Merging
of the
saakinah
and tanween (Part 3)
Exceptions
to the rule of
(merging)
The
last two lessons (now located in the tidbit archives) described the merging of
the
saakinah
and tanween at the end of a word, with any of the letters of the group
at
the beginning of the next following word.
The
, or merging was further broken
down into two sub-groups:
1.
(idghaam
without a ghunnah).
2.
(Idghaam
with a ghunnah).
The
(idghaam without
a ghunnah) was described as occurring when the
saakinah
or tanween was at the end of a word and the first letter of the next word was
either a
or a
.
The second sub-group,
(idghaam
with a ghunnah) was determined to take place when the
saakinah
or tanween was at the end of a word and the first letter of the next word was
one of the letters of the group:
.
This
lesson explains a few cases in the Glorious Qur’an when there is a
saakinah
at the end of a word, and the next word starts with one of the letters of the
group
, but there is no
(merging),
instead the
is
recited clearly, or with an
.
The
first case is in aayah 27 of surah Al-Qiyaamah:
.
The second word of this aayah
ends with a
saakinah,
and the first letter of the next word is a
.
Under normal circumstances, there would be
, or an idghaam
without a ghunnah, since the
is
one of the letters that cause an
when
it follows a
saakinah.
In this aayah though, there is a brief breathless pause, known in
Arabic as a
between
the word
, and the
next word:
.
This short pause without a breath prevents the
saakinah
of the word
from
meeting with the
of
the following word,
.
There is therefore, no
, or
merging, of the
saakinah
with the
here.
If you look at the aayah, you will see a small letter
above
the word
.
This indicates to the reciter that there is a
.
The
next two examples involve the individual separate letters that start some
different surahs. These letters
are read as if each letter is written out, for example in surah Al-Qalam,
, the first letter
, is recited just as you
would read the word:
.
This word
ends
with a
saakinah.
If we were to join this individual letter, recited as the word
with
the next following word, we notice that the next word
starts with a
.
Usually if there is a
saakinah
followed by a
, the
rule
applies. In this case, however, Hafs ‘an ‘Aasim by the way of
Shatabiyyah, does not make an
, but instead
recites the
saakinah
clearly, then recites the next word. It
is preferred and most common, to stop on the end of the individual letter
, but continuing is allowed.
The same things said about this example can be said about the
saakinah
at the end of the individual separate letter
in the first two ayaat of surah
Ya-Seen:
.
The second separate letter of the first aayah is the letter
which
ends with a
saakinah.
The first word of the second aayah
starts
with the letter
(actually
the first word is the letter
).
If we were to join the first and second aayah together, there would be
a
saakinah
(the last letter of the word
) meeting with the letter
.
As the previous tidbit lesson stated, there normally would be
, but as above Hafs
‘An ‘Aasim by the way of Shatibiyyah, does not make an idghaam when
joining these two aayaat together; instead the
saakinah
of the word
is
recited clearly (
), then the next word, the
letter
is
read with the accompanying vowel.
These
are the exceptions to the idghaam rule for the
saakinah
and tanween. This ends the
explanation of the
rule
of the
saakinah
and tanween. The next tidbit,
insha’ Allah, will explain the
(changing) rule.
