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Eid Al-Fitr Reading Comprehension Quiz Posted by Fisal on Aug 21, 2012
اقـــرأ الــقــطـــعــــة الــتـــالــيـــة ثــم أجــــب عــن الأســئـــلــة Read the following passage, then answer the questions: بـَــدأ عـــيــدُ الـفــِــطـــر يــَــوم الأحــَـــدِ الــمـَـــاضـِــى . اِســتــيــقــظـــتُ فـِــى الــســَّـــاعــَـــة الــثـــالــِــثـــة صــَــبــَــاحــَـــاً ثــُـــمَّ ذهــَــبــْـــتُ مـَــعَ أصــْــدِقـــَـــائــِــى إلـى الــمــَـــســْـــجــِـــد . أدَّيـــْـــنــَـــا صــَــلاة الــفــَــجــْــــرِ فــى جــَــمــَـــاعــَـــــةٍ , ثـــُــمَّ جــَــلــَــســـْـــنـــَــــا نـــُـــكــَـــبـــِّـــرُ و نــُــهــَــلــِّــلُ حـَــتــَّــى مــَــوعــِــد صــَــلاةِ الــعــِــيــدِ . صــَـــلـــَّـــيــْــنـــَـــا صــَـــلاةَ الــعــِـــيـــد , و…
Eid Al-Fitr Posted by aziza on Aug 19, 2012
Yesterday was the last day of the month of Ramadan! It went by very quickly as usual, and today we celebrate the feast for three days after the end of the holy month! Before the feast, everyone who fasted the month has to give money or food to the poor, to help them enjoy the feast…
Goodbye Ramadan Posted by Fisal on Aug 18, 2012
It is the last day of Ramadan and Muslims all over the world are kissing the holy month goodbye. They have worked hard all over the month and deserve some rest and reward which comes to them immediately with the Eid or feast that lasts for three days after Ramadan. Ramadan is a month…
Nizar Qabbani: Bigger than all Words Posted by Fisal on Aug 16, 2012
It has been a while since we last read any Arabic poetry! Today we are going to read a poem by the great Arab poet Nizar Qabbani نزار قبانى . The poem is entitled, “Bigger than all Wordsأكــبــرُ مـِــن كــُــلِّ الـكــَــلـِـــمــَــــات ”. In the poem, Nizar boasts of being a great eloquent poet. He…
Arabic Sentences: The Verbal Sentence Posted by Fisal on Aug 12, 2012
We have already studied the Nominal Sentence الـجــُــمــلــة الاســمــيـــة . Today, we are going to study the second type of the Arabic Sentences which is the Verbal Sentence الــجــمــلــة الــفــعــلــيـــة . Simply speaking, the verbal sentence in the Arabic language is the sentence that starts with a verb فـِــعـــْـــل . It consists of a verb…
Some Ramadan Habits Posted by aziza on Jul 31, 2012
Ramadan is a great month for Muslims. It is a very spiritual time in which people pray a lot, read the Quran, go to the mosque and do a lot of charity. There are many habits associated with the month of Ramadan, and in this post, I write about some of these habits. In Ramadan…
A word search game in Arabic – Ramadan Answer Posted by aziza on Jul 31, 2012
In this post, I present the answer of the Arabic word search game about Ramadan foods (أطباق رمضان) and the meaning of the search words 1- كنافة 2- خشاف 3- تمر 4- قراصيا 5- قطايف 6- قمر الدين 7- بلح الشام 8- بسبوسة 9- بقلاوة 10- مكسرات