Question
Assalamu
Aleikum
1. I would like to know: Do Muslims who have memorized the Quran in
either one or several qiraat (for example Hafs, Warsh, and As Soosiy all
together) have a schedule they use so that they will always remember their
qiraat and their memorization? In other words, how do they manage not to
forget?
2. Is Hamzah recitation read with pauses to introduce the hamzah letter? For
example, in Surah Qaf (50) on www.kitabullah.com, the sheikh (Mustafa Ismail)
recited the second verse and paused for approximately one second each time
before reading the hamzah letter that followed.
3. What is the defining characteristic of Khalaf reading?
May Allah reward you inshallah
Ma Salam
Answer
Wa alaikum
assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh.
1. They need to
have a consistent review schedule, and if they have learned more than on of
the qira’aat, usually do a khatm (reading the complete Qur’an) of one
qira’ah, then go on to the next, etc. The
only thing they need to be aware of, either from a mus-haf of
the qira’aat or from their memorization of the Shatibiyyah poem, is the
special words that may be different for a particular qiraa’ah.
Other than that, they apply the rules that have learned for that way of
reading and review their memorization. The
more they review, the better their memorization will be.
2. Masha’
Allah, you are observant. The
recitation of
, more
than
,
has some required and other allowed saktaat on a saakin letter on the end of
aword before a hamzah, not including medd letters.
A
is
a breathless pause less than the time taken for a stop.
A
after the
saakinah
of the
when
the first letter on the following noun is a hamzah, is required in the
recitation of
noun
(as in:
) as well as on the letter
of
the word
with
any ending vowel as long as we are not stopping on the word.
The reading of
has
two ways of reading these words above, one with a
on the saakin letter before a hamzah, the
second way, without a
.
In additional
to the above required
for
, there is also an allowed
when the last letter of a word is saakin
(except with a medd letter) and the first letter of the next word is a hamzah,
as in between the two following words:
.
The reading of
does
not have a
on
this combination.
3.
There are many things that are common in both of the two riwaayaat of
, such as the grand imaalah of alifaat
that are derived from the letter
, lengthening both
and
six
vowel counts, and changing the hamzah in the middle or end of a word when
stopping on that word.
The reading of
stands
out as different in that the ighaam of the
and
tanween into the letters
and
is
complete, and therefore without a ghunnah. This way of reading also has the
allowed mentioned saktaat in the previous question, and the word
with
or without the
throughout
the Qur’an is pronounced with a mixture of the letter
and
the letter
.
May
Allah reward you also.
Wa
assalaam alaikum wa rahmatu Allah
