وَلَوْ왈라우 فَتَحْنَاf파타흐나 عَلَيْهِمْ알라이힘 بَابًا바밤 مِنَ미낫 السَّمَاءِ사마이 فَظَلُّواf파ð달루 فِيهِf피히 يَعْرُجُونَ야으r루준
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왈라우 f파타흐나 알라이힘 바밤 미낫 사마이 f파ð달루 f피히 야으r루준
설령 우리가 그들에게 하늘의 문을 하나 열어 주어 그들이 그곳으로 계속 올라간다 하더라도,
Even if We opened for them a gate in the sky and they kept ascending through it,
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.