Ismail Londt – Amending Endings Maqmt Basics

			Bismillah, assalamu, Alaikum.
		

			After learning and familiarizing
your ear with the basic structure
		

			of any maqam, the encouragement is
then to practice to the level
		

			where you are able to express
yourself within the Maqam and not
		

			to be stuck on the initial
structure and sound, more than
		

			that, expressing yourself based on
what you understand of the ayah
		

			that you recite. So understanding
the ayah is extremely important.
		

			That's ultimately why we are
reciting and while we are
		

			attempting to beautify our
rendition, to attract the listener
		

			to the meaning of what is being
recited. Anyway, if we are not at
		

			the level of expression within the
Maqam yet, because we lack
		

			understanding, or we lack courage
to go beyond what if what we've
		

			initially lint of the structure.
Then there is something else that
		

			we can start with to
		

			encourage creativity and to ignite
creativity within our minds and
		

			our ears, and that is to amend the
endings you you memorize and you
		

			practice and you're perfect the
way certain reciters in a
		

			particular ayah end a particular
sound. So what you do is you
		

			slightly amend it to make it your
own. And Quran been doing this if
		

			we take one turn that we managed
to do in this in the series of
		

			bayati now in the jawab Asli, with
the push you end, for example,
		

			if we take a simple ending,
		

			Maliki Omid, Deen, for example,
		

			Maliki umidin, that's
		

			the comment sound at the end, you
take a simple change, a simple
		

			amendment by Doctor Naina, where
the last set of jumps you wouldn't
		

			do it as fast as Sheik Mustafa
Marin would have done it, or as
		

			fast as Sheik Abdul Basit would
have done it. He does them slowly
		

			and clearly. Maliki, he
		

			clears them and makes them slower,
and then you find shehrab, Mustafa
		

			rawash, it would not go as low in
this end as others. It would
		

			merely drop two or three steps and
then have his jumps. Maliki, to
		

			them, and you hear they are
different. And then you obviously
		

			have the Shahad family, the father
and the two sons, they have the
		

			same start to that end, and they
drop as others would drop, but
		

			they end it with a higher push and
turn my link in so there's room
		

			for more to
		

			explore. The idea is to make the
sound your own and to come out of
		

			the realm or the framework of
imitation, and this is one way
		

			through which you can slowly and
subtly make the sound your own,
		

			even if it is merely by amending
the endings. There are more
		

			examples of these, and I may share
more down the line Inshallah, but
		

			that's merely a seed that I wish
to plant in your mind and on your
		

			ear and encourage exploration and
creativity inshaAllah, all of the
		

			best May Allah guide. All Salawat,
Allah, a.