So here it goes....
It doesn't matter how hard you try or how long your Tajweed teacher trains you.
So here's the problem.
Look at the image above. According to that image, the severe tongue tie is extremely obvious. It is called an anterior tongue tie. If you have it you'll know. Doctors will also know.
Where the problem lies is the posterior tongue tie (the moderate tongue tie).
That is when the back of your tongue is tied. It isn't obvious.
With the “moderate” type, you'll still be able to speak “normally”.
If you have it, you'll be frustrated. Your Tajweed teacher will be frustrated. However, both of you will have no idea why.
Whenever your teacher says, “make your tongue straight”, everyone in your class will be able to get it. But not you.
So how will you know if you have a tongue tie.
First step, open your mouth. Step two, suck your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Step three, now look into the mirror.
As for me, the back of my tongue is tied.
Again, the back of my tongue is tied.
For me, it's looks like the “moderate tongue tie” in the image above.
I literally asked my Mum to open her mouth and her tongue isn't tied at all.
I also asked my brother to open his mouth and his tongue isn't also tied.
Their tongues fall into the “normal” category according to the image above.
For me, my tongue is tied at the back.
Doctors find this difficult to diagnose.
They don't learn about this in school.
And those who learn about it see it as a non-issue.
The type of tongue tie they take serious is the anterior tongue tie.
If the back of your tongue is tied, you might never be able to recite the Qur'an properly in your life.
You'll always struggle in Tajweed class.
This type of tongue tie means you can still speak “normally”.
But you ain't speaking “properly” at all.
The worst part is that nobody will suspect anything because your speech will be so clear.
This is the posterior tongue tie.
The good news is that it can be cut.
The tongue tie can be released. It doesn't matter whether it is a class one or class two or class three tongue tie. Even the class four tongue tie — the worst one — can also be released.
So don't panic, the tongue tie can be released.
Again, you can fall into the “normal” category.
So make duaa. If you have money, book an appointment. Get your myofunctional therapy done and then go get your tongue tie released and you can now master Tajweed with the permission of ALLAH.
You actually need to get your myofunctional therapy done. Because that's where you'll learn — for the first time in your life — the right way to swallow without thrusting your tongue.
You need to do the myofunctional therapy so that your neck and back will stop flexing whenever you want to swallow anything/speak.
This is also where you'll learn how to have proper tongue posture. This is also where you'll learn how to breathe from the diaphragm without your neck and upper body moving — you really need this for a perfect Tajweed.
If you don't have money for the myofunctional therapy and tongue tie release, please pray. Verily, ALLAH is the best of providers. Perhaps, HE will provide money soon or in the future.
Perhaps, HE has chosen you to recite the Qur'an with that tongue tie. Whatever the case may be. Verily, all praises belong to ALLAH.
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Tajweed 4
AFTERTHOUGHT ONE
If you're autistic, keep reading.
As an autistic person, if you have a tongue tie, it's not that simple for you. You most probably also have a number of physical symptoms that will present themselves in you. For example, there's a great chance that you also have joint hypermobility. That means your joints are more flexible than most people's joints.
A quick way to see if you have joint hypermobility is to check your teeth.
Check if there are spaces in your upper teeth. Specifically on both sides of your four upper incisors.
You have four incisor teeth (2x central and 2x lateral incisors) in each jaw. They look like this:
You have two canine (or cuspid) teeth in each jaw. They look like this:
In
the pictures above, did you notice that the four incisor teeth and each of the two canine teeth besides them are next to one another?
Meaning that there's no space between all six of them.
If you have a posterior tongue tie and/or joint hypermobility, you'll notice that your four incisor teeths are side-by-side. However on both sides, there will be a space before each of the canine teeth.
What I'm trying to say is that there shouldn't be a space between your four incisor teeth and the two canine teeth.
If you have a space on either side of your four upper incisors then check very well, you most likely have a posterior tongue tie alongside with joint hypermobility and a bunch of other stuff.
This posterior postural tongue tie isn't taught to doctors in school so it's less likely to be diagnosed by them.
This type of tongue tie can block your airway.
This means you have probably never gotten enough oxygen in your entire life.
This lack of sufficient oxygen affects your life at a cellular level.
This means that you are always tired.
That means life feels heavier.
Again, you're always fatigued.
You're most likely too disabled to have a 9-5 job. However, too able to be qualified as a disabled person.
In other words, you have an invisible disability.
You are the type of person that will get told throughout their lives that you're faking your medical issues.
Because each time doctors do your blood work it comes back perfect.
It never shows up on their records that the bones on your neck are in fact moving in the opposite direction of where they're supposed to be moving.
You might need to see specialised chiropractors who take X-rays to figure this out.
And because you have joint hypermobility, your spines and the bones in your neck are completely out of alignment. Yet, somehow, you're still standing “normally”.
At a cellular level, you've also never gotten sufficient oxygen at all.
So everything about how your body functions is impaired at a cellular level.
From your brain to your heart to your kidney. Everything. Everything is affected.
You've most probably been accused of lying about your severe headaches that lasted several years.
In fact, maybe doctors have called you hypochondriac. L.O.L!
You've always complained about your health and everyone hates you for it.
Wow. Wow. You've always been dismissed because you look “normal”.
You're always running out of breath whilst reciting the Qur'an and you've tried so many things but nothing has ever worked.
Your body could also be in physical pain at all times, ha, ha, because your joints are hypermobile.
So basically, you're a disabled person been treated with hatred and disdain because you look normal.
Same tasks/chores have always been assigned to you as a person who has a solid and healthy level of oxygen.
