Merging
of
the
saakinah
and tanween (Part 1)
The
first tidbit of this series (located in the tidbit archives) defined the
saakinah
and tanween and introduced the four different possible rules for these
letters:
1. 
(making clear)
2.
(merging)
3.
(changing)
4.
(hiding).
The
second tidbit (also located in the tidbit archives) described the first rule
pertaining to the
saakinah
and tanween, that of the
, or making it clear.
We now move on to the second of the four possible rules, that of
, or merging of the
saakinah
and tanween into the next following letter.
The
is
defined linguistically as merging or inserting.
Its
applied tajweed definition is: The meeting of a non-voweled letter with a
voweled letter, so that the two letters become one emphasized letter of the
second [letter] kind.
In
the idghaam of
saakinah and tanween, the
is
a saakin (non-voweled) letter on the end of a word, and the first letter of
the next word is one of the letters that cause the
to
merge or insert into it. The
letters that cause this
or
merging are all the letters in the group:
.
This means if a
saakinah
or tanween are at the end of a word, and the letter
or
, or
or
or
, or
is
the first letter of the next word, the
then
merges into this next letter.
There
are two subdivision of the
:
1.
which is a complete
merging, also known as
which
is merging without any ghunnah (nasalization).
2.
which
is an incomplete merging, also known as
, or idghaam with a
ghunnah (nasalization). .
The
or
complete merging of the
saakinah
or tanween into the first letter of the next word, is done when the
saakinah
or tanween are at the end of a word and are followed by a
or a
as
the first letter of the next word. As
stated, this is also known as
, or idghaam
without a ghunnah, since the
completely
merges in to the
or
and
there is no left over ghunnah from the
.
When there is this type of
, the
is
not pronounced whatsoever, instead the reciter proceeds from the letter before
the
or
the vowel that is with the tanween, directly to the first letter of the next
word which will have a shaddah (the little
) on it because of the
(merging).
Examples
of this are:
Click
here to listen to this aayah
In
this aayah, there is a tanween dhammah on the letter
(this first
has
nothing to do with the rule for the tanween here), followed by a
as
the first letter of the next word. The
reciter should go directly from the dhammah on the
which
is the last letter on the first word to the
that
is the first letter of the next word. The
idghaam or merging of the
saakinah
of the tanween is complete into the
which
becomes emphasized (doubled) as a result of this merging. This
doubling of the
is
represented by the shaddah mark, or little
over
the letter.
The
same process takes place whether the
saakinah
is actually a written
such
as the next following example, or an unwritten
in
the case of the tanween.
The
next tidbit lesson will, insha' Allah, continue with the idghaam lesson.
