Madni Qaida in English Page 15 – Lesson 2 Words and Lesson 3: Harakaat

Welcome to Madni Qaida in English Page 15 at Learning Quraan. The top of page 15 finishes Lesson 2 with three-letter compound words. The bottom begins Lesson 3, introducing the three Harakaat: Fathah (Zabar), Kasrah (Zayr) and Dammah (Paysh).

This page is part of Lesson 3: Harakaat (Short Vowels). See every page on the Madni Qaida in English index, or learn with a teacher in our online Quran courses.

What is on Madni Qaida in English Page 15?

• Three-letter joined words to test recognition, such as خلق, فلق and بسم.
• The definition of Harakaat and where each sign is written.
• The term Mutaharrik for a letter that carries a vowel.

How to Practise This Page

• Open the mouth for Fathah, drop the voice for Kasrah and round the lips for Dammah.
• Keep every vowel short: no stretching and no sudden stop.
• Read Ra with Fathah or Dammah thick, and Ra with Kasrah thin.

The Three-Letter Joins at the Top

The top half of this page finishes Lesson 2 with 36 joins of three letters each, six rows of six. Inside each box, every letter is printed in its own colour, so the child can see where one letter ends and the next begins. They are still read letter by letter, by name: خلق is “khaa, laam, qaaf”. Many of these joins look like real words (several are words from the Quran), but at this stage the aim is only to find the three letters inside each shape. The table splits every box into its letters:

Watch the joins with a Hamzah or a Ta Marbutah: in فئة and سئل the middle letter is Hamzah on a dotless Ya seat, and فئة ends with a round Ta.

Lesson 3 Begins: the Harakaat

The bottom half opens Lesson 3. A Harakah is a short vowel mark, and Harakaat is its plural. There are three:

• Fathah (Zabar), a small slanted line above the letter: بَ “ba”.
• Kasrah (Zer), the same line below the letter: بِ “bi”.
• Dammah (Pesh), a small Waw-shaped mark above the letter: بُ “bu”.

A letter that carries one of these marks is called Mutaharrik (a “moving” letter). From now on, letters stop being read by their names and start being read as sounds.

Mistakes to Watch For

• Skipping the middle letter in a three-letter join, for example reading نفس as two letters.
• Mixing the dotted heads in تجد, ثمن and بلغ; count the dots first.
• Reading the joins as words. At this point the child names the letters; reading them as words comes once all the vowel marks are learnt.

Check Yourself

خطف · سخط · ظلل · قسط · فئة · سئل

Source: the page shown above is from the Madani Qa‘idah (English edition), Lessons 2 and 3, book page 4, published by Maktaba-tul-Madinah (Dawat-e-Islami). Lesson notes written by Learning Quraan.

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