Shadee Elmasry – 15. The tarqiq of the alif
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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.