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Now carefully look at these two words.
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AL-QAMARu (remember it is u and not un) is normal, but when reading
AL-SHAMSu, the LAAM is skipped and SHEEN is read twice (i.e, Tashdeed is added to it).
Based upon this there are two kinds of alphabets in Arabic
1) SHAMSI : Which demonstrate the behaviour of SHEEN. These are:
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2)QAMARI : Which demonstrate the behaviour of QAF. These are:
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You need not memorize it, it will come by practice.