A learner recites أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ and stretches the yaa of كَيْفَ while continuing into فَعَلَ. That is the mistake. The word contains a letter of leen, but the optional lengthening appears only when the reciter stops on كَيْفْ. Madd Leen is not a property of the word. It is a property of the moment you stop on it. This rule belongs to the Madd rules chapter of Tajweed rules.

Also written Madd Lin, Madd Layyin or Madd Layn, and sometimes called the soft madd — in Arabic, مد اللين. All one rule.

What Is Madd Lin in Tajweed?

The name is literal. Leen (لين) means softness and ease. The letter does not stretch the way a madd letter stretches — it glides. The name is describing the sound, not the length.

What sets this rule apart from most of the madds on the hub is conditional existence. Madd Asli, Madd Badal, Madd Muttasil — all of them exist the moment their letters exist on the page. The lengthening of Madd Leen appears only when the reciter chooses to stop. It is one of the stop-dependent madds, alongside Madd ‘Arid lis-Sukoon, whose extra lengthening also appears at a stop and disappears when you continue. That is the part almost every English lesson leaves out.

One note on the unit before we go further: a count (harakah) is a relative timing unit based on the reciter’s own natural pace, not a fixed number of seconds. Opening or closing one finger is only a beginner training aid for feeling that pace — which is why two reciters at “four counts” can still sound slightly different and both be correct.

Madd Leen, Madd Lin or Madd Layyin: are they the same?

Yes — one rule, four transliterations of the same Arabic term مد اللين: Leen, Lin, Layyin and Layn. Classical books say leen; English courses split between lin and layyin; some translations simply write soft madd.

So if your teacher says one spelling and your book prints another, nothing has changed underneath. Same letters, same conditions, same counts.

The Madd Lin Letters: Just Two

There are two Madd Lin letters: و and ي. That is the entire list. Alif is never a leen letter — and there is a clean reason why, which we come to in a moment.

Alif is not included because the letters of leen are specifically a sakin waw or sakin yaa preceded by a fathah. Alif has its own fixed relationship with fathah as a madd letter. The answer to “are there three leen letters?” is no — there are two, and there is no fourth case hiding anywhere.

Leen letters vs madd letters: the two-step vowel test

This is the test that ends the confusion, and it runs in two short steps. Step one: the letter must be a sakin waw (وْ) or a sakin yaa (يْ). If it is not one of those two, neither label applies. Step two: look at the vowel on the letter before it. A sakin waw after a dammah, or a sakin yaa after a kasrah, is a madd letter — it stretches. Either a sakin waw or a sakin yaa after a fathah is a leen letter — it softens into a glide. Those are the combinations the two labels cover; any other combination is simply neither, so do not label a letter “leen” just because the vowel before it happens not to match.

The Madd Lin Rules and Conditions

Three conditions, and every one of them has to hold at the same time. The Madd Lin Tajweed rule is only in force when all three are true together.

How Many Counts Is Madd Lin?

Madd Lin is 2, 4 or 6 counts, and the reciter chooses. The three lengths have names your teacher will say out loud but you will rarely see printed in English material: qasr (قصر, 2 counts), tawassut (توسط, 4 counts) and tul (طول, 6 counts).

Hear the three lengths on one word, stopped on خَوْفْ. Each button is its own separate teacher recording.

Whichever length you choose for Madd Leen, keep it steady rather than switching at random from one stop to the next. Drifting between two counts at one ayah-end and six at the next, with no settled pattern, is one of the most audible marks of an untrained reciter, and it is rarely explained in English material.

For beginners, matching Madd Leen with Madd ‘Arid lis-Sukoon can be a simple way to practise consistency, and many teachers start beginners that way. It is a training method, not a rule: the two should not be presented as if they must always have exactly the same length. Your teacher will tell you which pattern to follow as your recitation develops.

Many teachers ask beginners to take two counts everywhere until their stops are stable, and only then move up to four or six. That is good advice: consistency at two is worth far more than an impressive six that wanders.

How to Pronounce Madd Lin

The sound is a glide, not a stretch. Feel the difference in your own mouth. In يَقُولُ the mouth locks into one position and stays there for the whole length — nothing moves. In خَوْفٍ the mouth travels from the fathah toward the waw, and then rests. That travel is precisely what the word leen is naming.

