فَلَمَّاf팔람마 جَاءَ자아 أَمْرُنَا암r루나 جَعَلْنَا자알나 عَالِيَهَا알리야하 سَافِلَهَا사f필라하 وَأَمْطَرْنَا와암따r르나 عَلَيْهَا알라이하 حِجَارَةً히자r라탐 مِنْ민 سِجِّيلٍ싯질림 مَنْضُودٍ만두드
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f팔람마 자아 암r루나 자알나 알리야하 사f필라하 와암따r르나 알라이하 히자r라탐 민 싯질림 만두드
우리의 명령이 오자 우리는 [그 고을의] 위를 아래로 뒤집어엎고, 그 위에 구운 진흙 돌을 겹겹이 퍼부었다.
When Our command came, We turned [the town] upside down and rained upon it stones of baked clay, layer upon layer,
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.