Question

as-salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.

 

Do you have any information on madd tamkeen and madd farq.  BarakaAllah feekum.

 

Answer       

Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh.

Medd tamkeen is described in some tajweed books as a with a shaddah and a kasrah, followed by another letter , but this last  is saakinah.  An example would be in the word: .  You may note that the second  that is saakinah is not written as a letter in the word, but the symbol for a has been put in above the line to let us know there is a  pronounced.  This and other words similar are often written without the second of the same letter because of an Arabic language custom of not liking to repeat the same letter in writing. When we dissect this word then we pronounce three of the letter  right after each other, the first two are part of the shaddah, the third the unwritten but indicated letter.  We then have a  saakinah (the first part of the shaddah) followed by a  with a kasrah (the second part of the shaddah), followed by a  saakinah.  Since the last letter is a  saakinah preceded by a kasrah, we then have a medd letter.  If we stop on this word, we would have , because we have a medd letter followed by one voweled letter and we are stopping with a presented sukoon.  If we continue on reading past this word without stopping, we have the natural medd, or , which is lengthened two vowel counts. 

You can see then that there is no reason for a separate category for this combination.  The lengthening here does not have special circumstances.  The only thing special about this combination is that we have an "accent" or  , on the first  because it had a shaddah and is preceded by a kasrah.  Please click here for further explanation.

 

Some also include in the "medd tamkeen" the  saakinah at the end of a word followed by a voweled  as the first letter of the subsequent word, as in: , and the  saakinah at the end of a word followed by a voweled  as the first letter of the next word, as in: .  Again, when we analyze these combinations, we see that all we have is , nothing else, so there is no need for a separate name for this combination, as it is already covered in . 

 

The medd al-Farq that is in some tajweed books is a similar case.  The category "Al-Medd Al-Farq" is actually describing the reason for the lengthening in the words, but each of the words in this description fall into another medd category.  It is actually confusing to students to see a word (such as ) as the only case of , then see this same word in the "medd al-farq" category, if it is used in a tajweed explanation.  Again, the reason for the lengthening of the three words,  , ,  should be described in the section on hamzah al-wasl, and not be given a separate category in the mudood, since they really are not a different category.  Please click here for a complete explanation of the reason for the lengthening in these three words.

Baraak Allah feekum and all Muslims.