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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

non vowelling accents

Asslamualikum,



Hey ?......which surah did you listen to yesterday? ......Today we are going to talk about non vowelling accents..........
Last time we talked about vowelling accents and how it drives the letter to how it should be pronounced .....

Have you ever thought about non vowelling accents ? ...........yes, there are two....Also those two lie under

Tashkeel  or in Arabic language : تشكيل

It means literally " shaping " as it shapes the tone of  letter's  pronunciation (refer to previous post ).

 1-  Sokoun :  It shows as a little circle on the top of the letter...... let me show an example ....

محمّدْ
Here you can see it on the top of letter dal  :    ْد
This sign or accent orders you to stop driving the letter anywhere ........just pronounce it as it is .....and here in our example .......we are not going to say :  daa    doo   dee
we will only pronounce it as it is  : d

we call this accent Sokoun ........which means in Arabic language literally silence ....which means no vowelling accents here.





2- shaddah : It shows like three tines of a fork and It lies on the top of a letter........with the same example...this time on the letter "meem "..... م

محمّد
Shaddah orders you to pronounce the letter twice at the same spot as you are stressing on that letter.

Shaddah means literally in Arabic language .......( to pull ) .....as if you are pulling the letter to pronounce it twice .



In most cases you see in Quran the accent Shaddah is accompanied with one of the vowelling accents :
( fat'hah -cus'rah -dammah )

for example :
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                         دُّ    دِّ     دَّ                 
At this point,  what you have to do is to stress on the letter as if you are pronouncing the letter twice  plus driving the letter to where the accent takes (drives) you  ......up with fat'hah ; down with cus'rah ; or to circle your lips with dammah.
I hope it is clear .... , I am waiting for your comments and questions.




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