• Mohammad Hamid Mahmood Mohammad Hamid Mahmood (Grad. Institute of Islamic Education, DEWSBURY)(Grad. Institute of Islamic Education, DEWSBURY)

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• 1.  Its definitionIts definition

• By linguistic definition: Betterment

• Applied definition: Articulating every letter from its articulation point and giving the letter its rightsrights and duesdues of characteristics.

• Rights of the letters are its required characteristics that never leave it. 

• The dues of the letters are its presented characteristics that are present in it some of the time, and not present at other times.  i.e. the madd, idghaam

• The proofs that the scholars bring to show the obligation of Tajweed is that Allah says in the Qur’an

• ‘And recite the Qur’an (aloud) in a (slow and melodious) style

• (tarteelatarteela)’ (Surah Muzzammil, Ayah 4)• Ali ibn Abi Talib (RA): “at-Tarteel is

Tajweed of the letters and knowing where to stop (correctly)”.[An-Nashr of Ibn Al-Jazaree 209:1]

• And of the rights of reciting correctly is reciting it the way it was revealed.

The obligation of TajweedThe obligation of Tajweed

• Umm Salamah was asked about the recitation of the Prophet (SAW) and she described it as a recitation ‘clearly distinguished letter by letter’. [Tirmidhi]

• Sa’eed bin Mansoor relates in his Sunan that a man was reciting the Qur’an to Abdullah bin Mas’ood and he recited “Innamas sadaqaatu lil fuqarara-i wal masaakeen”, so Ibn mas’oodIbn mas’ood said: “This was not how the Messenger of Allah (SAW) recited it to me!” So the man asked, “How did he read it to you oh Aba Abdir-Rahman?” So he said “Lil Fuqaraaaaraaaa-I wal masaakeen”, he elongated the word Fuqaraa and the knowledge of the different lengths of elongation (mudood) is also from the rules of Tajweed.

MISTAKESMISTAKES

• What is a Tajweed Mistake?

• And what are the consequences?

• Learn how to stay away from MISTAKES

• By firstly recognising MISTAKES

Allaamah Jazaree (r.a)Allaamah Jazaree (r.a)

Lahn Jalee & Lahn KhafeeLahn Jalee & Lahn Khafee

• Lahn JALEEJALEE = MAJORMAJOR mistakes

• Lahn Khafee = Minor mistakes

• Lahn Jalee means to make a Lahn Jalee means to make a BIGBIG mistake mistake in the Quraanin the Quraan

• Lahn Khafee means to make a Lahn Khafee means to make a smallsmall

mistake in The Holy Quranmistake in The Holy Quran

Yes, it is like a driving test. Make 11 MAJORMAJOR and you FAILFAIL.Minors are forgiven to a certain limit.

What is LAHN JALEE?LAHN JALEE?• Incorrect Makhraj or SifaatIncorrect Makhraj or Sifaat (NotNot to

pronounce letters from the correct place of articulationplace of articulation and their respective qualitiesqualities)

• Addition Addition (To add onadd on letters to words)

• OmissionsOmissions (To take offtake off letters from words)

• Harakah with Sukoon and vice Harakah with Sukoon and vice versaversa (To replacereplace a Zabar, Zer or Pesh with a JazamJazam and vice versa)

• Change the HarakahChange the Harakah (To changechange the Zabar, Zer or Pesh)

It is HARAMHARAM to make any of these MAJORMAJOR mistakes.

THE DIFFERENCE

• In the letters QAAF and kAAF there are 2 differences

• (1) MakhrajMakhraj is different

• (2) SifatSifat (quality) is also different

THE DIFFERENCE

• In the letters TAA and tAA there is only 1 difference

• (1) SifatSifat (quality) is different

• The Makhraj is the same

What is LAHN KHAFEE?LAHN KHAFEE?• Full Mouth / Empty MouthFull Mouth / Empty Mouth (To overlook

the rules of Tafkheem and Tarqeeq when reciting The Name of AAllllahah, The Letter RaaRaa’)

• Ghunnah Ghunnah (NotNot to adhere to the the rules of IzhaarIzhaar, IdghaamIdghaam, IqlaabIqlaab, IkhfaaIkhfaa etc in their respective places)

• Madd Madd (Prolongation) (NotNot to prolong / stretch a letter when a MADDMADD is present)

It is MAKROOHMAKROOH to make any of these MINORMINOR mistakes.

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The LetterThe Letter Word ExampleWord ExamplePhonetic DiagramPhonetic Diagram

TipTip of the of the TongueTongue and and gums of the gums of the teeth - teeth - gumsgums of of the Central the Central IncisorsIncisors..

Articulation Articulation PointPoint

TipTip of the of the TongueTongue and and slightly slightly aboveabove the the gumsgums to to touch the hard touch the hard palate. palate.

TipTip of the of the BackBack of the of the TongueTongue and further and further upup the the palatepalate as as compared to compared to the letter ‘D’.the letter ‘D’.

LENTILS

LENTILS

Language Problems!Language Problems!

SEMINAR

• What are Tajweed Mistakes?

• How do we keep away from such mistakes?

• The Importance of Taweed?

• How can we, on our behalf portray the importance of this noble science?

• Examples from the lives of Sahabah