أَفَلَمْ아f팔람 يَنْظُرُوا얀ð두r루 إِلَى일랏 السَّمَاءِ사마이 فَوْقَهُمْf파우까훔 كَيْفَ카이f파 بَنَيْنَاهَا바나이나하 وَزَيَّنَّاهَا와자이얀나하 وَمَا와마 لَهَا라하 مِنْ민 فُرُوجٍf푸r루즈
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아f팔람 얀ð두r루 일랏 사마이 f파우까훔 카이f파 바나이나하 와자이얀나하 와마 라하 민 f푸r루즈
그들은 자기들 위에 있는 하늘을 바라보지 않느냐? 우리가 그것을 어떻게 세우고 장식하였는지, 그리고 그것에는 갈라진 틈이 하나도 없다는 것을.
Do they not look up at the sky over them — how We constructed it and made it beautiful, with no cracks in 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.