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Question

Assalamu'alaykum.

When I was reading the part of Mad 'Aarid Lissokoon, I did not find the various ways of reading this particular Mad in your site or most probably I missed it.
I have read that if the last letter is fathah, there are 3 ways to read it, namely 2,4 or 6 harakaat.
If it is, kasrah, there are 4 ways to read it, namely 2,4,6 or 2 harakat with raum.
If it is dhommah, there are 7 ways to read it, 2,4,6, or 2,4,6 with raum or 6 with ishmam.
Is this information correct in the way of As Shatibi? Please give me the correct information. And can you find any qari who reads Mad Aarid Lissokoon with 2 harakaat (raum) and ishmam?

JazakAllahu khairan

Answer

Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh.

The lessons on stopping on the ends of words which include the lessons on  and  are located here.  These are advanced lessons and not part of the basic mudood lessons, but have to do with stopping with a pure sukoon or not and how these affect the medd, if present.

If there is a medd letter before the last letter of a word and the last letter has an permanent kasrah (not a conditional one), such as in: , then we can stop on the word with either a pure sukoon, and there would therefore be  of two, four, or six vowel counts, or we can stop with  (please see the lesson here for more details) which has the same rules as when continuing, so we would only lengthen the medd letter two vowel counts, just as when we continue. If there is a medd letter just before the end of the word and a permanent dhammah on the last letter, as in : , we can stop on it with a pure sukoon which would be  and we can lengthen it two, four, or six vowel counts.  It is also allowed to stop with  (please click here for more details) which is treated like a stop, so we can lengthen   two, four, or six vowel counts, any of the three different lengthenings are allowed with .  We can also stop on it with  which as stated above is like when continuing so the medd letter would be only lengthening two vowel counts. 

All of the different recitations allow the above, it is not specific for the recitation of Hafs ‘an ‘Aasim.

Wa iyyaakum. Wa asslaam alaikum.