What’s your favourite childhood game? Connecting puzzles, connect-a-four, or practicing the connected obligatory prolongation? Al-Madd Al-Waajib Al-Mutasil: is the obligatory prolongation. It is prolonged for either four or five counts (your choice of either). If you choose to prolong for four counts, then this must remain consistent throughout your recitation. Likewise is if you chose…
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Al-Madd Al-Tabee’ee
In the same way we sometimes wished that our holiday period can be a little longer, your tongue, ears and some letters themselves wish that they’re said for a little longer. ‘Why?’, you may think… Well, how obscure to the ear is it to hear someone say a dammah instead of a waaw? And how…
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I felt there was a need to put up this page for people who may not be entirely familiar with the way this site functions. Here’s a quick and brief guide on what to look for and what to expect. Main heading: as the main headings of the page are mostly transliterated, I have attempted…
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One of the largest sections of Tajweed is Ahkaam Al-Madd. There are 9 different types of madd, with two further splitting into five segments, therefore making the total of 13. To help me remember these mudood (plural of madd), I drew up a table with the name of each madd, the length of it in…
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