The
Mudood (Lengthenings) Part 6
The
Separate Allowed Lengthening 
Its
definition:
It occurs when a medd letter is the last letter of a word, and a hamzah
qata' is
the first letter of the next word. It
is called 
(allowed) because of the permissibility of a short count of
two, as well as its lengthening with some readers. It is called 
(separate)
due to the separation of the medd letter and hamzah, meaning they are in
separate words, but next to each other.
Its
rule: Its lengthening is of the measure of four or five
vowel
counts, the way we are teaching to read, which is Hafs ‘an Aasim by the way
of Shaatabiyyah
(
) .
Two vowel counts for this lengthening are not allowed in this way of
reading. There is a known way of reading also transmitted by Hafs
‘an Aasim that has two vowel counts for this lengthening, but that way is
not the way of Ash-Shaatabiyyah, and the way of Ash-Shaatabiyyah is the way
being taught here.
Examples:
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When
stopping on the word that has the medd letter at the end of it, the reader
stops with the natural two count lengthening
( 
)
since
the hamzah in the next word is the reason for lengthening to four or five
counts, and the reason is no longer present when stopping on the first word.
NOTE: In some words such as
used
for calling, or
for
drawing attention, the medd letter is written joined together with the
following word. When the next
word begins with a hamzah, this may be confusing when trying to ascertain
whether the medd is 
or 
. The reader needs to know that ""
(for calling) and what follows it are two separate words; and the same can be
said for ""
(drawing attention) and what follows it. For example, the “”
for calling in:
is
a separate word from the name “Ibraaheem”, and the
for
drawing attention in,
is
a separate word from the attached second word.
In this second example,
, there are two
lengthenings, the first is the Allowed Separate Lengthening
()
with the
for
drawing attention ending in a medd letter, and the first letter of the next
word (which happens to be joined) a hamzah.
There is also the Required Attached Lengthening
(
)
at the end of the second
word, because there is a medd letter,
, followed by a hamzah in the same
word.
IMPORTANT
NOTICE: The and must
be both four counts or both five counts.
It is not allowed to mix the medd counts!
There is no valid way of reading that does differently than this.
The Greater Connecting Lengthening
Its
definition: If
the pronoun/possessive pronoun
representing
a third person male gender is at the end of a word (meaning not part of the original
make up of the word) and it has a vowel of a dhammah or a kasrah, is between
two voweled letters, and the first letter of the next word is a hamzah, the
dhammah on the pronoun/possessive pronoun
is
lengthened into a
,
or the kasrah is lengthened into a
and
it can be lengthened four or five counts.
As stated above in the Allowed Separate Lengthening, there is a known
way of reading that also allows two counts for the lengthening, but this is
not the way that is being taught here.
This
lengthening has the same requirements as the Lesser Connecting
Lengthening
(
), except
in this case (meaning The Greater Connecting Lengthening/ 
), there is
a hamzah as the first letter of the next word following the pronoun/possessive
pronoun
,
whereas in the Lesser Connecting Lengthening
(), there
cannot be a hamzah as the first letter of the next word after the pronoun/possessive
pronoun
.
This
medd follows the allowed separated lengthening ()
in
vowel counts, in other words, what ever the number of vowel counts the reader
is using for the allowed separated lengthening
(),
he/she must use the same
amount for this lengthening. The
second
in
the word 
follows
the same rules as 
(or
the pronoun ha') in
this medd.
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