11.
The straight, the imaalah, and the in
between (part one)
A.
Warsh has two allowed ways of reading
.
The definition of
is every alif that is
changed over from a
, or
originated from a , or was written with
,
no matter what the make up
(wazan)or
“weight” of the word, whether it be as :
or as in:
.
Any word that is in the double form
that takes a
in the basic
make up of the word, and any verb that has a
when it is put in the first person
singular past tense will be considered
. It
requires knowledge of the Arabic language to know whether a word contains
or
not, especially when written as an alif. Al-hamdu lillah, for those
who are not sure, there are many reference books and the mushaf al-qira'aat
that explain which words have
.
The rules
for
at the end of a word are only
applied if the letter following in the next word is not saakin (when reading in continuum).
When stopping on a word that ends in
we can stop with either of the two allowed ways for Warsh, which are
and
and we do
not consider the following word, since it is not being read. For example in
the phrase:
the two allowed ways of reading
with
or
are only when stopping on
;
when continuing reading, the alif is not pronounced.
The first of the two allowed ways for Warsh in
is reading the alif
with “straightness” or with
, and the second
allowed way is reading with
.
is half way in between
and the
straight alif. In
the alif is read with 50% of
the sound being a
and 50% being an alif. In
the alif is read with the sound of 75% alif and 25%
. Any word that is in the double form that
takes a
in the basic
make up of the word, and any verb that has a
when it is put in the first person
singular past tense is considered
and can be read with
or
on the
.
Warsh has both allowed ways of reading for any letter
that is either
or any alifaat read with
by both Imam Hamzah and Imam
Al-Kisaa’ee except for four words:
,
,
,
these four words are read by Warsh with
only.
If there is a
and a word with
in it in one phrase, the following ways of
reading are allowed or required: If we read
with two
vowel counts, we can only read with
(a straight alif with no
whatsoever) on . If we read
with four vowel counts we can only read with
on
.
If however, we read
with six vowel counts, we
then can read with either
or
on
.
An example of a phrase containing both
and
is:
.
The same relationship holds true if
precedes . If we recite
with
then we can lengthen
two or six vowel counts, and if we recite
with
, then we can recite
with four or six vowel counts.
An example of this is found in the following aayah: 
The relationship of
with 
is not one of
restriction, so both ways of each are allowed with the other. There would
then be four possible ways of reading an aayah or phrase that had both
and
;
with four or six vowel counts of
and
with four or six vowel counts of
.
In an aayah with all three occurrences,
meaning ,
,
and all are present in the phrase or
aayah, there would be six possible ways of reciting
the aayah. The first being two vowel counts for
, four vowel counts for
, and
for .
The second allowed way would be: four
vowel counts for
, four for
,
and
on
. The third allowed way would be: six vowel counts for
,four
for
, and
for . The fourth allowed way would be: six vowel
counts for
,
six vowel counts for
, and
الفتح
for . The fifth allowed way would be six vowel
counts for , four vowel counts for
ا, and
for
; and the last allowed way would be six vowel
counts for , six vowel counts for
, and
for
. Examples of some aayaat
with all three occurrences are:
Insha' Allah next lesson we will continue with this
chapter