Madd Lin pronunciation: three details that fix it

Play them back to back. Side by side the difference is obvious; in isolation it is almost inaudible — which is exactly the learner’s problem.

The same test on الْبَيْت, in the teacher’s voice: stopped, then continued.

Madd Lin vs Madd Arid Lis-Sukoon

If you already know both names and still cannot tell them apart, you are in the right place — and the reason is simple. Madd Lin and Madd Arid Lis-Sukoon share almost everything.

Madd Lin Examples in the Quran

Surah Quraysh is the best training surah in the Quran for this rule. All four of its ayat end with a word containing a leen letter — قُرَيْشٍ, الصَّيْفِ, الْبَيْتِ and خَوْفٍ — and almost every learner already knows it by heart, which makes it the fastest possible proof. Tap any word below to hear it in Sheikh Al-Husary’s voice. Words outlined in gold carry the leen letter.

More Madd Lin examples with Quran references

Three more, beyond Surah Quraysh. The last two are the exceptional case, and on this short list they are the only ones that apply whether you stop or not.

Madd Lin words to practise

A word bank you can drill away from the mushaf, split by letter.

The Exceptional Case: ‘Ayn in Two Surah Openings

There is one exceptional case where Madd Leen is obligatory rather than optional — and it occurs in the disconnected letters that open two surahs.

The letter عَيْن, which appears in كهيعص at the opening of Surah Maryam and in عسق in Surah Ash-Shura, is spelled ع – يْ – ن: a leen letter followed by a permanent sukoon, not a temporary one. Because the sukoon does not come from your decision to stop, your decision cannot remove it.

The wider family of permanent-sukoon madds — and the four types it splits into — is covered on Madd Lazim.

6 Common Madd Leen Mistakes

Practise Madd Leen

Consistency trainer: pick a length and hold it

Accuracy is not the skill here — evenness is. Choose your length, then recite five stops in a row, pressing and holding the bar for each one. The feedback you get back is simply how much your five holds varied from each other in this drill, not how close they were to a stopwatch and not a judgement on your recitation.

Leen letter or madd letter?

Ten words, one highlighted letter in each. The question is what the highlighted letter is — a leen letter or a madd letter — not whether Madd Leen would occur if you stopped on the word. Run the two-step vowel test in your head, then tap. Instant feedback, no sign-up.

Play: Madd Leen Star Jar (Free Game)

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Read these four in order and the whole madd chapter falls into place. Madd Asli is the two-count baseline everything else is measured against; Madd Badal is a hamzah before the madd letter and stays at two; Madd Wajib Muttasil is a hamzah after it in the same word and is obligatory at four to five; Madd Silah is the pronoun’s ha’, short at two or long at four to five before a hamzah. Madd Leen sits outside this group because it is stop-dependent — as is Madd ‘Arid lis-Sukoon, which is why the two are grouped together below.

The other stop-dependent madds, and the hub:

All of them are taught step by step in our Tajweed for adults and Tajweed for kids classes.

Madd Leen FAQ

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What Is Madd Silah in Tajweed?

Silah means connection. The madd exists to connect the pronoun to the word after it, so the ha’ is never left hanging in the middle of a sentence. Once you know that, the name stops being arbitrary: this is the connecting madd, and it exists only while you are joining one word to the next.

Which ha’ is it? Only the ha’ ad-damir (هاء الضمير), also called ha’ al-kinayah — the ha’ that stands for a third-person singular masculine referent: his, him or it. The ha’ in وَجْه, نَفْقَهُ or ٱللَّهُ is part of the word itself, not a pronoun, and takes no silah. (Watch the letter too: the final letter of فَاكِهَةٌ is a taa marbutah ة, not a ha’ ه — it is not a candidate for silah in the first place.) Run this test before every rule below: is this ha’ ha’ al-kinayah? If not, silah normally does not apply.

