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Assalam Aleykoum.

I got this site address few days ago, alhamdulillah, and I started reading everything because I found this site very interesting and helpful.
For a long time I've been thinking 'bout mistakes while the recitation and on your site, in the chapter "Common Tajweed Mistakes" I found an information, that:
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Some mistakenly use the throat, like the French do in the French "r"."
I'm not French but when I was born, i got a surgery because my tongue was mine rooted to the palate. The effect of it is, that I can't pronounce any other "R" sound than the French one, though I was working with my speech therapist all along.
I realize that this question can seem a bit strange, but I would like to ask, what should I do, if I got a speech impediment like this? Is it some kind of mistake?
Wassalam. 

Answer

Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

May Allah increase you in beneficial knowledge.  This is not at all a strange question, but it seems to be one from a sincere student of the Qur'an.  Allah knows best.

 

(Al-Baqarah 286)

Allah does not charge a soul except [within] its capacity.

This is not something you can control and you will not be held accountable for that, insha’ Allah.  The only thing that would affect you is if reached a high level in tajweed knowledge and application and you had students.  You would need to bring another teacher in to teach the letter , and would have to be able correct the students if they had a mistake in the , even though you cannot pronounce it correctly. 

May Allah make easy for you all khair.

Wa assalaam alaikum