Bismillahi Al-Rahmani Al-Rahim
Lesson 19: "wa la-z-zalin" (with a za
not a zay)
Q
I have a question regarding the following section of
Lesson 19:
'It is not valid for an
€ ¦'³illiterate€ ¦'´'·someone
who does
recite Al-Fatiha correctly, or makes idhgham...(b:
such as someone who changes the ra to a ghayn, with
the exception of replacing the dad of
€ ¦'³al-maghdubi€ ¦'´
and € ¦'³al-dalin€ ¦'´ with a
za)...'
I simply wanted to clarify my understanding of this
last point. Is it valid to pray behind someone who
replaces the dad with the za in 'al-maghdubi' and
'al-dalin'?
A
Al-hamdu lillah someone asked about this.
The letter that can replace the € ¦Ö /dad (like a
sad with a single dot above) is € ¦Ù / za (like a
ta with a single dot above, or like a dad with a vertical
line and a single dot above) not € ¦Ò /
zay (like a ra with a single dot above). (The
Arabic characters I included may appear as garbage.)
Just for fun I have attached a small HTML file about the woes of
transliteration. Comments and advice are most welcome.
wa al-salamu `alaykum
--musa