Question
Assalamualikum
I am having difficulty pronouncing dwad. Can you please guide me .When I use
the correct articulation point I get the sound of zwad not dwad. The only
way I can get it out is by using my anterior tongue. I have also read the
common mistakes at your Web site and the link given for the pronunciation of
dwad in answered questions. When I hear it the sound is coming like a dwad.
What should I do?
JazakAllah-u-khairun
Answer
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi
wa barakatuh.
The letter
is one that takes a
lot dua’ and practice to perfect. If the sound is coming out like a “z” (zwad),
then the articulation point is not correct. If one uses the anterior or tip
portion of the tongue, the
has changed into a
, usually the student
doing this puts tafkheem on the
, so it does not sound
completely like a ,
but it is not the correct sound. The letter
also comes from the
tip of the tongue, so it seems like you may be using the tip along with or
instead of the sides of the tongue. There is no “w” sound in the,
so care should be taken that you do not put your mouth in a dhammah when
trying to pronounce the
, unless of course
there is a dhammah on the letter.
As stated in the question, there
are many previous questions and answers about the correct articulation point
for the letter. The
best thing is to find a teacher mastered in tajweed to listen to you and
look at you and correct you based on the sound and view of your mouth. Also
listening to recordings of mastered shuyookh such as Sheikh Al-Husary and
Sheikh Abudllah Bafsar should help. We will put some links here in
case you did not see all of them. The explanations given in the tidbit
lesson and answers to the questions in the links are complete in
description, but a good teacher is needed in addition to the complete
explanations you will find in the following links:
http://www.abouttajweed.com/sidetongue.htm
http://www.abouttajweed.com/270203.htm
http://www.abouttajweed.com/new_page_16.htm
http://www.abouttajweed.com/240805.htm
http://www.abouttajweed.com/101204.htm
http://www.abouttajweed.com/251002.htm
http://www.abouttajweed.com/10070102.htm
Wa iyyaakum. Wa assalaam alaikum.
