IMPORTANCE of balagha (in arabic)

well basically its "using the right words at the right time"
sorry thats the shorts line that came to me to describe it...

yes unfortunatly ull need to know arabic to fully understand it....but it will change ur experience of listening or reciting the quran dramatically when u have learnt it.
plus u know where Allah mentions in the quran

Say: "If the whole of mankind and Jinns were to gather together to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other with help and support.

well after u have mastered balagah u will realise the true gravity of that verse...

may allah give us the true understanding of the quran...ameen

The link isn't working for me? or maybe I dunno how to use it correctly?

i dont know amirah it works here....maybe u can go from the site:
http://www.bayan-alquran.net/forums/...isplay.php?f=6
hope that helps

lol Laa ba's, I had to switch to internet Explorer to be able to view it properly. It somehow doesn't show up fully on Mozilla.

Jazaakuma'allaahu khair.

Are there any online audios lessons on the basics of Balaagha?

well 1stly balagah is a vast subject/art....but branches out into 3 main parts :

1. meanings (maani)
2. speech (bayan)
3. innovator (badee3) ...sorry for poor translation but its not so important here...

meaning= deals with the begining of sentences cutting words out adding them empahsisng certain words.....
i think the best thing that comes to my mind is e.g. when someone says where is imran? the answer can be either: imran is in the house or (just) in the house.

speech= more to do with metaphors , examples , comparing....
e.g. imran is a mountain ....which doesnt mean hes a mountain literally( he might be bigggg!) but it compares his status or his knowledge with the hugeness of a mountain..

the last badee3= to do with rhyming words or the usage of words having the same rootword....
e.g. in english to be or not to be or i wrote the tab on my bat

obviously theres more to it than that.....oh yes and u have to have a natural taste for it..
hope u could find ur way thru my intangling wild translation/ interpretation of balagah!
sorry for mistakes

That was interesting mashaAllaah, and understandable too. JazaakAllaah khair.

Balaagha fascinates me so much, it's just so awesome subhanAllaah. InshaAllaah some day I'll be able to find someone to teach me it.

If you don't mind me asking, have you studied it akhee? If so how? and which books?

thanks ukhtee...
and yes i have studied it ...
....i studied a book called droos albalagah its a simple 'matan'
....also albalagah alwadiha
....talkhees almiftah which is another matan kinda muglaq if u know what i mean
....and some mukhtasar almaani by al imam saad taftazaani
.... also i benefitted alot my teachers..
some very beneficial and easy to understand books are balagh alwadiha and albalagh alarabiya by almaydani (u can get this on the net)
http://www.altafsir.com/MiscellaneousBooks.asp

hope that helps..
and i hope u get a chance to study it really it will give u a new depth into the beauty of the words of the quran..
by the way u gota know arabic for these books!!

Allaah yubaarik feek for answering my questions. That's quite a handful of books you studied there, WaffaqakAllah.

Al-Balaagha Al-Wadihah & Talkheesul-Miftaah are one's Im familiar with. I've read through the former a few times, but unfortunately this isnt a self tutorial kinda topic is it?

format_quote Originally Posted by caller

well basically its "using the right words at the right time"
sorry thats the shorts line that came to me to describe it...

Would 'eloquence' be the English equivalent?

sorry for late reply just came back from the mosque

yes ...balagah isnt all selftutorial even if the main topics maybe well be....
...and yes maybe almawahiida ...however i only gave the most brief interpretation of the subject whihc falls very short of reality....
thynks

and i would love to teach it someday if i get the chance..

Na'am. InshaAllaah you'll get the chance to teach it someday. Maybe you can open up a thread going through the basics with those who are interested here?

small speech but which has a vast meaning

I was given that same definition too, but in arabic.

I don't know why, but that reminded me immediately of Ibnul Qayyim rahimahullaah, and his style of writing!

inshallah
yes that is part of it ........but as i mentioned before the meaning of balagah is more vast for any english word to encompass it....