The light of the day · Friday 4 September
The word for human nature also means breaking a fast
The root f t r means to split open, to cleave. From it comes fatir, the originator, used as a name of God and as the title of chapter 35, the one who splits creation into being out of nothing. From it also comes iftar, the breaking of the fast at sunset, which splits the day's abstention in two. And from it comes fitrah, the original pattern on which people were made, named in Surah al-Rum: the fitrah of Allah, upon which He originated mankind, with no altering of the creation of Allah. The same three letters carry the first act of creation and the meal a fasting person eats at dusk.
Root f t r, to split open
Source · Qur'an 30:30
Friday 4 September 2026 · 21 Rabi al-Awwal 1448 AH
The word · The Qur'an
القَلْقَلَة
Qalqalah
The slight bounce on five letters when they carry no vowel: qaf, taa, ba, jim and dal.
Teachers gather them in the phrase qutbu jad. The bounce is small in the middle of a word and stronger when you stop on the letter at the end of a verse. It is a spring off the letter, not an added vowel, so no eh or uh sound should be heard after it.
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