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    How toMASTER ARABIC

    Like a NATIVELearn Arabic the Natural Way

    Pure Musk Arabic and Quran Online

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    The ProblemYou’re really excited...

    You’ve prayed behind an imam in the past who cried

    and got emotional over some ayahs of the Quran and

    you also felt the emotion; but you never knew themeaning of the words that had such a profound effect.

    So you signed up to the latest Arabic programme and,

    finally, you’re going to learn Arabic. At last, you’re going

    to be standing in your prayers and know the meaning

    of what the imam is reciting.

    Soon you’ll be able to understand those powerful

    words. Words that were revealed from your Lord from

    above the seven heavens.

    You can’t wait for the first lesson.

    You buy all the textbooks in advance and you’re in fifth

    gear.

    You’re deeply motivated and can’t sleep the night

    before the lesson. It’s been years since you first had

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    the desire to learn Arabic. And now your dream is

    about to come true.

    You attend the first lesson. The teacher speaks in

    English and gives a great motivational speech. He / she

    talks about the benefits of learning Arabic: understand

    the Qur’an, increase your concentrat ion in salah, read

    books written by the illustrious scholars of Islam, speakto millions of people around the world in their native

    tongue; maybe you’re an expat in an Arab country or

    want to do business with the Arab world; and the list

    goes on.

    Then you start learning Arabic.

    Over the next few weeks - perhaps months - you get

    demotivated and eventually give up.

    How did you manage to lose all that motivation and

    excitement that you first had?

    “It’s too difficult.”

    Verbs. Nouns. Pronouns. Adjectives. Adverbs.

    Nominative. Genitive. Accusative. Subject. Object.

    What??

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    “Is Arabic really this difficult to learn? Seriously?? ”

    “I don’t even know this stuff in my own language!”

    Sound familiar? That’s because it is! So man y people

    start to learn Arabic. But most don’t get past the basics.

    Why is this so common? And what is the solution to

    this? How can you actually progress without such

    obstacles and difficulties in your path to learning

    Arabic?

    What is the one thing you’r e doing wrong?

    We’ll get to all that later.

    This book is for you if one of four things apply to you:

    1. You’ve joined Arabic classes before but found

    that you didn’t progress. Perhaps you jumped

    from one course to another, one book toanother, or one teacher to another; but nothing

    helped.

    2. You want to learn Arabic but don’t know where

    to start. There are so many different options out

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    Why the Arabic Language?

    There are many reasons why you may wish to learn

    Arabic. Below are the most common.

    The Quran

    The Quran is a Book sent by Allah to His last and final

    Prophet, Muhammad . Allah chose to reveal the

    Quran in Arabic. If you really want to understand the

    Quran, the first thing you have to do is learn Arabic.

    “Ah… ,” you say, “but what about the translation?”

    The truth is - and every Muslim knows this - thetranslation of the Quran is not the Quran itself. If youask any Muslim what language the Quran was revealedin, they’d say without any hesitation: in Arabic. The

    English, Urdu, Bengali, French, Chinese translations aremerely that: translations! You really can’t appreciatethe true meanings of Allah’s words by just reading atranslation. Arabic is a really powerful and beautifullanguage. Take the word lion in English. One word. But

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    in Arabic there are over 300 words for lion ! You can seemany of them by clicking here .

    In the Quran, Allah sometimes uses the word fu’aad forheart and sometimes qalb . But when you read atranslation of the Quran, you’ll find that both words aretranslated as heart . There’s a reason why Allah chose touse fu’aad in one place and qalb in another. If you’re

    just reading the translation of the Quran, thesenuances will be totally lost on you. Another example iswith the words nafs and ruh , both translated as soul .But there are some differences that scholars havementioned between the two words. Had Allah meantthe same thing in both cases, He would have used thesame word. But He didn’t!

    But it doesn’t just stop at words. This concept goes

    further in full sentences. And this can only truly be

    appreciated by someone who knows the Arabic

    language.

    Today, we don’t try to understand the Quran. Instead,

    many of us leave the Quran on the top shelf and bring

    it down only when someone dies! The Quran is a

    prescription for our many illnesses: individual

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    problems, family problems and even problems we face

    as a society. How can we even begin to appreciate the

    remedies contained in the Quran for the many

    problems we face, without even understanding the very

    language in which the Quran was revealed. It’s a real

    travesty.

    The Quran is a powerful Book.

