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9. Transferring the vowel of the hamzah to the saakin letter before it

When the last letter of a word is not a medd letter and is saakin, and the first letter of the next word is a , , Warsh transfers the vowel of the hamzah to the saakin letter before it, and the hamzah is dropped in pronunciation. Examples of this are:   ,  , and    

Included in this is the  or alif laam at-ta’reef, which is a different word than the noun it defines.  Examples are:  ,  , and .  When starting a word that has a hamzah qaTa’ after the alif lam “ta’reef” when reading Warsh, there are two allowed ways of reading:

a.        If it is considered as it is originally, then start with the hamzah wasl (with a ), then transfer the vowel of the hamzah qaTa’ that follows the to the .  The word is pronounced

b.       If it is considered a conditional occurrence (because of the now voweled ) then we can start with the  , with its transferred vowel and there is no need to start with the hamzah wasl, which is used to take us to a saakin letter.  The word is then pronounced as .   

If a word starting with , then a , and then a , such as in:    or       there are conditions as to which way we start and how much we can lengthen the medd badl.  If we start with the  , not the hamzah al-wasl, then we can read the medd badl with two vowel counts only.  If we start with the hamzah al-wasl then the three different lengths for the medd badl are allowed (2, 4 or 6 vowel counts). [1] 

Warsh has two allowable ways of reading the word in aayah 19 of surah Al-Haaqqah, when read in continuum; joining it with the first word of the next aayah: ; :

a.    of the vowel on the hamzah on the word to the of the word .

b.   Leaving out the and joining the two aayah with a sukoon on the . 

* If joining aayah 19 in recitation with the aayaat that follow until:   , there are conditions for joining aayah 28 with 29.  When reading     with of the vowel on the hamzah to the ,      is read with idghaam of the first  into the second.  When reading    with the absence of , is read with  of the first  and a between the two words.

  , of surah An-Najm aayah 50, is read with idghaam of the tanween into the    and the vowel on the hamzah of the word is transferred to the  ( ) with the hamzah dropped (as usual in the case of   ), as in: .

Warsh reads the following all without a sakt, and applies the appropriat rules for the noon saakinah and tanween, as well as the laam saakinah:

 ,  


[1] There is no change with the Arabic rule for two saakin letters meeting in the recitation of Warsh, even though the laam of ta’reef acquires a vowel with the .  If there is a word that has an incidental vowel before the laam of ta’reef with a , the incidental vowel does not change and stays, just as a dropped medd letter stays the same.