In Arabic, words are written in a cursive style (this means
that letters are joined together in a word), there is no discreet type of
handwriting in Arabic. Because of this, letters are written in four different
forms depending on their location in words.
The following table shows all forms of the Arabic script for each letter (Remember that Arabic is written from your right to left).
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You should have noticed that the following six letters : Alef
(A), Dal (D), Thal (Th), Ra' (R), Zay (Z), Waw (W) "those
letters' names are marked in red in the previous table" have the same
medial and final form (this means that these letters cannot be joined with
the letter that comes after them, when they come in the middle or beginning
of a word).
When a letter of the group of six letters mentioned above comes next to
another letter from the same group, the second one is written in its detached
form. (Confused?? Well.. there is an example
on this case in the next lesson!!).
When the letter "Alef" comes after the letter "Lam" it is written
in a different form from the one above (this is true for both medial and final
forms). The form is: (which is read " LA " by the way )
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