Question
Can all the Arabic letters have med laaz
harfi?
Answer
Only the
letters
have the both the condition of being a
medd laazim harf (read as if it is three letters, the middle letter being either
an alif or a lengthened ya’), and beginning some of the surahs of the Qur’an.
Other letters may be read as three letters, the middle letter being an
alif or a lengthened ya’, but Allah, the Exalted, did not start any of the
surahs in the Glorious Qur’an with these other letters.
A note about the letter
.
This
letter when pictured as a single identity is written out as:
The
second letter is a ya’, but the vowel on the letter preceeding it is a
fat-hah.
The is one of the separated letters in the beginning of surah Maryam
and surah
Ash-shooraa.
Because the middle letter is a leen letter
(ya’ saakinah preceded by a fat-hah) and
not a medd letter, it can be lengthened 4 or 6 counts, by the way of recitation
of Hafs ‘an Aasim by the way of Shatibiyyah.
This is not medd al-leen, but a follower of it.