Meem sakinah rules

Definition of Meem Sakinah

Meem Sakinah: is the letter meem ( م ) that is free from any vowel, and which has a fixed sukoon when stopping and continuing reading.

Found in: nouns, verbs and particles, in the middle or end of the word.

For example:

الحدم

معليه

اإلخفاء فوي الش

Its letter is: ب

اإلدغامفوي الش

Its letter is:

م م م

اإلظهارفو الش

يIts letters

are the rest of the Arabic

alphabet

Meem Sakinah rules

فوي اإلخفاء الشDefinition

• The pronunciation of a non-vowled meem, • stripped of any shaddah,• in a state between idhahaar and idgham• with a stretched ghunnah remaining on the meem.

Its letter is: ب

How to apply it:

When the letter ( ب ) immediately follows meem sakinah in between two words hide this meem at the letter ( ب ) , with a stretched ghunnah.

This ghunnah is a characteristic of which letter?

فوي اإلخفاء الش

Why such a name:

because the meem is hidden – اإلخفاء

فوي because the meem is – الشarticulated from the shiffah (lips).

Shafawee also means oral.

Therefore it is “oral hiding”.

فوي اإلخفاء الش

Examples:

Surah]﴾ حجارة م بترميه﴿ A-feel : 4]

هم يومئذ ب مإن ربه﴿ ﴾لخبير

[Surah Al-Adiyaat: 11 ]

فوي اإلخفاء الش

How is it in a state between إظهار and

? إدغام

1) What is the difference between Iqlab and ikhfaa shafawee?

2) What does ikhfaa shafawee mean?3) Define: Ikhfa shafawee and the meem

sakinah.4) Give 3 examples of ikhfaa shafawee from the

Quran.

Al-Ikhfaa Ash-Shafawee

إدغام مثلين صغيرا ة مع الغن

Small merging of like letters with ghunnah

Definition

Linguistically: Insertion

Applied definition: The meeting of a saakin letter with a voweled letter so that the two letters become one emphasized letter of the second type

إدغام مثلين صغيرا ة مع الغن

Small merging of like letters with ghunnahHow it is applied

If a meem saakinah follows immediately a voweled meem within 1 word or in between 2 words, then insert the meem saakinah into the voweled meem which then acquires a sheddah. Pronounced with a stretched ghunnah.

إدغام مثلين صغيرا ة مع الغن

Small merging of like letters with ghunnah

Its letter is: م

Idgham Sagheer Small merging (like

letters)

م + = م مم + = م م

م + = م م

Examples:

عمه﴿ ذي أ ط�ل ��ن جو م مٱ ﴾ عSurah Quraish: 4

Surah Al-Baqarah: 1 ﴾ الم ﴿ ( يمم مآل ألف)

إدغام مثلين صغيرا ة مع الغن

Small merging of like letters with ghunnah

Why such a name:

because the meem saakinah is – إدغامmerged into voweled meem

إدغام مثلين صغيرا ة مع الغن

Small merging of like letters with ghunnah

Why such a name:

like letters( – because both( مثلينletters are articulated from the same articulation point and have the same characteristics.

إدغام مثلين صغيرا ة مع الغن

Small merging of like letters with ghunnah

Why such a name:

صغيرا )small( – because first letter of idghaam is saakin and the second one is voweled.

إدغام مثلين صغيرا ة مع الغن

Small merging of like letters with ghunnah

Why such a name:

ة )with stertched ghunnah( مع الغن– indicates a stretched ghunnah is accompanying the merge.

إدغام مثلين صغيرا ة مع الغن

Small merging of like letters with ghunnah

Definition:

Pronouncing every letter from its articulation point without a ghunnah on the clear letter.

Idhaar Shafawee

Idhaar Shafawee

Its letter are 26

Excluding Ikhfaa shafawee letter ) ب (And idghaam letter ) م (

How to apply it:

If one of the 26 letters appear after a meem saakinah within one word or in between 2 words, the meem is then pronounced clearly .

Idhaar Shafawee

Examples:

ط�ح﴿ عـلمين ط�ٱ ه رب ط�د لل Surah﴾ ٱFatiha: 1

﴿ ط�لك Surah ﴾ ولي دين ط� دينكAl-kafiroon: 6

Idhaar Shafawee

Important note:

If the letter ف or و follows the meem saakinah, make sure the meem is pronounced clearly and completely by closing the lips and not saying meem with ikhfaa, due to proximity of the articulation

points of م to ف and و .

Idhaar Shafawee

1) The word in red إنسـن ينظر ط�ف ٱ خلق مم ط� is an example of small merging true or false?

2) Give two rules of noon saakinah and meem saakinah where is the rule is only applied in between 2 words.

3) State 2 differences between Iqlaab and ikhfaab shafawee

4) What are the four rules of noon saakinah and tanween?

What does smaal idghaam mean?

1) The word in red إنسـن ينظر ط�ف ٱ خلق مم ط� is an example of small merging true or false?

2) Give two rules of noon saakinah and meem saakinah where is the rule is only applied in between 2 words.

3) State 2 differences between Iqlaab and iqlaab shafawee. (Iqlaab is to do with noon rules and Iqlaab shafawee is to do with meem ; shafawee’s must be between 2 words, iqlaab can be within one word or in between 2 words.

4) What are the four rules of noon saakinah and tanween?

5) State the two cases where a meem is exluded from the definition of meem saakinah.

6) What does smaal idghaam mean?