Arabic → English transcript

I am here with Sheikh Saleh, may God protect him, God willing, from Abyan,

and we heard that, mashallah,

he is really excellent in the Holy Quran,

perfect in the articulation points of the letters, in tajwid and idgham.

Explain, explain to the viewers, Uncle Saleh, explain.

Come on, kids, come, listen, listen first.

Tajwid is the adornment of the Quran.

Linguistically, tajwid means improvement.

Improvement: you make something good, beautify it.

There is a hadith, may Allah bless it, that says in it:

“ Beautify the Quran with your voices.”

And a reciter of the Quran cannot beautify the Quran unless

he knows tajwid. Wonderful.

He must know the articulation points of the letters,

know the characteristics of the letters, and know

izhar, idgham, ikhfa, iqlab, and qalqalah,

the elevation of letters

and their lowering,

and voiced sounds and whispered sounds,

and the articulation points.

In general, they are five.

In general, the articulation points of the letters are five:

the oral cavity, the throat,

the tongue, the two lips, and the nasal passage. Mashallah.

That is in general.

In detail, the articulation points of the letters are seventeen, seventeen:

four in the throat,

and eight in the tongue, that is twelve, and four in the two lips, that is sixteen,

and the nasal passage has the articulation point of the ghunnah, the ghunnah.

It is a sound that a Quran reciter makes when he recites the Quran with proper

tajwid, mashallah.

When someone comes and says, for example,

with a shaddah on nun or a shaddah on mim, he says…

“ Indeed, We sent it down on the Night of Decree.”

Look,“ inna”— nasalization.

“ Anzalnahu”— ikhfa, ikhfa with nasalization, look.“ In laylatil- qadr”— qalqalah on

the dal here.

The qalqalah letters are five: qaf, ta, ba, jim, dal.

What do we write?“ Qutb jad” are the letters. How many are the ikhfa letters?

Fifteen:“ Sif dhu thana kam jad shakhson qad sama dam tuyyiban zid fi tuqa da’…”

“ Zaliman,” mashallah,

good for you, mashallah. The idgham letters are six, gathered in“ yarmalun.”

The izhar letters are six: hamzah and ha, ayn and ha,

ghayn and kha—“ Akhī hak‘ ilman…” “… hazahu ghayra khasir.”

The iqlab letters are one, and it is the letter ba.

The letter ba, the letter ba is the iqlab letter. It changes a sakin nun or tanwin

when you say…

“ Min ba‘di,”“ min la— ba‘d,” right or not?“ Min ba‘di,”“ halla bihadha al-

balad”— iqlab. The letter ba is the iqlab letter.

Mashallah.

The sakin nun and tanwin have four rules: idgham and ikhfa…

And the changing and the clear pronunciation of the silent nūn and tanwīn,

and for mīm there are three rules

Hiding and merging

when it meets its like And showing what has nothing to do with it in changing,

because the silent nūn Is

the one that has the letter of changing, mā shā’ Allāh, well done

The silent mīm is merged when it meets its like

It is merged so that the two letters become one doubled letter,

for example you say,“ wa mā bikum min ni‘matin fa- min Allāh”

“ Wa mā bikum min ni‘mah”

We have“ bikum min”— two mīms— and“ min ni‘mah”— two nūns— so they are

merged The mīm

with the mīm and the nūn with the nūn,“ wa mā bikum min

ni‘matin fa- min Allāh” is merged When it meets its like

And the silent nūn and tanwīn are hidden with the fifteen letters

And the silent nūn and tanwīn are made clear with the six letters

Look, and the silent nūn and tanwīn are changed to a bā’ with bā’

And this is a vast science, and a person cannot

fully grasp it except By applying it with recitation, mā shā’ Allāh, well done,

mā shā’ Allāh, well done, mā shā’ Allāh, well done, with recitation

You recite“‘ Amma yatasa’alūn”

“‘ Am”— nasal sound—“‘

am”— its articulation point is the nasal passage, the nasal sound—“‘ am yatasa’al…”

Connected prolongation— the prolongations are fourteen kinds of prolongation

Mashallah, I go, pray, and come back