What are the language books you recommend for a beginner student of knowledge?
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The questioner : You spoke in Jeddah about the books that a beginner student of knowledge should master, but you did not tell us about the language books for the beginner?
The Shaykh : What do you mean by language books? Because the subject of language is broad. Do you mean books of grammar, or what?
The questioner : Since you said that the beginner should learn the language.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : What did you mean?
The Shaykh : I mean books of language, books of the science of grammar and morphology. But perhaps I mentioned there or elsewhere that this science in particular cannot usually be understood except by studying it with a shaykh. Did you hear this from me?
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh : So in that case; soThe Shaykh : It is they who guide the seeker to the book that suits him on one hand and suits the students on the other hand. There are modern books that I recommend more than the old books; because they are clarified. So the grammar lessons
The Shaykh: - for example - by some contemporary scholars likeThe Shaykh : Mustafa al-Ghalayini al-Beirut, and also some Egyptians whose names do not come to my mind today. The modern books are more simplified than the old books; for they are complex. This is what I have.
The questioner : Do you recommend studying the science of rhetoric?
The Shaykh : It is obligatory, also the books of the contemporaries. What enables a person to master the Arabic language more and more is studying books of Arabic, the most important of which are the Qur'an and the Sunnah, then the old books of those known for their eloquence, such as Imam al-Shafi'i and his like. Just that.
The Shaykh : What do you mean by language books? Because the subject of language is broad. Do you mean books of grammar, or what?
The questioner : Since you said that the beginner should learn the language.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : What did you mean?
The Shaykh : I mean books of language, books of the science of grammar and morphology. But perhaps I mentioned there or elsewhere that this science in particular cannot usually be understood except by studying it with a shaykh. Did you hear this from me?
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh : So in that case; soThe Shaykh : It is they who guide the seeker to the book that suits him on one hand and suits the students on the other hand. There are modern books that I recommend more than the old books; because they are clarified. So the grammar lessons
The Shaykh: - for example - by some contemporary scholars likeThe Shaykh : Mustafa al-Ghalayini al-Beirut, and also some Egyptians whose names do not come to my mind today. The modern books are more simplified than the old books; for they are complex. This is what I have.
The questioner : Do you recommend studying the science of rhetoric?
The Shaykh : It is obligatory, also the books of the contemporaries. What enables a person to master the Arabic language more and more is studying books of Arabic, the most important of which are the Qur'an and the Sunnah, then the old books of those known for their eloquence, such as Imam al-Shafi'i and his like. Just that.
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