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[Music] Lesson IV. The fourth lesson. In the fourth lesson, we're going to learn several new concepts, insha'Allah, within Allah. The first one relates to Hamza. To Rasul Hamdu, this is what we're going to explain, insha'Allah, right now. So, we have two types of Hamzas. The letter Hamza, Hamzatun, is of two types. We have a Hamza which is referred to as Hamzatul Qat' and then the second type of Hamza is referred to as Hamzatul Wasl. It looks like this. It appears like this. You always have this somewhere, and this can either come on top of an Alif, under an Alif, on top of a Waw, on top of a Ya [Music], or on a Nabira like this when it's in the middle. So, it appears like this. It can have [Music] also, and it appears in the beginning, in the middle, and in the end of the word. And whatever the case is, it is always going to be pronounced. You always pronounce this Hamza wherever it appears, whether at the beginning, at the middle, or the end of a word. You always pronounce it with whatever vowel it has on it, so it's always read. The second type of Hamza, Hamzatul Wasl, looks like this. It looks like this. We have this kind of shape on top of it, and it only appears at the beginning of a word, only at the beginning of the word. This one appears in the beginning, in the middle, and at the end. This one only appears at the beginning of a word, never in the middle or the end. This is not always read, whereas this one is always read. You always read it. This is not always read. When do we read this? We read it if we're starting the word. So, if we're starting this word, for example, whatever word it is, we start from here, we read this, and this can have Fatha, Kasra, or Dhamma, and never Sukun. This one can affect Fatha, Dhamma, and Sukun. This one will never have Sukun because it appears at the beginning. So, the beginning will never have Sukun because we can't start a word with the Sukun. So, you have Fatha, Sukun. We'll learn the rules, insha'Allah. When does it have how? When does it have questions as we study this book, insha'Allah? But for now, it can affect Dhamma. So, we only read it if we're starting the word with it. If we're starting the word with it, like Albeito, for example, whereas if we are not starting with it, perhaps there's a letter which precedes it. Wow, oh, it's in the middle of the word. We don't read this. We don't read this. It's as though it's not there, so we skip it. We say why and go to the Lamb. If it Sham See, I will go to the letter after the Lamb and read it with the Shadda Washem See, Washed. Okay, so there's two types of Hamzas. Has this, it looks like the head of Ya. This has this to represent it in writing. Hamza Tul Wasli has this. It looks like Asad, the head of Asad, to represent it. Whether it comes at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end, it's always read. It is only read if you're beginning the word with it. If it's in the middle or you're joining, carrying on, or continuing the sentence, then you don't read it. This is a good example here. Look, Hamza Tul, we don't say Al Wasli. We say Hamza Tul. We skip it because we're not starting with the Samsung, so we don't read it. And the same here, Hamza Hamza. Whereas if I was to read from here, I would say, I would say, okay. The other difference is this can appear at the beginning, in the middle, or the end. This only appears at the beginning. The other difference is this can have Fatha, Kasra, Dhamma, and the Sukun. This only has attackers on them. Okay, type. So, this is rule number one in terms of reading. So, when we read this, we say Al Beitu, but when we read it here, we don't say Albeit. We don't say Albeit. We read this one, but we don't read this one. Why do we read this one? Because we're starting with it. Why don't we read this one? Because we're continuing. So, whenever we continue, the Wasl is dropped. The other thing is Hamza Wasl. Now, this happens to Rasul. It can have Fatha, Dhamma. Whenever the Hamza Wasl is part of Al, the Al that we learned, that Maria, or if it's part of Al, then it's always going to be read with a Fatha. If it's part of this, will always be read with a Fatha. Reading rule number two that we're taking in this lesson is if we have two words, this word starts with a Sukun and this one ends with a Hafmah. We have three of the letters of elongation. We have three of them. The first one is Alif preceded by Fatah, then Waw Sakina preceded by Dhamma, then Ya Sakina preceded by Kasra. With the Alif added, it becomes two counts. So, these are the three of Mud. If the first word ends with a Hafmad, one of these, so let's say ends with this, and then we have, so this fire has a Kasra, so this is a Hafmad. If the first word ends with the Harf Mad and the second one begins with the Sukun, ends with Hafmad, the next one begins with the Sukun. Remember, the Rasul here, it's as though it doesn't exist because it's in the middle, so we're going to skip it. So, we're going from Hafmad to Sukun. The reading rule says if we have a Hafmad or the first word ends with a Hafmad and the second one begins with the Sukun, we eliminate the Hafmad. We don't read the Hafmad. We say Fill Bait, Fill, not Feel A Bit. And the same thing with Allah. This is Allah. This is an Alif. This is the type of Alif. So, we're supposed to stress this. This is two counts. [Music] Remember that represents two things. Whenever you see Shadda, they actually represent two things, and in this case, Fatah. So, here we're going from which is the Alif, and then the next word starts with the Sukun. So, what happens? The rule says we cancel out the Harf for Mud, and we read the letter before the Hafmad, join it to the Sukun. So, we say not Allah, and we're reading it because we're starting with the word. Whereas here, we're going to apply the two rules that we learned. First rule is we're not going to stretch this Harf Mad. We're not going to say the reason why we're not going to say Fee is because it's followed with a Sukun. So, we're going to cancel out the Hafmad, and she's going to say Fill, Fill, Fill. The second rule was the Hamza Wasabi. We didn't read it. We didn't say Albeit. We said Phil. So, we canceled out the Hafmad. Aside from the two reading rules, another thing that we learn in this section is that the endings of nouns are affected due to their position in a sentence as well as things which come before it. So, Albeito ends with a Dhamma. When we added Fee and Allah, when we added Fee and Allah, it caused the Dhamma to change and become a Kasra. Why did they become a Kasra? Because we added Fee and Allah. Sophia and Allah have caused the Dhamma to change into a Kasra. This is also something that we need to take on board in this section here, that there are particles which are added before a noun that cause the noun's ending to change from Dhamma to Kasra. These, they have a name. We call them Harf. It's a particle. Harf means pulling. Literally means pulling. So, it pulls the Dhamma. It pulls the Dhamma. It pulls it down and drags it down and makes it turn into a Kasra. That's literally what Harf Jar means. Pulls and makes it Kasra. So, which vowel is it that goes under the letters? There's only one vowel which is written under the letters, and that is the Kasra. So, Harf Jar pulls the Dhamma and the Fatha if it has a Fatha, and it takes it down to having a Kasra. So, the word that comes after Harf Jar will end with the Kasra. The plural of Harf Jar is the letters of pulling or dragging, literally. So, Allah, Allah, and Fee are, there are around 20 or 21 in total in the Arabic language, in the whole Arabic language. There are around 21 Harf al-Jar, and these Harf al-Jar, they only enter nouns. They can only be found before nouns. Where do we find the Harf al-Jar? We only find them entering upon nouns. So, whatever word comes after them is always going to be a noun. So, we could add this to our list. You remember previously we said that there are signs which indicate that a word is a noun. From those signs, one of them was if it has Al at the beginning, Al, this Al. The other sign was if it has Tanween at the end. If the word has, I think, at the end, then it's a noun. Today, we're adding number...