Yesterday, I saw an old friend for the first time in a couple of years. I’ve known him now for almost 10 years. SubhanAllah! Tempus Fugit. You can always tell if someone is really your friend. When you’re around them, you feel your iman increase. There is a certain force of attraction (like that of a moth toward a flame, not a man toward a woman) between friends like this. One source of light feeds another.
He has bartered three Arabic textbooks and a dictionary to me in exchange for creating a web site that will host his store selling these books. The books are called Arabic For All, and I am already very impressed with them. There is NO English in any of the books. Not a single letter. It might sound impossible to learn Arabic from it, but that is actually the best way to learn. It comes with CDs (containing MP3 files, which beats typical textbooks with Windows CD-ROMs that don’t work in Linux) that takes you through the book. I’ve started the first lesson and love it, alhamdulillah. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to start learning Arabic. The obvious requirement is that you know how to read Arabic at a beginning level.
