Question

May Allah reward those who help us in our Islam and so may He, Great and Generous is He, reward you greatly.    While reading surah 16,  An-Nahl, I had to stop on the word " "; is that right that there would be an accent on the   because of two  with a sukoon or is that 3  's?

The translation of the explanation of the meaning is:

And Allâh puts forward (another) example of two men, one of them dumb, who has no power over anything (disbeliever), and he is a burden to his master, whichever way he directs him, he brings no good. Is such a man equal to one (believer in the Islâmic Monotheism) who commands justice, and is himself on a Straight Path?

Answer

Ameen do you dua’ and may Allah make our intention in all our deeds for Him Alone.

Masha’ Allah, you are correct, there is an nabr ( ), or accent on the word   when stopping on this word.  There are two  at the end of this word, the first one has no vowel on it, the second does.  If we review the applied definition of idghaam, we see that any time there are two of the exact same letter next to each other in a word, the first saakin, the second with a vowel, the first letter merges into the second so that the second letter becomes one emphasized letter of the second type.  The shaddah on the second  therefore denotes the idghaam of the first into the second.  In the accent lesson (located in the tidbit archives), we noted that one of the cases of the nabr is if stopping on a word and the last letter has a shaddah (outside of the qalqalah letters and  and ).  We make a nabr on that letter by raising our voice slightly as we change from the letter before it (in this case the ) to the last letter.  This nabr, or accent is necessary to make clear there is a shaddah on the last letter.  Without the nabr a letter would actually be dropped from the recitation, and that is something that should not be done.

The nabr then, is not on the , but on the .  One note, stopping on the word  is not a good stop as it is linked grammatically and in meaning with what comes next, and the meaning does not stand alone when stopping on this word.  This stop would only be made as a compelled stop (as the questioner indicated) or upon request of the teacher.