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Question

Assalamu Aleikum wa rahmatu lillahi 

1. I have notice in surat Al Imraan verse 194: "...wa 'ad ttanâ.. ." the letter "dal" is followed by the letter "ta" with a shadda. However, the letter dal has no sign (such as a fatah, kasra, or dhamma). The same situation is happening in surat Hud verse 42 in the phrase: "Irkab mma'anâ. ." The letter "ba" has also no indication of vowel. In these situations, do we read the letter with the shadda and not the letter that has no indication of being a vowel? In other words, what are the rules? 

2. Are there 2 different ways of  using pause in khalaf reading?

I have notice that when a letter that has a sukoon is followed by a hamza , there is a small pause applied. Once I listened to surat Fâtir, and the sheikh was using the small pause when a lenghtened vowel was followed by a hamza. For example in verse 15 of surat fâtir, when he read "Yâ" (by lenghtening the ya) he paused for a while and then continued to "ayyu han nâsu".

I hope you understand my point inshallah. 

Wa Salamu aleikum

Answer

Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh.

1.  Whenever a letter has no vowel on it, it is saakin.  If there is a letter with no vowel followed by a letter with a shaddah, then there is an idghaam (merging) of the first letter into the second.  The examples in the question are both of idghaam and as suggested, the first letter is not pronounced since it merges into the second.  The two phrases in the question are examples of , please click here for more details.

2.  In the recitation of , which we assume you are referring to, there are two types of sakt (breathless pauses), one required, the other optional.  The one that is required is if there is a hamzah after the  saakinah of   (as in the word ) and in the word  ,with any of the three vowels on the hamzah of the word , as long as we are not stopping on these words.  If the saakin letter is at the end of a word and the hamzah the first letter of the next word, and we are not stopping, there is an optional , but it must be followed throughout the recitation we are doing at the time.  The saakin letter cannot be a medd letter and this holds true for all recitations that have a  on a saakin letter before a hamzah, none of them have a  before a medd letter.  Your point is well understood, but we cannot offer an explanation for what you heard.

Wa assalaam