With Chinese features and a Jordanian accent, we received the 17-year-old Chinese student, Jacob Jin, at his family's home west of the Jordanian capital, Amman.
Yaqoub is the eldest son of his father, Isaac Jin, and they are from a Muslim family that chose to live in the Arab countries in order to learn the Arabic language and Sharia sciences.
Jane's family has settled in Jordan since 2012, after having been in Damascus since 1994, and has moved to Amman following the Syrian crisis, according to the head of the family, Isaac Jane, and Jacob's father works in the trade sector.
Son Yaqoub passed the secondary school "Tawjihi" with a rate of 94.2% and in the scientific branch, which raised Jordanians' surprise due to the difference in his Chinese language and culture from Arabic, in addition to the difficulty of the Arabic language for the Jordanian students themselves.
Yaqoub added to Al-Jazeera Net - who is also fluent in the colloquial language spoken in Jordan - that his persistence in reciting the Noble Qur’an increases his mastery of the exits of Arabic letters, strengthens his grammar, and also emphasizes the difficulty of the Arabic language more than the Chinese language, contrary to what Arabs believe.
Yaqoub adds that he would like to study the specialization of Islamic banking and the fundamentals of jurisprudence, and he justifies that by the fact that the need for these disciplines is more urgent than scientific disciplines such as medicine and engineering for him, and he does not reduce these disciplines, but he wants to bring about change in the Arab and Islamic economy, as he put it.
Yaqoub says that his study hours were average and sometimes few, between 2 to 4 hours, and despite the suspension of the study process in schools and being limited to remote study, Jacob worked to organize his time and divide his study hours, as he used to wake up to perform the Fajr prayer and then start his day.
Yaqoub advises the new applicants for the Tawjihi stage not to overburden themselves, and to give everything its due, adding that he used to devote two hours to playing basketball on a daily basis, and he also practiced many home activities and enjoyed his time.