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Tajwid Summarized – Rules of Nun: #1 Izhar

Rules of Nun Sakinah and Tanwin

4 in total 

1– Izhar 2– Idgham 3– Iqlab 4– Ikhfa

Q: Nun Sakinah is a nun without harakah. Like in من or عن this should already be very familiar to you, but what about tanwin?

A: Tanwin is an extra nun sakinah added at the end of an arabic noun. It is pronounced like a nun, but not written like one. It is sometimes called, fathatayn, kasratayn, or dammatayn, and wirtten like:

Rule one from the rules of Nun Sakin and Tanwin

(Izhar) 

 Q: What is Izhar?

A: Izhar linguistically means to make something clear, as a term it means to pronounce a letter from its makhraj without any nasal sound (ghunnah)

Q: How many letters of Izhar are there and what are they?

A: The Letters of Izhar are six, and they are:

 1– Hamza ء 2– Ha  ه 3- ‘Ayn  ع 4- Ha  ح 5Ghayn  غ 6– Kha  خ

Izhar occurs when a nun appears in one word, and sometimes between two,  it also occurs with tanwin, which can only happen between two words.

Examples of the Letters of Izhar 

# One word  Two words Tanwin
 1– Hamza ء  يَنْـئَوْنَ  مَنْ ءَامَن  كُلٌّ ءَامَنَ 
2– Ha  ه ٱلْأَنْهَـٰرُ  مِنْ هَادٍ جُرُفٍ هَارٍ
3- ‘Ayn  ع أَنْعَمْتَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ حَكِيمٌ عَلِيمٌ
4- Ha  ح
5– Ghayn  غ
6– Kha  خ
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