Merging of the
saakinah
and tanween (Part 2)
Idghaam
with a ghunnah
This
is the fourth lesson concerning the
saakinah
and tanween. The previous lessons
are located in the tidbit archives.
In
all the rules concerning the
saakinah
and tanween, the letter that immediately follows the
is
what determines which rule is applied. The
last lesson stated that when the
saakinah or tanween (the
tanween is only at the end of a word) is at the end of a word, and the first
letter of the next word is one of the letters in the group:
the
then
merges into the next letter. The
idghaam, or merging of the
saakinah
and tanween is further divided into two groups,
(idghaam
with a ghunnah) and
(idghaam
without a ghunnah). Ghunnah means
nasalization. The last lesson
outlined the sub-group of
which
occurs when the
saakinah
or tanween is followed by either a
or
.
This
lesson will explain the other idghaam sub-group, that of
,
or idghaam (merging) with a ghunnah. If
we look at the letters that cause idghaam, or merging of the
saakinah
and tanween, that being the letters in the group
, and remove the letters of
the idghaam without a ghunnah group, the
and
, we have left four letters, the
,
,
, and
, or if we put them in a
word, the letters of the word:
.
When there is a
saakinah
or tanween at the end of a word, and the first letter of the next word is one
of the four letters in the group
, the
merges
into the next letter, with a prolonged nasalization, or ghunnah accompanying
this merging. In the case of the
saakinah or tanween merging
with the
or
the
ghunnah is a left over from the
, since this characteristic
is not present in these two letters, and the merging is
(an
incomplete merging), since the characteristic of the ghunnah of the
remained.
In the case of the
saakinah
or tanween merging with the
or
, the
majority of scholars agree that this is a complete merging, and the ghunnah
that is heard is from the
or
the
,now
with a shaddah that the
saakinah
or tanween has merged into.
Examples
of
:
In
this above aayah, there are two occurrences of
,
the first one with a
saakinah
at the end of the first word of the aayah.
This
is
followed by a
, which is the first word of
the next word. The
as
far as an articulating letter is not pronounced, instead we directly go from
the letter before the
, which is a
, to the
, and hold the sound with
an accompanying ghunnah, or nasalization, which is a left over characteristic
of the
.
The second occurrence of idghaam in this aayah is in the last two
words. The next to the last word
, ends with a tanween (which, as we know, is vowel, plus a
saakinah),
and the first letter of the next following word is a
.
The
of
the tanween then merges into the
with
an accompanying ghunnah, or nasalization, which is left over from the
.
Other
examples of
are:
The
idghaam of the
saakinah
and tanween can only occur between two words.
If there is a
saakinah
in the middle of a word followed by one of the idghaam letters, there is no
merging, instead the
is
pronounced clearly
(with
an
).
In the Glorious Qur’an this only occurs with the
saakinah
followed by a
or
a
, and
in only four words.
This
is called:
(absolute
clearness).
In
the next lesson, insha’ Allah, we will cover
exceptions to the idghaam rule.
