Alhamdulillah, today we actually started Book Three, but it was a little bit like being in a desert, seeing a pool of water and not being able to drink it. My teacher insisted that we should read very carefully the whole structure and manhaj of the book so that it would be easier for us to benefit from the book as we read on. But you can imagine how impatient I was to get started; the introduction, then the first lesson, talked about all the different stuff we're about to read and...we've arrived.

You can feel the tidal wave of student about to arrive. New teachers come all the time and sit in our classes. I'm not worried about speaking in Arabic with anyone, but somehow when someone is with me during classes I feel nervous because I want to make Ustadh Ibrahim proud, but generally that has the opposite effect. The other thing is that this new book has no harakat, so it's constantly like a chess game, trying to figure out what the function of the words are in the sentence. It's harder than it sounds.

Also, alhamdulillah for Draino.

~Ameer