The Mudood (Lengthenings) Part 6
The Separate Allowed Lengthening 
Its definition: It occurs when a medd letter is the
last letter of a word, and a hamzah qata' is the first letter of the next
word. It is called 
(allowed) because of the permissibility of a short count of two, as
well as its lengthening with some readers. It is called 
(separate) due to the separation of the
medd letter and hamzah, meaning they are in separate words, but next to each
other.
Its rule: Its lengthening is of
the measure of four or five vowel counts, the way we are teaching to
read, which is Hafs ‘an Aasim by the way of Shaatabiyyah
(
) . Two vowel
counts for this lengthening are not allowed in this way of reading. There
is a known way of reading also transmitted by Hafs ‘an Aasim that has two
vowel counts for this lengthening, but that way is not the way of
Ash-Shaatabiyyah, and the way of Ash-Shaatabiyyah is the way being taught here.
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For those interested in learning about the rules for the way of Hafs 'an 'Aasim
reading 
four vowel
counts and 
two vowel
counts please click here for a PDF download outlining the rules.
Examples:
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When stopping on the word that
has the medd letter at the end of it, the reader stops with the natural two
count lengthening
( 
) since the hamzah in the next word is the reason for lengthening to
four or five counts, and the reason is no longer present when stopping on the
first word.
NOTE: In some words such as 
used for calling, or 
for
drawing attention, the medd letter is written joined together with the
following word. When the next word begins with a hamzah, this may be confusing
when trying to ascertain whether the medd is or . The reader needs to know that ""
(for calling) and what follows it are two separate words; and the same can be
said for ""
(drawing attention) and what follows it. For example, the “” for calling in: 
is
a separate word from the name “Ibraaheem”, and the for drawing attention in, 
is a
separate word from the attached second word. In this second example, , there
are two lengthenings, the first is the Allowed Separate Lengthening
() with the for drawing attention ending in a medd letter, and the first letter
of the next word (which happens to be joined) a hamzah. There is also the
Required Attached Lengthening
( ) at the end of the second word, because there is a medd letter, 
,
followed by a hamzah in the same word.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The and must be both four counts or both
five counts. It is not allowed to mix the medd counts! There is no valid
way of reading that does differently than this.
The Greater Connecting Lengthening 
Its definition: If the pronoun/possessive pronoun 
representing
a third person male gender is at the end of a word (meaning not part of the
original make up of the word) and it has a vowel of a dhammah or a kasrah, is
between two voweled letters, and the first letter of the next word is a hamzah,
the dhammah on the pronoun/possessive pronoun is lengthened into a 
, or the
kasrah is lengthened into a 
and it
can be lengthened four or five counts. As stated above in the Allowed Separate
Lengthening, there is a known way of reading that also allows two counts for
the lengthening, but this is not the way that is being taught here.
This lengthening has the same
requirements as the Lesser Connecting Lengthening
(
), except
in this case (meaning The Greater Connecting Lengthening/ 
), there
is a hamzah as the first letter of the next word following the
pronoun/possessive pronoun ,
whereas in the Lesser Connecting Lengthening
(), there
cannot be a hamzah as the first letter of the next word after the
pronoun/possessive pronoun .
This medd follows the allowed
separated lengthening () in vowel counts, in other words, what ever the number of vowel
counts the reader is using for the allowed separated lengthening
(), he/she must use the same amount for this lengthening. The second in
the word 
follows the same rules as 
(or the
pronoun ha') in this medd.
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