Letter attributes

Lowering

The mechanic

The tongue stays low in the mouth and the sound stays light. Every letter that is not one of the seven isti'la letters is istifal — the whole basmala is made of them.

A place in the text

بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

The marked spot was located in this ayah's own text at build time — Al-Fatihah 1:1.

Hear this ayah in the reader

The text shown is the KFGQPC mushaf (Hafs, v2.2) — the same text the mushaf pages of this site render.