Rules of Recitation

بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم

What follows are explanations of the Tajweed rules in the English language. May Allaah accept this effort and benefit the readers by it. Wal-hamdulillaahi Rabbil-`Aalameen was-salaatu was-sallam `alaa Muhammadin, aameen.

TYPES OF STOPS

(Types of Stops,The Moderate Pause, The Cutting and the Beginning)

TYPES OF HAMZAHS

(Disjunctive Hamzah, Conjunctive Hamzah, Vowelling the Conjunctive Hamzah)

THE VIBRATION (AL-QALQALAH)

(Degrees of Qalqalah)

THE NOON AND NUNNATION

(Four Rules of Saakin Noon and Tanween - Al-Iqlaab, Al-Idghaam (with and without ghunnah), Al-Idhhaar, Al-Ikhfaa')

THE NOON AND THE MEEM

THE NON-VOWELLED MEEM

(Labial Manifestation, Labial Concealment, Small Assimilation of Identical Letters)

THE NON-VOWELLED LAAM

(The Laam of the Definite Article, The Laam of the Verb, The Laam of the Particle)

TYPES OF LENGTHENING

(Normal Lengthening (Madd Tabee`ee), Derived Lengthening (Madd Far`ee), Letters that Open the Suwar, Weighted Compulsory Lengthening - in letters and words, Lightened Compulsory Lengthening - in letters and words)

MEETING OF TWO NON-VOWELLED LETTERS

(Deleting the First, Vowelling the First)

HEAVINESS / LIGHTNESS

(Tafkheem (Heaviness), Degrees of Heaviness - according to position – Alif, Laam & Raa, Tarqeeq (Lightness))

MEETING OF LETTERS

(Identical Letters, Proximate Letters, Similar Letters,Distanced Letters)