Question
Assalamu'alaykum,
We just finished our 5th Annual Quran Competition in our school and
alhamdulillah, it went okay. For a school in the
USA
, I think we did great, masha Allah.
Can I share with you some titbits in tajweed class? One day in a 5th grade
class (10 year olds) I was explaining the rules of noon as saakinah and
suddenly we came to a word that has meem as saakinah and I asked them, in the
Othmani script, if you see a meem that has a sokoon, what ruling is that? One
student masha Allah answered "izhaar shafawi". I smiled and told
them that many people forgot about the rules of meem as saakinah and I
impressed upon them that there is another izhar that many people do not talk
about. I quickly said, "there are izhaar halqi, izhaar shafawi and izhar
mutlaaq." As usual, to check
whether they were paying attention, I quickly asked, "What did I just
tell you?" A girl raised her hand and I called upon her and she
confidently said, "You told us that there are three kinds of izhaar; they
are izhar shafawi, izhar mutlaaq and.....izhar....yes, izhar habibi."
The whole class burst into laughter. I smiled and said, "It's not
izhaar habibi, izhaar halqi"
Now for the real questions:
Can you teach me how to read in wasl all the chapters that begin with huroof
al muqattaat? For example, in soorah Luqmaan: "Alif, Laaaam, Meeeem.
Tilka aayatul kitaabbil hakeem." What if we don't want to stop at Meeeem
and wish to continue reading with "tilka"? Since the letter meem has
a tanween in it, and the next letter is, "taa", must we apply ikhfa?
I want to know how to read all of the chapters without stopping at the
last letter of the huroof al muqattaat. Thanks.
Answer
Wa alaikum
assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh,
Forgive our
tardiness in answering your questions. May
Allah grant you and your students all success and make you of the best of
people.
The huroof
al-muqatta3ah, if the last letter is one of the letters in the group:
, it read with a sukoon on
the last letter of the written out letter.
In general this last saakin letter is read with the usual rule for each
of the saakin letters depending on the letter and what follows it in the next
aayah or next phrase after the letters, but there are a few exceptions or
things to note. The separate letters at the beginning of some surahs that are
of the group
are
pronounced each with three letters, such as
,
,
, and all have a sukoon aslee on the last
letter. So in the example in the question,
, the meem is read with a sukoon
on the end, there is no tanween on the
, and the rule will be
when continuing on to the
word tilka in one breath.
If you would be
so kind as to click on this link, a previous question and answer should give
you the complete information you would like: http://www.abouttajweed.com/010504.htm
.
You are most
welcome