QirāʾātThe ten readings

Obligatory prolongation

المد اللازم

al-madd al-lāzim

When a long vowel is followed by a letter that carries no vowel of its own in every circumstance — most famously in the detached letters that open some sūrahs — the lengthening is obligatory and fixed at six counts. All ten agree; this is one of the few places in the whole science with no divergence at all.

Example

الٓمٓ

al-Baqarah 2:1

The ā of لَآ and the ī of مِيمْ are each held six counts by every reader.

By reader

All ten6, unanimously

Collated from the printed sourceSource: Vol. I, p. 246