Question
Assalamu
Aleikum wa rahmatu lilahi wa barakatuh
A) I have notice that in the first verse of surah 63 (al munafiqun) they are
two ways the nouns munafiqin is written: the first is : MUNAFIQUN
("idha djaa'akal munafiquna...") and the second is MUNAFIQIN
("...wallahu yashadu innal munafiqina...") My question is:
a) What is the difference between "munafiqun" and "munafiqin"
b) Would it have been correct to only write either nouns without choosing the
other? For example write: "Munafiqun" all throughout the surah or
vice versa?
B) Secondly, the prophet Muhammed (pbuh) used to stop at the end of an ayah
when reading the Quran. Did he also used to join two ayah together (or joining
two words) when reading?Is it sunnah or farda to join ayah while
reading?
May Allah help you inshallah
Ma'a salam
Answer
Wa
alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh
A.
The words
and
are examples of regular male plural
nouns. These nouns change from a
to
a
before the last letter (
) depending on the grammatical place of
the word in a sentence. If the
regular male plural is
, such as the subject (doing the
verb), then it will have the
, such as in the first aayah of surah Al-Munafiqoon:
.
If the regular male plural is
, such as being the nominative of the
participle
, as in the last part of the first aayah of the
same surah:
, then
it will have the
.
These words then change according to grammar and it would not be acceptable to
change them around in writing in the sentence structure.
B. The Prophet,
usually
stopped at the end of an aayah, but the were times when he would join two
aayahs together in one breath. It
is sunnah to stop on the end of an aayah.
It is allowed to join two aayahs together, if the meaning is
appropriate, but it is not considered sunnah nor fardh to do so. Allah
knows best.
Wa assalaam alaikum wa rahmatullah.