Quran Recitation with Tajweed

Recite correctly and beautifully — for prayer and beyond

Lessons in this course (6)

Noon sakinah: the four doors — When a noon carries sukoon (نْ) or a word ends in tanween, the NEXT letter decides what your tongue does. Four doors: izhar (clear noon) before the six throat l…
Madd: the stretching system — Natural madd (madd tabi'i): a long vowel letter — ا و ي — with nothing after it that demands more, held exactly two counts. Most stretching errors are not exoti…
Meem sakinah and qalqalah: the echo rules — A meem with sukoon (مْ) has three rules, decided by the NEXT letter. Before ب: ikhfa shafawi — hide the meem lightly with ghunnah (hum), lips barely touching. B…
Makharij: where the letters live — Every Arabic letter exits from a known point (makhraj). The classical map — Ibn al-Jazari counts seventeen points — groups them into five regions: al-jawf (the …
Stopping and starting: the waqf marks — مـ compulsory stop — continuing changes the meaning. ج permissible stop. صلى continuing is better. قلى stopping is better. ۛ ۛ the three dots in pairs: stop at …
The errors that change meaning — LAHN JALĪ (clear error) breaks a letter or a vowel in a way that changes the word or its grammar — reading أَنْعَمْتَ as أَنْعَمْتُ changes "You bestowed" to "I…