Elevate your Tajweed skills with Waraqa’s Intermediate course. Master the Quranic Medd rules and improve your recitation technique.
Authentic instruction guided by Al-Azhar-trained teachers.
Structured for families and adults across multiple time zones.
Measured learning plans with practical pacing and support.
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Objectives If you have covered all topics in the Waraqa Basic Tajweed level, then it is time to learn the “Medd rules”. By the end of this course you will know the unique Quranic Medd rules. Unlike the Conversational Arabic, the Quran has its own long and short vowels that should be considered while reciting it. You will discuss these rules and learn how to apply them.
Although many Muslims have heard and learned Medd before, its mastery remains one of the most challenging aspects of recitation and it is what distinguishes the best of Qur’anic recitations. Only those who are properly trained can teach the proper application of Medd.
At the intermediate stage, a student already reads the mushaf without stumbling but is still searching for the calm, rhythmic recitation they hear from qaris. The intermediate tajweed course closes that gap. It takes the rules introduced at the Foundation Level and trains them into reflexes, so that ikhfa, idgham, qalqalah, and the levels of madd happen naturally inside live recitation. Allah commands "And recite the Qur'an with measured recitation" (al-Muzzammil 73:4); intermediate tajweed is where that command becomes a habit, not a theory.
Two or three 30–45 minute lessons per week, one-to-one with an Al-Azhar trained teacher. Each lesson has three parts: a 5-minute warm-up of the previous rule, 15–25 minutes of new material with live correction (the teacher mutes the student between phrases and demonstrates the correct sound), and a recording assignment for the next session. Most students complete the course in five to seven months.
Subjective "sounds better" is not a measurement. We track three concrete signals: the number of corrections per page (target: under 5), the percentage of rules applied without prompting (target: above 85%), and the recorded portfolio at the end of each unit. Parents and adult students receive a written progress report every six lessons.
After intermediate, students move to the Qari Level to add advanced tajweed, the science of the seven qira'at (introductory), and recitation pace control. Students aiming at an ijazah certificate continue from the Qari Level into our Ijazah Program.
No. Memorisation and tajweed are separate skills. Many students study intermediate tajweed while still reading from the mushaf only.
That is exactly what this course unlocks. The first two weeks are diagnostic: the teacher identifies the three or four habits that affect you most and rebuilds them in priority order, not all at once.
Yes. The majority of our intermediate students are non-Arab Muslims in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. Tajweed is taught through correct sound, not through Arabic grammar, so fluency in Arabic is not required.
With consistent intermediate tajweed practice plus a memorisation track, most students lead a short Ramadan night in two to three years. Book a free trial and we'll plan a realistic timeline together.