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There was a question on stopping maa al-istifhaamiyyah when the alif has been deleted in words like "feema" or " lima " dated
23 Dhul Qa'dah 1424/Jan 15, 2004.

I have a question about the permissibility on stopping on "haa as-sakt" in these cases. I have a book, "Jaami3 duruus al-arabiyyah", that says that when maa al-istifhaamiyyah (questioning maa] is majruur bi7arf Jaarr that waqf 3alaa [stopping on] haa as-sakt is ajwad [better].

Is this permissible in the recitation of Hafs 'an 'Aasim or in any other recitations?

Also, is it permissible to stop with haa as-sakt in the recitation of Hafs 'an 'Aasim (or in any other recitations) when stopping on stopping on a fi3l madhaari3 [present tense verb] majzuum mu3tall al-aakhir [with a weak ending and affected by a letter or condition] lam yattasiil bi aakhrihi shay'un (like lam yamshi, laa tadu3) or on fi3l amr mu3tall al-aakhir [command verb with a weak ending] mabnee 3alaa 7adhf  aakhirih [with last letter deleted] like "imshi, udu3u"?

Jazakumullahu khairan
As-Salaamu alaikum

Answer

Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh an  a late Eid Mubaarak to you too.  Jazaka Allahu khairan for the nice dua'.  May Allah grant you all khair.

The  is an extra  saakinah added at the end of a word.  This is used by Arabs in some cases and draw attention to the word and its ending vowel.

In the specific case mentioned in the question, where there is the questioning  is preceded by a letter    , such as in:  , , and we are stopping on the word, Hafs does not stop with a , but there are some other qira’aat that do.  Stopping with a  is one of two allowed ways for Imam , the other way being the normal sukoon on the .  Imam  stops on these cases with the  as the only allowed way in the qiraa’ah named after him.

There is one example of present tense verbs with a weak ending ( ) affected by a jazm letter and another in the command form that have  written in. These two are: , Al-Baqarah 259 and  Al-An’aam 90.  

These two  are for all of the qira’aat including Hafs, but there are a some of the different qira’aat that drop the  in these two examples when continuing and pronounce them only when stopping on these words. The examples demonstrate that the  is written in these words. 

There are other attached to nouns, such as in the last word of aayah 20, 25, 26, 28, and 29 of surah al-Haaqqah (69).

Wa iyyaakum wa-l-muslimeen

Wa assalaam alaikum wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh.