وَيَقُولُونَ와야꿀루나 أَئِنَّا아인나 لَتَارِكُو라타r리쿠 آلِهَتِنَا알리하티나 لِشَاعِرٍ리샤이r림 مَجْنُونٍ마즈눈
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와야꿀루나 아인나 라타r리쿠 알리하티나 리샤이r림 마즈눈
“우리가 미친 시인 때문에 우리의 신들을 버려야 한단 말인가?”라고 말하였다.
and they said, “Are we to abandon our gods for a mad poet?”
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.