Arabic is such a beautiful language.Undoubtedly,as a muslim,you will have this special feelings to learn the language.Especially when you listen to beautiful Quran recitation and and pondering about the meaning behind those beautiful sounds that you hear.Now,I have to admit that to learn the formal arabic language is "so difficult".It seems that some people can take the difficulty and some not.In school they teach you the same grammar every year for 5 years,fe'el madi,fe'el mudorik,fe'el amar....and u tries to memories the countless pronouns....ana(I),nahnu(we),antum(all of u-men),antunna(all of u-women).....
Some of us giving up,citing that arabic is very difficult.I was one of them.But after my school years,I fall in love with arabic language through friends and songs.I got the opportunity to befriend with some arab friends and I'm enjoying to learn the non formal arabic(ammiyah).I have to admit that to learn something you need patience and perseverance.If you interested in arabic,and you feel hard to digest the formality of the grammar,you can try by practicing easy words and get an arab friend and learn with them.
I'm very excited when the arab speaks malay for daawah purpose.Take example of ustazah dr fatma az-zahra.Hails from Egypt,she meet her husband while he was studying in Egypt.They wed and come back to malaysia,where she open up her clinics in kelantan,preaching daawah while treating her patient.I have read somewhere that,during that times,there are not so many women wearing hijab,and people around were gossiping that she is bald,and that's why she was covering.Such is the shallow thinking of the people back then.I have to admit that in the 70's not so many malaysian women wearing hijab,even my father was studying in islamic school during his secondry year and the female student were wearing hijab with hair bangs.How ridiculous,when all of religious school in malaysia now impose a round large hijab as their uniform.Anyway,back to dr fatma,she is now a prominent figure in malaysia,awarded the datuk(sir) title,sought after by many people to give lectures.Everytime i saw her lecture on tv,I'm totally hooked.They way she talk is so soft and gracious.When I hear her talk,i feel like i want to cry and embrace her.
I for sure know some arab here that speak fluent malay.But I feel touch when there are people learn my language to help sharing knowledge and daawah.For example,ustaz abdul aziz,a syariah graduate from university al azhar.In the video,he said that he learn malay because he feel pity for some malay student studying in al-azhar,struggling to learn their kitab(books) because of their failure to master the formal arabic.He was very dedicated to learn malay language that he memorize ten new words everyday.It took him many years to master malay language,which I must say,subhanallah,very fluent and I'm impressed.Ustaz Abdul Aziz also has been working in some educational institution in malaysia.When i see this ustaz on the video,I can relate on how a beautiful muslim man he is.In every words he utter,there's no bad words or something provoking.He even compliment about malay people.I mean,our mouth is amanah from Allah,and Allah give us mouth to recite syukur,to recite zikir to Him,to whisper only good words.
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