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What is the ruling on someone who says about a Qur’an memorizer who has mastered its recitation: "He memorized the Qur'an and so immersed himself in it that he became a recited Qur'an"?

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"Lawk" refers to chewing or moving something around in the mouth. "Lāk al-Qur'an" means that the reciter moved the words of the Qur'an around in his mouth and disciplined himself with them to master its recitation, as Ibn al-Jazari said: "And there is nothing between it [mastery] and abandoning it but a man's training with his jaw." Ibn al-Jazari clarified that this training is the continuous practice of correct pronunciation.

However, the use of the word "Lawk" is denounced and reprehensible in tajwid, for tajwid is not "the chewing of the tongue nor the twisting of the jaw," but rather "an easy, sweet, pleasant, gentle recitation, with no chewing or 'Lawk' in it." Expressing the training of the tongue for Qur'anic recitation with the word "Lawk" is a sign of disrespect towards the word of Allah, and it must be abandoned in favor of terms such as "tilawa" (recitation), "tartil" (measured recitation), "qira'a" (reading), and "hifz" (memorization).

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