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Question We
have learned that there are different levels of reading in the reading of the
Holy Qur'an; a slow, a medium and a quicker way. Would the reading of
Sheikh Abdullah Basfar in his "muallim" (teaching) tapes be an
example of the slow way? Then he has a reading taken from his reading in
prayer I think which is quicker. Would that be the medium way? If
possible could you give examples of the different ways? Answer There
are three levels of speed in reciting the Qur’an.
The first is called
which is reading the Qur'an
slowly and with serenity while pondering the meaning and observing the tajweed
rules, giving each letter its rights as to characteristics and articulation
points, lengthening the letters of madd, which must be lengthened, and not
lengthening that which is not supposed to be lengthened.
It is to recite the heavy letters heavy and the light letters light (
and
)
as required by the tajweed rules.
This is the best level of reading. Another
level of reading is called
, and it is a swift
method of reading the Qur'an with observation of the rules of tajweed.
The reader then must be careful not to cut off the lengthened letters,
not to do away with the ghunnah, and not to shorten the vowels to the point
that the reading is not correct. The
third level of reading is called
It
is reading at a medium level of speed between the two above levels, while
preserving and observing the rules of tajweed. The
reading of Sheikh Basfar in his mu’allim (teaching) tapes would be an
example of the tahqeeq, or slowest way of recitation.
The recitation from his prayer tends to be faster than
the
medium way, more like .
It
would have been ideal for us to provide examples of the same reciter for the
three different levels of recitation, but we have to use a different reciter
for each level. The first, is an example of reciting with . Click
here to listen to this type of recitation The second, that of . May we add that it was quite difficult to find a good example of this speed of recitation, and some may consider it the first level ( ) instead of . Click here to listen to this type of recitation The last example is of . |