Madd — Lengthening

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1. 1

   Basis: two counts. A madd goes beyond them only because of a cause after it: a hamza, or a sukūn.

2. 2

   A hamza after the madd letter: in the same word it is muttaṣil (4 or 5, wājib); in the next word it is munfaṣil (4 or 5, jāʾiz).

3. 3

   A sukūn that stays in the word is lāzim: six counts. A sukūn that appears only at a pause: 2, 4 or 6, and the reader keeps the one he began with.

4. 4

   A pronoun hāʾ between moving letters is joined by a wāw or a yāʾ: two counts if no hamza follows, four or five if one does.

5. 5

   For Qālūn the munfaṣil is qaṣr of two counts first, or tawassuṭ of four, and the ṣila kubrā follows the munfaṣil.