Tips for writing in Arabic
1 min readJan 23, 2020
- Turn the book upside down in order to move the margin to the correct side for Arabic writing
- Leave a line
- Love the line, ie write close to the line
- Long letters are alif ( ا ), kaaf ( ك ), laam ( ل )and twa ( ط )
- Laam comes halfway back up ( ل )
- Line letters are 2/3rd or half of an alif: daal ( د ), hamza ( ء ), haa ( ه ), baa ( ب ), faa ( ف) are one alif wide
Notes from Youtube Qalam Institute