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This is a quick/ short video explaining the reasons behind Arabic being written from right to left, and why other languages are written from left to right.
Useful knowledge wanted to know from ages...
I have observed very young children write from right to left. It is natural. We force children to write from left. It takes sometime for them to learn to write from the left.
Where sre you from?
Arabic, though probably older than even Hebrew (it clearly looks of older origin as it has only three vowels and retains declension), was not most regularly engraved on stones but traced on the sand, or on clay when a more permanent support, with the fingers or with a stick, which was indeed easier to form from right to left if you used the right hand. If you use a reed pen, or even a felt pen, writing from right to left is easier if it is calligraphy that you want to achieve, as it is a kind of work more like carving, especially if your inscription has to be as big as for a signboard. But the oldest support for writing was the sand or the soil however short-lived it was, and it imitated the dejections of camels which were also used as a divining tool, hence the ambiguous form given to so many letters. The reason why the Greeks passed from right to left to left to right is even more haphazard than you think : they first wrote in both directions, from right to left and from left to right back and forth, before they ended up going from left to right only, but while they made that choice most of their letters were engraved on stone (or on wax tablets) : they started writing on papyrus only when Alexander conquered Egypt, that is to say long after the written language was formed.
But everyone knows that Hebrew is more ancient that Arabic, all scientist agree on that, and probably arabic comes from Hebrew, Hebrew is the mother lenguage of Semitic
@@Lorenzo-ib5rg Arabic shows all signs of being a more ancient language by its structure than Hebrew. Arabic has declensions with case-endings. Hebrew lost them (safe for the directional accusative) like the late Arabic popular dialects did. Arabic has verb moods. Hebrew lost them except for a few irregular verbs. Arabic has only three short phonemic vowels, like Sanskrit. Hebrew multiplied the vowels like most modern languages did. Arabic kept the traditional semitic order : V - S - O. Hebrew turned to S - V - O. Most consonants Arabic distinguishes carefully have merged in Hebrew rather than conversely, except for fa. Hebrew has only 7 conjugation groups resulting from the merging of 19 (10 active plus 9 passive) Arabic has retained. Arabic has far more regularly derived nouns and adjectives from verb roots. Hebrew no longer derives them so regularly and predictably. One can say that Hebrew is to Arabic in this regard what Dutch is to German : the latter has retained a more archaic structure.
@@Lorenzo-ib5rg Of course like they all say that jews deserve palastine
Of course there is a bais against islam
Herbew before a couple of years was dead actually no one was using it and they try revive it again and guess what they use... they use arabic to help them with words unless arabic which their words was written in dictionaries and people still speak with it even if it wasn't al fusha they use it and most of people now can read text hundreds of years ago.
@@Lorenzo-ib5rg we know that arabic turns back to prophet Ishmael. As he met arab people.
@@MrMirville Than you all guys for those informations)
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Greek language was written from right to left as was the Etruscan language (whose alphabet gave rise to the Roman/Latin alphabet). There are other semitic languages such as Geez that did make the switch from . The question really should be why did the Greeks/Latins make the switch and the Arabs did not. Given that Arabic is a cursive language where letters are designed to connect, it would be super hard to just change the orientation in this day and age.
This was really a great piece of information. Jazakallahu Khair!!
I once wondered about the same and came up with my own thought that everything good in Islam is done with right hand. That's why Arabic is written from right to left.
And now I know the true reason behind it.
Keep sharing such information, Sir. Insha Allah!!
You are also right
@@arifmadar thanks brother. 😅
you should stop having your 'own thoughts'
@@user-yq2if6ld9h yes, brother. Until we find the correct info, we must quest for it. Insha Allah, we shall get right knowledge.
