The sources
The two poems, in full.
Every rule the library emits cites one of these two texts, to the line. The transcriptions below are the library's canonical citation targets.
Hemistichs are separated by ۞. The transcriptions are also shipped in the repository under docs/sources/, and the rule catalog quotes the relevant couplets beside each rule.
Tuḥfat al-Aṭfāl
By Sulaymān al-Jamzūrī (1198 AH). The standard introductory poem on the rules of nūn sākinah and tanwīn, mīm sākinah, ghunnah, the lām rules, adjacent-consonant idghām, and the madd family. Text from Arabic Wikisource (CC BY-SA), fetched 2026-07-11. The line numbers below are the citation targets used throughout the library.
al-Muqaddimah al-Jazariyyah
By Ibn al-Jazarī (d. 833 AH), the central reference poem of tajweed: articulation points and attributes of the letters, tafkhīm and tarqīq, the rāʾ rules, ḍād and ẓāʾ, the kinds of stop, and the rules of the connective hamzah. Text from Arabic Wikisource (CC BY-SA), fetched 2026-07-11.