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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Assalamu alaikum everyone.

We are continuing with our discussions

picking up whatever gems we can that I think are easy to explain for everybody

even you guys that don't have any background in Arabic

or have been in one background in Arabic

to try to appreciate some of the subtleties in the Qur'an.

Today I'm going to talk to you about something that is

maybe a little bit more complex but I think we can simplify it.

So let's start by talking to you about the concept itself.

So English is a kind of language in which we don't have

diacritical marks or we don't have declinations.

Those are big words.

So let me tell you what that means simply.

The word book, it doesn't matter how you use it in a sentence,

it's still going to sound like the word book.

The word car is still going to sound like the word car.

So it doesn't matter what it's doing in the sentence.

The car sounds like the car.

But in Arabic, a word changes the way it sounds at the end

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