Question
Assalamu
Aleikum
1) I have noticed that the "yaa" and the "alif" are used
to lengthen and determine long vowels such as in
surat
81 verse 20:"dhii quwwa tin..." (using the yaa after the letter
dhal) or
surat
110 verse 1:"idha djâ..." (using the alif for the mudood).
However, I have noticed that in the name "Musa" (Moses) in the Quran,
for instance in
surat
87 last verse, both the "yaa" and a small "alif" are
written to lengthen the name. My question is: Why the name "Musa"
cannot be replaced by just an Alif such as the alif in "Samâ"
(
surat
79 verse 27) instead of a "Yaa"?
2) In
surat
41 verse 44 in the second line there is an Alif followed but another alif.
However the second alif carries a black dot (or black point). What is the
significance of this? I know that this sort of mark on the alif can be found
in the Qur'an written in Warsh (I have seen it) but I did not notice until
today that Hafs had it too.
Would you please explain whether or not one should read this type of alif or
not?
May Allah bless you all inshallah
Answer
Wa alaikum
assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh.
1. The alif
maqsooraa is written as a
with
no dots on it, and the addition of the small dagger alif is put in by the
scholars to show it is pronounced as an alif, such as in
, and
. This
alif was, in most cases, originally a
and
has changed into an alif for grammatical or other reasons.
The qira’aat that have imaalah, such as the qira’ah of
and
make
imaalah of this alif changed from a
in
a large percentage of the cases. As
you may know, imaalah is part alif and part
.
The alif maqsooraa then is indicative of an alif that has originated
from a
,
and in many cases for some ways of recitation, this alif is read as a mixture
of an alif and a
.
2. The word
in
aayah 44 of surah Fussilat has a special symbol (i.e. black dot) over the
second hamzah, to show it is read a special way in the recitation of Hafs
‘an ‘Aasim. This second
hamzah is read with
, meaning in this word it is read with an
“easing” of the hamzah so that it is in between a hamzah and an alif.
This is a word that is read different ways in the different qira’aat.
Please also see: http://www.abouttajweed.com/that_what_is_needed_for_hafs_part_3.htm
May Allah bless
you as well.
Wa assalaam
alaikum wa rahmatu Allah.
