Tajweed

Tajweed is the set of rules governing how the Quran is recited: where each letter is formed, how long vowels are held, when sounds merge, when they are hidden, and where a reciter may stop. It is what separates reading the words from reciting them as they are meant to be recited.

Tajweed can be studied two ways, and RSIS teaches both. Applied tajweed corrects a student's recitation as they read, which is how most children learn it. Theoretical tajweed teaches the rules by name, with their categories and conditions, which older students and adults often prefer because it lets them self-correct. The rules are auditory by nature, so this is a subject that genuinely cannot be learned from a book alone.

What Is Covered

• MakharijThe precise articulation points for every letter of the Arabic alphabet.
• SifaatThe qualities of letters: whispered, strong, echoing, and how they differ.
• Noon Sakinah & TanweenIzhar, idgham, iqlab and ikhfa, and when each applies.
• Meem SakinahThe three rules governing a silent meem in recitation.
• Madd (Elongation)Natural and secondary elongation, and the correct count for each.
• QalqalahThe echoing letters and how they sound at a stop and mid-word.
• Waqf & IbtidaRules of stopping and starting, and how they affect meaning.

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