The
(Changing)
of the
saakinah
and tanween
The
(changing)
of the
saakinah
and tanween is defined in applied tajweed as: The changing of noon saakinah or the tanween into a
, when
followed by a
with
the observance of a lengthened ghunnah on the letter
.
If
the letter
occurs
immediately after a
saakinah
in the same word, or between two words (meaning the
saakinah
or the tanween would be at the end of word, and the
the
first letter of the next word), it is then required that the reader changes
the
saakinah
or tanween into a hidden
, with a
ghunnah present. The
saakinah
is changed into a meem in pronunciation, not in the written word.
You may note that most copies of the Qur’an have a very small meem
written over or under the noon in this case, or the second line of a fat-h or
kasrah tanween or dhammah of the tanween is replaced by a small meem.
The little
in this
case has a tail on the end of it.
The
hidden,
not by leaving a small space between the lips, as some modern scholars have
said, but by closing the lips and holding the
for
the length of the ghunnah, then opening them with the
.
This is the correct way of “hiding” the
as
written in the books of the old scholars, and as passed down in applied
recitation by chains of transmission that go back to the Prophet Mohammed,
.
Examples
of the
:
In
this first example above, the
saakinah
is the last letter of
the next to the last word of the
written part of the aayah. The
next word, starts with the letter
.
The
is
then changed in pronunciation to a
, and this
is
held with a ghunnah, then the lips are separated pronouncing the letter
.
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In
this example above, the
saakinah
is in the middle of the word and followed by the letter
.
The
saakinah
is changed into a
just
as in the previous example.
These
two different aayaat are examples of the tanween being followed by the letter
.
The
, or changing of the
saakinah
of the tanween into a
, is done
in the same way as the other examples. The little
can
be seen written over all of these examples.
The little
takes
the place of the second dhammah, fat-h, or kasrah of the tanween.
