'iLM-I-TAJWID. 



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24. In some words an extra \ is written but not pro- 

 nounced in reading, e.g., % : " Certainly, they would have 



broken away," Sura iii, 153 ; fa\ J\l'. " Verily unto God,!' 

 Sura iii, 152 ; ^ 3 : " Certainly we would have followed 

 thee/' Sura iii, 160; ^ for <fi : "of a thing," Sura xviii, 

 v. 23 ; S : " They would certainly have followed thee," 



Suraix, 42;\p*%$ : " Certainly they had hurried about 

 among you," Sura ix, 47. 



25. In some words the takes cs as JsW*V*> Surat-ul- 

 An,am ; ^ life ^ in Surat-ul-Yunas ; <j5*> i %Un Surat- 

 un-Naml; J\i\ in Surat-ut-TaHa ; s->UsJ\ ^\ J} ^ in 

 Surat-ush-Shura ; in Surat-ul-Hashr. 



26. In " Certainly, I will fill," the ^ is dropped and 

 is put without any * under it, e 5 ^ ^. In Surat-ul- 



Ahzab the last \ of the words * s Gained, 



contrary to the rule which says that when is prefixed the \ 

 of the objective case drops. In Surat-ul-Quraish the words 

 fn aJ\ jL'jJ eis S (" For the union of the Quraish, their union," 

 &c.) are read as if written thus: ^M, though 



the ^ is not written. 



A man who has any real claim to the honourable title of a 

 Hafiz* must not only be conversant with all the details I 

 have now given, but he must also know the 4 various readings' 

 («w*\jj>) of the seven famous Qaris Usjty. I have already 

 given the names of these men. Each of them had two 

 disciples. Such a disciple is called a Kavi. 1 There are also 

 three Qaris (each of whom also had two disciples), whose 

 readings are sometimes used when the Quran is recited 

 privately, but not when used in a liturgical service. 



1 The word Ravi literally means a " narrator." It is technically applied 

 to those disciples of a Qari who made known, or narrated, the ' readings ' 

 adopted by their master, 



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