Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Monday, August 6, 2012
Tarteel means "Recitation." It is used in Al-Qur'an in Surah Muzammil, verse 4, as Allah s.w.t instructs the Prophet by saying-
"and recite the Qur'an in slow measured rhythmic tones"
The Arabic for "slow, measured rythmic tones" is tarteel. Tarteel is the term used to define the rules that explain how to recite the Qur'an in the way and manner that the angel Jibril (a.s) to our beloved Messenger (s.a.w.).
Tajweed means "Improving," or "to make something better." Tajweed is a manner of BEAUTIFYING the recitation of the Qur'an by reciting in a much slower manner than tarteel.
When praying, we recite with TARTEEL, not TAJWEED!
Tajweed is a form of recitation in which the rules of TARTEEL are used.
Therefore, when discussing the rules of recitation, the proper term to use is TARTEEL, for one cannot learn tajweed without first learning tarteel.
Wallahu 'alam.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
lets move on ...
Indeed to reflect on
Allah’s verses is a form of worship that will draw one close to Allah
Most High. This reflection is not a reckless and wandering one, rather
it includes a study of the classical tafseer of the verses being
pondered over, as this would fulfil Ibnul-Qayyim’s great advice, “Such
as reflecting over a book which a person has memorised and he expounds
it so that he may understand what its author intends by it.”
Indeed the Book of
Allah is not a book like any other, it is the timeless Speech of Allah,
not a created thing, the study guide for life and death and what comes
after. Therefore it deserves a more careful study than anyone else’s
speech. It necessitates that its reader return to the early narrations
of those who witnessed its revelation and heard its explanation by the
one deputed by Allah to rehearse and explain His Words to humanity (sallallaahu
‘alaihi wa sallam).
For if one would try to ponder over the meanings of
the verses without having done this study, then surely the filth of the
time that he lives in and his ignorance of the correct application and
understanding that the early Muslims had would cause him to understand
some things not intended by Allah Most High, and therefore he would go
astray, thinking to be worshiping Allah. So every sincere Muslim who
hopes to earn Allah’s Love reciting and reflecting over Allah’s Book,
then let him hold tight to the meanings explained by the Prophet (sallallahu
‘alaihi wa sallam), and those taught by the companions and their
immediate followers, and the early scholars of Islam.
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