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   Savannah Beckham:

   I want yall to send me pictures. Please!

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     Ismail Iqbal:

     @Savannah Beckham I want to learn Arabic Language with full grammar

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   yni:

   hope you add more examples for each letter.:)

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     Ismail Iqbal:

     @yni Yes i want more examples

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   Mohammad Sayeeduddin:

   Thanks for the informative article..
   Please inform why are these called sun and moon letters

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   Arwa:

   This site was helpful and thanks for list of words broken down well and also in english

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   Raqeebat:

   This helps with my homework so thanks a lot! I’m literally copying it as notes

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   Mayy:

   This post is so old, but very useful. I would like to comment, however, that it lacks crucial details which may help beginners understand the lesson much better. People will appreciate this post more if the author would do some elaboration.

   1) Solar/Sun letters
   – These are the letters that when placed at the beginning of a word and preceded by the definite article “AL” (meaning, “the”), the pronunciation of the whole word (i.e. word + definite article) changes in a way that the letter “Lam” in the article “AL” is dropped (i.e. not pronounced) and the “Alif” in the same article is connected to the first letter (the sun letter) of the word.

   Example:
   Tajir: Merchant: تَاجِر
   At-Tajir: The merchant: التَّاجِرُ
   (zoom in if the letters are too small to read)

   2) Lunar/Moon letters
   – These are the letters that when placed at the beginning of a word and preceded by the definite article “AL” (meaning, “the”), the pronunciation of the whole word (i.e. word + definite article) does not change and is read as is.
   – Alif in “AL” has a fat’hah vowel mark (“A” sound) and the Lam following it has a sukoon (a circle mark) indicating a pause. Unlike in the case of sun letters, the Lam is not dropped.

   Example:
   Bab: Door: بابٌ
   Al-Bab: The door: اَلْبَابُ

   You’ll see the difference when you read chapter titles and verses from the Qur’an.
   Sun:
   The merchant: At-Tajir, not Al-Tajir
   The star: An-Najm, not Al-Najm
   The sun: Ash-Shams, not Al-Shams
   The sun letter feature creates a shaddah (double syllable) above the sun letter immediately following the Lam of the definite article “AL.”

   Moon:
   The house: Al-Bayt, not Ab-Bayt
   The school: Al-Madrassah, not Am-Madrassah
   The moon: Al-Qamar, not Aq-Qamar

   Hope this helps 🙂

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   Uzma Batool:

   Very informative article. I want to know why we call sun letters the Sun letters and moon letters The Moon.what’s the reason? I know that Laam is silent in Sun letters but why they are named sun and moon.

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   Dontneedtoknow:

   This needs some editing because there are many mistakes in this blog. Anyway thank you for the explanation,that was really good!!

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   Jeannie:

   As much as I struggle I can’t make my throat and tongue produce the correct sounds. Any advise?