TRANSLATION
As a Muslim we are bound to live our lives according to the orders of Allah. Allah has revealed these orders through the Quran and Sunnah. To live our life as a Muslim, we have to learn the Quran with translation and must understand the Quran. We must understand the deep meanings of words and Arabic grammar to understand translation. Every word has a basic root word that gives the exact meaning of the word.
Recommended Links for Quranic Translation
Quran English Translation (Click on this link)
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(Available by 15 different translators in different languages)
Understanding Arabic Root Words
Arabic root words are three consonants that provide the base meaning of a word. These root words are morphed into various words by adding vowels, prefixes and suffixes. The words have related meanings to the root words. For example, the root k-t-b means marking, inscribing or writing, and it can form words like "to write", "book" and "office". The words of Quran are linked to a dictionary that shows the root words and their meanings.
An office is a place where you write and a book is a result of writing. These words are related by meaning, but also by the root. You can hear and see that three letters are the same in all the words: The words "to write", "book" and "office" have the root letters (k) ك, (t) ت and (b) ب.
Examples of K-T-B Root Derivatives:
Past Tense:
kataba - he wrote
katabū - they wrote
katabat - she wrote
katabnā - we wrote
Present Tense:
yaktubu - he writes
yaktabunā - they write
taktubu - you write
naktubu - we write
'uktub - write!
Nouns and Related Words:
katīb - writer
kitāba - the act of writing
kitāb - some writing, book
kutub - books
kutubī - bookdealer
kutayyib - booklet
maktūb - letter
maktab - school, office
maktaba - library, literature
maktabī - individual office
miktāb - typewriter
mukātaba - correspondence
iktitāb - registration
istiktāb - dictation
...and much more!
This is only a limited sample of the immense variety of words that can be formed by simple and predictable usage of the basic root which was only the three consonants k-t-b.
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Arabic Grammar (Syntax and Morphology)
The language sub-science known as Morphology as well as Etymology is a subject through which one learns the internal assembly of a word by way of patterns of vowelization and introduction of extra letters—or what we call a template.
Morphology differs from Lexicology in the sense that the latter gives the root meaning associated with a set of base letters, whereas the former gives all other meanings and connotations achieved by the template.
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