    Tufayl Ibn Amr Al-Dawsi

    Take the story of Tufayl Ibn Amr Al-Dawsi, who was an

    Arab poet at the time of the Prophet Muhammad . He

    got caught up in the struggles between the Quraysh

    who were actively warning against the Message thatthe Prophet came with and the Messenger of Allah

    himself. What’s interesting is that when he came to

    Makkah, the chiefs of Quraysh laid out a feast for him

    and honoured him. They then warned him against

    listening to anything that the Prophet said. Tufayl

    says, describing this, “By Allah, they went on telling me

    about his ‘sorcery,’ scaring me so much that I decided

    not to approach that man, talk to him, or listen to him.”

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    He went on to say that he put cotton in his ears in

    order to prevent any thing from the Prophet’s

    teachings reaching him!

    Take a step back for a moment and think about what

    you’ve just read.

    The Quraysh scared Tufayl from what the Prophet

    was reciting, so much so that he actively decided to

    prevent himself from even hearing what the Prophet

    had to say! The Quraysh knew that the effect of the

    Quran was so powerful that they didn’t even want

    people to hear it!

    Allah Willed however that Tufayl did hear some of what

    the Prophet was reciting so he followed him to his

    house and confronted him with what the Quraysh were

    accusing him of. What follows is an account by Tufayl

    himself of this incident:

    “He (the Prophet ) explained it to me and read Surah

    Ikhlas and Surah Falaq. I swear, I've never heard

    anything better than that nor have I met someone

    more just on this earth . On the spot, I gave him my

    hand and pronounced the testimony (of faith) that

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    warn people against listening to the Prophet . In fact,

    he tortured those who listened to and accepted the

    Prophet’s Message.

    Once, Akhnas Ibn Shurayq - who was a polytheist -

    secretly positioned himself outside the Prophet’s

    house to listen to him reciting the Quran. When dawn

    broke, Akhnas left and, on the road, bumped into Abu Jahl and Abu Sufyan, both of whom were staunch

    enemies of the Prophet . (Abu Sufyan did accept Islam

    many years later but Abu Jahl was killed as a polytheist

    in the Battle of Badr.) Each of the three criticised the

    others for listening to the Prophet as he recited. They

    agreed with one other that they never repeat this‘mistake’ aga in.

    The next night, Akhnas couldn’t help himself and did

    the same thing again. And again, when dawn broke he

    bumped into Abu Jahl and Abu Sufyan, who were also

    listening to the Prophet reciting the Quran. Onceagain, they all agreed never to return.

    The same thing happened on the third night. All three

    bumped into each other and this time each took a

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    solemn oath that he would never come back to listen to

    the Prophet .

    Akhnas went to Abu Sufyan in the morning and asked

    him what he thought about what he’d heard from the

    Prophet . Abu Sufyan said that he understood some

    things, and didn’t understand other things. They both

    then proceeded to the house of Abu Jahl and ask himthe same question.

    Abu Jahl replied, “We and Banu ‘Abd Manaf (the

    Prophet’s subtribe) competed for honour and

    position: they fed people so we fed people, they

    engaged in battle so we engaged in battle, they gave sowe gave, until we were neck and neck, like race horses.

    Then they said, ‘We have a Prophet among us who

    receives revelatio n from heaven.’ How can we compete

    with that? By Allah, we will never believe in him!”

    Wow!

    Abu Jahl, the ardent enemy of the Prophet , a man

    who had spent so much time, money and effort,

    warning people against him; one who tortured so many

    people for believing and having faith in the Message

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    that the Prophet came with; this great evildoer, in

    these few words, made clear the reason why he

    disbelieved in him.

    It wasn’t because he thought the Message isn’t true. It

    wasn’t because of the character and beha viour of the

    Messenger . On the contrary, these were exemplary.

    It was simply out of jealousy and envy. His tribalism ledhim to reject the truth that the Prophet came with.

    What’s so amazing is that, despite all this enmity,

    hatred and jealousy, even Abu Jahl was addicted to

    listening to the Quran! These verses of the Quran had

    such a powerful and overwhelming effect on them!

    How is it that the greatest enemies of the Prophet felt

    more compelled to listen to the Quran than manyMuslims today? The answ er is that many Muslims don’tunderstand even the core messages of the Quran.

    There’s a huge difference between reading atranslation of the Quran and experiencing the Quran inits original form in Arabic.

