Lesson 28 of 30
Meem sakinah
Apply the three rules of the silent meem.
What this lesson introduces
- Ikhfa shafawi before ب
- Idgham shafawi before م
- Izhar shafawi otherwise
Practice between lessons
Progress at this stage tracks almost exactly with whether this happens.
- Read هُمْ بِ, لَهُمْ مَ and عَلَيْهِمْ غ
- Watch the meem before waw and fa
Rules that start to matter here
Learn this with a tutor
The Qaida is the one stage where self-teaching reliably goes wrong, because an error in a letter sound is invisible to the person making it. A tutor hears it on the first attempt.