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These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This shadda must be recited and omitting it will result in an invalid recitation of the Fatiha. Note, though, that there is a shadda (or tashdid) on the letter sad when you recite ihdina’l-ssirata’l-mustaqim, and you seem to have omitted it in your transliteration. Both methods are correct ways of reciting Surat al-Fatiha. If one does not start reciting at this verse but instead continues from the previous verse, one should omit this hamza and instead recite iyyaka nasta’inu-hdinassirata’l-mustaqim (i.e., join the nun with the ha, as you mention in your question). The upshot, then, is that if one begins reciting at iyyaka nasta’in, one must pronounce the enabling hamza. In the example mentioned in the question, if one does not stop at iyyaka nasta’in, and continues reciting, then one will dispense with the enabling hamza at the beginning of the verse ihdinassirata’l-mustaqim, and instead recite: iyyaka nasta’inu-hdinassirata’l-mustaqim. However, this hamza should be dispensed with when one does not begin reciting at this word, but instead joins this word with a previous word. It is impossible to start with a sakin letter, so an enabling hamza is inserted.

Sometimes, when one does this, the first letter in the word ends up being an unvowellized (sakin) letter.

The word ihdina is an imperative verb (fi’l amr), which is formed by omitting the first letter of the corresponding verb in the imperfect tense (fi’l mudari’). The enabling hamza is so called because it “enables one to pronounce an unvowellized letter” (yuwassalu bihi ila al-nutqi bi al-sakin). This letter is distinct from the letter alif and takes different rulings during one’s recitation. The first letter in the verse ihdinassirat al-mustaqim is called the enabling hamza (hamzat al-wasl). Wa ‘alaykum as salam wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh

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