One word breaks the test, and you should learn it now: هَٰذِهِۦ. The ha’ in هَٰذِهِ is not a pronoun — it belongs to the demonstrative itself — yet Hafs treats it like ha’ al-kinayah for silah, and the Madinah mushaf prints the small yaa on it: إِنَّ هَٰذِهِۦ تَذْكِرَةٌ (Al-Muzzammil 73:19). Being treated like a pronoun ha’ does not mean it is always stretched — the joining conditions still decide. In وَهَٰذِهِ ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ (Az-Zukhruf 43:51) the next letter is the sakin lam of ال, so there is no silah at all.

One line on the unit of measure: a count (harakah) is the time it takes to open or close one finger at a steady pace. It is relative to your own tempo, not a fixed number of seconds.

Madd Silah Pronunciation

After a dammah the ha’ becomes a pure oo: هُ → hoo. After a kasrah it becomes a pure ee: هِ → hee. Keep the vowel pure and the length steady: no ghunnah, no break in the middle of the stretch, and the mouth does not move until it is finished. A natural rise or fall in tone is not itself a mistake — distorting the vowel or chopping the madd into pulses is. Hear the word on its own first, then inside the ayah:

Transliteration matters more here than on any other madd page: lahu and lahoo are the entire lesson.

The Madd Silah Letter You Cannot See

In Madd Silah, no full madd letter is written on the baseline. Instead, some Mushaf editions mark the connection with a small waw after a dammah or a small yaa after a kasrah. Other editions may leave the ha’ without this additional sign, so the reciter must recognise the rule from ha’ al-kinayah and the surrounding letters.

Not every mushaf prints that mark. Madinah-script copies show the small waw and small yaa clearly. Some other printings mark them differently or leave the ha’ bare, and the reciter is expected to apply the rule from the grammar alone. That single fact is why the pronoun test below matters more on this page than on any other madd page.

Three words, three different ha’s. Listen to them back to back and the difference stops being theoretical:

The Rules and Conditions of Madd Silah

Five conditions. As a general rule: if all five hold you have a silah, and if one fails you normally do not. Hafs also transmits two special cases that sit outside this framework and are memorised exactly as they were received — you will meet both further down the page.

Madd Silah depends on the ha’ itself and on the letters around it. Conditions 1 and 4 are about the ha’ — its identity and its vowel. Conditions 2, 3 and 5 are about what surrounds it. That second half is why the very same pronoun can take a silah in one ayah and none in another.

Madd Silah Sughra (The Lesser Connection)

Silah Sughra is 2 counts, and it applies when the next word begins with any letter other than a hamzah. It is a branch of Madd Asli: the same fixed length, the same absence of a cause, and no choice for the reciter. If you can already hold a natural madd for two counts, you can already read a Silah Sughra — you just have to notice it is there.

And it is everywhere. Silah Sughra occurs frequently throughout the Quran. It is frequently shortened by learners because the full madd letter is not written on the baseline, and the person clipping it usually has no idea the rule exists. Four examples, word first, then the whole ayah:

Madd Silah Kubra (The Greater Connection)

Silah Kubra is 4 or 5 counts, and it applies when the next word begins with a hamzah qat’ (ء أ إ آ). This one is a Far’i madd — a branched madd with a cause — and it is the exact twin of Madd Jaiz Munfasil: a madd letter at the end of one word meeting a hamzah at the start of the next. The only difference is that here the madd letter is unwritten. The same hamzah, met inside a single word, would give you Madd Wajib Muttasil instead.

Choose one length and keep it. Whether you read 4 counts or 5, that choice applies to every Munfasil and every Silah Kubra in the same recitation. It is not a word-by-word decision. Sheikh Al-Husary reads 4, which is what you hear in every clip on this page.

One more trap worth naming: in مَالَهُۥٓ أَخْلَدَهُۥ the first ha’ is a Kubra, and the second sits at the end of the ayah — so if you stop there, it takes no silah at all.

Madd Silah Kubra vs Sughra

In isolation the two lengths are almost impossible to judge. Side by side, in the same voice, they are unmistakable. Play them one after the other:

One pronoun ha’, two roads — and the next word chooses the road.

Sughra and Kubra are not two rules. They are one rule meeting two different next words — and the ha’ does not change at all. Only what follows it does.

When There Is No Madd Silah at All

Learning the rule creates a second problem: the reader starts saying hoo after every ha’ they meet. These five cases are the cure, and they are the ones you will meet first.

