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Question As
salaamu alaikum brothers in Islaam. I'm studying Hafs a'n Aasim, and
seeing that Hazrat Ali (R.A) is said to have said in his definition of Tarteel
:- Tajweed dul Hurufee wa ma' refatul wuquf. My question is due to
the fact that the knowledge of stopping is a major part of Tajweed, and that
even though various stops are indicated by signs; there are those
stops that aren't indicated by signs, but don't change the meaning. However,
I know from my little knowledge that such stops, if they are made by a person
and he doesn't continue recitation from the last word of phrase, then such a
stop is going against the rules of Stopping. In short, my question is, if such
stopping really does go against the rules of stopping, then why is it that so
many Qarees do it? Another question is that why is it that on must not stop at
the sign of the letter Laam? Jazakallahu
khair Wa
alaikum assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh The
stops are indeed very important and can change the intended meaning if we are
not careful. The statement that is
attributed to Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, is in many tajweed books,
and related by Imam Al-Jazaree in An-Nashr, but the chain cannot be found
going back to Ali, may Allah be pleased with him.
We therefore cannot verify its authenticity.
There are, however, numerous great
scholars who stress the great importance in the stop and start in recitation
of the Qur’an. Indeed, stopping
in an incorrect place can change the intended meaning of Allah, and it is very
serious in error. There
are stops that may not change the meaning, but are not grammatically correct;
these are still not allowed. The
stops that are allowed are those that are complete in meaning and grammar, and
either not linked to the next phrase in meaning or are.
If a phrase is complete in meaning, but not in grammar, it is
or “good stop”, but we may
not start on what comes next; instead we need to go back or word or two or
three when we start after taking a breath.
It is not enough that the meaning is not changed by a stop, the phrase
stopped on needs to be complete in meaning and in grammar, as suggested in the
question. It is unfortunate that some have not studied this very important area in tajweed, and randomly stop and start, paying no heed to the meaning and grammar structure of the phrases being read. The
stop/start symbol
is
not used exclusively for stopping; sometimes it is used as an indication that
we must not start with that word. An
example of this is the in the first aayah of surah al-Mumtahinah:
In
this aayah the symbol is seen over the word
.
Stopping on this word after reading in continuum with the previous
phrase would be
, but starting on the word
would
seriously change the meaning into one of warning not to fear Allah instead of
the intended meaning that the disbelievers turned the Messenger and you all
[believers] because they believed in Allah their Lord.
In this case then, the symbol
is an indication that it is forbidden to start
with this word. There
are many cases, and they are the majority, when the
is
used for a forbidden stop. When
this symbol is used for a stop, it indicates that stopping here would
seriously change the meaning or the meaning and or grammar is not complete,
and stopping is therefore not allowed on this word. Please also see the lessons on the stop and start: Wa
iyyakum, and may Allah make your studies easy for you. |