The
Saakinah
Rules Part 1
The
definition of the
saakinah:
It is a
free from any vowel, and which has a fixed sukoon when
continuing reading and when stopping.
This
excludes the
that
was originally without a vowel, but obtained one because the next letter
also had a sukoon. In the
Arabic language it is not allowed to have two non-voweled letters next to
each other; one will automatically obtain a vowel to eliminate this problem.
The
saakinah can be in the middle of a word or at the end of a
word. It can be in a
noun, a verb, or a preposition or particle.
Included
in the
saakinah rules is
(the meem of plurality). A saakinah at the end of
a word can sometimes, but not always indicate a plural, such as the
possessive “their” or “your” or “them”, such as
which means: for you plural, or
,
which means, “they have”.
The saakinah
has three possible rules:
1.
Hiding
2.
Merging
3.
Clear
The
Oral Hiding
Its
linguistic definition: hidden
Its
applied definition: The
pronunciation of a non-voweled letter, stripped of any “shaddah”,
characterized as between clear
(
) and merged (
), with the ghunnah
remaining on the first letter, which is in this case the
.
Its
letters: It has one
letter which is the
.
If
a
is
followed immediately by a
,
and this only occurs between two words, we then close our lips
for the
with an accompanying ghunnah.
This is called
.
It is called
because
the
has
the characteristic of the
, meaning in between
and
since
the lips are close with the letter
, then
separate with the letter
.
It is called
because
the
and is articulated from the two lips.
A lip in Arabic is
,
but the word
is
also used for “oral”. could
be translated as “the oral hiding”.
Examples:
The
last letter of the second word of this aayah immediately above is a
saakinah; the first
letter of the next word is a
therefore
(oral
hiding)
rule
is applied.
The lips close on with the
the
sound is held with a ghunnah for the appropriate period of time, then the
lips separate with the letter
.
Click
here to listen to this aayah
In
this aayah, the last letter of the first word is a
saakinah, and the first letter of the next
word is a
, so
(oral
hiding) rule is applied as explained above.
The
next tidbit lesson will, insha’ Allah continue with the other
saakinah
rules.
