[Lydiaswingert]

Assalaamu Alaikum wa rahmatullah,

I need some advice inshaAllah.

Alhamdulillah, I think I am ok with nahw and sarf for the time being e.g. I have covered most of hidayah-an-nahw through the Arabic Tutor books and have also covered the 3 Madinah books. I have also been applying them during my reading of Qasas (1-4) and so (inshaAllah) the rules have begun to set in.

My ultimate goal is to go on to study a book of balaagha (e.g. Balaagha Al Wadiha) and a linguistic tafseer (e.g. Safwat ut-Tafaaseer) side-by-side.

Of course, before that, I need to cover a lot of adab to build up my vocab. I was wondering which of the following routes you would recommend:

Option 1:
Sirah Khaatim un Nabiyeen
Qiraa'at ur Rashida
Suwar min hayaati as-Sahaaba

Option 2:
Ta’lim al-Muta’allim
min adab al-islam
al-Rasul al-Mu’allim

I won't have time to cover both options. I am leaning towards Option 2 since it is a shorter route.

Jazakumullah Khair

Saif

[Flikemommoilt]

Yep you right, Option 2 is better. More so because you studying them by yourself.....

In a class setting, lengthy books are easier to combat because you have multiple contributors which makes it easier to find the correct translation.

[Lydiaswingert]

Jazak Allah Khair Br. Mospike for your input.

Would also appreciate the thoughts of other hazrats in the forum.