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Question

Asalam aleykum.

I have noticed that the recitation of warsh an naafi' has a lot of raa hukm could you please tell me about    or ahkamu ar-raa'at of riwayat warsh jazakumulaahu. wasalam aleykum

 Answer

Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh. 

The recitation of Warsh has many unique rules that differ from other ways of recitation, and the rules of the letter  is one such example.  

Tafkheem and tarqeeq of the letter in the reading of Warsh

  A. Warsh reads with tarqeeq of the  if it has a fat-hah or dhammah and preceded by a kasrah or by a    saakinah in the same word, such as in: and and  .  
If the   that precede the  are from a separate word, then there will not be tarqeeq of the  if it has a fat-hah  or dhammah, as in:  or preposition in this case, and a separate word.  If there is a   voweled by other than a kasrah before the  that has a dhammah or a fat-hah
 there is no tarqeeq of the , such as in: . 

B. A saakin letter between the  and the kasrah does not stop the from having tarqeeq, such as in: and ,  but an exception is made if the saakin letter is one of the letters of  other than ; in this case, the  would have tafkheem.   Examples of this last rule of tafkheem are:

   .    

C. The  has tafkheem if it has any of the previous circumstances for tarqeeq in the recitation of Warsh in a foreign word (), such as     .

D. There is also tafkheem of the   in the recitation of Warsh if it is preceded by a kasrah, or preceded by a saakin occurring after a kasrah, but the is repeated with an alif in between the two .  Examples are:

   

E.  Warsh reads the word of aayah 7 of surah Al-Fajr with tafkheem on the .

F. There is tarqeeq of both when stopping and continuing in the word: in aayah  32 of surah Al-Mursalaat, in the recitation of Warsh.

G. Both tafkheem and tarqeeq are allowed in the following words:

 

 

 

         

These six words though, only have tafkheem of the  when being read with (four vowel counts on ).

There is also both tafkheem and tarqeeq allowed on the word, Al-An’Aaam (6:71) with no restrictions linked to . 

H. Warsh has tafkheem of the  if it is followed directly by a letter of , or indirectly (meaning an alif is in between) by a letter of  , even if it meets the conditions of tarqeeq.  Examples are:      . 

The word in surah   aayah 63 though can be read with either tafkheem or tarqeeq of the .