Question
Assalamualikum
This is quite hard to explain, I hope you understand.
I have been studying tajweed for a long time but just recently we have been
told that the right way to pray is e.g. Jeeeeeeeeeem instead of jeeem how we
used to pray. What I’m trying to say is that letter like jeem, sawd, seen,
Qaf, kaf, etc., we have to lengthen for at least 5 seconds +. This is all new
to me and it doesn’t seem as everywhere else is praying that way. Could you
send me a link or explanation where I can hear a qari pray the makhraj? I
would prefer someone like Sheikh Abdul Rahman Sudais or Sheikh Saud Shuraim,
as they are Sheikhs who people will actually recognize.
Jazakallah.
May Allah reward you for your efforts.
Answer
Wa alaikum
assalaam wa rahamatu Allahi wa barakatuh.
It seems that
you are referring to lengthening at the end of a word where there is a medd
letter followed by one voweled letter, and we are stopping on this word.
In this case the last letter acquires a temporary or incidental sukoon,
and we lengthen the medd letter 2, 4, or 6 vowel counts.
This is called
.
The timing though is not measured in seconds, but in vowel counts.
The timing for each individual vowel count should be equal to the other
individual vowel counts, and lengthenings then based on this are equal to two,
four, or six vowel counts.
An example
would be in the second and third aayaat of surah Al-Faatihah:
The following
three different sound links demonstrate the three different allowed
lengthenings of this medd. The
reciters are all known reciters, but not the shuyookh requested. Please note
the slow reading for the every vowel in the four vowel count
lengthening. One may think that it is six vowel counts, but when you
hear his whole recitation and feel the vowel counts, it is actually four vowel
counts that he lengthens the medd.
Two
vowel count lengthening
Four
vowel count lengthening
Six
vowel count lengthening
Wa iyyaakum.
Wa assalaam alaikum wa rahmatu Allah.