Tajweed made easy!!

                          

Tajweed

By the grace of Allah, I had the opportunity to attend an amazing “tajweed” class by Saima Khawaja , in ICJC, Overland Park. She is a student of  Wisam Sharieff , Bayyinah.

And Alhamdulillah, she made it so easy. Not only , did it suddenly seem easy to do, but also it became easy to explain to kids. It has become easier to teach it to my four year old. Fun,  easy & Applicable.

I would like to share these amazing tips with you.

So lets begin..:)

There are 3 parts:

• v Throat

•  Lips

•  Tongue

Let’s start with throat—

•  Base of the throat-

§  أ

§  ه

§  Hamza( sorry couldn’t get the image of the letter!!)

•  Middle of the throat—

§  ع—to pronounce this letter, imagine that you are biting an apple and saying this alphabet and take the sound out from the middle of your throat.

§  ح—Smile wide when you say this letter. Its like you are breathing out air from your mouth while smiling widely and pronouncing this letter.

•  top of the throat closest to the mouth

§  غ—like gargling sound

§  خ—like scratching the throat

Now, lips J

v و ن م ب

These are the easy ones.

For م ب – smile nicely when pronouncing these two letters.

For   و ن- make a circle with your lips when pronouncing these two letter

Lastly, the tongue

v The back of the tongue-

§  ض—the back of the tongue touches the back molar teeth without the front part of the tongue moving.

•  The middle of the tongue—

§  ص—middle of the tongue touching the front two teeth

            now clench the teeth while continuing the above action and say the alphabet.

§  ط—middle of the tongue touching the back of the top 2 teeth.

§  ظ—the middle of the tongue touching the edge of the top front teeth.

•  The tip of the tongue—

§  د ت  -- tip of the tongue behind the top 2 teeth, smile widely.

§  ث ذ – tip of the tongue at the front of the top 2 teeth

§  س – tip of the tongue behind the bottom 2 teeth

§  ش – clench the back teeth and smile widely and pronounce the alphabet.

§  ز – top and bottom teeth together, smile and pronounce the alphabet.

ك ف – are easy and the normal way to pronounce. For ف smile a little and pronounce it.

Rules of ل

•  ل on face value is always pronounced lightly.

•   Only when it appears the word “Allah” it is “heavy” If the word 
• “Allah” is attached to any other word, then look at the Vowel[ fatha(zabar), kasra(zyr),damma(pesh)] on the alphabet before “Allah”.

•  Fatha(zabar) and damma(pesh) make it heavy and Kasra(zyr) make it light

e.g. In “alhamdullilah” the ل is pronounced “heavy” as the د in the word has a damma(pesh ) on it.

inshallah, this would prove helpful to you. i will keep posting more as i learn more