The 5 little points of Tajweed
August 20th, 2009 by WaleedNote from listening to Wisam Sharrief-
Keep these 5 points in mind when you recite Quran:
- Letters can be heavy or light
- Letters live somewhere (throat, lips, mouth)
- This Cat Feels Awfully Cool
- What gets stretched & how much (north/south – east/west)
- Don’t bounce what don’t need to bounce
September 1st, 2009 at 7:16 pm
salaams,
I get 1,2,4 and 5 – but what does 3 mean..?
September 1st, 2009 at 8:51 pm
“This Cat Feels Awfully Cool” – this phrase is to help us emulate the dammah, kasrah, fat’tah.
Cat = Fat’tah
Feels = Kasrah
Cool = Dammah
Awfully = the heavy letters.
We were told to observe the way we said each word in normal (north american accent) language and to emulate similar sounds for fat’tah, kasrah & dammah.
Please note that this is only for beginners – advanced students will clearly not need such aids and be reading/understanding directly from arabic. Also note that the pronunciation works for American English accents largely.
And Allah (SWT) knows best.
September 5th, 2009 at 3:53 am
Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing. It’ll be useful to use these when teaching tajweed rules to kids.
JazakAllaah khair.