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Selections from the Glorious Quran — Study Sessions

Welcome to the study notes for Selections from the Glorious Quran. Below you will find the links to the individual study session notes, which cover the translation, tafsir, vocabulary, and Arabic grammar lessons derived from selected Quranic passages.

Study Sessions

  • Session 1 — Basmala etymology, Hamzatul Qaṭʿ vs Waṣl, al-Raḥmān and al-Raḥīm patterns
  • Session 2 — Full taxonomy of Al (referential, generic, ornamental), names of Sūrat al-Fātiḥah, Ḥamd vs Madḥ
  • Session 3 — ʿĀlam and Dunyā etymology, Sound Masculine Plural rules, iyyā pronouns, إيّاكَ نَعبُدُ
  • Session 4 — Ism mawṣūl ʿāʾid rules, embedded jūmlah as naʿt/ḥāl, mubtadaʾ nakirah, iʿrāb of Āyah 7
  • Session 5 — Exercises on Al-types, فُعلة pattern, noun vs verb permanence, jawāb al-shart with fāʾ, Tālūt story
  • Session 6 — Al-Istisnā full taxonomy, غُرفة etymology, wāw al-maʿiyyah, river test symbolism
  • Session 7 — Lā nafiyah lil-jins, ẓanna + two mafʿūl, maṣdar muʾawwal, two types of lammā
  • Session 8 — Lola, passive voice, tilāwah vs qirāʾah, maṣdar with mafʿūl, ism isharah and implied verb
  • Session 9 — Mushīr/Ishārah force, three degrees of emphasis, Āyah vs Sūrah meanings, start of Āyat al-Kursī
  • Session 10 — Ring composition in Āyat al-Kursī and Sūrat al-Baqarah, الحي القيوم, Arabic passive voice rules
  • Session 11 — Shibh-jūmlah as ṣilah, ismu ishārah breakdown (hā/dhā/lām/kāf), full iʿrāb of Āyat al-Kursī
  • Session 12 — Lā ikrāha, ism tafḍīl rules (with Min/Al), العروة الوثقى imagery, Allāh as Wali
  • Session 13 — Ibrahim vs Nimrod, إِذ ẓarf, بَاء التَّعدِيَة, two types of رَأَى
  • Session 14 — Mafʿūl muṭlaq (4 uses, 8 deputies), أَصبَحَ, إِخوَان vs إِخوَة, Form IX colours, lā al-amr
  • Session 15 — Lām al-taqwiyah, كَانَ without past tense, رَجَعَ/رَدَّ, māḍī as certainty, خَيرَ أُمَّة condition
  • Session 16 — Ḍamīr al-shaʾn, كُلَّمَا, وَحي broad meaning, literary muḍāriʿ, Nūḥ passage begins
  • Session 17 — فُلك vs سَفِينَة etymology, types of أَن, سَيَن vs سَوفَ, imālah, Nūḥ passage vocabulary
  • Session 18 — Diminutives (يَا بُنَيَّ), عَصَمَ/مَعصُوم, حَالَ بَين, نَبَأ vs خَبَر, Nūḥ story concludes
  • Session 19 — أَمسَى/أَصبَحَ tāmm vs nāqiṣ, حِين, royal We, Sūrat al-Rūm background
  • Session 20 — مَات two bābs, مُتَوَارَة (Form I↔VII, II↔V), creation words (تُرَاب/طِين/صَلصَال), بَشَر etymology, ثُمَّ vs فَ
  • Session 21 — مَوَدَّة vs حُبّ, سَكَنَ tadmeen, أَرَى Form IV, نُزُول vs تَنزِيل, بَدَأَ vs خَلَقَ, broken plural + fem. pronoun