Shadee Elmasry – Lesson 12 Alif in the shape of a yaa…how and why

For him, we now come to something that is one of the harder things

for readers to get used to. And that is something called Elif

Matsuda, which is the Elif that takes the form of a and I said

earlier it takes this it be it is this amphibian

amphibious letter, because it has to have two functions. And the

function is that when a suffix is added to such a word, then it must

be

give it transforms from an LF into a year. You see here what I'm

circling is the F, okay? But it becomes a yet. Alright, and this

is the, it becomes a if a suffix is added. Alright, so this is

what, that's the reason why that is the reason why the shape of the

letter is a Yep, with a little Elif, on top of this is called the

dagger edit. Okay, so again, it's amphibious, or it takes I mean,

amphibious, I'm just using that word here. That means obviously

means land and water. But what I'm, what I mean here, it takes us

dual form, because it has to function as both letters. Okay? So

when you add a suffix, it has to become a yet, but otherwise, it's

an edit. So whenever you see this, you have to pronounce. You

pronounce it as if it's an LF. And whenever you see this in the

Quran, you pronounce it as a Yeah. Okay, II. Now, I have to I try to

make things easy, but in this case, you're gonna have to

actually use you know, exert some memory here and realize that there

is a little bit of a problem. Okay. And that problem exists

because everywhere else, they've taken on a different system.

They've taken on a system where the Elif Okay, when you pick up a

book of Hadith or literature, the Elif is given this shape

and the yen is given two dots. So if you don't see two dots, you

pronounce it as an edit everywhere else and every other literature,

okay, only in the Quran. And in the old Egyptian publications is

the simply this without any dots. And this is the LF at the end of

the word. Elif MK surah and if in the form of elephant yeah combined

everywhere else which is most of the publication of Islamic works

comes out of Lebanon now Beirut.

It's this is a yet and this is that if and I have been advocating

for years, okay, that why don't we just for the publishing houses,

use this, both this one and this one, this one that I'm pointing to

with my mouse, the for the Edit, and this one and eliminate these

two, because they're not from the Quran I'm talking about from

regular books, eliminate these two because there are no distinctive

markers. So just eliminate this one.

When you publish, and when you publish, you want to write

something that ends with an Elif that needs to take the shape of a

yet use this one and when you want to publish a yet use this, okay?

So there are when you want to use the use this one, so but the point

is you as readers of the Quran must only worry about these two,

okay, which is the Elif

guy with the dagger edit on top of the yet versus no dagger at when

you start reading Hadith and when we start reading this regular

texts that are not the Quran, then you're going to have to recognize

this guy that the LF and the R

written in different ways. Okay, so this is one of the tricky

things that people need to recognize and know that when

they're reading that there's they're spelled and they're

written in different ways. All right, now let's go to our

reading. We now are on Surah Al bayyinah, which is the first Surah

that will take us into two different pages. So this will be

the first time we'll be scrolling down to another page. And we are

now looking for the LF Matsuura okay the LF in the form of a yet

alright let me icon Alladhina Cafaro Kapha Well, let's let's

leave aside the meaning for now and just look at the letters. This

this L of here is not covered while this is covered ru this is

just a placeholder to show that it's plural. Min. L

L if Hamza hurt lamb l kita. Here's a dagger lf l kita. Well,

Mushrikeen Well, lf lamb mean sheen. That's the third stripe of

the sheen. There tooth rock calf yet known and machete kin more of

a kin meme known fat calf yet noon. And you notice here that I

did effect move Akina

and here was our first Elif Matsuura had the you pronounce

You do not pronounce this idea yet you pronounce this Elif had had an

add ins until

all right now let's skip ahead. Instead of going word for word and

looking but let me show you two examples. And they come at the

bottom here. FIA evident raw the you see here there's a yet and

there is no dagger lf that means I pronounced you right around the

aisle the Allahu Anhu what are the one that he can even kushy yet?

Here again, no two dagger additives, no dagger and if, okay,

so it's pronounced as Yeah, because she yet

let me now take you to sort of Baja which has a number of Elif

Matsuura examples. This is the best example to show you the Elif

MK surah and it is Surah to Baja. So we had to skip a little bit.

Okay to take us to sort of Baja and here you have what Baja you

see that?

That is the hat connected to the the is tucked under the hat and

there's the lf there's the Dagoretti well Baja well lately

either sagia

again Dagoretti if and the and that yeah, shape is tucked under

the Jeem met with DACA bukhoma Kala, again dagger Elif color Elif

Matsuura cough lamb and the is tucked under the lamp with an

earth euro to Chiron like Amina Gula.

Again, yeah, it's tucked under the lamp and it's pronounced as the

Elif. Well, Sophie are the kind of book for Tarot ball.

It's again Elif, and the only reason that it's given a med. B is

because it's followed by Hamza, and we'll discuss that later into

the week. So don't worry about don't worry about this tilde right

here. This is what you need to concern yourself this Elif Matsuda

this. So, they will will show you what the meaning of that is later,

but that is a year tucked under the BOD and this is acting as the

beginning of the end the truth of the dot.

And let me adjudicate EMA.

Again here a good example of Elif Matsuura. Well why does that cabal

for hada again Elif Matsuura which is

another I live macules time the yet shape is tucked under the

noon. So this is acting as the beginning of the end the tip of

the noon

familia team of Allah Takahara Illa phillotson Harwell Nabina

Muhammad big have had it. So those are some good examples of the Elif

Matsuura, which is when you see the dagger lf you pronounce it as

an LF, not as a yet, but you know that the reason it's done like

this is that if a suffix or a pro of a pronoun of possession or any

type of suffix is added, then that will have to transform into a yet

that's why it's taking the dual shape of f and yet