
The letters can be found in the two words of حَي ٌ طَهُر.

These alphabets take the form of two letters, the second of which is the letter of madd. The five alphabets mentioned separately at the start of some verses.It is called madd tabee (natural) as a person naturally lengthens it for only two harakahs, neither more nor less than this.It is called madd asli as it has no causes for secondary madd, has a natural place as compared to other types of madd in Arabic, has a single form, i.e., the duration of only two harakahs, and the entity of the letter of madd is only said by pronouncing the madd itself.Two harakahs – A harakah is the duration of opening one of the fingers after making the closed fist, and two harakahs is the time it takes to open two fingers, one after another. It occurs when any of the three madd letters is preceded by hamza or sukoon. Also, in this word, the letter ل has fat-ha and is followed by ا, which has no vowel.Ī letter cannot exist without this type of madd. Therefore, Madd is not applied here, and it is not the letter of Madd. In another word أولئك, which means they are in English, you can observe the letter (أ) is an Alif that has dammah and is followed by the letter (و) with sukoon. If the letter of Madd has Sukoon, so Al-Madd is not applied. The letter of madd must remain silent without any vowel, and this doesn’t mean that it has a sukoon. So, if the madd letter is Waaw, and the letter before has the fatha sign in place of dammah, madd will not be applied, and Waaw will not be a letter of madd in this instance.įor example, in the word يومكم, which means your day in English, you can see the letter Yaa’ has a fatha sign, and the next letter Waaw is not the letter of madd. Note that the letter before the letter of madd must have the mentioned vowels, or else madd is not applicable, and the letter is not called the madd letter. If the madd letter is Yaa’ (ي), the letter before must have a kasra, and the Yaa’ itself remains silent without any vowel.If the letter of madd is Waaw (و), the letter before must have a dammah, and Waaw remains silent without any vowel.


Now, what are the 3 Madd letters? Al-Madd in Tajweed comes with three letters (ا, و, ي) and they are collected in the Arabic word نُوحِيهَا.
