Soft Letters In Arabic With Examples

In this lesson, we will learn all the soft letters in Arabic with their examples.

Soft Letters In Arabic

In Arabic, soft letters are called leen letters written as حروف اللين. Leen means to read softly or smoothly and there are two leen letters which are و and ي.

• Waaw   و
• Ya    ي

Waaw Soft Letter

When waw has jazm or Sukoon and the letter before was has Fatha on it, then this waw is called waw leen and will be read and pronounced quickly in a soft tone.

Examples in Quran

• يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ الْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ
• يَكَادُ الْبَرْقُ يَخْطَفُ أَبْصَارَهُمْ كُلَّمَا أَضَاء لَهُم مَّشَوْا فِيهِ
• لَا تَأْخُذُهُ سِنَةٌ وَلَا نَوْمٌ

Ya Soft Letter

When ya has a Jazm or sukoon and the letter before ya has a Fatha on it, then this ya is called ya-e-Leen and will be read and pronounced quickly in a soft tone.

Read What Is Tanween In Tajweed And Quran With Examples

Examples in Quran

• الَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ وَيُقِيمُونَ الصَّلاةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ يُنفِقُونَ
• ذَلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لاَ رَيْبَ فِيهِ هُدًى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ
• يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ

Soft letters comes at the beginning, middle or end of the word. There is no dhamma or Kasra with it and it has short syllables.

In this madd rule, instead of prolongation letters, Leen letters (ى and و ) are the criteria that we will use, not a reason of mad or letter of mad that we will seek in a word.

Leen letters are carrying sukoon and the preceding letter should have fatha as a short vowel. If one pauses on the second letter after the letter of Leen, then this becomes Maddi Al-Leen.

Keep that in mind, when you don’t stop on these words, Madd Al-Leen disappears.

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