Question
In
your present tidbit lesson about ghunnah you explain about the necessity of
observing heaviness and lightness of the letter that follows the
ghunnah. Let's say that a tanween with a fat-ha comes on a ra’
(
) and is followed by a letter
of lightness - for example in ayah 6 of surah At-Tahreem appears
these words:
Wouldn't we say the letter
with
a fat-ha and with heaviness and therefore the accompanying ghunnah would have
heaviness?
Answer
The
ghunnah of the ikhfa’ of the 
saakinah
and tanween follows the tafkheem (heaviness) or tarqeeq (lightness) of the
following letter. This does not
occur in the idghaam. All the letters that cause idghaam with a ghunnah of the
saakinah
and tanween are tarqeeq (light) letters.
In
the example in the question:
,
there is an idghaam of the tanween on the letter
into
the letter
.
The correct recitation of this combination would be to recite
the
and
its accompanying fat-h with tafkheem or heaviness, then make the idghaam into
the
which
would have tarqeeq (lightness).
An example of an
ikhfa’ that would have tafkheem, or heaviness, on the ghunnah is:
.
Here, the reciter needs to hide the
saakinah
of the first word, and during the ghunnah of the ikhfa’, get ready for the
next letter, a
, which is one of the seven
letters of tafkheem. The ghunnah
therefore will have tafkheem or heaviness.
The seven letters of tafkheem are:
, but only five of
these are letters that cause ikhfa’ of the
saakinah
and tanween:
.
Some
students have a little difficulty making tarqeeq, or lightness of the
ikhfa’, when the letter before the ikhfa’ is a tafkheem letter, and the
letter after is one of tarqeeq. An
example of this is:
.
The letter
, which is the last letter of
the first word is one of the seven letters of tafkheem, has a tanween dhammah
on it. The first letter of the
next word is a
, which causes ikhfa’ of the
tanween, and at the same time is a letter of tarqeeq, or lightness.
To recite this ikhfa’ correctly, the reciter needs to make tafkheem
of the
and
its dhammah, then move into tarqeeq of the mouth during the ghunnah of the
ikhfa’, preparing for the next letter, the
.
