Characteristics
of Letters
Part
2
Characteristics
that have opposites
As
stated in the introduction to the characteristics tidbit, now located in
the tidbit archives, there are five pairs of opposite characteristics, and
every letter in the Arabic language has at least five characteristics, one
of each of the pairs. No
letter can have both of the opposite characteristics.
The first pair of opposites will be discussed in this lesson.
The
Whisper, defined linguistically as: the concealment
The
applied definition of this characteristic is:
Running on of breath when pronouncing the letter due to
weakness in its origin, when weakening reliance on the letter at its
articulation point of origin.
This
means that when any of the letters that have the characteristic of
, there is a flow of breath
as it is pronounced. This
weakens the letter as running of breath then weakens the strict reliance
on the articulation point.
The
letters that have this characteristic are the letters found in the group:
.
All of these 10 letters are pronounced with a running of breath.
One letter to note in
this group is the letter
.
If pronounced like the “f” in English, there will not be the
needed air flow. The English
“f” is articulated from the edges of the two upper front teeth and
middle of the lower lip. The
Arabic
has
the same articulation point, but the part of the lip used is more towards
the inside. If a slight
adjustment is made in the placement of the two front teeth on the lip, the
air flow will then occur and the proper sound for the
which
includes air flow will be heard, insha’ Allah.
The
two letters
have
running of the breath when they are pronounced, but they also have another
characteristic of imprisonment of sound (not breath, but sound).
We will discuss how to employ both these characteristics when we
discuss the imprisonment of sound in the next tidbit lesson.
The
opposite of
is
.
is
defined linguistically as: the apparent.
.
The
applied definition in tajweed of
is:
Imprisonment of running on of breath when pronouncing a letter due
to strength
in its origin when
strengthening reliance on it at its articulation point.
We
can see then that the imprisonment of the running of breath is a strong
characteristic since the letter that does not have breath running with it,
relies on the articulation point more than one that does.
The
letters that have
are
all the rest of the Arabic letters that do not have
.
Letter
to be cautious with to make sure there is imprisonment of breath are:
-
this characteristic of imprisonment of breath is the only difference
between
(which
has
) and
.
If the breath is allowed to run with the
it
will either sound exactly like a
, or
its articulation point will move up as it weakens the reliance on the true
articulation point of this letter which is the highest part of the throat.
and
need
practice to pronounce without the breath running, but at the same time,
the sound running (
), which will be
discussed next lesson, insha’ Allah).
Chart
of these two opposite characteristics:
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Linguistic definition:
Concealment
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Linguistic definition:
Apparent
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Its
applied tajweed definition: Running on
of breath when pronouncing the letter due to weakness in its origin,
when weakening reliance on the letter at its articulation point of
origin.
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Its applied tajweed definition:
Imprisonment of running on of breath when pronouncing a letter
due to strength in its origin when strengthening reliance on it at its
articulation point.
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Its Letters:
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Its letters: The rest of the
Arabic alphabet
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