QirāʾātThe ten readings

سُورَةُ الأعلى

al-Aʿlā— The Most High

Sūrah 87 · Makkan
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سُورَةُ الأعلىal-Aʿlā · Makkan · 19 āyāt
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سَبِّحِ ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ ٱلْأَعْلَى

Notes & justification

﴿ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ، لِلْيُسْرَىٰ﴾:

The Shāṭibiyyah verses behind the rhyming alif endings of this sūrah (the lemma pairs ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ with لِلْيُسْرَىٰ, a rhyme without and with a rāʾ). Among what Ḥamzah and al-Kisāʾī give imālah are the āyah-endings of a list of sūrahs, al-Shams and al-Aʿlā among them. Warsh reads the alif after a rāʾ bayna bayna (taqlīl), and he also reduces the fatḥ of the rhyming āyah-heads to taqlīl. And whatever the pattern, the fuʿlā forms and those āyah-endings are read by the Baṣran (Abū ʿAmr) with taqlīl — except the ones with a rāʾ, which he raises to full imālah. Hence ق for Warsh and Abū ʿAmr's two ruwāt on ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ, and م for all of them on لِلْيُسْرَىٰ except Warsh.

Warsh ʿan Nāfiʿورشal-Dūrī ʿan Abī ʿAmrالدوريal-Sūsī ʿan Abī ʿAmrالسوسيKhalaf ʿan ḤamzahخلفKhallād ʿan Ḥamzahخلادal-KisāʾīالكسائيKhalaf al-ʿĀshirخلف
(ش)al-Shāṭibiyyah
وَمِمَّا أَمَالَاهُ أَوَاخِرُ آيِ مَا....

And among what the two (Ḥamzah and al-Kisāʾī) give imālah are the ends of the āyāt of … (the verse is cut short in the print).

(ش)al-Shāṭibiyyah
وَفِي الشَّمْسِ وَالأَعْلَى...........

… in al-Shams and al-Aʿlā … (the list of sūrahs whose āyah-ends are so read; cut short in the print).

(ش)al-Shāṭibiyyah
وَذُو الرَّاءِ وَرْشٌ بَيْنَ بَيْنَ..........

And (the alif) with a rāʾ Warsh reads between the two (taqlīl) …

(ش)al-Shāṭibiyyah
وَلَكِنْ رُءُوسُ الآيِ قَدْ قَلَّ فَتْحُهَالَهُ ..

But the āyah-heads — their fatḥ has been lessened for him (Warsh) …

(ش)al-Shāṭibiyyah
وَكَيْفَ أَتَتْ فَعْلَى وَآخِرُ آيِ مَاتَقَدَّمَ لِلْبَصْرِي سِوَى رَاهُمَا اعْتَلَى

However faʿlā (fuʿlā, fiʿlā) comes, and the āyah-ends of what went before, belong to the Baṣran (with taqlīl) — except their rāʾ-forms, which rise (to full imālah).

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ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ
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وَٱلَّذِى قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ

Notes & justification

﴿قَدَّرَ﴾: ﴿قَدَّرَ﴾: بتخفيف الدال من القدرة، وقرئ بتشديدها من القدر أو التقدير والموازنة بين الأشياء. (طلائع: ٢٨٠). انظر مج٥: ٣٩٠.

Read with the dāl light (qadara), from qudrah — power; and read with it doubled (qaddara), from qadar or taqdīr — measuring out and weighing things against one another. (Ṭalāʾiʿ, 280.) See vol. 5, p. 390.

al-Kisāʾīالكسائي
(ش)al-Shāṭibiyyah
وَمَحْفُوظٌ اخْفِضْ رَفْعَهُ خُصَّ وَهْوَ فِي الْمَجِيدِ شَفَا وَالْخِفُّ قَدَّرَ رُتِّلَا

And maḥfūẓ — put its raf ʿ into the genitive: (that is) Nāfiʿ's; and in (sūrat al-Burūj's) al-majīd it is for Ḥamzah and al-Kisāʾī (and Khalaf); and the lightness of qaddara (here) is recited by al-Kisāʾī.

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