In الْقَارِعَةُ, the lām of the article is clearly pronounced because qāf is a lunar letter. Do not assimilate it.
Qāf is an emphatic istiʿlāʾ letter. Rāʾ here carries kasrah, so it is read thin. Different letters within one word can require different treatments.
Practice:
الْقَارِعَةُ — clear lām, heavy qāf, thin rāʾ.
النَّاسُ — contrasting case: the lām assimilates into the sun-letter nūn.
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Al-Qāriʿah: clear lām and emphatic qāf
Al-Qāriʿah and Az-Zalzalah — Comparative Tajwīd Practice
In الْقَارِعَةُ, the lām of the article is clearly pronounced because qāf is a lunar letter. Do not assimilate it.
Qāf is an emphatic istiʿlāʾ letter. Rāʾ here carries kasrah, so it is read thin. Different letters within one word can require different treatments.
Practice:
الْقَارِعَةُ — clear lām, heavy qāf, thin rāʾ.
النَّاسُ — contrasting case: the lām assimilates into the sun-letter nūn.