The word · The Qur’an
الإِظْهار
Izhar
Pronouncing a nun sakinah or tanwin clearly, with no nasal hum, before one of six throat letters.
Also written · Izhaar · Idhar · Ith-har · Ezhar · Izhar halqi · Izhaar halqi · Izhar shafawi · clear pronunciation
The meaning
What Izhar means in Islam
The six are hamzah, ha, ayn, ha, ghayn and kha, all produced in the throat. Because the throat sits far from the nose, the nun is simply left as it is. There is a matching rule for a silent meem, called izhar shafawi, made at the lips.
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Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- Nun Sakinah and TanwinA nun carrying no vowel, or a tanwin ending, which triggers four tajwid rules depending on what follows.النّونُ السّاكِنَةُ وَالتَّنْوين
- IdghamMerging a nun sakinah or tanwin into the letter that follows, so the two are said as one.الإِدْغام
- IkhfaHiding a nun sakinah or tanwin: not clear, not merged, held with a nasal hum for two counts.الإِخْفاء
- Makharij al-HurufThe points in the mouth, throat and nose where each Arabic letter is produced.مَخارِجُ الحُروف
More from The Qur’an
- Al-Ahruf as-Sab'ahThe seven modes in which the Qur'an was revealed, an ease for the community; what a mode is stays disputed.الأَحْرُفُ السَّبْعَة
- Hafs an AsimThe reading found in most printed mushafs today, transmitted by Hafs from his teacher Asim of Kufa.حَفْصٌ عَنْ عاصِم
- JuzOne of the thirty roughly equal parts the Qur'an is divided into, for reading it over a month.جُزْء
- Mujawwad and MurattalTwo recorded styles: mujawwad is slow and ornamented for listening, murattal is even and plain.المُجَوَّد وَالمُرَتَّل
- Rub' al-HizbA quarter of a hizb, shown by the small ornamental star in the margin of the mushaf.رُبْعُ الحِزْب
- TafsirExplanation of the Qur'an: what a verse means, why it came, and what it asks of you.التَّفْسير