    Think about poetry. Imagine trying to translate theworks of famous poets like Shakespeare into another

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    language. The experience would simply not be thesame, even if the basic meanings were carried across.If this is the case with human poetry, what about thewords of the Creator? Words that are not mere poetry,but magnificent words from a Book that shook theworld.

    The Salah

    Salah , the daily prayers, are an essential part of a

    Muslim’s life. They’re your connection with Allah. The

    Prophet used to seek pleasure and tranquility by

    turning to salah, away from the worldly ordeals.

    Imam Al-Dhahabi, the illustrious scholar and historian,mentioned an incident about a group of people who

    were in a valley in the midst of a journey. While they

    were preparing to sleep, a lion came towards them so

    they climbed some trees to get away. However, one of

    them had already started his night prayers. He

    remained standing as he was, in prayer. The lion

    walked around him but the man continued in his

    prayer and did not move. Eventually, the lion turned

    around and simply walked away.

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    The man’s companions returned an d asked him why he

    didn’t seek shelter from lion like they had. You know

    what he replied? He said something phenomenal! He

    said: I felt shy that I am standing in front of Allah,

    yet fear His creation!

    Wow.

    How do these types of people get such high levels of

    concentration, humility and fear of Allah in their

    prayers? The answer - if you think about it - is simple.

    When you actualise the fact that you are in the

    presence of Allah in prayer, it gives you a level of Iman

    that is unimaginable.

    But how can this be achieved without knowing what

    you’re saying?!

    While praying, there’s a massive difference in your

    experience between knowing what you’re saying and

    being ignorant of what you’re saying.

    This is why, when Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with

    him) would lead the prayer, many people couldn’t even

    make out the words he was reciting because he would

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    Perhaps you don’t do business in the Arab World but

    you’re moving there as an expat. You may be working

    in an Arab country and want to get ahead by learning

    the language of the people.

    These, then, are some of the reasons why people learn

    Arabic.

    But why do so many people fail?

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    Why You Gave Up!Whatever your goal, if you want to learn the Arabic

    language you’ll need to be motivated and will require

    perseverance and patience.

    One of the biggest reasons why people give up learninganything is lack of motivation. You study hard for

    weeks - maybe you even attend Arabic lessons for

    months - but, over time, you don’t see any progression.

    After a few months of study, you still can’t speak

    Arabic. You still can’t understand the Quran and youstill can’t speak to a native Arab!

    You’re virtually translating in your head from English to

    Arabic and you’re not speaking naturally.

    And these are the two greatest reasons why mostpeople give up: lack of motivation and too little

    progress .

    This is human nature. W hen we’re learning something

    new, we need to see results. We want to see progress.

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    And if, after a long period of studying, we’re not seeing

    the results and benefits of learning, we give up! We

    need the motivation to carry on. And if we don’t get

    that motivation, we stop.

    Frustrated and overwhelmed, like many others, you

    may give up at this stage.

    You convince yourself:

    ● “Maybe Arabic is not for me.”● “Perhaps I’m just not good at learning new

    languages.” ● “I’m getting too busy.” ● “I don’t have much time anymore.”

    And all the excuses come rolling and you promise

    yourself that you’ll get back to it one day but now’s not

    the time.

    On the other hand, if you survive the lack of motivationwith your sanity intact, you’ll drop your curre nt Arabic

    programme and hop onto another one later on.

    And the cycle continues: Get excited. Start a

    programme. Lose motivation. Get behind on

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    homework. Stop attending classes. See another

    programme. Get excited. Repeat ad infinitum !

    So what’s the soluti on to this never ending cycle?

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    Theory. Theory. Theory.The problem with most Arabic courses is that they’re

    based predominantly on theory . You sit through scores

    of lessons learning about grammar and cases and

    tenses and conjugations and morphology and the list

    goes on. That’s great for the theory - but you have tosupplement all that with the practice .

    You can learn all the theory there is to learn but, if you

    don’t get any practice, you’re simply not going to

    master the Arabic language. You won’t be able to speak

    it with fluency and confidence the way a native Arabwould. And you won’t be able to understand the Quran,

    Sunnah or any Arabic literature.

    It’s like any skill. Take driving a car, for example. You

    can spend hours learning all the theory in the world

    about how to drive a car - even if that’s with a teacher -

    but if you don’t actually get into a car and start driving,

    you’ll never be able to master the skill of driving! You

    have to start somewhere. You have to practice!

