Arabic House

WHAT IS TAJWEED?

DEFINITION:
• LINGUISTIC DEFINITION: ‘Proficiency’ or Betterment
• APPLIED DEFINITION: Articulating every letter from
its articulation point and giving the letter its rights
and dues of characteristics.
Rights of the letters are its required
characteristics that never leave it. The dues of the
letters are its presented characteristics
that are present in it some of the times, and not
present at other times. i.e. the madd, idgham

ITS FORMATION:

The words of the Glorious Qur’an and some said
Honorable Hadiths also.

ITS FRUITS:
It preserves the tongue from mistakes in pronunciation of
the Glorious Qur’an during reciting.

REASON FOR ITS RULE:
Guarding the Glorious Qur’an and preserving it from
distortion. The Arabs mixed with non-Arabs after the
spread of Islam, and the Muslims feared that the Arab
tongue would become corrupted with this intermixing .It
then became mandatory for rules to be put down that
would preserve the recitation of the Qur’an from mistakes,
and guarantee the reader of the Qur’an integrity of
pronunciation.

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