Credits: Saleem Gaibie
Tuḥfat al-Aṭfāl, composed by Shaykh Sulaymān al-Jamzūrī in 1198 AH, is the poem most students of tajwīd memorise first. In sixty-one lines it sets out the rules of nūn sākinah and tanwīn, mīm sākinah, the doubled nūn and mīm, the lām of the definite article, idghām between letters and the types of madd: the foundations a reciter applies on every page of the muṣḥaf.
This edition, the second part of Saleem Gaibie's Murshid al-Qāriʾ series, presents the Arabic text with an English translation and a clear explanation of each line. It is written for students who want to understand the rules rather than simply follow them, and it works best alongside a teacher who can hear those rules in your recitation.
Tajwīd is learned by ear as much as by the page. To have these rules applied and corrected in your own recitation, see Quran Mentorship, one to one with an ijāzah trained Qārī.