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    In fact, you’ve learnt a language before, practically and

    without focussing on just the theory . You’ve already

    mastered a language without ever knowing what a

    noun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction or gerund is.

    In fact, if you ever did learn the grammar of this

    language (and many people don’t!) you learnt it a lot

    later in life after you’d already learnt to speak, read andwrite.

    So which language is this, you ask?

    How the Child Learns

    It may be obvious but you were not born with theability to understand your mother tongue and speak

    the native language that you now converse with such

    fluency and confidence. You had to learn that language.

    It was a process .

    So how did you learn it?

    How do children learn their first language? Do they sit

    through hours of lessons learning about verbs, nouns,

    cases, tenses? Of course not! They can do all of that

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    later, once they already have the ability to understand

    and speak their first language.

    Your mother pointed at the milk bottle and asked you if

    you wanted milk . She put you in the cot . As you grew

    slightly older, she would read you a book . And so on.

    This is how you began to learn the names of objects.

    When you got a specific feeling and cried - whenever

    you wanted food - your mother asked if you were

    hungry .

    And this process continues until you develop a large

    vocabulary.

    You first learnt the names of things that you can point

    to and touch (toy, car, book, pen, chips, meat,

    chicken … ) and then, as time went on, you learn about

    abstract concepts (hungry, angry, happy, sad … )

    So how did you come to know that you should say, “The

    boy is big” but not “Big is the boy”? You learnt this

    naturally , over a period of time. You learnt by listening .

    You learnt by attempting to speak , even if you were

    wrong. You’d corrected. Initially, you’d recognise the

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    words. Then you were able to recall them when you

    wanted to convey a meaning to someone. And finally

    you learnt the structure of the words.

    All this was a process. And it occurred naturally .

    This is the way a child learns. He doesn’t study

    grammar before learning to speak, read, and write. He

    first learns words . Then he learns the ways he can use

    those words to convey meanings that he intends.

    And this is the Pure Musk way. We teach our students

    to learn the language naturally : the way a child learns.

    Consequently, they will be able to think in Arabic and

    even dream in Arabic insha’Alla h .

    Let’s be clear. We’re not saying that you should not

    learn the theory. Learning grammar,morphology and

    all the other linguistic sciences is important. In fact,

    mastering these subjects is fundamental tounderstanding the Quran, the Sunnah, and the books

    of the great scholars of Islam. Even for foreigners

    learning a new language: getting up to scratch with

    some basic grammar will actually speed up learning,

    because you memorise a rule of thumb instead of

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    having to memorise lots of words, and this will aid you

    in your understanding.

    What we are saying is that the focus at the beginning

    should not solely be on all this theory. The key focus

    should be learning Arabic the Natural Way , the way a

    child learns.

    The best way to learn a new language is to immerse

    yourself in that language. You need to sit with a native

    Arab who’s experienced in teaching foreigners the

    Arabic language. You need to listen . You need to

    converse . You need to make mistakes . And you need

    to get corrected .

    Going Abroad Costs Money…

    More often than not, when we talk about learning

    Arabic the Natural Way - the way a child learns,

    jumping right into the deep end and conversing with a

    native - people immediately assume that the only way

    to do this is by going abroad to a country in the Middle

    East, like Egypt, Jordan or Syria. But there are too many

    dilemmas.

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    “It’s too expensive,” they’ll tell you. “Flights,

    accommodation, tuition fees … ” and the list goes on.

    “And then you have to get a year off work and that’s not

    to mention the loss of income while you’re not working!

    And what do I do with my kids? Should I take them? But

    they have school! Plus it’s too expensive to pay for their

    flights too!”

    You give up or go back to the “I’ll do it later” frame of

    mind.

    You feel you don’t want to go back to the group classes

    in the local masjid (even if they are conducted by a

    native teacher of Arabic) because each student isstudying at a different pace. If you miss one lesson due

    to another commitment, you lag behind the rest. The

    same is the case if you haven’t done your homework so

    you just end up losing the motivation to continue.

    Moreover, when you finish a hard day of work (whetherthat’s in a full time job or the hard work of raising the

    kids at home ), you’re exhausted at the end of the day

    and really don’t want to drive (or take a bus or walk) all

    the way to the other side of town to get to the classes.

    You’re struggling for time in your busy schedule (and

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    the travelling just adds to that) but you manage to

    motivate yourself for a few more lessons. However,

    once you fall behind or once you stop seeing progress,

    you give up.

