قَاف
Where it comes from
All 17 pointsThe back of the tongue, soft palate أقصى اللسان مع الحنك اللين
The very back of the tongue rises to the soft part of the roof of the mouth and cuts the air off completely.
How to write it
The isolated form, shown as one common way to write it — Arabic stroke order is not fixed as rigidly as it is in some scripts.
- Stroke 1 of 4: part of the letter's body.
- Stroke 2 of 4: part of the letter's body.
- Stroke 3 of 4: a dot, added after the body is finished.
- Stroke 4 of 4: a dot, added after the body is finished.
All four forms
The short gold marks show which sides the letter joins to its neighbours.
Qaf connects on both sides, so it has all four forms.
Same shape, different dots
Joined inside a word these are written identically — only the dots tell them apart. Their isolated forms differ, which is why the alphabet separates them.
Often confused with
In a word
Isolated
رِزْقٌ
rizq
provision
Initial
قَدْر
qadr
decree/power
Medial
مُسْتَقِيمَ
mustaqeem
straight
Final
فَلَقِ
falaq
daybreak
In the Quran
إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الرَّزَّاقُ ذُو الْقُوَّةِ الْمَتِينُ
سورة الذاريات
قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ
سورة الإخلاص
اهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ
سورة الفاتحة
قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ
سورة الفلق
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