Rules of Tajweed

Lesson 1 - Throttle Letter

There are 6 Throttle Letters

These letter are pronounced from three level of throat

• Bottom of throat
• Middle of throat
• Top of throat

Lesson 2 - Bold Letters

There are 7 Bold Letters

These letter are pronounced with heavy and strong voice.

Lesson 3 - Harakaat

There are three Harakaat Movements in arabic

• Zeber
• Zer
• Pesh

Lesson 4 - Tanween

Its mean a single movement with the hidden noon sakin instead of writting a movement and noon sakin seperately the respective movement sign is double. Thus letter noon sakin is sound but not written.

• Double Zeber
• Double Zer
• Double Pesh

Lesson 05 - Skoon (jazam)

A letter having a harakat is called Mutaharrik letter. If a letter is without harakat sign is called sakin resting letter, and sign appear over this letter is called Sakoon.

Lesson 06 - Maddah Letters

When there is Waao and Waao has Sakoon on it and letter before of wao sakin has 'Zamma' on it is called Waao Maddha.

There are three maddah letters

• Alif
• Waao
• Yaa

Lesson 07 - Lean Letters

When Waao has skoon on it and the letter before waao has Fath on it the Waao will be Waao lean

There are two lean letters

• Waao Lean
• Yaa Lean

Lesson 08 - Noon Sakin and Noon Taween

if any throtal letter comes after the noon sakin or taween then it will be read normally without any Gunnah.

There are 4 rules of noon sakin and meem sakin

• Izhar
• Ikhfa
• Iqlab
• Idgham

Lesson 09 - Meen Sakin

If two Meem comes togather at the same time then these are the merged to one another and Idgham will take place with nasal sound.

There are 3 rules of Meem Sakin.

• Izhar-e-Shafwi
• Idgham-e-Shafwi
• Ikhfa-e-Shafwi

Lesson 10 - Shad

If a tashdeed sign appears over letters then the letter sign is said again. The first time having skoon and the second time with movement.

Lesson 11 - Ghunnah

Saying the voice of noon and meem completely is to the nose for a while is called Gunnah.

Lesson 12 - Qalqala

There are 5 Echo / Qalqala Letters

When these letters comes in Quran with Sakoon we make an echo sound after skoon by opening the lips. We shell pronounce them with more force, when there is a shadd on the letter and little lighter when there is skoon.

Lesson 13 - Madd

The Maad in which Maddah letter is the next letter is Hamza in the same word is called Madd-e-Muttasil. It is prolonged from 4 to 6 measure of second.

Madd sign indicated to prolong the letters, there are several kind of Madd.

• Madd-e-Muttasil
• Madd-e-Munfasi
• Madd-e-Aaridh waqif
• Madd-e-Lazim

Lesson 14 - Anaa

If any where in the Quran the word Anaa appears, it will be read as if it is Ana notice the second Alif which was connected to the Noon is ignored.

Lesson 15 - Tiny Noon

Any arabic grammer rule in some instance if there is letter with Taween and next letter is Hamza then the tanween is written in to two seperate components.

Tanween will change to corresponding single vowel

A Tiny Noon with Kasra is written under the letter Hamza