Question
Assalamu
Aleikum wa rahmatu lilahi wa barakatu
1) I was learning some verses of surat Yusuf and found out that in verses 25
and 26 the word qamîsahu (shirt) changes from having a fatah on the letter
"Sad" (verse 25) to a dhamma (verses 26 and 27). And then in verse
28 it has a fatah again. Would you please explain why the word changes from
fatah to dhamma and to fatah?
2) Also I have a tape when a famous qari recited the verse 23 "... wa qâlat
haytalak" in different ways. I know that in the riwayah of Warsh "haytalak"
becomes "hiitalak" but he recited "haytalak" as: -
"hi' tulak" and "hi'talak" with a sukoon on the hamzah. I
was a little confused because I could not know which riwayah he used for these
two words. So my question is: Are "hi'tulak" and "hi'talak"
part of any way of recitation such as Qaloon or Bazee?
May Allah reward you inshallah and help you find the right answers.
Ma'a salam
Answer
Wa alaikum
assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh.
1.
The change in the vowels on the last letter of the word, which is the
letter
, reflects grammatical changes in the word.
The
that
follows is a possessive pronoun, in this case.
In aayaat 26 and 27,
, the word
affects both nouns of the nominal sentence
that follows. The first noun of
the nominal (verb less) sentence that follows becomes
and
usually, but not always, this is seen as a dhammah on the last letter of the
noun. In aayah 28, the phrase:
, has a passed tense verb, with
the word
being the direct object of the verb.
The direct object of a verb is
, which usually, but not always, is seen as
a fathah on the last letter of the noun. The vowel on the last letter of a
single form verb and noun changes according to the grammar rules.
2.
The word
in the phrase
in aayah 23 of surah Yusuf is a word
read different ways by different recitations.
Naafi’ (which includes both Qaloon and Warsh), Ibn Thakwaan, and Abu
Ja’far read the word as:
, with a kasrah on the
. This
same word is read as:
with
a sukoon on the 
and a dhammah on the
in
the recitation of Ibn Katheer (Al-Bazee and Qunbul).
The recitation of Hishaam reads this word as
, with a hamzah saakinah instead of a
. All
the rest of the ways of recitation read this phrase as:
.
May Allah
reward you and increase you in beneficial knowledge.
Wa assalaam
alaikum wa rahmatu Alllahi wa barakatuh.
