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Question As Salaamu 'alaikum warahmatullahi wa Barakaatuh. Ma sha Allah, what a beautiful site. I am a student of tajweed, who can only afford one lesson a week (i.e. from a financial point of view). My greatest challenge thus far has been the dhaad. At times like this, you wish you had a teacher who lived with you, who could teach you what you were doing wrong each time you practised. I have no idea what the makhraj of dhaad is - and looked at your site in an effort to understand. However I found the explanation itself extremely challenging, complicated, technical and difficult to understand. How does one pronounce a letter from the back side of the tongue, and touch the gums, and raise the tongue at the same time...it's all too confusing for me. Please explain as you would to a child who has a limited vocabulary. Also, is there a tajweed learning video available for sale? Perhaps you should consider compiling one. jazakumullahu khayran was salaam. Answer Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Jazakum Allahu khairan. Teachers of the
tajweed should not take more than a minimum fee for their services.
The early scholars of tajweed never took money for teaching, but earned
their living through other trades, then taught Qur’an in their free time.
Scholars have indicated it is allowed to take a fee for teaching
Qur’an, but it should not unreasonably tax the students, and certainly
allowances should be made for those in financial difficulties.
We urge all teachers of the Qur’an to follow the ways of our
righteous predecessors and to fear Allah in cases of students eager to learn,
but unable to pay what is being asked. Imam
Ash-Shatibiyy in his poem on the seven qir’aat, wrote a line about this in
the introduction part of the poem describing all the different scholars and
their two narrators in the seven qira’aat.
He said, may Allah be pleased with him:
.
Meaning,
“and he [the scholar] did not make a living off of the Qur’an”.
More literally it means “his Qur'an was not a source of food”. The
articulation point of the letter
is
hard for many to understand, since the letter is unique to the Arabic
language. The tongue is a long
body part and can be separated into sections, one section of the tongue can be
one place and another doing something else when a letter is being pronounced.
If we divide the visible part of the tongue in two thirds, it may help
you. The
uses
the side or sides of the tongue, but the last 2/3 of the side considering the
tip of the tongue the front part of the tongue.
The letter
uses
the front third of the sides until the sides end at the tip.
Insha’
Allah this helps, but of course practicing and trying in front of your teacher
is the best way to perfect it. May Allah grant you perfectly pronounced
and
grant you recitation that is pleasing to Him.
Ameen. We
have seen some online tajweed videos, but they did not appear clear.
We have no plans to develop a video at this time, but one never knows
what the future may hold. Wa
iyyaakum. |