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Al-Asl Institute · The Mutūn Collection

المُتُون

The Mutūn Collection

The foundational poems of Qurʾanic recitation and the seven readings — each presented chapter by chapter, verse by verse, with its meaning.

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3 mutūnTajwīd & Qirāʾāt4th–9th century AH

A matn (plural mutūn) is a concise didactic poem that scholars composed so that the essentials of a science could be carried in the heart and recited from memory. These three poems form a single path through the science of recitation — from its first foundations, to its complete rules, to the seven canonical readings.

Khāqāniyyah→Jazariyyah→Shāṭibiyyah

Foundations · the rules of tajwīd · the seven readings

The Collection

Three Texts, One Path

Begin where you are. Each text opens onto the next.

القَصِيدَةُ الخَاقَانِيَّة

Al-Qaṣīda al-Khāqāniyyah

The Khāqāniyyah

Abū Muzāḥim al-Khāqānī · d. 325 AH / 937 CE

Tajwīd51 versesRāʾiyyah

The earliest standalone work on Qurʾanic recitation — a rāʾiyyah pairing the manners of the reciter with the foundations of beautiful recitation.

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المُقَدِّمَةُ الجَزَرِيَّة

Al-Muqaddimah al-Jazariyyah

Imām Ibn al-Jazarī · d. 833 AH / 1429 CE

Tajwīd109 versesRajaz

The matn on which the teaching of tajwīd has rested for six centuries — from articulation points and letter characteristics to madd, waqf and orthography.

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حِرْزُ الأَمَانِي

Ḥirz al-Amānī wa-Wajh al-Tahānī

The Shāṭibiyyah

Imām al-Qāsim al-Shāṭibī · d. 590 AH / 1194 CE

Qirāʾāt1173 versesLāmiyyah

Imām al-Shāṭibī’s versification of al-Dānī’s al-Taysīr — the gateway to the science of qirāʾāt, naming every reciter and transmitter through an ingenious system of letter-symbols.

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أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ ضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلًا كَلِمَةً طَيِّبَةً كَشَجَرَةٍ طَيِّبَةٍ أَصْلُهَا ثَابِتٌ وَفَرْعُهَا فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ

“Do you not see how Allah compares a good word to a good tree? Its root is firm and its branches reach the sky.”

Sūrat Ibrāhīm · 14 : 24

From this verse the institute draws its name: Al-Asl — الأَصْل, “the root.” A good word, firmly rooted and flourishing upward — the spirit in which these mutūn of Qurʾanic recitation are offered.