Stopping removes the connecting sound of the ha’, but this does not automatically create Madd ‘Arid lis-Sukoon; that rule applies only when its own conditions are present.

The Special Cases in Hafs

Two special cases in Hafs do not follow the general conditions described above. Their recitation is transmitted through the riwayah rather than derived from the general rule: one takes silah despite a sakin letter before the ha’, while the other takes no silah despite meeting the usual conditions.

Madd Silah Examples in the Quran

Ten Madd Silah examples from the Quran, ordered by difficulty rather than by page: eight live silahs and two cases where the rule does not apply. The last two rows are deliberate — a table of nothing but valid silahs teaches the eye to stretch every ha’ it meets.

Madd Silah Examples in Surah Al-Ikhlas and Ayat al-Kursi

Al-Ikhlas is the cleanest Sughra in the Quran and almost everyone has it memorised. The whole surah contains exactly one Madd Silah, in the final ayah: وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُۥ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌ. The هُ is a pronoun, the letter before it is vowelled, the next word starts with ك — so it is two counts, and it is the one most people cut short.

Ayat al-Kursi is one of the most widely memorised and frequently recited long verses and it carries all three states at once: لَّهُۥ مَا (Sughra), عِندَهُۥٓ إِلَّا and عِلْمِهِۦٓ إِلَّا (Kubra), and كُرْسِيُّهُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ (no silah — the next letter is sakin). Tap the colours off and test yourself:

5 Common Madd Silah Mistakes

Practise Madd Silah

Two drills. The first trains the only decision this page rests on. The second stops you applying the rule where it does not belong.

Drill 1 — Sughra or Kubra?

Look at the word after the pronoun. If it starts with a hamzah, you are holding 4 or 5. If not, 2.

Drill 2 — Is There a Silah at All?

Six cards. Some are silahs, some fail one of the five conditions. The feedback names the condition that failed.

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Play: The Madd Silah Circle (Free Game)

Recognition on a page and recognition under time pressure are two different skills. Spot the pronoun ha’ that takes a connection and let the rest go past. It works on phones and tablets, and no account is needed.

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Madd Silah only makes sense inside its family. Madd Asli is the baseline your Silah Sughra is measured against — the same two counts under a different name. Madd Badal is the other 2-count madd that looks as if it should be longer, and learners confuse the two constantly. Madd Wajib Muttasil has the same hamzah cause as your Silah Kubra, but inside one word instead of across two; the position of the hamzah is what separates the two rules, not the length — in Hafs by the way of Ash-Shatibiyyah, Muttasil is read 4 or 5 counts as well. The 4–5 you hold on a Kubra comes from the transmitted riwayah and tariq, not from counting words. And Madd Lazim provides the fixed six-count benchmark in this madd family, so it shows you how much freedom Kubra’s 4-or-5 really gives you.

The rest of the chapter: Tajweed Rules · Rules of Meem Sakinah · Noon Sakin Rules · Qalqalah Letters · Tajweed for Adults · Tajweed for Kids

Madd Silah FAQ

Two learners recite قَالَ. One stretches it noticeably longer than the other, and both are certain they are right. Neither of them is arguing about which letters to read — they can both see the alif. They are arguing, without knowing it, about how long to hold it. There are only three Madd letters — alif (ا), waw (و) and yaa (ي) — and no one ever disagrees about those.

That is the whole difficulty of this chapter. Madd Rules are the part of Tajweed rules where the letters are easy to see and the length is easy to get wrong. The good news is how short the real list is: those three letters, one natural length of two counts, and a small set of reasons that length changes. Learn the reasons and the numbers stop being a memory test.

Also written Mad; in Arabic المد, plural Mudood (المدود). The letters themselves are called huroof al-madd (حروف المد). Every count on this page follows the riwayah of Hafs ‘an ‘Asim by the way of Ash-Shatibiyyah, and the first stop after this page should be Madd Asli, the natural length everything else is measured against.

What Is Madd in Tajweed?

The literal meaning of madd is to extend or draw something out. Its opposite in this chapter is qasr (قصر), shortening — and both words appear in the counts table further down, because several types of Madd give you a choice between a longer and a shorter reading. So the Madd Tajweed rules are not really a list of sounds. They are a list of durations, and that is why so many learners who can read Arabic fluently still recite this chapter incorrectly.

