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Sorry for my very late reply. Firstly thank you all for your kind words and suggestions. I went to the mosque two days ago to met with the imam at a mosque that is near by(well its 40 minutes away but still). I ended up saying the sahaba in front of the people that were there. It wasnt planned on my half but still i was happy to do it. He gave me some books that i have been going through but i am having a small problem, the arabic. I am trying to learn the salah properly but i am having troubles saying the arabic. It does have the arabic in roman letters but i am afraid i am not saying it properly. How did you guys learn it? And to be honest i dont know how i became interested in islam it just kind of happen. I always had an intrest but it never really came to light untill i got to hyderabad india. The place is dominated by islam and the first time i remember being drawn intentsly to islam was when i heard adhan my first day. It was so amazing and gave me a feeling of peace. Thanks again everyone, allah hafiz!
:w: (Wa3alaikumussalam) dear brother,
Congratulation for your reversion, you are very fortunate that Lord Allah had guide you and us toward Islam. Praise be to Him, you are actually a Muslim before you properly pronounce your Iman (faith). Islam is our Fitrah (nature) :)
For me, I am a Malay-Muslim in which we use Jawi script to write our language. It is based from Nasakh Arabic script.
This Jawi script helped us in learning the holy Quran, but sadly not many young generations today want to revive it because they feel easy with romanized Malay-Muslim and our government is emphasizing romanized Malay. This made many Malay-Muslim youngsters far from the learning of Quran and religious knowledges because many religious books were written in Malay with Arabic script and Arabic as the first source.
Our language history is almost the same as Urdu language and the history of its romanization is almost the same with Turkish. Urdu is using nasta3alik Arabic script.
Ancient Malay language was using Pallawa script introduced by south Indian brahmins before 7th century. After Malay kingdoms in South East Asia embraced Islam gradually, Malay language were also Islamisized by Muslim missionaries from Middle East and accepting Quranic vocabularies beside Persian loan words. Pallawa script were then disappear and replaced by Arabic based script until late 19th century :D Everything moves in a flow as Islam is not burdening all of us :statisfie
We learn Arabic script here at the beginning the same way we learn A, B, C. We listen to the pronunciation and we follow the teacher's pronunciation. For Quranic verses we recommend you to learn Arabic script's sound from Arabic software.
It is Ok to learn reciting simple Quranic verses such as
Surah Al-Fatihah,
Surah Al-Ikhlas,
Surah Al-Falaq, and
Surah An-Naas in romanised script at the beginning, Islam is not burdening human-being, it is actually an easy religion. You can ask the help of Muslim brothers in the mosque, I am sure they will be glad to help. I have an experience seeing a revert Japanese brother in the mosque at my place asking help from the other Muslims in the mosque to teach him reading simple Quranic verses and they happily racing to help that brother :D
Here is the link to the Surah Al-Ikhlas verses with Arabic script, I think it is recited slowly. You can listen to it first and the refer to the surahs with Roman script in the prayer book. After that you can compare it with the Arabic script. Hope it helps :)
http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/ara...80_114/112.htm
Arabic is the language of Muslim brotherhood and unity, it is not owned by the Arabs alone. Many Muslims including myself are still trying to learn and mastering Arabic, at least in understanding Al-Quran. Do not worry, Lord Allah will help you with your patience and you will move on gradually :statisfie beside learning Arabic in order to learn Quran, you had opened yourself towards mutilingual skills as many Muslims accept Quranic vocabularies in their native languages such as Urdu :thumbs_up
You can say your supplications after prayer in your mother tongue instead in Arabic as Lord Allah do understand every language spoken by His slaves :) Arabic is an obligation in prayer, but it is not so strict as not to burden the beginner. It is logic that we have to learn something first before we understand something :)
We pray for your succeed in reading and understanding Al-Quran, Amin!!!
Love to brothers and sisters