TAJWEED COURSE LECTURE NOTES. LECTURE 2- AL ISTIADHA AND BASMALAH PART 1

 CHAPTER TWO: AL ISTIADHA AND BASMALAH  

الإستعاذة والبسمة

All praise to Allah, the lord of the world, and pease and salutations be upon our leader, the prophet Muhammad, and his family and his companions and those who shall follower their footpaths until the day of judgment.
Every palace or fortress has a gate and the gate of the palace shows how protected the palace or the fortress is. The same way, the Quran also get its gate as a fortress and undoubtedly, the gate to the Quran is the ISTIADHA AND THE BASMALA. Since the Quran deserves more protection and value as a fortress , so as to the ISTIADHA AND THE BASMALA as its gate. These two terminologies are very important and demand more attention since they are the things we use to open the Quran.
Today, we shall be delving more into them by explaining their definitions,shapes, rulings and how to implement them in the recitation of the Quran in Shaa Allah.

الاستاذة

1. تعريف :DEFINITION

لغة:  LINGUISTICALLY الإلتجاء والإعتصام
Asking for refuge or protection

           
  اصطلاحا (SCHOLARLY):
قول؛أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم

The saying of “I seek refuge in Allah from the Devil, the  cursed one”

2. Shape/form

The mode of ISTIADHA chosen is أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم as it is the one came in the Quran. Allah says
Surah Number:16
Ayah Number: 98
‎فَاِذَا قَرَاۡتَ الۡقُرۡاٰنَ فَاسۡتَعِذۡ بِاللّٰهِ مِنَ الشَّيۡطٰنِ الرَّجِيۡمِ
Other forms of Istiadha s are: 

• أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم إن الله هو السميع العليم  
• أعوذ بالله السميع العليم من الشيطان الرجيم
• أعوذ بالله العظيم من الشيطان الرجيم

Note: the istiadha is not Part of the Quran

3. PRECEPTS/RULE
The saying if istiadha: it is preferred. Thus, if you say it, you will be rewarded. But you choose not to say it , there is no blame on you.

4. اوجه الإستعاذة:  Ways of expressing Istiadha

إقتران الإستعاذة بأول السورة:أربعة
Linking istiadha with the beginning of a Chapter(surah). There are four ways

• وصل الجميع /وصل الكُلَّ Joining all of them with one breath
  

• قطع الجميع/قطع الكُلَّ The reciter stops between Basmala and Istiadha, and stops between Basmala and the first verse

• قطع الأول ووصل الثاني بالثالث Stopping at the Istiadha and joining the Basmala and the first verse

• ووصل الأول بالثاني و قطع الثاني عن الثالث Joining istiadha and Basmala and separating the first verse.