Shadee Elmasry – 15. The tarqiq of the alif

			Alright. So let's go to the letters. So
		

			the kitab this is chapter 4. The kitab
		

			is made up of surahs, chapters.
		

			Surahs are made up of ayahs,
		

			Okay.
		

			And ayahs of words,
		

			verses are made of words, and words of
		

			letters. So the lowest
		

			the the
		

			cell the unit smallest unit is the letter,
		

			the haraf. Alright. Thus, the starting point of
		

			Tajweed is pronouncing the letters properly. Alright.
		

			First one,
		

			alif.
		

			The alif is pronounced
		

			like dad in most cases.
		

			This is very important.
		

			The
		

			the the alif
		

			is the first thing that How people pronounce
		

			the alif can tell you if this person
		

			has studied or not.
		

			Okay.
		

			An alif
		

			is by default, murakak and the word murakak
		

			is it's flat. A.
		

			Okay.
		

			Murakak.
		

			Okay. It means light and or thin like
		

			dad.
		

			In some cases,
		

			it's pronounced father like father, a a.
		

			Alright. Mufakham.
		

			Okay. Mufakham.
		

			There is no third pronunciation.
		

			Okay. Now,
		

			how when is it pronounced?
		

			Mufakam?
		

			It's by
		

			Khosadarkdinqid
		

			plus ra
		

			And that is
		

			This is like a little, I guess, acronym
		

			that you could say. It's a way to
		

			remember it. The Husadalkid has no meaning. Right?
		

			Khusa Dautinqid, each word has meaning but the
		

			sentence,
		

			it all has no meaning. Khusa
		

			means to specify someone. Daltin means pressure and
		

			qid means wake up. So it doesn't really
		

			have a sentence that has no meaning. We're
		

			just compiling all the letters.
		

			Khusa, dalt,
		

			are the fat thick mufakham
		

			letters of the Arabic language. The letter ra
		

			is sometimes mostly mufakam,
		

			sometimes not. Okay? So that's why we say
		

			because
		

			they're always mufakam plus ra because it's sometimes
		

			mufakam.
		

			But all of these letters, kasad,
		

			da, bad,
		

			ghain,
		

			pa,
		

			kaf,
		

			So that's 8 letters.
		

			Whenever these letters
		

			precede alif or fathah, it's mufakham.
		

			So you would say Balin not Belin.
		

			Okay? You would say Khaled not Khaled.
		

			Okay? You can say Khaled in spoken, doesn't
		

			matter. There's no effect
		

			Again, in spoken Arabic, you can say,
		

			You could say that all you want. But
		

			in terms of the Quran, when you recite
		

			the Quran, you're gonna recite it
		

			Ra'alib.
		

			Okay?
		

			The letter Ra in the Hafs recitation dialect
		

			or
		

			recitation, you're going to recite
		

			it ra.
		

			In warash, it's ra.
		

			Right? So that's one of the difference between
		

			haf's and warash
		

			is does the ra affect tafkim or tarpir?
		

			Okay. So in havs, it affects tafkim.
		

			Alright. So
		

			And this applies for both the fatha and
		

			the alif. The fatha being this just a
		

			shorter version of alif.