QUESTION:
Please advise me on the books that a student of knowledge needs to revise to strengthen their Arabic? Also, the books that will help in understanding poetic terminology.
ANSWER:
In the Name of Allah, the All-Beneficent, the All-Merciful.
May Allah bless Muhammad and his Family and damn their enemies.
It is the advice of Shiekh al-Habib that the student of knowledge strengthen their linguistic abilities by getting addicted to reading the Noble Qur’an, Nahj al-Balagha, Sahifa Al-Sajadiya, and the collection of the poems by poets that are adherers to Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them), such as Al-Sayed Al-Hamyari, Kumayt, De’bil and those of their kind. He also said that there is no problem with reading The Written Expressions by Hamdani.
The Office of Sheikh al-Habib