Refining Qualities and the Detailed Rules of Lam and Ra

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• What is the main concern of the refining qualities?
• Which pair receives detailed heavy/light pronunciation rules first?
• How is lam in Allah pronounced in «قَالَ اللَّهُ»?
• Why is lam light in «بِسْمِ اللَّهِ»?
• How is ordinary lam normally pronounced?
• How is lam treated when starting with «اللَّهُمَّ»?
• What is the rule when ra itself has fathah or dammah?
• Why is the initial ra of «رِجَالٌ» light?
• What chiefly determines heavy or light treatment for a doubled ra?
• What is the ruling for the still ra of «بَرْقٌ»?
• Why is ra light in «فِرْعَوْنَ»?
• Why is ra heavy when beginning «اِرْجِعُوا»?
• What distinction matters for ra in connected «رَبِّ ارْجِعُونِ»?
• Why is the still ra heavy in «قِرْطَاسٍ» despite kasrah?
• What special qualification applies to ra in «فِرْقٍ»?
• Why is final ra heavy at an ordinary pause on «الْقَدْرِ»?
• Why is ra light at an ordinary pause on «الذِّكْرِ»?
• What is the treatment of ra when pausing on «خَيْرٌ»?
• What is correct about pausing on «مِصْرَ» and «الْقِطْرِ»?
• What is the special recitational feature in «مَجْرَاهَا»?
• What is the core sound adjustment in imalah?
• What does pausing with rawm mean?
• How can full pause and rawm differ on final ra in «وَالْفَجْرِ»?
• What is the best reliable method for classifying lam and ra?
• Every ordinary lam outside Allah’s name must also always be heavy.
• A vowelled ra with kasrah is normally light.
• Any kasrah before still ra, including temporary kasrah, invariably makes it light.
• In «قِرْطَاسٍ», ta after the still ra in the same word makes ra heavy.
• When a still ya directly precedes final ra at a pause, ra is normally light.
• Rawm applies only to fathah, not kasrah or dammah.