Al-Azhar Message Blog

Overcoming forgetting in Quran memorization starts with understanding the cause: most forgetting does not come from a weak memory, but from too little revision, or…

The ways of reciting the isti‘ādhah and the basmalah are the permitted ways of joining or separating the isti‘ādhah (“a‘ūdhu billāhi mina sh-shayṭāni r-rajīm”), the…

The types of idghām in tajweed, according to the relation between the two letters, are three: idghām of identical letters (mutamāthilān), of letters from the…

Ghunnah is a soft nasal sound that comes from the nasal cavity (the upper inside of the nose). It is a permanent characteristic of the…

The rules of lām in tajweed cover the lām of the definite article (sun and moon letters), the lām in the name of Allah, the…

Tafkhīm and tarqīq (heavy and light pronunciation) are among the most important chapters of tajweed. Tafkhīm means “thickening” the sound of a letter so that…

The characteristics of the letters (sifat al-huruf) are the qualities that distinguish the sound of a letter when it is pronounced, such as audibility and…

The stopping signs in the Quran are small symbols above the words that tell you the ruling on stopping there: whether stopping is compulsory, forbidden…

The rules of the letter rā’ – whether it is pronounced heavy (tafkhīm) or light (tarqīq) – depend on its own vowel, the vowel before…

The difference between hamzat al-wasl and hamzat al-qat‘: hamzat al-wasl (the connecting hamza) is pronounced when you start reading from its word but is dropped…

Makharij al-Huruf are the articulation points of the Arabic letters, the places in the mouth and throat where each sound is produced. According to Ibn…

Qalqalah is a slight echoing or bouncing sound produced when one of five letters has a sukun. The letters are ق ط ب ج د,…