How Many Counts Is a Ghunna and Madd Leen Held For?
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch
Question
How many counts is a ghunna (e.g., in ‘inna’) and a madd leen not at the end of a verse (e.g., in ‘khawfun’ in “la khawfun ‘alayhim”)?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
The ghunna and the madd leen (that occurs in the middle of the verse) are held for one count. [Ghawthani, Tajwid al-Ghawthani]
One count means the length of two voweled letters, such as سَجَ in the word سَجَدَ.
Now, relative to the speed with which one is reading, this will change the temporal length relatively.
Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Shaykh Yusuf Weltch teaches Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he completed four years at the Darul Uloom Seminary in New York, where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences.
He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he studied for three years in Dar al-Mustafa under some of the most outstanding scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib.
In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Quran and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Quranic exegesis, Islamic history, and several texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.
