Alif, Waw and Ya: Types of Madd and Special Hamzah Rules

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• What is required for an ordinary madd alif?
• Why is the ya of «قِيلَ» a madd letter?
• How should the waw in «خَوْفٌ» be classified?
• What is the standard traditional basic measure of natural madd?
• Why does «جَاءَ» have connected madd?
• When joined, which rule applies in «إِنَّا أَعْطَيْنَاكَ»?
• What is the decisive distinction between muttasil and munfasil?
• What kind of sukun triggers obligatory madd?
• Which form of obligatory madd is illustrated by «آلْآنَ»?
• What follows madd in «الضَّالِّينَ»?
• How is the symbol «م» pronounced in the opening «الم»?
• Which rule governs prolongation in the name of «قٓ»?
• What arises when the final mim of “lam” meets the next name “mim” in «الم»?
• Why is the ya in the letter-name «عَيْنْ» soft rather than madd?
• When does madd ‘arid li-s-sukun arise?
• Which three measures are associated with incidental madd?
• What becomes relevant on pausing at «الْعَالَمِينَ»?
• Why does pausing on «وَالصَّيْفِ» involve incidental soft madd?
• What is the key difference between «قَالَ» and «خَوْفٌ»?
• What primarily determines whether madd alif sounds heavy?
• What special pronunciation occurs in «ءَأَعْجَمِيٌّ»?
• Which precaution is correct for hamzah tashil?
• What is the special reading point in «بِئْسَ الِاسْمُ الْفُسُوقُ»?
• Which two questions separate the four kinds of obligatory madd?
• A hamzah after a madd letter in the same word produces connected madd.
• Every still waw and ya is a madd letter, even after fathah.
• Obligatory madd is based on the sukun created only at a pause.
• Disjointed opening letters are recited by their Arabic letter-names.
• The final nun of «الْعَالَمِينَ» has the same vowel condition in joining and stopping.
• Incidental soft madd can involve still waw or ya preceded by fathah.