The
Saakinah
Rules Part 2
Merging
(
) of the
saakinah
As
a review, the linguistic definition of
is: merging, insertion.
The
applied tajweed definition is: The meeting of a saakinah letter with a
voweled letter so that the two letters become one emphasized letter of the
second type (of letter).
The
of
the
saakinah
occurs only with one letter: another
.
Whenever a saakinah letter comes before a voweled letter of the same
articulation point and characteristics, in other words the same exact letter,
there is merging of the saakinah letter into the second letter. This merging
is called
, or the
small merging of two of the same. The
“small” refers to the first letter of the
being
saakin and the second having a vowel.
If there is a
saakinah followed immediately by a
with a vowel in the in the same word or between two words, we
are then required to insert the
saakinah into the
with a vowel, which then acquires a shaddah. There is a ghunnah then on the
with
a shaddah. The only time
there is an
of
a
into
another in one word is in the case of the individual separate letters that
start some surahs. The group of
letters is considered one word. In
other words,
is
considered one word, so the
saakinah
at the end of the written out letter
merges
into the voweled
which is the first letter of the written out letter
.
Outside of the individual separate letters at the beginning of some
surahs, the
of
the
saakinah
into a voweled
takes place between two words.
Examples
Click
here to listen to the aayah
In
the above aayah, there are two examples of merging of the
saakinah
into a voweled
.
In the first example, the second word of the aayah ends with a
saakinah, and the word immediately following,
has
a voweled
as
its first letter. The
saakinah then merges into the voweled
which then acquires a shaddah, and there is an accompanying
ghunnah for a period of time that should be learned from a qualified Qur’an
teacher. What was said about the
first example, applies to the second, both of which are denoted by red
letters.
Another
example is found in aayah 20 of surah Al-Burooj.
Please note the idghaam of the
saakinah
into the voweled
is
shown in red letters:
