Madni Qaida in English Page 17 – Lesson 3: Harakaat Practice Chart

Welcome to Madni Qaida in English Page 17 at Learning Quraan. This page completes the Harakaat chart for the second half of the alphabet, from Sheen to Ya, each letter shown with all three short vowels.

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 17?

• Heavy letters ص ض ط ظ with each vowel, to practise the full-mouth sound.
• Throat letters ع غ with each vowel.
• The last letters of the alphabet with Fathah, Kasrah and Dammah.

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.

Every Sound on Page 17

This page completes the Harakaat chart with the last 17 letters, from Sheen to Ya. Six of them are heavy and printed in blue; the vowel marks are printed in green. Read each row from right to left: Fathah, Kasrah, Dammah.

What to Listen For

• The heavy block. صَ ضَ طَ ظَ sit together near the top. Read them as a group so the full, heavy sound becomes a habit, then compare with their light partners سَ دَ تَ ذَ.
• Dad (ض). It is made with the side of the tongue against the upper molars. It is not a “d” and not a “z”.
• Ain (ع). عَ is squeezed from the middle of the throat; it is not the same as the Hamzah sound ءَ near the bottom of the page.
• Qaf and Kaf. قَ is heavy and made at the very back of the tongue; كَ is light and a little further forward.
• Waw is “w”. وَ وِ وُ are “wa, wi, wu”, with rounded lips. Urdu speakers often say “va”; in Arabic the lips do not touch the teeth.

Mistakes to Watch For

• Thinning the heavy letters when they carry a Kasrah: صِ and قِ stay heavy.
• Saying ظَ like Urdu “za”. Its place is the tongue tip with the upper front teeth, and it is heavy.
• Stretching any of the vowels. Every sound on this page is short.

A Five-Minute Practice Plan

1. Minute 1: read the blue (heavy) rows only: Sad, Dad, Ṭa, Ẓa, Ghayn and Qaf.
2. Minute 2: read the light rows only.
3. Minute 3: read the pairs سَ / صَ, تَ / طَ, كَ / قَ, ءَ / عَ.
4. Minute 4: read the whole chart from page 16 to here, Fathah column only.
5. Minute 5: point to boxes at random.

Check Yourself

ضِ · ظُ · عَ · غِ · قُ · وِ · ءُ

Source: the page shown above is from the Madani Qa‘idah (English edition), Lesson 3, book page 6, published by Maktaba-tul-Madinah (Dawat-e-Islami). The places of the letters follow Faizan-e-Tajweed (Dawat-e-Islami), pp. 16–17 and 20. Lesson notes written by Learning Quraan.

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