Talk:بسم الله

للّٰه

Hi, I'd like to know why there are two couples of شدة on top, if it is not a typo. Thanks in advance. --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:47, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

I can't see that. It looks right to me: hamzatulwasl on the first alif, then shadda and dagger alif on the second lam. And in the phrase below it's the same but with a final kasrah. --Hiztegilari (talk) 10:58, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

There is a problem with the word ٱللّٰه (llāh). It is because of the ligature لله. The ligature لله appears differently in different fonts. In some fonts, there is a shadda + superscript alif above the لله, while in other fonts there is no shadda or superscript alif above the اللـه. Furthermore, in some fonts there is a simple للـه (because lam-lam-he is a word all by itself), while in other fonts there is an alif in front of it: اللـه. In the earliest Arabic fonts, simply typing lam-lam-he produced the full word ﷲ (llāh), with initial alif and shadda + superscript alif. Later, it was found that sometimes lam-lam-he should be just that, and no initial alif. And that is why different fonts show different results.

So if you see two initial alifs and two shaddas in ٱللّٰه (llāh), it is because your font already shows an initial alif and a shadda on للـه, and when the editor (whose font did not show the initial alif or shadda) added an initial alif and a shadda, he made a word that looked correct to him (ﷲ (llāh) because of his font), but incorrectly as ٱللّٰه (llāh) to you. —Stephen ^(Talk) 04:54, 15 March 2017 (UTC)