{"id":23764,"date":"2022-01-15T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=23764"},"modified":"2022-01-15T11:41:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T11:41:52","slug":"how-can-a-muslim-expand-and-increase-his-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/how-can-a-muslim-expand-and-increase-his-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can a Muslim Expand and Increase His Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 05762<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Answered by: Maulana Y\u016bsuf Bad\u0101t<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">My question is that I have learnt from you and from many other scholars that reading literature that is toxic and un-Islamic is Haraam because it pollutes the mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">I have noticed that your vocabulary and the vocabulary of other scholars are strong, MashaAllah, so I just want to ask that since 90-95% of modern novels have things like romance and disrespecting parents in them but they still have difficult words that can expand your vocabulary and can teach how to write a novel, but since it is Haraam to read them, what can a Muslim do instead?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In other words, how do you and other scholars expand your vocabulary and knowledge about the world and writing skills since modern novels are toxic? So that I can know and do the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In the name of All\u0101h, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">There are many Islamically appropriate ways to expand vocabulary. A few methods are listed below:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Practice writing and speaking with the consistent use of a thesaurus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Listen to or watch documentaries and the news.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Take advanced courses in literature and language.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Read decent books with Islamically appropriate content.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Stay in the company of eloquent righteous Muslims and learn from them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cWe did not send any messenger except [speaking] in the language [and vocabulary] of his people to state clearly [and explain eloquently] for them.\u201d \u2013 Qur\u2019\u0101n 14:4)<sup>1<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Only All\u0101h knows best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Written by Maulana Y\u016bsuf Bad\u0101t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">1 \u0648\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u0623\u064e\u0631\u0652\u0633\u064e\u0644\u0652\u0646\u064e\u0627 \u0645\u0650\u0646 \u0631\u0651\u064e\u0633\u064f\u0648\u0644\u064d \u0625\u0650\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0627 \u0628\u0650\u0644\u0650\u0633\u064e\u0627\u0646\u0650 \u0642\u064e\u0648\u0652\u0645\u0650\u0647\u0650 \u0644\u0650\u064a\u064f\u0628\u064e\u064a\u0651\u0650\u0646\u064e \u0644\u064e\u0647\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u06d6 \u0641\u064e\u064a\u064f\u0636\u0650\u0644\u0651\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0647\u064f \u0645\u064e\u0646 \u064a\u064e\u0634\u064e\u0627\u0621\u064f \u0648\u064e\u064a\u064e\u0647\u0652\u062f\u0650\u064a \u0645\u064e\u0646 \u064a\u064e\u0634\u064e\u0627\u0621\u064f \u06da \u0648\u064e\u0647\u064f\u0648\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0639\u064e\u0632\u0650\u064a\u0632\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0652\u062d\u064e\u0643\u0650\u064a\u0645\u064f &#8211; \u0633\u0648\u0631\u0629 \u0625\u0628\u0631\u0627\u0647\u064a\u0645 \u0664<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 05762 &nbsp; Answered by: Maulana Y\u016bsuf Bad\u0101t &nbsp; Question: &nbsp; My question is that I have learnt from you and from many other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23790,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23764\/revisions\/23790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}