Tajweed – Level 2- Intermediate
This course continues from Level 1. Continuing from the previous section, students who complete Level One willmove on to Level Twoof this programand carry onfrom intermediate level. It further develops the reading skills of the students, and introduces new rules of tajweed which will improve the students reading ability. Students will have an opportunity to implement such rules in their reading looking into the Qur’an, and lastly learn to recite some more surahs from memory. Students are required to turn on their camera when reciting to the teacher.
This course aims to provide those students at an intermediate level of Qur’an recitation to recite the Qur’an at a more precise quality. Level 2 mainly introduces the student to the characteristics of the letters. The course is based on both theory and practice so by the end of the course the student will be familiar with the characteristics of each letter.
The course consists of two parts, in the first part we will be covering the following topics:
1. The Accent in Recitation (An-Nabr):
a. Stopping on a letter that has a shaddah
b. The Ya and Wow and circumstances of An-Nabr
c. The shaddah after a medd letter
d. The hamzah on the end of a word after a medd
e. Special verbs in the dual form
2. The Characteristic of letters:
a. General introduction and categories of characteristics
b. Introduction to characteristics with opposites
c. The whisper and the apparent
d. The strength, the in-between, and softness
e. The fruits of the characteristics of the ash-shiddah, at-tawassit
f. The elevated and the lowered
g. The adhesion and the open
h. Characteristics without opposites
i. The whistle as-safeer
j. The softness al-leen
k. The repetition at-takraar
l. The spreading around at-tafashshee
m. The lengthening al-istitaalah
n. The nasalization al-ghunnah
o. Divisions of characteristics according to strength and weakness
3. The Velarization and Attenuation (Tafkheem and Tarqeeq) :
a. general definition and categories
b. letters that always have veraization (tafkheem)
c. levels of tafkheem and two schools of thought
d. letters that sometimes have tafkheem and other times tarqeeq
e. the laam of the name of the majesty
f. the raa’ and cases of tafkheem and tarqeeq
4. A brief introduction to Grammar terms:
a. verbs
b. past tense
c. present tense
d. command form
e. essential make up of verbs
f. nouns
g. signs of nouns
h. participles and prepositions
5. The two alike, the two similar, the two close, and the two far general definitions of each category:
a. the meeting of two letters; the small and big idhgaam defined
b. the two like each other (al-mutamaathilaan)
c. the two of similar nature (al-mutajaanisaan)
d. the two approximates to each other (al-mutaqaaribaan)
e. the two far from each other (al-mutabaa’idaan)
6. The connecting Hamzah (Hamzah Al-Wasl):
a. definition and appearance of hamzah al-wasl versus hamzah al-qata’ in various copies of the Qur’an
b. Hamzah al-wasl in verbs
c. Hamzah al-wasl in nouns
d. Hamzah al-wasl in participles
In the second part of this level students will be practicing and applying all the Tajweed rules, which have been taught by reciting from Surah Al-Baqarah.
