Suhaib Webb – Reading Warsh (lesson Eighteen) The Single Hamza (Part One)

Welcome back to the foundations of reading. Wash.

Pay attention to this lesson

and the next few lessons, all of them,

but these these demand

these demand some investment because

this is where Wash really starts to kind

of, you know, do some things that are

that are maybe unfamiliar to those of us

who have been reading Hafs.

And it's actually very beautiful.

It expands your knowledge of the Arabic language

and takes you to a lot of amazing

places,

but let's build. Let's get into that build

mode. I want you to get into that

zone right now of focus. Let everything else

that's bothering you kind of, you know, kind

of just,

you know, slowly, slowly, slowly step away from

you and get into a place where you're

focused on the Quran.

Think about this

word

Allah says after

That's hafs. Right?

Sounds like a hiccup.

But listen to

Listen to this verse, and I'll read it

with Hafs first.

Listen to

not What's going on here?

If you look at these words, you notice

at the very beginning of those words,

at the very beginning of the root of

the verb of those words

is

hamza.

And that hamza is in its own island.

There are no other hamzahs hanging out with

it. Moving forward, I'm not going to call

it hamza. I'm gonna call

it hamz. Talked about this in the past.

So if I look at that hamz, it's

all alone.

That is called hamz

al Mufrad.

The singular hamza or the isolated hamza.

Hamz

al Muf

Mufrad.

When it meets 2 conditions

that I wanna talk to you

about now.

Imam

says

Hamzun.

He says that if you look at a

verb

and that verb starts

with

hamza. What does it mean if you look

at a verb?

We know that, you know, the word

if you look in the dictionary, it's gonna

be

If you look at the word, it's gonna

be

What do they have in common?

Both of those root words start with what?

Hamza.

The first letter of a verb is called

the

the

of a word.

The middle letter of a root word is

called

and the last letter in a root verb

is called.

So the first letter of any verb when

I'm looking it up in the dictionary is

going to be called.

When the fare of the kalimah

is hammed,

war starts to pay attention.

That's the first condition.

That the of the kalima

is hams. So again,

ata.

The

of

the word

is what?

Hamza.

So he says

excuse me.

The second condition

for why this happens, why this change happens

from

and other,

narrations is.

How do we understand this happening?

The change within the

not that it's reacting to hafs, so don't

don't get that confused.

He says,

The second condition is that the hams

has to be

meaning with sukoon.

Let's look.

Oh oh snap.

That hums is second.

You tell Hikmata.

You till Hek Mata. Oh,

that hums is Sakina.

And both of them are the of

a karima.

This is where this change is gonna happen.

So these two conditions

are very important.

That number 1,

hamz is at the beginning of the verb.

The

of the

The second is, it's second.

When that happens, he says,

That win the fair of a verb

is

and that hamz is in a state of

sukoon, meaning it has no vow,

then relates

it from nafah back to Sayidina Muhammad

as a letter of mud.

What are the mud letters? We learned this

in Tajweed season 1, man.

So let's

unpack this for a minute.

It was

but because the hamz

is fair of the the

the the verb

and because it is in a state of

sukoon,

it is exchanged

for a wow.

But there are also going to be times

where it's exchanged

for an alif

or a.

I need you to pay attention

right now.

What what determines is it gonna be?

Very

simple. What is a little brother

of waw,

dama?

What is the little brother of alif,

What is the little brother of

So

let's look now.

What's on that mean?

So the the hams is going to be

exchanged to the big brother of

It needs its big brother to work now.

Equals wow. If

I if I look at the word

hamza,

They're the hams

at the fa of the verb.

It's but

in front of it is a with.

And who is

big brother?

Needs help now. It can't work.

If I look at, for example,

If I look at that, I see there's

Kasra.

Who's the big brother of Kasra? Yeah.

So the Hamza Mufrad

is going to be exchanged

to the mud letter

of the vow that precedes it.

Again,

the hams al Mufrad

is going to be changed to the mud

letter

contingent

on the vow on the letter in front

of it.

If the letter in front of it

has,

then it's going to be exchanged

the hamzmufrad

to waw. If the letter in front of

it has a fatha, then

the Hamz Mufrad is going to be exchanged

for what?

Alif.

And if the letter has a Kesra

in front of the Hamzal Mufrad,

the Hamzal Mufrad if it is at the

beginning of the verb and if it is

in sukun,

it's going to be exchanged

to yeah.

Masha'Allah, one of the great Esheri sheikh's great

qari.

He says something really, really nice here.

He said that this can happen

after the following

letters.

He says,

For example, if you go to verse

283,

It was in half

Another example of that is going to be

with. So first is Hamzal Wasl, it's easy.

Second he says it can come after

Hamz al Mufrad second

can come after

verse

59.

It's Why?

Because

hamz is the fa of the verb.

It has sukun

and it's preceded by a letter with what?

And who's

big brother?

Another example in

verse number number

104.

Look at it in.

Why? Because

the of the verb is hamza

or hams

and it's here in the state of sukoon

and in front of it is a preceding

it is a with

so how you gonna read it?

Another example is in

verse

222.

Another example in Surat Al Maida verse number

88, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says

but of course in

Another example

to what to. Verse number 189.

But if we're reading it

with Another example is verse

number 55.

It's going to be

There you see it in a number of

examples,

and you're gonna have to practice reading this

and reading this to me and listening and

reading to others.

Again,

alhams hamzal Mufrad

or Alhamzal

Mufrad

is the isolated hamza.

Khalas or hamza as I said earlier.

When it is at the beginning of a

verb

and it is in the state of sukoon,

Warash narrates it being recited

on behalf

of Sidna Nafeh.

Back to the prophet

Harfa Magmubadella.

Right? So no may no no

minun.

And then we said that it can come

after al hamza

hamza

hamza

or after or

yeah or

or meem

or well or noon. And we gave a

few examples of this. You wanna write that

stuff down

so that you can remember it. What are

the lines of Imam Shaltabi's poem again?

When the of a verb is in sukoon.

Right? And it's hamza.

He relates it with.

This chapter is super, super important.

Next time, we're

going to, I think, spend 2 more,

halaka talking about the exceptions to this rule,

what's called. And then some of the words

that, you know, take this rule but are

a little different.

May Allah

bless you. Practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice,

practice, practice, practice.