حفصḤafṣ
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
Listenrecitations coming for each riwāyah
سُورَةُ الفاتحة
Notes & justification
ʿĀṣim — through both Shuʿbah and Ḥafṣ — together with al-Kisāʾī, Yaʿqūb and Khalaf al-ʿĀshir read مَٰلِكِ, with an alif after the mīm: “Master of the Day of Judgement”. The remaining readers read مَلِكِ, without the alif: “King of the Day of Judgement”. Both are sound and the difference is one of sense rather than sound alone — مالك is an active participle from malaka, “to own”, while ملك is an adjective from maluka, “to be sovereign”.