04:04Somebody had a Sony Walkman they were cool, you know, so

04:08I buy another used book the Cambridge Elementary modern standard Arabic book, which was written for

04:13In the 70s at Cambridge University in England. I found I found a used copy of it and

04:17It was meant for people that want to work in the oil industry

04:22back in the 70s

04:23If you want to get a job in Dubai or Saudi or whatever go through this curriculum and you'll learn how to make

04:29You know oil deals in the in the in the Arab world and I went through that entire curriculum for my spy myself

04:35I did that book in one month

04:37Just plowed through it studies and while I'm working in but I'm going to school

04:40I'm going to college what I'm trying to tell you is I

04:42Didn't I didn't wait for someone to say how do I begin? I was like, I don't care. I can't wait

04:47I'm gonna do whatever I can

04:48And I just kept going and going and going and then I found one teacher another teacher another teacher another book

04:53Then I was like, I don't know anything my god

04:56By the time I got to like advanced grammar. I was like

04:59Bro, I've been studying for two years. I didn't know any of this and

05:03Then I started studying that and when I finished that and I'm like, but aha, I don't know anything

05:08dude, what is this and

05:10Then I start studying that so I just and then eventually I turned all of that into a curriculum

05:15Like if I had to go here here here here here here to find my path

05:18I want to take the next generation of students to give them this

05:22Here's here's the path laid out for you. But and I didn't have I honestly I didn't have a teacher

05:27I could study with full-time. First of all, I couldn't afford it and I couldn't afford the time

05:32So all I had was either cassette tapes or old books or you know, just pounding my head against the wall

05:39That's that's how I studied Arabic

05:41But my focus was all these all the guys around me. They were like, oh I'm going to this Islamic lecture

05:46I'm going to this conference. I'm going to this I was like, that's cool

05:49I'm gonna study some Arabic memorize some quran because I just wanted quran. I just really wanted to taste the quran and

05:56Focus just focus

05:58Two years three years just stay with it. And what I've done now, Alhamdulillah, I put the curriculum together

06:04I'll be talking to you guys about that on the last day of class

06:06About my Arabic curriculum and what you might be able to do

06:09But I don't want any one of you to study Arabic until your thirst for it becomes uncomfortable

06:16Like you can't take it anymore

06:18Because if you don't have that kind of fire in you, you will quit in a week

06:23If not in a week, you'll quit in two weeks

06:25But if the right fire is built inside you the thirst for just direct access to God's speech that thirst gets built inside you

06:34You will work

06:36You'll work hard and then you will stop this generation. I don't give you guys enough credit

06:42There's enough hard workers among you

06:44But one of the things that scares me about this generation is this is a generation of convenience

06:48And we're slowly coming out of that you say but if the class is not in person and it's not in an air-conditioned room, I

06:57Don't know. I'd rather I'd rather study under this these these conditions like the learning has to happen on your turn

07:05Because it's like you're ordering food at a restaurant

07:09It has to you have to pick which toppings you want

07:12If you're really thirsty for this knowledge, then you will get it any way possible and are there honestly

07:18Are there more ways of accessing knowledge now than ever before in human history?

07:22Yeah, and we're lazier now than ever before in human history

07:27It's ironic people used to travel across deserts man to learn two words

07:33And now you could just google it

07:35You guys open up. Oh, I know this YouTube video, but it's it's too long. It's like it's like two hours. I

07:41Have two hour. Can I is there a faster way to learn? Is there a is there a McDonald's version of Arabic?

07:46Can you give me that?

07:48Look if you want fast food, you can get fast food, but you know what happens to your stomach after fast food

07:54You can get quick fix Arabic, but if you want a long run, I'm telling you those of you that are serious

07:59I'll give you a plan of action within a year

08:02You can start to have direct access to them and within two years you can become a very advanced

08:08With it and I'm talking about part-time I'm asking nobody to leave their job or school or family for you know, goodbye

08:13I'm learning Arabic, but you don't have to do that

08:16You could just you could do this part-time. You could do this on your at home. You could you can do it

08:22I'm telling you you can I know it's time for us to go but

08:25I'll take one last one to make it really quick

08:30Hey everyone

08:31The clip you just saw was me teaching something about the Arabic language and the intricacies

08:34That are involved in appreciating the depth of the Quran. I want you to have that skill for yourself

08:39I want to be able to teach you this stuff so that you can appreciate firsthand what's going on in the language of the Quran

08:44I know that might be intimidating but the first steps you can take are actually available from me on YouTube

08:50Just take a look at this series that's showing up on the screen get started on this playlist

08:54It's called the dream intensive one start with day one. It's just a 10-day commitment

08:59Let's see how far you get and I'll give you further instructions

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