The Science of Tagweed - Lesson 1

FIRST LEVEL

األطفال والغلمان في تجويد تحفة

القرآن

What Is Tajweed?

Tajweed simply means to recite every letter correctly i.e. from its proper origin

of pronunciation together with the attribute of its accompanying letters.

in English: Phone X fone

Arabic: Heart X Dog !!

DEFINITIONSLinguistic: to improve and to make better.Technical:The recitation and pronunciation of every letter of the Qur’an from where the sound is supposed to come with its proper characteristics. Contemporary:The knowledge and application of the correct rules of recitation so that the reading of the Qur’an is as close as possible to the recitation of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).

Subject of tagweed: The Quran

Fruits ( benefits): to preserve the tongue from

mistakes of pronunciation during telawa and

reading.

precedence: it is one of the most honored

sciences as it is related to the words of all mighty

lord.

Founder: practically by prophet Mohamed

(pbuh), theoretical rules by the scholars of

quranic scientists.

Why Do We Learn Tajweed??!

Allah says in the Qur’an ورتل القرآن ترتيلand recite the Qur’an as is taught to be recited (lit. ‘with tarteel’).Qur’an reading is the recitation of the Qur’an according to tajweed & tarteel as taught by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).

Why else??

TagweedCommunal obligation

Individual obligation

Theoretical

Practical

Mistakes (Lahn) (اللحن)

Mistakes

Obscure (Khafee)

(adding, omitting or changing words, letters, vowels)

Only knowledgeable readers

Non knowledgeable readers

Obvious (Jalee)Violations of madd duration, ghunnah

It is the deviation of correctness when reading quran

Seeking refuge

(الاس تعاذة) Manner: باهلل السميع العليم أعوذ / أعوذ باهلل من الشيطان الرجيم

من الشيطان الرجيم

'In the Name of Allah, Most Beneficient, Most Merciful‘

at the beginning of a surah, the reader should say the Basmala (as part of the surah).

in the middle of the surah, the reader has a choice of saying the Basmala after the ta'awwuth or just saying the ta'awwuth

Surah Al- Fatihah (according to the Shafi'i school)

At-Taubah - Surah 9 (it is not written)

Basmalaالبسملة

1. Cutting all three off from each other.

2. Joining all three with each other.

3. Joining the basmalah and the beginning of the surah.

4. Joining seeking refuge with the basmalah.

Ways of ta'awuth and basmalah((at the beginning of a surah

Joining Alanfal and attawba

End of Alanfal(إن هللا بكل شيء عليم)

Beginning of Attawba(براءة من هللا و رسوله)

Stopالقطع

Pauseالسكت

Joinالوصل

STOPPING SIGNS

Prostration of reading

Prostration is legislated for reader and listener in

obedience of God and in contradiction of satan

al-A’raaf 7:206

al-Ra’d 13:15

al-Nahl 16:49

al-Isra’ 17:107

Maryam 19:58

al-Hajj 22:18

al-Hajj 22:77

al-Furqaan 25:60

al-Naml 27:25

al-Sajdah 32:15

Saad 38:24

Fussilat 41:37

al-Najm 53:62

al-Inshiqaaq 84:21

al-‘Alaq 96:19

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