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.