The Comprehensive Knowledge about Quranic Tajweed or Tajwid

Qoran tajwid means improvement and perfection. If you create something with tajwid, it indicates you are attempting to do it with the utmost quality and in the perfect way possible.

The term is technically used to apply to the science involved with correct recitation and pronunciation of the Qur’anic words and verses.

The relationship is open between the true meaning of the word and its technical usage; the literal sense revolves around perfecting an action or a performance, which is the recitation of the Quran with tajwid as far as the science of Tajwid is concerned.

After the speedy spread of Islam in its first centuries, especially among non-Arabs, Muslim scholars thought it necessary to put down a set of rules that serve as a reference for the Qur’an learners. So, Tajwid has been the reference for people who wished to read the Qur’an correctly.

This, however, does not negate the fact that the Qur’an cannot be read separately, without the help of a skilled teacher. The unique isnad-based system of learning the Qur’an continued to be the recognized way for teaching students how to recite the Qur’an and for training them on Tajwid.

In the isnad-based system, a student recites the whole Qur’an by heart, from the beginning to the end, fulfilling the rules of Tajweed to a certified Qur’an teacher, and then the student is approved by the teacher to be qualified to recite and teach the Qur’an. The certificate is called ijazah (license). A typical ijazah lists the teachers of the granting sheik (the isnad or sanad , an unbroken chain of teachers that goes back to the Prophet).

Tajwid, according to the scholars’ definition, is all about “articulating (the sound of) each word from its proper point of connection, and securing the correct pronunciation of the genuine characteristics of each sound as well as the occasional ones.”

Here, by ‘genuine,’ scholars mean the stable features of a sound without which the sound is never said correctly. The special features are those concerning a letter sound due to specific occasional reasons such as the place of the letter in a word, its tashkil, the features of the letters coming before or after it, etc.

A standard Tajwid book begins with an introduction explaining the significance and manners of reciting the Qur’an, the requirements of a correct recitation, the Islamic law of keeping Tajwid when reciting the Qur’an, and the types of reading in terms of speed. The main body of Tajwid, as explicitly stated in the above definition, is concerned with the correct pronunciation of the Qur’an.