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Question

Alhamdulillah, for your interesting site.  This is my question:  in the following ayah in surah Al Qamar , there is a shaddah on the letter ta’ (  ) - and before there is a dal ( ) with a sukoon.  How should this combination be pronounced?

Answer

There is an idghaam ( ), or merging of the letter  into the letter .  As we learned in the tidbit lessons before, idghaam is the meeting of a non-voweled letter with a voweled letter so that they become on emphasized letter of the second kind.  The  merges into the  completely, and the  acquires a shaddah.  The  is not pronounced at all, since it has completely merged into the .  This type of idghaam occurs in some letters, but not all, when a saakin letter meets a voweled letter and they share the same articulation point.  This type of idghaam is called: , or merging of two similar.