You have basically carried weight that you don't have capacity for.
And you might also die early.
Wow.
It's just getting better and better
And if you live long then Parkinson's and Alzheimer's because you have never gotten sufficient oxygen.
And you know the most interesting part?
Postural tongue ties aren't the same in people.
So one person may have it more severe than another.
Another person may be in physical pain at all times whilst the next person doesn't have any physical pain at all.
So all praises belong to ALLAH who has bestowed the miracle and privilege of knowing about my posterior tongue tie on me.
Because most people live until they develop Alzheimer's and dementia and never know what caused it.
They have no idea that they have never gotten sufficient oxygen in their existence.
You might be a doctor and have no idea at all about this.
This — knowledge — is a favour of ALLAH that HE bestows on who HE wills.
If you're sick, seek help from ALLAH before doctors.
Doctors are human. And humans will make mistakes.
A professor will make all types of mistakes including academic mistakes.
A doctor will make all types of mistakes including medical mistakes.
Always seek the help of ALLAH before you speak to doctors at all times.
Doctors know but they don't know it all.
So all praises belong to ALLAH for the blessings of doctors that HE has bestowed on us.
And there's no doctor who know your body like you do.
They are experts of medicine and you are the expert of your own experience.
So you need to collaborate. So pray and seek for a humble doctor who won't put their ego above your care.
Seek from ALLAH a doctor who have patience for patients.
And do not let anybody gaslight or brainwash you into believing that none of it is real and it's all “in your head”.
If you're autistic.
Check for the following:
1) Gap in your teeth. Specifically on both sides of your four upper incisors.
2) Joint hypermobility
Start with those two. There's a woman named Kimberly. She's autistic. She noticed that her four year old autistic daughter couldn't speak or blow candles so she started researching the physical symptoms of autism.
She found out all of it, read more on her website at https://www.kimberlyedu.org/.
Kimberly is autistic but her autism isn't as severe as her daughter's autism.
As you all know, autism is a spectrum.
It is more intense from person to person.
Her daughter is aggressive, nonverbal, and can't also blow candles so she got to work and discovered what hasn't been discovered before.
She documented all of it. Autism is a neurological issue. Not a behavioural one. She developed something called neurotoggle and that's what worked for her daughter.
Her daughter now speaks.
Her daughter has stopped being aggressive.
Her daughter needed help and she got the help from her autistic Mother.
So seek help from the LORD of the world and HE will guide you to the best resources and people.
Certainly, people are also human resources — the highest form of resource on earth.
if Almighty ALLAH wants, you could be the reason why your doctor gets to know about this posterior tongue tie phenomenon.
Again, this is Kimberly's website: https://www.kimberlyedu.org/
If you're autistic, you might also have some autoimmune diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome (myalgic encephalomyelitis) and this is all thanks to the fact that the “standard” checks that doctors conduct do not show that you have never received sufficient oxygen in your entire life.
If you have a really tight posterior tongue tie, your airway is mostly locked.
That means you're not getting sufficient oxygen.
It also means that you're always running out of breath whilst reciting the Qur'an.
Without sufficient oxygen, you still look “normal” so that means you have been called “lazy” all of your life.
Imagine being chronically sick, needing help and trying desperately to find out what's happening with your body and also being accused of being lazy through it?
He.he.he
Ha.ha.ha
I laugh in medical battle.
Isn't life colourful and beautiful?
If you're autistic, you could also have neurological issues being misdiagnosed as “behavioral issues”.
You know how people who have sudden brain tumours often develop terrible behaviours all of a sudden?
Yes, you might also have neurological issues that are often mistaken as behavioural issues.
Ha. Isn't life wonderful?
People hate dealing with sick people.
Imagine being sick for multiple decades straight while looking perfectly normal.
Imagine the number of times you've been shunned and told it's all in your head.
Imagine the number of times medical tests have shown you have perfect records whilst you're going insane with medical struggles.
Imagine having to massage the ego of “experts” whilst struggling violently.
Imagine struggling so much you start getting jealous of dead people?
Wow.
So now imagine finally coming to understand what's going on with you years after you've tried explaining your health.
Isn't ALLAH the best of Planners?
Well, now, you've understood your health. It's now time for a new battle.
Searching and finding experts who will actually perform the procedure on you.
Finding experts who won't laugh in your face if you try to explain to them that you searched and read on the internet for 13 hours NONSTOP until you understood what's going on.
The battle now begin with the journey of finding experts who won't laugh with mockery and jest because of some “ridiculous bull” you found on the internet.
Ha!
The danger of trying to release a posterior tongue tie that has caused you several postural problems is that multiple doctors, dentists, and ents will tell you that you're fine.
Ha.ha.ha.
La ilaha illa ALLAH, they will even laugh at you and call you hypochondriac. They'll also accuse you of wanting something to be wrong with you.
They haven't read the recent literature that you've read and they have no idea about the digestive problems, the postural problems, fatigue problems and that lack of sufficient oxygen cause in people with tongue ties.
Doctors will dismiss you. But don't stop. Keep searching.
Right now, I know the stories of two people who have gotten rid of their postural tongue and they've both started to live without multiple health issues.
Multiple doctors will tell you that you don't have any problems.
Ignore them. Observe Tahajjud until Almighty ALLAH bestows the right people and help on you.
Ya Rabbi, verily, all praises belong to YOU and there's no help except YOUR help.
Verily, YOU are closer than those who are close.
And all YOU have to say is “Be!” and it'll become.
O DESIGNER of the Universal, forgive me and guide me!
