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Chapter Five: Roughness And

Softness
Part one Softness of Ra

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Tafkheem linguistically is to produce the
sound as thick or heavy sound.

Roughness/thickness/heavy sound

Its defined as: sounding the letter heavily until

the mouth becomes full with its echo.

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Tarqeeq linguistically is to produce the sound
soft and thin.

Its defined as: sounding the letter as a soft

without making the mouth full with its echo.

Arabic Alphabetic between

roughness and softness
Arabic latters are divided in to three
categories in terms of roughness and
softness.
1. Always heavy letters
these called rough letters.
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2 . Sometimes soft sometimes heavy
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3 . Always Soft letters
The rest of the letters

The rules of Ra
Producing Ra heavy
There are 5 categories for when the
produces a thick, round sound:
1. When it carries a fathah

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2. When it carries a
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3. When it carries a sukoon

letter before it carries a fathah
dammah

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it is Kasra and after Raa is one of the high
letters in the same letter .

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6. When the Ra is at the end of the word
and has Sokon because of Stop and before
it is Sokon (Except Ya) And before the Sokon
Fatha or Dhama
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Chapter Five: Roughness And
Softness
Part Two: Softness of Raa

The rules of Ra
Producing Ra Soft
There are 5 categories for when the
produces a Soft, thin sound:
1. When it carries a Kasra

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2. When it carries a sukoon and the
letter before it carries an original kasra in
the same word and a letter
of ista'ala (thick)doesn't follow it
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3. When it carries a sukoon (as a result

of stopping, either in the middle or end of
an ayah) and the letter before it is a
(elongated or otherwise) and the carries
a sukoon
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4. When it carries a sukoon

(due to
stopping either in the middle or end of an
ayah), and the letter before it is a letter of
istifaal (thin/ Non heavy letters) which
carries a sukoon , and the letter before
this carries a kasrah

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5- When the R aa is followed by Mumal letter
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