Assalamalikum, I know I should probably be writing this on my islamic blog but I want a quicker answer insha'allah. So Im learning a new surah with the help of the ImaanStar program and have come to a question, alhamdulillah my recognisation of letters is improving and I can generally see the letters being spoke. Although ask me the other way around and I probably would come to a brick wall but Allahu alim. Anyways, the first verse (yes Im still stuck on the first verse)
The transliteration on the site says: Alhakumu alttakathuru
The recitor says: Alha kumu ta kathu
Can anyone help?? I see the al (click on the pic if you need it bigger or refer to your own arabic quran) and I see the 'ru' at the end... am I just not hearing him?? ummah.. help please :D
Assalaamu alaikum
ReplyDeleteThe recitor will be stopping on the final 'r' so you should be hearing (listen more closely) 'takaathuR'. If he doesn't join the 1st and 2nd verse together then he will omit that last vowel sound. Does that help? :D
Ah yes and the missing 'al'
ReplyDeleteAlhakumu alttakathuru
Alha kumu ta kathu
There is a little symbol over the al of al takaathur - a bit like an infinity sign - this shows assimilation as the 'ta' is one of the 'sun letters' so you say at-takathur and not al-takathur.
Furthermore since the vowel before al takaathur is 'u' (the end of haakumu) then you run the two words together using the 'u' vowel.
Ma sha Aallah Umm Ibrahim!!! How are you doing with it now Ammena?
ReplyDeletehmm.. well i sort of decided to go with what i felt but now reading back im confused... should i be saying it like the 2nd line Umm Ibs wrote? if so.. doh!! Ive just finished learning the 5th verse masha'allah, maybe now I should go over and redo the ones I thought I knew best at *blush* i wish one of u girls had this program, then u could tell me if its right :P JazakAllah khair
ReplyDeleteI just found your blog today. Thanks for choosing to "follow" my blog. Did you get the explanation for this yet? There are a lot of rules for how to recite the qur'an correctly, called tajweed. Some of the letters are changed according to what other letters are near them. Tour question involves 3 different rules.
ReplyDeleteWhen an alif has a symbol on top of it that looks like a little letter "saad" without the tail (it's called hamzah al-wasl) then that letter will be pronounced like the vowel that comes before it. (Or I guess you could say it is not pronounced at all) But if the word is at the beginning or by itself, then you pronounce it as an "A" sound. There is another hamza you will see on top of some alifs, shaped like the top of the letter 'ayn. If there is a fatha above it, then it is pronounced "A", if there is a dumma over it, it is like a "U", and if it is under the letter then it has a kesra and is pronounced "I". (an example of this is the word "iman." it begins with an alif. If a word starts with what we would call a vowel sound in English, they use an alif in Arabic.)
The second rule is about the "sun" and "moon" letters. When the alif laam (meaning "the") comes before a moon letter, the Laam is pronounced. But if it comes before a "sun" letter like the taa', then the sun letter is pronounced double it's length, and you don't hear the laam's sound. Sort of like the "sun" is strong and over powers the Laam. In the qur'an when there is a sun letter following the alif laam, there will be a shedda (like a little "W") over the sun letter to you will know, but if you want to learn them, they are here.
Ok, third rule. When you stop at the end of a word, you don't pronounce the short vowel at the end or a tanween, but if you continue to the next word you pronounce it according to whatever rule may apply.
Not to scare you, but there are a ton of rules that apply. I haven't come close to getting them all, but these I know. The only problem I have with those transliterations is that they never tell you when to stop, but they put the ending vowel sounds without telling you if they stop or not. Did that make sense? There are special Qur'ans printed with the letters in different colors to let you know that a special rule applies. If you would like to see one, look here. The 2 red ones have the colored letters, and the big one has a transliteration and translation. You may have to click "book type" to see all the types of Qur'ans. That's a handy site for those times when you want to look something up or read along with a recording and you can't touch.
Hope I helped. Hope I didn't scare you, lol. The more you learn the more you realize you need to learn.