وَمِنْهُمْ와민훔 أُمِّيُّونَ움미유나 لَا라 يَعْلَمُونَ야을라무날 الْكِتَابَ키타바 إِلَّا일라 أَمَانِيَّ아마니야 وَإِنْ와인 هُمْ훔 إِلَّا일라 يَظُنُّونَ야ð둔눈
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와민훔 움미유나 라 야을라무날 키타바 일라 아마니야 와인 훔 일라 야ð둔눈
그들 가운데에는 글을 모르는 자들도 있으니, 그들은 경전을 알지 못하고 헛된 바람만 품을 뿐이며 그저 추측할 따름이다.
And among them are unlettered people who do not know the Book except as wishful notions; they do nothing but guess.
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.