For example, ‘al-mu’min’ [
] means ‘the believer’ and ‘al-mu’miniin’
[
] is its plural form ‘the believers’; ‘al-mu’miin’ [
] can also
be the adjective of the noun ‘al-mu’miniin’ [
]. We will see later that
“iin” [
]can be rendered only by a double stroke in the latest case. Thus, the
diacritics marks appeared in all the modern Qur’ans and so since many centuries.
THE ARABIC ALPHABET:
(Read from left-down to right down)
28 letters
(Notice there are three slightly different ways of writing down the letters depending on
their place in the word: initial, median, final position)
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