There are 2 categories as the letter
can either be:
- Tafkheem (rough / thick) ﺗَﻔْﺨِﻴْﻢ
- Tarqeeq (soft / thin) ﺗَﺮْﻗِﻴْﻖ
To produce this sound the back of the tongue rises in the mouth. This
elevation of the tongue produces a thick or heavy sound.
There are 5 categories for when the
produces a thick, round sound:
-
When it carries a fathah
or dammah
-
When it carries a sukoon
and the letter before it carries a fathah
or dammah
-
When it carries a sukoon
and the letter before it carries a kasrah
, and the letter after the
is a rough letter (ista'ala) that
doesn't carry a kasrah
-
When it carries a sukoon
and the letter before it carries a 'helping' kasra (not an original kasra)
-
When it carries a sukoon
as a result of wanting to stop (therefore not an original sukoon), and the letter before it is not a ya
and carries a sukoon
, and the letter before that has either a fathah
or dammah
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Tafkheem
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To produce this sound, the back of the tongue
lowers so that a flat sound is produced.
There are 4 categories for when the
produces a thin sound:
- When it carries a kasrah
-
When it carries a sukoon
and the letter before it carries an original kasra in the same word and a letter of
ista'ala (thick)
doesn't follow it
-
When it carries a sukoon
(as a result of stopping, either in the middle or end of an ayah) and the letter before it is a
(elongated or otherwise) and the
carries a sukoon
-
When it carries a sukoon
(due to stopping either in the middle or end of an ayah), and the letter before it is a letter of
istifaal (thin) which carries a sukoon
, and the letter before this carries a kasrah
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Tarqeeq
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