Learn to recite the Quran correctly: the rules of Tajweed explained for beginners, step by step.
Tajweed is the set of rules governing correct Quran recitation — how each letter is pronounced and how sounds flow together. Its foundations are accessible to every Muslim, not onl...
The most common Tajweed mistakes are: mispronouncing letters that have no English equivalent, inconsistent madd (elongation) timing, dropping the ghunnah (nasal sound), not observi...
Madd is the prolonging of a vowel sound in recitation. It begins with the natural madd (two counts) and extends to secondary madds caused by a hamzah or sukoon that follow, lengthe...
A meem sakinah (مْ) takes one of three rules based on the following letter: Ikhfa Shafawi (light hiding with ghunnah, before ba), Idgham Shafawi (merging into the next meem), and I...
When a noon sakinah (نْ) or tanween is followed by another letter, one of four rules applies: Izhar (clear pronunciation, before throat letters), Idgham (merging, before ya-ra-mim-...
Makharij al-Huruf are the articulation points from which each Arabic letter is correctly pronounced. There are five main regions — the empty space of the mouth, the throat, the ton...
An ijazah in Quran recitation is a formal authorisation to teach and transmit the Quran, granted after a student recites the whole Quran to a qualified teacher — usually from memor...