May Allah reward the good doers, Ameen
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Great info بارك الله فيك ,
Would be plus if you give reference along with each video
English and the romance languages shown in this video may have had their writing system based on Latin, but European languages are actually part of the Indo-European family (Aryan), just like Persian, Pashto, Punjabi and Hindi
European languages had their own scripts before Latin like the Germanic runes or the Celtic script that was written on wood, and they were also written left to right
Cool info
Jazakallaho khairan
This channel is always beneficial Jazakumullahu akhiran
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and on that day out of all the deeds that are risen to Allaah, none will be better than yours except for a person who said what you said.’*
[(Musnad Ahmad) Al-Munthiri, Al-Haythami, and Al-Albaani classified it as
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Masha Allah. Very useful knowledge and understanding how you explained the way how languages was writting never know before May Allah SWT bless you brother Ameen
SubhanALLAH. That's interesting, JazakAllah khair
expose to the sun, is opposite of GOD By nature. Back in ancient times when the original man was in power we were closer to the original practices of the true God. When the devils risen to power, and you able to identity them by seeing who are in power today. By nature they are completely opposite of GOD in their language,practices, beliefs, actions, and thoughts
Genius. Thank you. Thats what I wanted. thanks again for your time
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Masha'allah another amazing video.
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Source: Musnad Ahmad 15610
Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Al-Albani
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This is an excellent and sensible explanation.
No, it is not. The right side is associated with Good. The Qur'an is written that way. Nothing happens by accident.
Exactly. Short and simple like that.😀
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جزاك الله خير
Very interesting and informative!!!
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The Dua a
اَللَّهُمَّ أَنْتَ رَبِّي, لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ, خَلَقْتَنِي, وَأَنَا عَبْدُكَ, وَأَنَا عَلَى عَهْدِكَ وَوَعْدِكَ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُ،, أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا صَنَعْتُ, أَبُوءُ لَكَ بِنِعْمَتِكَ عَلَيَّ, وَأَبُوءُ لَكَ بِذَنْبِي, فَاغْفِرْ لِي; فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَغْفِرُ اَلذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ
Allahumma, Anta Rabbi, la ilaha illa anta, khalaqtani wa ana abduka, wa ana ala ahdika wa wa dika mastata tu, a udhu bika min sharri ma sana tu, abuw u laka bidhanbi, wa abuw u laka bini matika alayya faghfirli, fa innahu la yaghfirudh-dhunuba illa anta
Meaning
“O Allah! You are my Lord. None has the right to be worshipped except You. You created me and I am your servant and I abide by your covenant and promise as best I can. I seek refuge in you from the evil, which I have committed. I acknowledge your favor upon me and I knowledge my sins, so forgive me
(Sahih bukhari 6306)
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Hmmm! Never knew this! Thanks for sharing!
Very interesting thank you very much
Jazak Allah : )
Masha Allah good information. The causes for writings from right to left make sense. ..
جَزَاكَ ٱللَّٰهُ خَيْرًا
the japanese and chinese thing i find a bit unclear. what stops a writer from taking the bamboo slip horizontally?
I think it's because it's easier to hold it vertically rather than horizontally with one hand while writing with the other.
Probably because bamboo veins are vertical.
can u tell us which App do u use it to teach us (this like blackboard)?
Jazaakalaah khoirun from Indonesia
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I am a right handed but the position of hammer and chisel shown in this video looks very uncomfortable. Left to right would be more comfortable.
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سبحان الله ⚒⛰٠اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ ﴿١﴾ خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ ﴿٢﴾ اقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ الْأَكْرَمُ ﴿٣﴾ الَّذِي عَلَّمَ بِالْقَلَمِ ﴿٤﴾ عَلَّمَ الْإِنسَانَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ ﴿٥ ٠سورة الـعلق
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Very interesting
Makes sense.
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اللهم بارك علىك
Good to know. Thanks
good morning🌞
this is useful!
Writing on animals skin doesn't need hammer and chisel so then according to your theory writing to the right would be easier .
I dont think that was the case of choosing the direction
Allah know best
Interesting!
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MaschaAllah
Ok, but ... can Arabic be written vertically ? Never seen that ... If not, why ?
What do you mean by that? If you mean align the words vertically, then yes, I think that can be made with any language, rather than making them beside each other, make them below each other.
If you mean writing vertically, actually, there is some letters in the arabic al fusha(fus ha) which is high arabic, with arabic calligraphy, some words can be written vertically but being directly connected with its left and right letters
@@nho2x113 As you say, all languages may need to be written vertically, so : is it a language mistake to write isolated Arabic characters from up to bottom ?
