FEMALE HA' WRITTEN WITH TA',

PART 1
There are two types of (the letter indicating a female gender) in the Qur’an:

1. That which is written with what is called , in other words written as:

2. That which is written with what is called , or written as the letter .

These two different ways of writing this letter are of the specifics of the ‘Uthmani writing. It is
important that the reciter knows these well, so that he stops according to the way it is written; this

means the reader must stop with a when the word is written with and stop

with a when the word is written with . There are two subdivisions of this

section, one being those words that are agreed to be singular and written with , the

second being those words that are written with , but there is a difference of opinion on
whether it is singular or plural.

The female which is agreed to be singular and is written with a

This occurs in the revelation in 13 words in 41 places. They are all words in singular form and are

adjuncted by a clear noun after it recites these with a when stopping. The

13 words that are sometimes written with are:

These will now be covered individually. We will start with two of these words and cover their
occurrences this lesson, and continue next lesson with the other words.

There are seven places where this word was written in the Qur’an with , all other

places in the Qur’an are written with .

Imam Al-Jazaree documented these places in his poem famously known as al-jazariyyah, when he
wrote:

The word "Kaf" refers to surah Maryam.

This word was written in the Holy Qur’an with in 11 places, the rest are written with

a .
Imam Al-Jazaree continued in the same part of the tajweed poem and documented the occurrence of

the word written as in the following lines:

The word "3uqood" refers to surah al-Maa'idah, and Imam Al-Jazaree tied this occurrence

of written with a to two items, first it is the second occurrence of the

word in this surah, but as we know this second one is written with a , and the

word is linked to this word being written with a , as we can see from the aayah above,
the word follows the word by four words; this is the meaning of his

words:

FEMALE HA' WRITTEN WITH TA',

PART 2
We continue outlining the words and their places of occurrence that end in a female , but
are written in some places in the Qur'an with an open . As we stated in the last tidbit
lesson, it is vital that we know these places in the surahs we have memorized in order to know how
to stop properly on these words if the need be. Hafs 'an 'Aasim stops on these words as they are

written in the copies of the Qur'an. If the word (with any type of vowelization on the
end of it) is written with a (which looks like ), we stop with
a saakinah; but if it is written as (with any type of vowelization on the end), we
stop with a .

There are two places in the Glorious Qur'an where this word is written with a .

Imam Al-Jazaree documented these two occurrences in his poem famously known as al-Jazariyyah
when he said:
It is conditional that this word be written with when the woman is mentioned with
her husband. It occurs in the revelation seven places (two occur in the same aayah, or aayah 10 of
At-Tahreem).

Imam Al-Jazaree pointed these out in the lines from Al-Jazariyyah:

This word was written with a two places in the Qur’an, both in surah Al-
Mujaadilah:
Imam Al-Jazaree said:

This word was written with one place in the revelation in surah Ad-Dukhaan, it is
written with in all other places.

Imam Al-Jazaree pointed this out when he said:

We will continue outlining the words that are normally written with , but have
some incidences in the Glorious Qur'an where they are written with next lesson,
insha' Allah.

FEMALE HA' WRITTEN WITH TA',

PART 3
We continue outlining the words and their places of occurrence that end in a female , but
are written in some places in the Qur'an with an open . As we stated in the first and
second tidbit lesson on this subject, it is vital that we know these places in the surahs we have
memorized in order to know how to stop properly on these words if the need be. Hafs 'an 'Aasim
stops on these words as they are written in the copies of the Qur'an.
This word was written in the Glorious Qur’an with in five places, three of them
are in the same aayah of surah FaaTir. We stop and continue on all of these five with a
. All other occurrences are written with and are therefore recited with
a when continuing, and are recited with a when stopping.

Imam Al-Jazaree said in his poem, famously known as Al-Jazariyyah:

This word was written with in one place in the Qur’an, all others were written with
a

Imam Al-Jazaree linked it to the the next word, so that we would know that it only was written

with in this combination:

This word was written in the Glorious Qur’an in only one place with , in all other
places are written with . We need to remember that this is referring to the singular
form and not the plural of the word which always is written with .

Imam Al-Jazaree lined this word written with with the surah it occurs when he
said:

This word occurs only once in the Holy Qur’an, and it is written with :

Since it only occurs once in the Qur'an, Imam Al-Jazaree simply said:

We will conclude the this section next lesson, insha' Allah.

FEMALE HA' WRITTEN WITH TA',

PART 4
We conclude explaining the words and their places of occurrence that end in a female
, but are written in some places in the Qur'an with an open . As we stated in the last three
lessons on this subject, it is vital that we know these places in the surahs we have memorized in
order to know how to stop properly on these words if the need be. Hafs 'an 'Aasim stops on these
words as they are written in the copies of the Qur'an.

This word was written with one place in the Qur’an:

This is the only place in the Qur’an where this word is (adjuncted by a clear
noun after it). The word , not in the adjucted state ( ) occurs written
with , and the scholars agree that nouns ending with and
not (not adjuncted) never are written with .
Imam Al-Jazaree then simply named the word, without a need for further explanation when he
said:

This word was written with in the following aayah:

Since it only occurs once in the Glorious Qur'an, Imam Al-Jazaree again, just named the word,
and said:

This word was written once with a , all other places where this word occurs and is
agreed to be singular amongst the different reciters is written with .

Imam Al-Jazaree said:

Imam Al-Jazaree did not specifically name the words that are read by some of the qira'aat in the
plural form and others in the singular form but indicated that we are required to learn them when

he said:

These words that are read by some in the plural form and others in the singular form are all written
with , and we will begin discussing them next tidbit lesson, insha' Allah.
We have put the specific line from the Jazariyyah for each individual word, but not the full section
on the female ha' written with a in these last lessons. The complete section of Al-
Jazariyyah on the female ha' or as it is also called, female ta', is as follows:
Some surah names are positioned so that they are used for two evidences, the one before and the
one after, such as the last word of the first line, Al-Baqarah; there is written with a
and also the word occurs in surah Al-Baqarah written with a , so Imam Al-Jazaree,
may Allah be merciful to him, creatively placed the name of the surah in between the two evidences
so it can be used twice.
This concludes the lessons on words ending with that are read in the singular form by
all of the different ways of recitation, but written with a .