12.
The straight, the imaalah, and the in between
Qaloon reads all words in the Qur’an with , or no imaalah at all, except for the word
in aayah 109 of surah At-Tawbah





There are some circumstantial rules as to the reading of the word with
. If one is reading the riwaayah of Qaloon with two vowel counts (
) of
and not making
, then the the word
is read with taqleel. If one is reading with two vowel counts of
and making
, the word
is read with
(no imaalah at all). If one is reading
with four counts and putting a sukoon on the plural meem when reading continuously (not making
) then the word
is read without any imaalah (
); if however one is reading
with four vowel counts and lengthening a dhammah on the plural meem when continuing (making
), then the word
is read with
.
The following chart summarizes the circumstances under which the word is read with
in the riwaayah of Qaloon: