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Question

Assalamu'alaykum,

I have always wondered, how do we make wasl from the last letter of the huruf muqatta'ah when continuing to the next sentence? Do we have to read with ithhar in all of them?

For example, Kaaf Ha Yaa 'Aieen, Saad dhikru rahmati rabbik..  how do we continue from Saad to dhikru? Do you have a recording to exemplify this case?
JazakAllahu khairan.  

Answer

Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh.

The normal way for joining the individual separated letters at the beginning of some surahs with the words that follow them is with the sukoon on the last letter of the separated letters, since they are all with a sukoon, and continue reading.  There are a few places in the Qur’an that we have to take special note, because of grammar rules in addition to  the tajweed rules of the way we are reciting, in this case Hafs ‘an ‘Aasim by the way of Ash-Shatibiyyah. 

When joining aayah one of surah Aali ‘Imraan with the second aayah,  there is the meeting of two saakin letters, the last  of the separated letter , and the first  of the Glorious name of .   The Arabic language rule for two saakin letters meeting is therefore employed, and the last of the separated letter  acquires a incidental fat-hah.   See http://www.abouttajweed.com/121003.htm for more details about the rule.  The medd laazim then is allowed to be six, as the  is normally saakinah, or two, since there is now a vowel on it.  Please look at the second question and its answer in the following link for more explanation: http://www.abouttajweed.com/100803.htm .

Hafs ‘an ‘Aasim by the way of Ash-Shaatibiyyah has  of the letter  following by a  when joining the  of the first aayah of Ya Seen to the  beginning the second ayyah ,  and also makes  of the  of the first aayah of surah Al-Qalam with the following   in the same aayah. . 

There would be an  of the  saakinah of the letter , if one joined the separate letters of the first aayah in surah An-Naml  with the first letter:  of the next word .

All other letters are read with  of the last saakinah letter of the separated letters, including the first two aayaat of surah Maryam:  in the recitation of Hafs ‘an ‘Aasim. Of course we would observe the qalqalah of the saakin letter , the last letter of the written out letter  when stopping or continuing and joining the first and second aayah.  It would be difficult for us to find an audio sample of the joining the two aayaat, since most reciters would be out of breath after the long mudood.  There are some of the qira’aat that have idghaam of the  into the , when joining the two aayaat, but Hafs is not of them. This shows that it is not impossible to join the two aayaat and indeed some do.