Reading
&
Writing

Now we know that through Ilm-ul-Tajweed,

the Knowledge of Tajweed,

muslims have preserved and passed on the original pronunciation of the Qur'an

down through the centuries until today,

making a detailed science of the rules of recitation

and permitted variations in the way that words are said.

And many books have been written on the subject,

but you know the main rules,

and with a few more you know all but a few that appear infrequently.

And you've almost certainly come across almost all of the rules already

if you've read Juz 1 to Juz 6.

Which means that you really should have little trouble reading from Juz 7 to Juz 12,

from the story of Cain and Able near the start of the Sura called the Table,

through to the start of the Sura telling the story of Joseph,

with wonderful Surahs inbetween.

And you've certainly seen a variety of scripts,

as every mosque in Scotland will almost certainly have texts in two kinds,

and of course there's the variety you will have come across in IZWAYZ,

And while Tajweed preserved the pronunciation,

those who copied out the letters, words and surahs,

by their artistic skills, displayed the beauty of those words visually

and showed the reverence those words deserved.

And over the centuries,

shaped by different cultures and personalities,

the fashions and preferences as to what was considered the most beautiful forms in which to write the words of the Message changed,

but the words themselves remained the same.

And those words were written on vellum, and parchment, and paper,

and painted on walls, and carved in wood and plaster,

and baked into tiles,

and became the central art form of the muslim world.

What other rules of Tajweed do we need to know?

How did the Art of Writing take on its different forms