Letter attributes

Continuant (soft)

The mechanic

The articulators stay apart enough that the sound keeps running and can be prolonged. Every letter that is neither shidda nor tawassut is rakhawa.

A place in the text

وَٱلۡعَصۡرِ

No single spot is singled out in this ayah: the attribute is defined by exclusion and covers most letters, and no word here is free of its counterpart set.

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.