Question
Assalamu
Aleikum
I have a question regarding the vowel counts during the "mudood".
I understand that the number of counts should be determined by the speed of
the reader. However, I still cannot figure out how the counts are made. For
example, if a reader has to lengthen to six vowel counts the miim letter
"ma" in "as-sama’" (sky) that has a medd sign such as
verse 27 in Surat An Nâziat, is it done in this way : sa-ma ma ma ma ma ma
(of course in the mind of the reader)? Is that six vowels counts?
May Allah help you find an easy answer inshallah
Ma Salam
Answer
Wa alaikum
assalaam wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh.
The alif in the
word
, is held for four or five vowel counts
in the reading of Hafs ‘an ‘Aasim by the way of Ash-Shatibiyyah, as
.
The letter
is
not held. When stopping on this
word, it could be held for six vowel counts in lieu of
, but we would need
to be lengthening all of
six
vowel counts to do so when stopping on this word.
If you are
referring to the
and
its accompanying fat-hah as being the “ma”, then yes, the timing would be
equal to four of five of them, or if stopping on the word and lengthening all
of
six
vowel counts, then the length of the medd would be equal to six of the letter
with
its accompanying fat-hah.
When reading,
one has to have an internal meter for the length of a vowel, and based on this
length expand it proportionally for the appropriate number of vowel counts.
It would be quite distracting for the reciter to be thinking
ma-ma-ma-ma while trying to remember the aayaat and feel the meaning. It
may be at the beginning while learning the timings and getting used to them,
some sort of method may be needed to obtain the internal meter, but after this
is established it is usually second nature.
If the “ma”
was referring to the fat-hah on the
with
the alif
, then the medd would be the equivalent of
two of these in length if we were to lengthen
four
counts, because an alif preceded by a fat-hah is equal to two vowel counts in
length.
Wa assalaam
alaikum wa rahmatu Allah.
