AL-IKHTILAAS

We take a brief break from the lessons on stopping on the end of a word to put forth the lesson
on

, or stealing of a vowel, since it is often compared with

The applied tajweed definition of

is: It is snatching the vowel quickly so that a little
departs (of the vowel count) and more remains.
It is also called
(hiding) by scholars. The scholars have determined that what remains of the
vowel count is two-thirds, and one-third has been removed, or stolen. There is only one place in the
Qur'an where Hafs 'an 'Aasim has the possibility of reading a vowel with

reading the word

being with

in aayah 11 of surah Yusef (surah 12) with one of the two allowed ways, one
and an ith-haar of the two

, the first with a dhammah (with ikhtilaas of

the vowel) and the second with a fat-h; recited as:

letter
two

. The written shaddah over the

represents two letters, and Hafs 'an 'Aasim reads this word either with idghaam of the
into each other with

with
Both

: that is when

of the two lips, or with

of the dhammah on the first

and

of both

share the characteristic of dividing the vowel, meaning removal of part of

it, and leaving the other part of it. The following table summarizes the differences between
and