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Exercise 1.1.1 Exercise 1.1.2

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Exercise 1.2.2
1. The meeting of Muhammad
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Exercise 1.4.1 Exercise 1.4.2

1. Little speech
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 Answers to chapter 2

Exercise 2.1.1 Exercise 2.1.2

1. Allah is Greatest (Greater i.e. than all things)

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1. Indeed Allah is All knowing Great
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6. Muhammad understood a correct understanding
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15. Does the boy understand the sentences?

Yes, and to understand correctly is beautiful.

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 Answers to chapter 4
Review Exercise 1 Review Exercise 2
1. Did you (m. pl.) not read the word in the book?
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2. There are signs on the Earth.
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6. Your statement is far from the correct understanding.

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Exercise 4.1.1
1. We entered Makkah
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5. This enquiry is for senior scholars

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Exercise 4.5.2
learn a thing
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Answers to chapter 6
Exercise 6.1 Exercise 6.2

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2. Yes, one of the (two) ministers attended.
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5. The books are four.
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10. Hasan has a thousand pieces of land.
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4. One of the ministers attended many long 
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6. The professor wrote eight books in eight years
7. The scholar has status in the world.
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 Answers to chapter 7
Exercise 7.1 Exercise 7.2
(A)
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fathers, our sons and the sons of our sons.
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brothers.
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brother’s house / my brother’s big house. ’
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10. Hasan: Did your father understand me?
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2. Your speech is far from the truth so we are

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3. Allah sent a prophet to the children of Israel
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4. The scholar possesses broad understanding and  m
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the ignoramus has a narrow mind.
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the meaning.

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 Answers to chapter 8

Exercise 8.1 Exercise 8.2

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taking / takes me today

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3. We left Makkah during the day and arrived at
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 Answers to chapter 9
Exercise 9.1 Exercise 9.2

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There is a word of truth in the book /

In the book is a word of truth

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Damascus in addition to the country of Iraq ?
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7. Is the river of Egypt long and wide? Yes.
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8. Where is the house of Hasan’s relative ?

It is close to the sea.

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ignoramus* has a narrow mind.

13. The (female) students read the writing on a

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adjective. One would have to say, ‘the ignorant person’.
Otherwise, one can use a noun such as ‘the fool’ or ‘the idiot’.
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broad understanding and the ignorant have narrow minds’,
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Notice that the sentence is trying to convey the following ‘the daughter of a rich man’. ‘The daughter’ is indefinite
meaning: ‘those with broad understanding are (true) scholars and because ‘a man’ is indefinite, just as ‘the middle of a desert’
those with narrow minds are (in fact) ignorant.’ is indefinite.

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 Answers to chapter 10

Exercise 10.1 Exercise 10.2

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an all knowing.
2. Maryam arrived before all the people and
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3. The companions of the prophet Muhammad
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sat around him and among them was Abu
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over the world attended the meeting.
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6. We called upon the professor between Asr
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7. We took the path toward Makkah and arrived P 
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at Asr time.
8. We sat under the strong Makkan sun where
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sat.
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9. (The) Lord of the two easts and (the) Lord of
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all times.
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12. My lack of trust in you is for a number of
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am good and some people think I am not
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said some strong words to him.
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 Answers to chapter 14

Exercise 14.1 Exercise 14.2

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3. When I began my question about the subject
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4. When I found him he was sitting on the

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tomorrow he will have left the country.
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6. Not all people are like Abu Bakr.
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7. Hasan became angry when he heard the news

and he is patient in all situations.

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12. The student was about to read when the
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professor prevented him.
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Exercise 15.1 Exercise 15.2

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strong.
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2. Indeed life in this world is short.
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4. This sitting of yours with me and your going
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(away) from me are the same to me because
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5. Have you heard that this professor wrote two  C†- 
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books on biology and ethics?
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6. He said that this matter is very clear and that
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doubts about this matter and he said to me that
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he mentioned this to me out of fear of me
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presidents from all over the world.
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for my knowledge now is little.
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small boy, it is necessary for me to go with
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 Answers to chapter 16

Exercise 16.1 Exercise 16.2

1. I told him to take me with him but he did not ’

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take me. V'8; F  S
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2. They demanded of us that the strong among a
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us go out so when they went out they hit each
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3. The teacher said to the student, ‘have you read
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have not read it yet (but will soon)’.

4. So the teacher said, ‘you must read all of

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these books so that you understand the 1
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subject. V n ‹6
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until you read much. V'8; VW2 %3~ Q
6. You cannot stay here for this place is not
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yours for you are right and we are wrong.
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8. We entered the city at night in order that the
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people don’t see us. P I' #3.
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