Abu Hammaad October 24, 2013 Asalamalaikum serious students of Arabic… this is my Story about taking a dive on the straights of the Arabic Oceans by taking a ride on the Shariah Programme. In my mid thirties, married, with 2 beautiful children and living in London, I thought I’d missed the boat to pursue an adventure of the Arabic Oceans and took refuge in the idea of reading Quran as a ritual and leaving its impact on me at best by translation. It was only then did a friend introduce the ‘Arabic Acceleration Report’ to me (prepared by Mufti Yusuf Mullan and the team at the Shariah Programme). I read this a number of times and put it to one side, at first I read up to the Istansaroo example and got my first dose of the comprehensiveness of the language and for the first time appreciated Arabic not just as a language, but as a system of the conveyance of meaning and for the first time got a taste of its comprehensiveness. I attended sessions with my friend who was teaching Arabic based upon what he learnt in Mufti Yusuf’s Shariah Programme, but unfortunately wasn’t able to keep up, given family and professional commitments, at this stage the only wave that was carrying me was hope and an empty desire. Before the last 10 nights of Ramadhan 2013 in preparation of Itikaaf, I had downloaded an electronic version of the Quran and other materials I intended to pursue in the nights of Magfirah. When I found myself in Itikaaf alongside my collections of electronic Quran and other materials in iBooks I discovered I had saved a PDF copy of ‘The Acceleration Report’… During the days I’d fast and read from my collections, leaving the nights for worship and repentance, without realising part of my schedule in the day-time I started to explore the report once again. Despite being low on energy and reduced mental stamina of memorisation, I started to see things in the report that I didn’t before, for some reason it started to make more and more sense, I was now looking...
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