Language is a symbol system in the form of sounds that are arbitrary (arbitrary) used by community members to interact and interact with each other. Language also functions as a tool used by a person to express opinions, thoughts and feelings to others. With language, humans can form society and civilization. On this basis, it is very reasonable to say that all activities that we do throughout our lives always require language. The object of research here is the STAI Palabuhanratu Islamic Education Program Student. Meanwhile, the research sample is the level I students of the Islamic Religious Education Program STAI Palabuhanratu Batch 2014/2015 who have completed learning the Istima 'I course. The approach used in this research is qualitative, while the method used in this research is a descriptive analysis study. The data collection technique used in this research is by distributing questionnaires. The goal to be achieved by the authors of this study is to uncover the difficulties that Arabic language learners have in studying Istima'i, and then provide solutions to these problems. From the results of the study, it was found that the problems faced by students in studying Istima'i courses in terms of the intrinsic factors of learners were the feeling of not being happy with the Arabic language, the difficulty of the Arabic language material in the Istima'i course, due to lack of facilities, and activities. What they choose outside of lectures is not related to lectures. While the problems that are reviewed from the learner's extrinsic factor are the existence of coercion from the parents to study at the STAI Palabuhanratu Islamic Education Program or because of factors influenced by friends, inadequate tools used in the teaching and learning process in Istima' I courses., the difficulty of the task given by the teacher, the lack of frequency of students in collecting assignments, the method used by the teacher is monotonous and boring, the difficulty of the material provided, the absence of the teacher, and their living conditions are not supportive for learning.