Comments on: The 5 little points of Tajweed http://waleedjameel.com/blog/2009/08/the-5-little-points-of-tajweed/ content is king Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:00:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Traveller http://waleedjameel.com/blog/2009/08/the-5-little-points-of-tajweed/comment-page-1/#comment-20107 Traveller Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:53:02 +0000 http://waleedjameel.com/blog/?p=576#comment-20107 Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing. It'll be useful to use these when teaching tajweed rules to kids. JazakAllaah khair. Interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing. It’ll be useful to use these when teaching tajweed rules to kids.

JazakAllaah khair.

]]> By: Waleed http://waleedjameel.com/blog/2009/08/the-5-little-points-of-tajweed/comment-page-1/#comment-20103 Waleed Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:51:33 +0000 http://waleedjameel.com/blog/?p=576#comment-20103 "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. “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.

]]> By: Traveller http://waleedjameel.com/blog/2009/08/the-5-little-points-of-tajweed/comment-page-1/#comment-20102 Traveller Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:16:55 +0000 http://waleedjameel.com/blog/?p=576#comment-20102 salaams, I get 1,2,4 and 5 - but what does 3 mean..? salaams,

I get 1,2,4 and 5 – but what does 3 mean..?

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