Talim-ul-Quran — Page 97
CORRECT COMBINATIONS and. JAZM/SUKŪN. In Arabic marks A are called sukūn or jazm. Sukūn literally means calm or quiescence and the letter bearing quiescence mark is called sākin that is quiescent. So when we join a letter having a harkat (a fathah, kasrah or dammah) on it with a letter having a jazm/sukūn the letter with a harkat will join directly in accordance with the phonetic sound of the stroke on or below the letter. . EXAMPLES: بَبْ بِبْ بُبْ اَلْحَمْدُ عَلِمْتُمْ أَلَمْ نَشْرَحْ لَكَ صَدْرَكَ ぶ alam nashraḥ laka ṣadraka - ‘alimtum - al-ḥamdu - bubb - bibb - babb. If a letter with a stroke is followed by an alif, hamzah or ‘ain with sukūn, they join with a little stroke:. EXAMPLES: بِءُ بُعْ با bu' - bi' - ba'. So while joining a letter with a quiescent one, one should settle the voice on the quiescent, then it will be pronounced correctly. For example in the word ✓ na'budu if you settle 5 (na) on the quiescent & (‘ain) it will be read correctly as ✓ na'budu, otherwise 'ain would be converted to 'alif and the word would be read as ✓ (nābudu), which is wrong. So to read a sākin (quiescent) letter correctly, one must settle the voice on it. . SHAKY QUIESCENT LETTERS. The important thing to know about the quiescent letters is that the voice should be settled on them and shaking should be avoided while uttering these letters. However, there are five 97