Question

Assalamualaikum wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh,

 

I have the following questions:

 

1. In surah Al-Maa'idah ayah 28, the word "basaTta" , there is a Ta saakinah before Ta maftuuhah, is this considered Idgham mutajaanisain (it is in one word)?

 

2. Is it true that when there is a wau majmu' or alif majmu' and after that alif lam qamariah we have to read 2 counts first and then read join with the alif lam? For example, the word "wadkhuluu-lbaaba" in Al-Baqarah : 58, and the word "faaf'aluu"  in Al-Baqarah:68.

 

3. I would like to know about giving zaman for Rakhawah and Tawassut letters. Does it vary among the readers or they have to be the same strength? For example some people have very soft and low pitch voice, when they come across hams letters with a sukoon, do they have to pronounce the same strength as the reader who has high pitch voice? I hope you can understand what I mean here because sometimes the teacher will say to the student she didn't give zaman (proper timing) while actually the students gave but it was not distinguished because of the soft voice.

 

JazakumuAllah khairan katheera.

 

Answer

Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh.

1.  There is an idghaam mutajaanisayn in the word  (the into the ) , but it is an incomplete merging, meaning the characteristic of  remains on the  but none of the other characteristics of the  remain. 

 

2.  If there is a saakin as the first pronounced letter in a word after a medd letter as the last letter of the previous word, the medd is dropped. This is due to the Arabic rule of not allowing two saakin letters to meet between two words.  So in the case of the first example in the question, , there is a lengthened  indicating a plural, followed by a  ta'reef as the first pronounced letter (when reading the two words together) in the next word;  we drop the lengthened   in pronunciation and do not lengthen it two vowel counts.  The alif that follows this is called alif at-tafreeq, or separating alif, that is written after the plural wow to indicate the end of a word.  This alif is never pronounced in any state, neither when continuing or stopping, it is not part of recitation at all. 
The second example in the question,  has a plural  at the end of the word, but the first pronounced letter in the next word has a vowel, and is not saakin, so the lengthened   is read with two vowel counts.  If there were a saakin letter, whether alif laam ta'reef or any other saakin letter as the first letter of the next word, the lengthened  would then be dropped in pronunciation, as in: . 

 

3.  The timing of the rakhaawah and tawassut letters when they are saakinah, should be the same for any two readers if they are reciting at the same speed, the volume of the reader though, should be according to their normal recitation.  In other words, the reader should not suddenly increase their volume when they come to a saakin letter that has the characteristic of rakhaawah, but should give it the proper timing.  It is sometimes required that a student with a soft voice move closer to the teacher so that the teacher can hear the recitation properly.  It is a good idea for teachers to regularly bring the students directly in front of them to see if there are any mistakes not heard at the normal distance in a class situation; this is for all students no matter what their reading volume may be. 

Wa iyyakum wa-l-muslimeen