    You try something online.

    Boring CDs and Software

    A lot of language programmes involve enrolling onto a

    website and cycling through scores of videos. Perhaps,

    you take multiple choice exam questions which are

    automatically marked by the system.

    All of this is great, but there is often very little (or no)interaction.

    Learning a language is a two-way process . You listen

    and you speak . You need to listen to someone and you

    have to speak to someone. You read to someone, and

    you’re corrected when you make a mistake. This is howyou learnt your first language as a child. If you’re just

    speaking to a computer, it’s no wonder you’re losing

    motivation! Even in group classes, you don’t have the

    one-to-one care that is so needed when learning a new

    language.

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    Book 1 Syndrome

    Due to all of these issues, many students are always onBook 1 . They jump from course to course and teacher

    to teacher and never go beyond Beginner’s Arabic

    Class . They’re always looking for something else. And

    the endless spiral continues. They may complete Book

    1 five times and still haven’t progressed!

    Do Something!

    What we say at Pure Musk is that you should Do

    Something!

    A car whose wheels are turning is easier to steer than acar whose brakes have locked up. The latter will lead to

    your wheels skidding and this is far more difficult to

    control. If your car is going towards an accident (the

    wrong way), the safest way to get you back on track in

    the right direction is to keep your wheels turning. If

    your brakes lock up, you lose control.

    Something similar is true with regards to learning

    Arabic: if you just sit around waiting for the perfect

    opportunity and context to learn (when I’m married,

    when I find the perfect teacher, when I have more

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    money, when I go abroad, when I’m retired, when I

    have more time, when the kids get older … ) you’ll never

    learn.

    Years will go by, and you’ll be stuck in the same place

    where you were bef ore. You won’t have learnt more

    Arabic and you’ll look back wishing you’d started

    earlier.

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    You Want to Learn. But...So you can’t go to an Arab country to learn from

    natives (not yet anyway); you don’t have the motivation

    to learn in group classes because of the different

    speeds of the students and because of the time it takes

    you to get to and from the classes; you don’t want to

    focus just on grammar and theory but want to jump

    into the practice, the way a child learns.

    You feel that the only realistic way of learning Arabic

    right now is for a teacher (a native Arab) to come to

    your house and give you one-to-one lessons at your

    own pace.

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    In Your Own HomeThis is the reasoning behind Pure Musk. When you

    enrol, you’ll be paired with your own personal teacher.

    Every teacher (male or female) is a native Arab

    currently in the Middle East and has a wealth of

    experience in teaching Arabic to foreigners (and / orQuran: Hifdh and Tajwid ).

    You select your first- and second-choice times that are

    convenient for you (we have teachers teaching around

    the clock) and you’ll start learning online (with a real

    human teacher!) within a few days of registeringinsha’Allah .

    No boring CDs. No group lessons. No travel time to and

    from your lessons. No huge flight costs. Just personal

    one-to- one lessons with your own private tutor. You’ll

    be immersed in the Arabic language with a teacher

    who knows very little English and will be teaching you

    live, online, from the Middle East.

    You’ll be able to login to your own online account and

    speak to and learn from the teacher live. He or she will

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    go at your own pace and will take the time to tailor the

    lessons to your needs. If you want to go slower, you

    can. Faste r? Yep! What if you have a doctor’s

    appointment or parents’ evening to go to? Just let us

    know a couple of days in advance and we’ll rearrange

    your lesson for free or delay those lessons to the end

    of your current ‘study month’.

    Your lessons will be recorded so you can come back

    and revise at any time. This way, you don’t have to

    waste precious time and money going over stuff that

    has already been covered - unless, of course, you want

    more explanation than before.

    Our teachers are trained to teach adults as well

    children (from the age of 5 upwards). You can start

    with basic Arabic or, if you’ve already studied before

    and need advanced lessons, you can continue where

    you left off.

    Don’t think that this is a quick fix for learning Arabic. It

    may be a bit hard for the first few weeks but, if you

    persevere, you’ll learn Arabic the way you mastered

    your own mother tongue. The long term benefits are

    immense. You’ll start to think and dream in Arabic

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    insha’Allah . You’ll see progress much quicker because

    you’re lear ning the language the Natural Way , the way

    a child learns.

