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salut mes amis et mon chere,

alors, ajourd'hui c'est le nuzul quran. time goes by in a blink.
it's the 17th day of fasting already. the annivesary of the very first Qur'anic revelation onto our dear Prophet (peace be upon him). every Muslim knows ( or should) the very first word Archangel Gabriel commanded Muhammad (pbuh) to repeat after him ; IQRA'. i.e READ.
that word consequently reminds me about Qiraat Sab'ah (the seven (types of) recitations) that i used to learn back in secondary school. it was my favourite subject in the Incentive Quranic skills class then ; an elective curicullar once-a-week class.

i dont think many people know about it though. but if u watched Akedemi Al-Quran competition recently u might have noticed.the diversity in arabic dialects invariably lead to many different kinda recitation (BUT meaning and spelling of EVERY word is ALWAYS the same) put it this way : kelantanese pronouces pergi as 'gi', kedahan as 'pi' n n9 folk as 'poie' - though this is not so accurate as anology, it's more or less like that. same word, but pronouciation differs slightly.

there are basically 7 imams (that's y seven qiraats) (there are actually more, but these seven are the most popular), with every imam's recitation bifurcates to produce two more narrators (rawi)'s recitations (rawi ni kire anak murid imam2 tu la). for example the qiraat that unanimously used in malaysia today is the qiraat of Hafas', under imam Aasim. The other rawi of Imam Aasim was Shu'bah.

here's the list ;

1) imam nafi' - Qaluun n Warash
2) imam aasim - Hafas n Shu'bah
3) imam ibn kathir - Qumbul n bazi
4) imam ibn amir - hisham n ibn zakuan
5) imam abu amru - duri n susi
6) imam hamzah - khalaf n khalad
7) imam kisa'ie - duri n abu al-harith

sometimes (long time ago, coz now i kinda forget a lot), when i lead a solat, i recited the surahs using qiraat other than aasim's , n usually i get frowning faces afterwards.but well, my intention was to make them realise that there are other ways to read the Quran. n i was very happy indeed when the AQ series actually put qiraat as one of their judging criteria.it'a exciting topic really. i really really think qiraat lesson should be taught in a wider scale. my qiraat knowledge is degrading now though.. i used to be soo damn good at it. now i barely remember which is which.. as in which qiraat belongs to which imam. shoud get a book sometime soon.
by the way, my big enormous thanx to Ustaz Rodzi, the person who introduced me to all these things:) tahapians, bes kn ustaz rodzi;)