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Tajweed Lesson 6: The Rules of Noon Saakinah & Tanween #1 [Idhaar Halqi]

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

 

What is a noon saakinah?


  • A noon saakinah is any noon with a visible sukoon [نْ] or that is empty [ن]. It is always pronounced, in continuing or in stopping.

For example, in the word [عَنْ] we will pronounce the noon saakinah clearly whether we stop at this word, or continue onto the next word.


What is a tanween?


The tanween are three kinds: the tanween fat-ha or double fat-ha, the tanween dammah or double dammah, and the tanween kasrah or double kasrah.


باً بٌ بٍ


The tanween is also known as an extra noon saakinah, because it is read as a noon saakinah, but it is not written like one.

For example, we will read the three letters above as: [بَنْ، بُنْ، بِنْ]


  • The tanween is an extra noon saakinah that is not written, but pronounced. If we were to stop on a word that has tanween on its last letter, we would not pronounce the tanween, and instead read it with sukoon.

For example: We will read the word [عَلِيمٌ] as [عَلِيمُنْ] in continuing.

In stopping, we will read it as [عَلِيمْ] by pronouncing the meem with a sukoon and omitting the tanween dammah.

From this we can understand that the noon saakinah and tanween are both the letter noon [ن] with a sukoon.

The only difference is that we cannot see this written noon for the tanween.


 

Idhaar Halqi


The Rules of Noon Saakinah & Tanween are 4. The first is called Idhaar Halqi.


  • Idhaar [إظهار]: means clear or obvious linguistically.


In this rule, to make Idhaar means to pronounce the noon saakinah or tanween clearly and without any 2 counts of ghunnah elongation.


Halqi [حلقي] means "of/from the throat", and this is because this rule is due to the 6 throat letters.


  • Idhaar Halqi's letters [the throat letters]: ء ه ، ع ح ، غ خ


  • Its rule: Whenever a noon saakinah or tanween is followed by a halqi letter, we will make Idhaar Halqi by pronouncing the noon clearly without 2 counts of ghunnah elongation.



Note: Whenever you see a noon saakinah or a tanween, you must look at the letter coming directly after it to determine which rule it belongs to.

[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.


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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