Meem Sakinah rules


أحكام الميم الساكنه







THE MEEM SAAKINAH RULES, PART 1 (IKHFA' SHAFAWEE)

The definition of the Meem saakinah:  It is a ميم free from any vowel, and which has a fixed sukoon when continuing reading and when stopping.The ميم saakinah can be in the middle of a word or at the end of a word.  It can be in a noun, a verb, or a preposition or particle.The ميم saakinah has three possible rules:       1.  الاخفاء الشفوى Hiding       2.   الادغام الشفوى Merging       3.  الاظهار الشفوى ClearORAL CONCEALMENT الاخفاء الشفوىhe pronunciation of a non-voweled letter, stripped of any “shaddah”, characterized as between clear () and merged (), with the ghunnah remaining on the first letter, which is in this case the .Its letters: It has one letter which is theIf a is followed immediately by a  , and this only occurs between two words, we then close our lips for the  with an accompanying ghunnah.  This is called .  It is called because the  has the characteristic of the , meaning in between  and since the lips are close with the letter , then separate with the letter .  It is called   because the  and is articulated from the two lips.  A lip in Arabic is, but the word is also used for “oral”.   could be translated as “oral concealment”.THE MEEM SAAKINAH RULES, PART 2 (IDGHAAM MITHLAYN SAGHEER)MERGING ( ) OF THE *SAAKINAHThe meeting of a saakinah letter with a voweled letter so that the two letters become one emphasized letter of the second type (of letter).The  of the *saakinah occurs only with one letter: another *.  Whenever a saakinah letter comes before a voweled letter of the same articulation point and characteristics, in other words the same exact letter, there is merging of the saakinah letter into the second letter. This merging is called , or the small merging of two of the same.  The “small” refers to the first letter of the  being saakin ad the second having a vowel.If there is a * saakinah followed immediately by a * with a vowel in the in the same word or between two words, we are then required to insert the * saakinah into the * with a vowel, which then acquires a  shaddah. There is a ghunnah then on the * with a shaddah.  The only time there is an  of a * into another in one word is in the case of the individual separate letters that start some surahs.  The group of letters is considered one word.  In other words,  is considered one word, so the *saakinah at the end of the written out letter  merges into the voweled * which is the first letter of the written out letter *.  Outside of the individual separate letters at the beginning of some surahs, the  of the * saakinah into a voweled * takes place between two words.




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