ibn Mas’ud

When the Prophet (Peace and Blessings be Upon Him) sighted the moon of Rajab (two months before Ramadan) he used to pray to Allah in the following words:

An extraordinary Channel 4 documentary describes the glorious rule of Muslims in what is now Spain. A forgotten history is remembered. A must see documentary.

Learning Arabic has always been my wish and a huge regret of mine not having learned it in my youth while I had the chance. I’ve made several half hearted attempts since by taking several formal and semi-formal classes and although now I can understand spoken and written Arabic to some extent, I am nowhere near to be able to converse with someone. To help keep up with what I’ve learned and to improve upon it, I found this great list of resources on the blog musings of a muslimah and I thought I’d share them with you.

• A comprehensive list of Arabic lessons in PDF format.
• This link has many lessons based on difficulty level. Lessons include writing exercises, grammar, reading etc.
• A list of audio files teaching arabic
• Another list of Audio lessons teaching reading, expressions and Arabic grammar.

If you know of any other resources that I may have missed, please post them in the comments.

[via: musingsofamuslimah]