بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
What is Tajweed?
In Arabic, the linguistic meaning of Tajweed is proficiency or improvement.
Its applied meaning is: to articulate the Arabic letters from their articulation points, and give the Arabic letters their rights and dues of characteristics.
Rights of the letters: the required characteristics that never leave the letters. They form the basic makeup of the letters.
Dues of the letters: the presented characteristics that are sometimes present and sometimes absent in the letters. They are conditional, meaning they depend on the letter's condition in order to be present or absent. [More will be explained in further detail in the topic of Sifaat Ul-Huroof.]
Why do we learn Tajweed?
The objective of Tajweed is to preserve the glorious Qur'an from mistakes during recitation. It helps us to improve our fluency in pronunciation when reciting the Qur'an. Allah says in the Qur'an:
{إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُونَ} 15:9
"It is certainly We Who have revealed the Reminder, and it is certainly We Who will preserve it."
Allah Himself will preserve the Qur'an so that it remains unchanged. By learning the rules of Tajweed, we learn how the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلّم recited the Qur'an thousands of years ago so that we may recite it just as he did, thus preserving the beauty of the Qur'an as it was when it was first sent down.
Allah سبحانه وتعالى taught the Angel Jibreel عليه السلام who then taught the
Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلّم to recite in 10 different ways. There are 10 qurraa' in total, and each qurraa' had two rawees- or two students- who each have their own riwayah.
One qurraa' was Imaam 'Aasim, and his students were Hafs and Shu'bah. In this series we will learn the riwayah of Hafs 'An 'Aasim.
About the Rawee:
His name was Hafs bin Sulayman bin Al-Magheerah Al-As'adee Al-Kufee, and he was called Abu Omar. He was born in the hijri year 90, and died in the hijri year 180. Hafs was the most knowledgeable in the recitation of 'Aasim.
[End of Lesson.]
Writer's note:
All praise and thanks is to Allah for the knowledge shared in this post, and may He forgive me for any mistake I might have made in it.
Alhamdulillah, I am eager to begin this series of Tajweed notes as blog posts, and I hope they will be beneficial and simple to understand for all. I will try to keep each post / lesson concise and easy to read, so some topics may be broken up into multiple posts.
Please feel free to leave a comment sharing your thoughts or concerns regarding this post! Barakallahu feekum,
والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
[Source: Simplified Tajweed Rules of the Qur'an compiled by Sheikha Marwa El Gindy, may Allah reward her always, Ameen.]
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