Question

Could you please help me, insha Allah, on how to stop and start in reading the following aayah from surah Al Ahzaab:

(Indeed the men who surrender unto Allah, and the women who surrender, and the men who believe and the women who believe, and the men who obey and the women who obey, and the truthful men and the truthful women, and the men who persevere (in righteousness) and the women who persevere, and the men who are humble and the women who are humble, and the men who give alms and the women who give alms, and the men who fast and the women who fast, and the men who guard their modesty and the women who guard (their modesty), and the men who remember Allah much and the women who remember - Allah hath prepared for them forgiveness and a vast reward).

May Allah reward you.

Answer

And may Allah reward you and all Muslims.

This aayah is one that is a challenge to almost everyone’s breath control.  It is pretty much impossible to complete the meaning to a grammatically complete stop, so what has to be done is that the aayah is read until we feel our breath running out, and we stop on the word we are on, for example stopping on .  We then take a breath and need to repeat the word we just said, or two words if we stop on the second of one of the dual phrases for male and female, and go on.  If we stopping on , we would then start up again , and continuing on until our breath runs out again, then repeat the process again of repeating the word we stopped on or two words of the dual combination, then continuing on until the end of the aayah.