Question

As Salam Aliykum:

We are studying surah Qiyamah ayat 12  and there is a tanween on the   it is
pronounced yuma ’ idhin-il. Is this a Tajweed rule or a rule of the Arabic language?
Can you expand on that combination.

Thank you

Answer

Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh.

The last two words of aayah 12 of surah Al-Qiyamah  have two saakin letters meeting, the first of the two saakin letters is the of the tanween; the second of the two saakin letters is the  of the definite article “the” or the of   .  In the Arabic language there is a prohibition of two saakin letters meeting and being pronounced between two words, so when this occurs the first letter is changed so that two saakin letters are not pronounced together.  In this case, the  saakinah of the tanween is read with a kasrah instead of the normal sukoon. 

There are five different rules for reading when two saakin letters meet between two words depending on what the first letter is: 

The first rules is:

1. If the first letter of the two saakin letters is a medd letter, then the medd is dropped in pronunciation and we read directly from the letter before the medd letter to the saakin letter that is the first pronounced letter of the next word.  Examples:

 

2.  If the first letter of the two saakin letters is a wow leeniyyah ( saakinah with a fat-h before it), then this  acquires a dhammah.  Examples:

3.  If the first saakin letter of the two is the plural , then this meem acquires a dhammah.  This is exemplified in:

 4. If the first saakin letter of the two is the  in the word , the   acquires a fat-h, as in:

 5.  In all other cases the first of the two saakin acquires a kasrah.  Examples of this are:

The last example in this section    is another tanween followed by a saakin letter, but in this case, the tanween is a fat-h tanween.   

This shows that this phenomenon can occur with all three types of tanweens, and the rule is the same for all, the  saakinah of the tanween is read with a kasrah, even though this kasrah is not written in the copy of the Qur’an. 

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