Questions: two sakinas

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1. State the ruling on the meeting of two sakinas within a single word when stopping, and which letters the first sakina is then found in, with illustration.
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   The meeting taken on its own is permitted, whether the first sakina is a madd letter as in إِنَّ الأَبْرَارَ and الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ, a leen letter as in فَلْيَعْبُدُوا رَبَّ هَذَا الْبَيْتِ and خَوْفٍ, or a true sakina as in رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا. It is therefore permitted to stop on each of these words in which the two sakinas meet in their own right; but if the word is joined to what follows it, the second sakina receives its original vowel, for it exists only for the stop.

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2. Mention the ruling on the meeting of two sakinas within a single word in wasl and when stopping, with illustration.
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   Within the single word, they meet both in wasl and when stopping as in الصَّاخَّةُ, أَتُحَاجُّونِّي, آلآنَ at the two occurrences in Yunus and الم. One must then free oneself from the meeting of the two sakinas, by means of the Madd lengthened to six counts; for it is a madd letter followed by a permanent sakina in wasl as when stopping: that is the Madd Laazim.

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3. Do the two sakinas meet across two words? By what means does one free oneself from it? Give an example for each of its cases.
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   Yes, across two words they meet only in the state of wasl, and one must then free oneself from it, as the rules of the Arabic language establish, either by dropping the first sakina: a madd letter that is dropped in wasl and kept when stopping, as in إِذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ; or by vocalizing it: with Hafs, with kasrah, in accordance with the original manner of release, as the laam of قُلِ ادْعُوا اللَّهَ.

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4. By what means is the release of the two sakinas carried out in the following underlined examples, stating the reason? فَتَمَنَّوُا الْمَوْتَ إِنْ كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ, الم، اللَّهُ لا إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ, وَلا يُظْلَمُونَ فَتِيلًا، انظُرْ, and قَالُوا اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كَانَ هَذَا هُوَ الْحَقَّ مِنْ عِنْدِكَ, وَآتَتْ كُلَّ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهُنَّ سِكِّينًا وَقَالَتِ اخْرُجْ عَلَيْهِنَّ, وَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ اللَّيْلَ وَالنَّهَارَ وَالشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ, قُلِ ادْعُوا اللَّهَ أَوِ ادْعُوا الرَّحْمَنَ, وَأَنَا عَلَى ذَلِكُمْ مِنَ الشَّاهِدِينَ, وَفِي السَّمَاءِ رِزْقُكُمْ وَمَا تُوعَدُونَ, نِصْفَهُ أَوِ انْقُصْ مِنْهُ قَلِيلًا, فَإِذَا جَاءَتِ الصَّاخَّةُ, إِذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ.
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   Release by dropping the madd letter in wasl: قَالُوا اللَّهُمَّ and وَفِي السَّمَاءِ رِزْقُكُمْ (alif dropped in wasl, kept when stopping), and إِذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ. Release by the six-count Madd Laazim: الصَّاخَّةُ, where the two sakinas meet in wasl as when stopping. Release by vocalization with kasrah (the origin with Hafs): the tanween of فَتِيلًا، انظُرْ, the laam of قُلِ ادْعُوا اللَّهَ, the taa of the feminine of وَقَالَتِ اخْرُجْ عَلَيْهِنَّ and the waaw of أَوِ انْقُصْ مِنْهُ قَلِيلًا. Release by vocalization with fathah: the meem of الم، اللَّهُ لا إِلَهَ to preserve the Tafkheem of the Name of Majesty, and the preposition مِنَ الشَّاهِدِينَ because of the heaviness of going from kasrah to fathah. Release by vocalization with dhammah: the leen waaw of the plural of فَتَمَنَّوُا الْمَوْتَ and the meem of the plural of وَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ اللَّيْلَ, dhammah being its original vowel.

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