Begin where you are. Open a matn to read it — or go straight into Memorize mode.
A matn (plural mutūn) is a foundational source text, set down in didactic verse or in prose, in which scholars distilled the essentials of a science so that it could be studied, transmitted, and often committed to memory. These six texts form a single path through the science of recitation, from its first foundations, to the beginner’s rules, to their complete statement, to the seven canonical readings — and the full ten.