Stopping with
and What is Allowed With It
The definition of
in
applied tajweed is: An expression of circling the two lips, without
a sound after pronouncing the last letter saakin, indicating a dhamm.
It is necessary that there be a
space left between the two lips when executing
. It is important
that be after
making a sukoon on the last letter, without relaxation.
is seen visually and
not heard audibly, which is why only one endowed with eyesight can perceive
it. This is the opposite of 
which
is heard, but has nothing to do with eyesight.
is
allowed after a dhammah of a conjugated word, and a fixed dhammah of a
non-conjugated word, excluding all other vowels. It only is suitable for
words that end in a dhammah since it consists of making a dhammah of the two
lips. Sheikh Ash-Shaatibiyy, may Allah be Merciful to him, described
in
his prose,
, as:
The only place in the Qur'an where
is
required by Hafs 'an 'Aasim by the way of Shatibiyyah is when reading the word
with an idghaam of the two letter
.
Other than this specific word (when
reading with an idghaam) both and
are simply
allowed possible ways of stopping on words within the restrictions laid out
for each of them. It is infrequent that a reciter uses these ways of stopping
in normal recitation of Hafs 'an 'Aasim. Both of these ways of stopping need
to be learned from and practiced in front of a qualified teacher of the
Qur'an. These two ways of stopping are used more frequently in the qira'aat
to make clear the vowel on the last letter recited if it is a conjugated or
fixed dhammah for both or
or a conjugated
or fixed kasrah for only.
Students of ijaazah in the recitation of Hafs 'an 'Aasim would be required on
request by the certified sheikh giving the ijaazah, to stop on appropriate
words with these two allowable ways to make certain that the student of
ijaazah is accomplished in stopping with these two ways as well as
knowledgeable of the vowel on the last letter of the word stopped on. The
normal and by far the most common way of stopping on the end of a word is with
the pure sukoon (
), which will
be explained in the next few tidbit lessons, insha' Allah.