The unit of measurement is the count, called a harakah (حركة) and often translated as a beat. The classical description is simple: one count is the time it takes to open or close one finger at a steady recitation pace. Notice what that definition does not contain — a number of seconds. A count is relative to your own pace. A slow reciter’s two counts last longer in real time than a fast reciter’s two counts, and both are correct. What is not correct is your own two-count changing from one ayah to the next.

One more thing worth saying early, because it removes a lot of confusion later: Madd in Tajweed is not something you add to a word. The stretching is already built into the letter. A Madd letter is a vowel with nothing to stop it, so the sound simply continues until something ends it. The rules below are all answers to one question — what ends it, and how long does it run before it does?

Madd Letters: The Three Letters of Lengthening

There are three Madd letters, and that number never changes: alif (ا), waw (و) and yaa (ي). Every single Madd in the Quran, from the shortest to the longest, is built on one of these three. What changes from one type of Madd to another is not the Madd letter itself — it is the cause or condition around it: a hamzah before or after it, a sukoon after it, or a stop that creates a temporary sukoon.

One word that contains all three: نُوحِيهَا

You do not need to memorise a list. All three Madd letters appear together, in order, inside a single Quranic word — نُوحِيهَا in Surah Hud. The waw follows a dammah, the yaa follows a kasrah, and the alif follows a fathah. Teach a child this one word and the letters are learned for life. Listen to Sheikh Al-Husary say it on its own:

Tap any word or row to hear it.

How many Madd letters are there?

Three: ا, و and ي. A waw or a yaa only counts as one of the Madd letters in Tajweed when it is sakin and the letter before it carries the matching vowel — a dammah before the waw, a kasrah before the yaa. A Madd alif is always sakinah and always preceded by a fathah, so it can never carry a vowel of its own — but not every written alif is pronounced as a Madd letter. An alif carrying a hamzah (أ إ) is a consonant, and the alif written after the waw of the plural in آمَنُوا is not pronounced at all.

The layn letters (حروف اللين) — related, but not Madd letters

There is one near-miss worth naming. A waw or a yaa that is sakinah but preceded by a fathah — as in خَوْف and بَيْت — is called a letter of softness, harf layn, not a letter of lengthening. In normal reading it is not stretched at all. It is only lengthened when you stop on the word it ends, and that stretched version has its own name, Madd Layn, which appears in the counts table below. Most English pages either skip this distinction or teach it as a fourth Madd letter; it is neither.

Types of Madd in Tajweed

Before any list, take the map. Every Madd in the Quran is one of two things: Asli — natural, needing no cause — or Far‘i — secondary, caused by an additional factor attached to the Madd letter. That factor is only ever a hamzah (ء) or a sukoon; the hamzah usually comes after the Madd letter, but in Madd Badal it comes before it. Every named type you have ever seen is a branch of one of those two, and once you can place a type on this map you can work out its length without remembering it.

Read the middle column again, because it is the shortcut. Madd Asli is the default state of a Madd letter: nothing has happened to it, so it runs for two counts and stops. Everything filed under Far‘i is a Madd Asli that met a hamzah or a sukoon. That cause is what decides the length — usually pushing it above two counts, though in Madd Badal the hamzah sits before the Madd letter and the length does not change at all. This is why the causes — hamzah, permanent sukoon, temporary sukoon — matter more than the names.

How many types of Madd are there?

There are two main types — Madd Asli and Madd Far‘i — and they branch into around ten commonly taught kinds. If you have searched this question before, you will have seen “2”, “6”, “13” and “15” all given as the answer, which is why the question keeps being asked.

Here is the honest explanation nobody puts on the page: those numbers are not disagreements about the rules. They are different levels of the same tree. Count the trunks and you get 2. Count the main branches of Far‘i and you get around seven. Keep going and split Madd Lazim into its four classical sub-varieties — kalimi and harfi, each of which can be muthaqqal or mukhaffaf — and the total climbs past 13. Every one of those authors would recite the same ayah with exactly the same length. They are slicing one tree at different heights.

So the useful question is not how many types exist. It is what is in front of my Madd letter, and how many counts does that mean — which is the table in the next section.

