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Qur’anic Arabic — Intermediate

Understand the Qur'an in its own words.

Duration
16 weeks (to be confirmed)
Schedule
2–3×/week, 40 min (to be confirmed)
Language
Urdu, English & Arabic (to be confirmed)
Format
Live online (to be confirmed)
Prerequisite
Qur’anic Arabic — Elementary (to be confirmed)
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Taught by Prof. Shaheen Shahzadi

PhD · Founder & Lead Instructor, Firaasah Academia

About this course

Built around one moment — a verse opening up for you before your eye moves to the translation. Rather than teaching full Arabic grammar, this goes straight for what the Qur'an actually uses: a relatively small set of words and patterns covers most of the text, learned in order of frequency and applied to real verses the same day.

إِنَّا أَنزَلْنَاهُ قُرْآنًا عَرَبِيًّا لَّعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ

بے شک ہم نے اسے عربی قرآن بنا کر نازل کیا تاکہ تم سمجھ سکو۔

“We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur’an, so that you may understand.”
Yusuf 12:2

Is this for you?

  • Recites daily but understands fragments
  • Wants to follow the Imam in Ramadan and know what's being read
  • Tried full classical grammar and found it overwhelming
  • Wants to understand the Qur'an directly, not through translation

What you’ll learn

  1. Recognise high-frequency Qur'anic vocabulary
  2. Read basic Qur’anic sentence structures without translating word by word
  3. Identify verb patterns and what each signals
  4. Understand recurring Qur'anic expressions
  5. Work through an unfamiliar verse step by step

Curriculum

  1. Weeks 1–2

    Review & Diagnostic

    refresh Level 1 vocabulary and sentence patterns, identify gaps before building on them

  2. Weeks 3–6

    Verb Patterns I

    the augmented forms (II–V) and the shift in meaning each one carries

  3. Weeks 7–9

    Verb Patterns II

    the remaining forms (VI–X) and how weak/irregular verbs behave in Qur’anic usage

  4. Weeks 10–12

    Qur’anic Expressions

    recurring phrases, oath formulas, and fixed constructions

  5. Weeks 13–14

    Connectors & Cohesion

    the particles and conjunctions that link clauses

  6. Weeks 15–16

    Longer Passages

    sustained reading across a full page, tracking an argument rather than a single verse

Assessment & certificate

  • Weekly vocabulary checks
  • Verse-analysis exercises
  • Final unseen-passage comprehension task per level

Firaasah Certificate in Qur'anic Arabic — Intermediate

A certificate of completion issued by Firaasah Academia, awarded when you meet the assessment criteria above.

Where it sits

Track B → Practical & Applied Linguistics. Adjacent: Conversational Arabic · 'Ilm as-Sarf and 'Ilm an-Nahw · 'Ulum al-Qur'an → Usul al-Tafsir (Track A).

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