وَلَوْ왈라우 دُخِلَتْ두킬라트 عَلَيْهِمْ알라이힘 مِنْ민 أَقْطَارِهَا악따r리하 ثُمَّθ숨마 سُئِلُوا수일룰 الْفِتْنَةَf피트나타 لَآتَوْهَا라아타우하 وَمَا와마 تَلَبَّثُوا탈랍바θ수 بِهَا비하 إِلَّا일라 يَسِيرًا야시r라
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왈라우 두킬라트 알라이힘 민 악따r리하 θ숨마 수일룰 f피트나타 라아타우하 와마 탈랍바θ수 비하 일라 야시r라
만일 [적이] 사방에서 [도시로] 쳐들어와 그들에게 반란에 [가담하라고] 요구하였다면, 그들은 그 요구에 응하였을 것이며 거의 망설이지 않았을 것이다.
Had [the city] been entered against them from its sides and had they then been asked to [join in] sedition, they would have done so, and would have hesitated over it only briefly.
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.