📘 Stage 1 of 3 · Dropdown Challenge
Spot the Mistake — الإِضَافَة
In the Arabic possessive construct (الإِضَافَة), the first word can never carry "Al-" and can never carry tanwīn. Read each English phrase, then choose the correctly written Arabic from the dropdown.
📖 The One Rule You Must Remember
In Idafah (the possessive construct):
- The first word (مُضَاف · mudhāf) never takes ال — even if the English phrase begins with "the".
- The first word never takes tanwīn (the doubled vowel ـٌ ـً ـٍ). It takes a single short vowel — usually a ḍammah ـُ.
- The second word (مُضَاف إِلَيْه · mudhāf ilayh) is always genitive (مَجْرُور) — its last letter carries a kasrah ـِ.
Two wrong forms — and one right form:
❌ Wrong 1
الْكِتَابُ اللهِ
❌ Wrong 2
كِتَابٌ اللهِ
✓ Correct
كِتَابُ اللهِ
Why does the first word take no "Al-"? Because it becomes automatically definite just by being the mudhāf of a definite mudhāf ilayh. Adding "Al-" is not only unnecessary — it is grammatically wrong. That's why "the Book of Allah" in Arabic is كِتَابُ اللهِ, never الْكِتَابُ اللهِ.