Talim-ul-Quran — Page 113
The sign. USE OF SHADDA تشْدِيد is called tashdid and the letter bearing tashdid is called mushaddad. Tashdīd means fastening or strengthening. The sign t ✓ over a letter denotes that the letter is doubled. A letter with tashdīd contains a quiescent and a vowel-bearing letter. For example 3 rabbun is in fact ✪ ✪ rab-bun. . So to pronounce a letter with tashdid, first the voice will be settled on it then it will be read with its short vowel. Consequently the letter will be strengthened and will be pronounced firmly. . In the case of letters nun and mīm ( ) bearing tashdīd () while setting the voice on them it will take a little more time, in other words the voice will be prolonged on them before reading them with their short vowel. In the exercise, nun and mīm with tashdīd are underlined indicating that the voice should be prolonged on these letters. . A letter with shadda always joins forcefully to a letter with i'räb/sign before it and the letter with shadda gives its sound twice: أَبْ = اَبْ + بَ ، ظِلِّ = ظِلٍّ + لِ ، رَبُّ = رَبِّ + بُ = J rab + bu = rabbu, zil+ li = zilli, ab + ba = abba. If a nün (❖) wāw : or tanwin joins with wäw having shadda (5) or a ya' having shadda (S), (i. e. with vowels) they will produce half the sound of nun (i. e. a nasal sound) on joining: mi(n)wwa من و miñwwa 113 ma(n)yyu مَّاي mañyyu