    Normally one-to-one private tuition can get very

    expensive - especially if you’re studying an hour a day -

    so we’ve made sure to keep the lessons affordable and

    cost effective.

    Hundreds of students are studying every day with their

    own personal Arabic teacher online.

    Make sure you don’t delay. Enrol today and start your

    lessons in a few days …

    Some of the greatest scholars of Islam were not native

    Arabs; they learned Arabic. You too can make Arabic

    your language.

    Learn Arabic the Natural Way .

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    nrol Now

    What Do Others Say?I cannot express how impressed I am with pure

    musk..maashaaAllah. May Allah continue to bless you

    in this noble cause. Its very hard to find a sincere

    Quran/Arabic teaching programme like pure musk ,

    this is why i will definitely be recommending you to my

    friends and family and anyone who asks.

    Umm Yusaf, UK

    Ismaeel had his first lesson today mash Allah ustaad

    ibraheem is FANTASTIC may Allah bless him more in

    everthing thats good for him ameen. Ismaeel loved him

    jzk for ur efforts. Super job

    Parents of Ismaeel and Ibraheem, Bradford, UK

    http://www.puremusk.com/enrolhttp://www.puremusk.com/enrolhttp://www.puremusk.com/enrol

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    I would also sincerely like to thank Allah (swt) for such

    a beautiful opportunity learning Qur'an through

    Tajweed through Radiant drops and may Allah (swt)

    give the entire team of Radiant drops immense reward

    in this world and in the Akhira. Ameen.

    Kawkab Khan, Kuwait City, Kuwait

    I have been studying with Pure Musk for over a month

    now, and have enjoyed it tremendously. I have

    benefited from it so much, I can definitely say that my

    spoken Arabic and understanding is a lot better than

    when I started. I have now enrolled my children in the

    Qur’an progra mme, and they also enjoy it so much,

    that they can’t wait for their next lesson! Jazakumullah

    khayr. I will definitely be recommending you!

    Umm Abdirrahman, High Wycombe, UK

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    Mashalah very beneficial service, the teacher seems

    genuinely interested in teaching and is very

    enthusiastic. May allah reward the brothers involved

    Isa Abdur Rahman, London, UK

    A great service making it very convenient to learn from

    native Arab teachers from your own home. I have been

    meaning to find a teacher to do Arabic with but I didn’t

    know where to start in terms of finding a good teacher.

    Alhamdu lillah its great that you guys have done the

    due diligence on the teachers so I don’t have to worry

    about it.

    Ziad Mannan, London, UK

    Ma sha’ Allah Pure Musk has made learning Arabic

    convenient and accessible for me, whilst giving me the

    freedom to carry out daily activities. The one hour slot

    is scheduled after office hours for me so it fits in very

    well with a busy lifestyle.

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    The teacher is friendly and patient. Masha’Allah he is

    prompt and the online whiteboard tool is a brilliant aid.

    Saboor Nasar, London, UK

    AMAZING service ! Within just a few hours of me

    emailing. I had my course details and my teacher set-

    up for me, ready to start the following day. MashAllah I

    highly recommend this if you ever wanted to learn

    Arabic. This is your chance, one to one Private tuition

    from the comfort of your own home!

    Mohammad Esa, London, UK

    MashaAllah I am very very happy with the teacher

    Alhamdullilah.Thank you for all your support. Pure

    musk have been excellent . MashaAllah.

    Afsana Begum, Surrey, UK

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    Al-hamdu lillah the admin team are very efficient and

    were extremely helpful to accommodate to my timings.

    The classes are really beneficial as they are extremely

    interactive with the teacher. You are not speaking any

    English and you’re just speaking in Arabic. It’s very

    helpful and you’re actually learning a lot more than you

    think you’re learning. I highly recommend this to all the

    brothers and sisters.

    Junaid Manzoor, London, UK

    MashAllah, i am learning so much! The teacher speaks

    and explains in arabic only. This is truly the best way to

    learn. I am very happy with the support and

    organisation of the admin team. The whole process

    was easy and very smooth. I would definitely advise

    others to go with Pure Musk. jzk

    Umair Vayani, London, UK

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    I just wanted to say that I dearly love my teachers style

    of teaching. She has to be the best teacher for me

    Alhumdulilah. She motivates me to learn and develop

    further for the sake of Allah. May Allah swt preserve

    her and reward her immensely. Ameen.

    JazakAllahkhair.

    Waslamas

    Amna Ali, Doha, Qatar

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