I find wordpress so hard to format my notes. I’m thinking of just sharing a pdf version of the notes so that I don’t have to reformat notes. Which takes forever~ Hence the absence of Week 2 and Week 3 notes ><
Need. the. highlighter. function.
Week 4 – Grammatical Shifts – Part 2
Tools to understand the Quran better: Nahu and Sorf
Nahu – Grammar, syntax, How to structure sentences, conjunctions, emphasis
Sorf – morphology, how Arabic words are transformed
Arabs have a problem with language. They prefer to speak in AMMIYYAH (bahasa pasar)
Issues with grammatical shifts:
- Inability for muslims in general to understand arabic at its peak. To understand the language itself
- Non-existent parallels between arabic language and other languages
- To create similarities
- Word choice (why we choose certain words over others, in Malay and English)
- Try to find similarities in Arabic language and others. Comparative rhetoric
- Result in “lost in translation” situations
- Does not have parallel and cannot find any example. inability to appreciate. What’s the wisdom behind it
Iltifat / Grammatical Shift
- To grab attention
- Highlight its importance
- Used in verses which are highly powerful e.g Al-Fatihah (3rd person to 1st…
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