The four types with their own guides

Four of the branches are common enough to deserve a full page each. This page is the map; those four are the territory.

How Many Counts Is Each Madd?

This is the reference table, and it is deliberately sorted by length rather than by name — because when you are mid-recitation you are not looking up a taxonomy, you are looking up a number. If you have ever searched how many beats is Madd, this is the answer to it — a beat and a count are the same unit. Short answer for the impatient: Madd Asli is 2, Muttasil and Munfasil are 4 or 5, Madd Lazim is always 6, and the temporary ones let you choose.

Scroll the table sideways on a phone. Counts follow Hafs ‘an ‘Asim by the way of Ash-Shatibiyyah.

Hear the ladder: 2, then 4–5, then 6

Play these three in order, from Sheikh Al-Husary, without reading anything in between. The table becomes obvious the moment you hear the difference instead of picturing it.

Muttasil or Munfasil? Only the space matters

These two are the pair most often confused, and the test takes half a second: look at where the hamzah is. In جَاءَ the hamzah is inside the same word as the alif — connected, muttasil, and the lengthening is obligatory. In إِنَّا أَعْطَيْنَاكَ the alif ends one word and the hamzah begins the next — separated, munfasil, and the lengthening is permissible. Same three letters, same hamzah, different ruling, entirely because of a space.

Which Madd Is This? Answer Two Questions

Ten names is a lot to hold in your head while you are reciting. You do not have to. This tool identifies the main Madd patterns from two questions, and asks them for you. Special cases — Madd Layn, ‘Iwad, Silah and Tamkeen — have their own conditions and are not covered by it. Use it on a word you are stuck on and it will tell you the type, the count and where to read more.

A learning aid, not a ruling. Rare cases — and any word you are unsure of — belong with a teacher.

Madd Rules in the Quran: Worked Examples

Madd in Quran recitation is not a rare event — it is on almost every line, which is exactly why an error in it spreads so far. Everything below is Sheikh Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husary, cut word by word: tap a single word and you hear that word alone, at teaching pace. Words carrying a Madd are marked in orange. Use Hide highlights to test yourself, and Slow speed when you are counting.

Madd in Surah Al-Fatihah, ayah by ayah

Start here, with the surah you already know by heart. Seven ayat give you the three most frequent Madd patterns and not one new word to learn — which makes Al-Fatihah the fastest tour of this chapter in the Quran. Read the note under each ayah, then tap the words.

Twelve worked examples, shortest length first

One clip per row, ordered from the shortest length to the longest. Read the count before you press play, then check whether your ear agrees with the number.

Every ayah above can be checked against Quran.com, and the recitation throughout is Sheikh Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husary.

5 Common Madd Mistakes

Four of these five are length errors, not reading errors. That is the pattern: learners who make them can read every letter on the page correctly.

Practise the Rules of Madd in Tajweed

How many counts? A 10-clip ear trainer

Naming a Madd from the page is one skill; hearing its length is another, and it is the one this chapter is actually about. Play the clip, decide whether Sheikh Al-Husary held it for 2, 4–5 or 6, then check. No account, no sign-up, and your score resets whenever you like.

Listen and copy: six ayat, one per length

Work through the clips in the examples table in this order, repeating each one aloud straight after Sheikh Al-Husary and matching his length rather than his voice: قَالَ (2) → آمَنُوا (2) → إِنَّا أَعْطَيْنَاكَ (4–5) → وَالسَّمَاءِ (4–5) → الم (6) → الضَّالِّينَ (6). Turn on Repeat and Slow speed for the first pass. Five minutes a day for a week does more than reading this page twice.

Play: The 4 or 6 Counts Basketball Game

Deciding a length calmly is one thing; deciding it in the half-second you actually get while reciting is another. Shoot each word into the 4-count hoop or the 6-count hoop before the clock runs out. It works on phones and tablets, and no account is needed.

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Start with the four types that have their own guides — each one takes a single row of the counts table and opens it out. The badge on each card is its length, so this row doubles as a revision aid.

The four types of Madd

The rest of the Tajweed cluster

All of them sit inside the wider set of Tajweed rules, and all are taught step by step in our Tajweed for adults and Tajweed for kids classes.

Madd Rules FAQ

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