The Treatise” Criterion of Reading (the Quran)

This treatise is one of the works of Mirza Ahmad Ashtiyani. Reading the Quran in saying daily prayers, is one of the religious duties, therefore it should be read correctly and fluently.

The author
Mirza Ahmad Ashtyani, son of Mirza Hasan Mujtahed Ashtyani. He was an expert scholar at intellectual and transmitted sciences. He studied in the presence of the philosophers “Kermanshahi” and “Ishkewari. Ashtyani ####taught jurisprudence, methodology (Osul) and intellectual sciences over forty years in Tehran. About 1927 – 1932 travelled to Njaf in order to complete the transmitted sciences and he himself was teaching. He taught “Asfar” (written by mullah Sadra) and many prominent scholars of Najaf attended his classes. “Allameh Tabatabaei” studied some parts of the lesson (Asfar) in his presence. Ashtyani died in 1975 and was nearly 100 years old.

Structure of the book:
The book contains the following subjects:
- Observing the rules of morphology and syntax
- Extension (Mad, a diacritical mark over some Arabic letters)
- Integration
- The art of reciting the Holy Quran (Tajwid)
- How to pronounce the Arabic letters

This treatise was written in 1951. First it was published in 1957 and then in 1983.