Question
Assalamu
Aleikum
I have a few questions regarding the hiding of the noon saakinah and tanween
1. When you wrote that our tongue, in order to hide the noon, should not touch
our teeth nor our gum, but moves close to the articulation point of the next
letter, does this mean that:
a) We should prolong the ghunnah accordingly and then read the letter that
follows (one of the 15 that causes the hiding).
or
b) Prolong the ghunnah with the sound of the letter that follows, and then
finally read that letter?
To be more specific, when I listen to surah Al Falaq verse 2 , for example,
the sheikh (Abdul Basit/tarteel recitation) who reads uses the ghunnah
accordingly. But in the ghunnah, I can also hear that the next letter that
will be read is "Shiin". So is that what you mean by "close to,
but not at, the articulation point of the next letter"?
May Allah help you understand the questions inshallah.
Ma Salam
Answer
Wa alaikum
assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh.
During the
of
the
saakinah and tanween, the tongue
moves close to the next letter and the same time, the ghunnah is heard.
Our tongue should not touch the articulation point of the next letter,
but should be very close to it. This
is the reason that often when the
is
pronounced properly, you can figure out the next letter, without it being
actually pronounced. This
positioning of the tongue close to the articulation point of the next letter
is done immediately and the tongue then holds its position at this area at the
same time the ghunnah is being held. The definition of the
is:
the pronunciation of a non-voweled letter stripped of any shaddah,
characterized somewhere between an
and
an
with
a ghunnah remaining on the first letter, in this case the
saakinah
and the tanween.
Looking at this
definition, we see that our tongue should not touch the articulation point of
the
,
otherwise it would be an
,
and should not touch the articulation point of the next letter, or it would be
an
.
The
example you heard then, is of a proper
of
the
saakinah,
where the tongue is near to be not exactly at the articulation point of the
next letter. Please click here
to hear the proper
of
the
in
the phrase:
.
To hear the sound of the
before
a letter of tafkheem at the beginning of surah Maryam
, namely the
saakinah
of the opening letter
followed
by the next letter
, click here.
The
sound of the
is
not the same for the two different samples, and that is because of the
positioning of the tongue close to the articulation point of the next letter
during the ghunnah and the sound of each letter is quite different. This
is the correct way to perform the
during
recitation.
Insha’ Allah
this makes things clearer.
Wa assalaam
alaikum wa rahmatu Allah.
