Question

As Salamu Alaykum:
May ALLAH reward you for your good work.

My question is:
If a tarqeeq letter if followed by a saakin tafkheem letter, will the tarqeeq letter sound heavier?

When I was listening to various qaris it seemed to me that:
the noon in the 3.word of 1st ayah of al-nasr (110) , , sounds heavier than the one in  the last word of 5th ayah of al-fatihah (1),   .
Please clarify the situation.
Jazakum ALLAHu Khairan

 Answer

Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh.

May Allah reward you and all Muslims for all their righteous deeds. 

The letter that has tarqeeq should not be affected by a tafkheem letter next to it, whether before or after.  This of course means if the rule is that of tarqeeq, then there should be be tarqeeq of the letter.  We know though, in the rules of the that the  saakinah rule can be affected by a letter of tafkheem following it, but if the rule of  is tarqeeq, it should be read with tarqeeq, and if the rule is tafkheem, it should be read with tafkheem. 

The letter with a fat-h in any one letter combination, should sound the same as any other letter  with a different letter combination.  Imam Al-Jazaree pointed to this very important rule in his poem famously known as al-Jazariyyah: , meaning "the utterance in its parallel should be like it".  This means that all of the letter with a fat-h should sound like all other letter with a fat-h. 

Students of the Qur'an, when first practicing tafkheem often have the problem of either putting tafkheem on the preceding letter, or when trying hard not to put tafkheem on the preceding letter, put imaalah on it instead.  This is especially noticeable with a fat-h. 

Experienced students, and masters of recitation do not usually make this mistake. 

Wa iyyakum wa-l-muslimeen.