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Continuing allowed, stopping better.
Also known as: Qala mark, Stopping is preferable
The Qur'anic pausal mark showing that continuing is permitted but that stopping is the better reading.
Permits continuation while marking a stop as the preferred reading.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
The mirror of the ṣalā mark, the pair bracketing the neutral jīm from either side and completing the graded scale.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
A short ligature of three letters, qāf-lām-alif, set above the line as a single compact group.
The two marks lean opposite ways from the same permitted middle.