@@davidxoomer3806 yeah, writing them like that is like writing some alien letters, because we read it as a connected word, in arabic every letter has a different shape according to its place in a word. So writing their original forms and separated would take a long time to read
Moreover Allah revealed his commandments in Arabic and every good pure holy things starts with right hand side.
How does he make his videos
Nice
Are you sure? How come Greeks had ink and parchment and Arabs didn't? You can carve on stone just fine even going from left to right; just slightly change angel. I don't know. Very Interesting info but I'm not convinced.
Yes ، me too
I also have the similar question. Had it been the reason, now we are using paper then why should we continue with right to left style?
Allah knows the best.
The Greeks actually wrote in both directions using alternating lines. One line would go right to left and the next line would go left to right. So, some symbols that were not perfectly symmetrical would be written backwards if it went right to left. But, at around 403 BCE it standardized in Athens.
The writing of Arabic alphabets can't be done from left to right so holding chisel and hammer don't fit that argument.
For example writing of the letter "Ain" عين or any other alphabet
جزاك الله خيرا
in lefty writing is not fun at all
Papyrus...Ancient Egipt... came before the west.
Why don't they change
All can write on papier most logical now isn't it !?
If you look at the Roman Latin alphabet and compare it to the Phoenician alphabet (which is where Latin, Greek, and Semitic language scripts come from), you'll notice some of the letters in the Latin alphabet appear similar to Phoenican characters but they appear backwards. That's because Phoenician was read from right to left. You would probably have to learn to write all of the Arabic symbols backwards because Arabic is a cursive script and the characters would no longer connect unless you reversed their orientation. I think it would mess with too many people's heads.
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How do you explain ancient Egyptians writing on papyrus if paper didn't exist or was it that Arabs are not original to that land and they were Invaders
Your reasoning is wrong!
ARABIC
Everything in Islam is an adaptation of something much older.
Eg Hebrew right to left came before Arabic right to left.
Even the black stone Kabaa in Saudi has existed before mohmad rip.
And was adopted by Saudi Islam as something sacred to ensure that all Muslims across the globe visit Saudi and ensure that Saudi never runs out of power and ppls money.
Thereby weakening Iran which woke up late to the desire of having more power in the region and since then has not been able to topple Saudi power center.
Arabic is older than hebrew
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Greek isn't latin rome ..
Greek letters are very different from one another..
Arab's wrote twisted as same Grave since BC times was used . therefore the school of Rome Latin was divided that time in bc ..
And so arabs and jews ..they are twisted ..as used god school.. Latin SPQR...since
And so Spanish and Italian and American and French and Romanian..they remained as lairj and Brazil and Mexico and Argentina..the spelling is close ..is very similar... articulation but the accents is a bit whats makes this separation..
And never was a Jesus..
This is issue...as arabs and Jews used the Grave since BC times... The rome Latin school.. grave...but the problem is. .they forgot is a grave and should treat with more respect... rather than stealing and robbery and violence and corruption
That's it.
Angel Gabriel.... said arabs
Learned prophet Muhammad to read and write
Thats not a shame
What is shameful is how they fighting between them religions
That's shameful..
As destroyed the schools and the both species..
Haha laugh populations of this Christian and catholic and Jews haha haha haha
While Arabs.
- angel Gabriel learned to read and write .
Twisted writing.. While Christian and istrael Jews haha wirh fake jesus .and time passed ..and guess what..
Is end process of days ...
Twisted with turkey Catacombs medusa and Galata Bosfor Istanbul golden hair sun horn.
It’s because the devil which they only become the color red when
expose to the sun, is opposite of GOD By nature. Back in ancient times when the original man was in power we were closer to the original practices of the true God. When the devils risen to power, and you able to identity them by seeing who are in power today. By nature they are completely opposite of GOD in their language,practices, beliefs, actions, and thoughts
Arabs did not write on stone.
They wrote on animal skin and papyrus
Hebrew is not a real language it’s gibberish.
Hebrew is an ancient language which was spoken by many prophets (رضي الله عنهم): Yusuf, Ya'qub', Musa and many others.
Interesting!