قف The Anticipation Mark: preferable to stop.لا either not to cut off the recitation, or not to stop on the marked word and start on the following word.It could be an indicator for a complete or sufficient stop. قلي permissible to continue but preferable to stop.صلي (or ز) permissible stop but preferable to continue.It’s an indicator for the sufficient stop. ط normal stop at the end of a sentence or thought.مـ compulsory stop to avoid altering the meaning.We tried to collect the most common Quran symbols rules, even in the Urdu Mushafs, as follows: 1. Any point of starting or stopping is considered either permissible, prohibited, or unsuitable according to whether or not it leads to complete and correct meaning. As well as the rules of Meem Sakinah, Laam Sakinah Rules, Rules of Laam Shamsiya and Qamariya and other basic Tajweed rules, there are some symbols and rules of stopping when reading Quran that are put by scholars, as mentioned earlier, to help the reciter to stop on a correct meaning.
