وَلَوْ왈라우 شَاءَ샤아 رَبُّكَr랍부카 لَجَعَلَ라자알란 النَّاسَ나사 أُمَّةً움마탄 وَاحِدَةً와히다탄 ۖ وَلَا왈라 يَزَالُونَ야잘루나 مُخْتَلِفِينَ무흐탈리f핀
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왈라우 샤아 r랍부카 라자알란 나사 움마탄 와히다탄 왈라 야잘루나 무흐탈리f핀
너의 주님께서 원하셨다면 사람들을 하나의 공동체로 만드셨을 것이다. 그러나 그들은 계속 서로 다툴 것이다.
Had your Lord willed, He would have made mankind one community, but they will not cease to differ—
How to read the Hangul
الرَّحْمَٰنِ르r라흐마니 بِسْمِ비스밀
- Bold = the stressed syllable of the word; a little stronger.
- Overline = long vowel (madd): hold it about two beats. Length matters most in recitation.
- Tiny = no vowel in the Arabic here — just the consonant, short.
- Small Latin letter = a sound Korean lacks, on the next syllable: f upper teeth on lower lip · θ/ð tongue tip between the teeth · r rolled tongue tip (a bare ㄹ is l).
How to read the Hangul
beginning the Christ salvation
- Bold, larger (ˈ) = say it strong and a little longer — the stressed syllable.
- Faint = weak and short (a reduced vowel). Don't give every syllable equal weight.
- Tiny 으 · 트 · 스 = barely voiced. English has no vowel there — stop on the consonant.
- Whole word faint (the, of, and, to…) = light and quick in a sentence; stress the content words.
- Small f v θ ð r = sounds Korean doesn't have — f: upper teeth on the lower lip; v: the same, voiced; θ/ð: tongue tip between the teeth; r: tongue curled back, touching nothing.