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Sala malaikom,

to la Havreakato.

Welcome to Amazed by the Quran, a series in which I share with you what I find

amazing about the Quran.

Today is a tough lesson.

I think I'm, I've got my head wrapped around

that on how to explain this to you to make sense of it all.

So bear with me.

The first thing I'll remind you of is once again the difference

between a noun and a verb, nouns permanent verbs temporary. The second is

actually a concept in Arabic speech, an ancient concept,

that you don't really find the parallel for

in the English language, certainly not modern English.

So the Arabs, when they talk about a certain act, like I ate or I slept or I hit or something, you know, I drove.

If they really want to emphasize it, they'll actually repeat the same act as a noun again at the end they called

it mafrul mutlach which is not important but it'll sound something like this in

English it'll be like I bit a bite right or I bit it a bite now what in the world does that mean to them

It actually means I totally bit that thing man. I chouted down. I slept

asleep. Nymphu Noman. You could just say I slept. That means I slept. But they'll say

I slept a sleep to say man I was

like tranquilized or something I was out you know so they'll add the act as a noun against a sleep to them as a noun to noman

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