How do you write Allah as a calligraphy?

Many fonts do not display it correctly, some ignore the “dagger Aleph” (like in لكن).

Examples of Allah with dagger Aleph

Times New Roman and Arial do a good job I have to say. One of my favourite fonts is Amiri which you can get at google fonts. In my last post I showed how to install the Amiri font.

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How do you write Allah as a calligraphy?

byGerald Drißner

November 29, 2018

If you haven't installed Amiri, you can follow the steps which I am going to show by using Arial or Times New Roman.

So, let's see, how it works that we can write the word Allah with a beautiful Arabic face. By the way, the solution which I will present does not only work for the word Allah – but also for famous Islamic salutations such as pbuh or SAW as well as the so-called Basmallah.

How to write Allah in Arabic

This is actually easily done.

It should usually work by simply typing the word without any diacritical marks. Just type the letters ا – ل – ل – ه  and press space. Your system will automatically do it if the font supports that.

How to write Islamic salutations (Arabic ligature)

Here are some examples:

Peace be upon him: صلى الله عليه وسلم

Unicode: U+FDFA

May His glory be exalted; His glory is great: جل جلاله (jalla jalaluh)

Unicode: U+FDFB

In the name of God/Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful: بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ

Unicode: U+FDFD

You can easily produce these calligraphies by using the UNICODE of the font (given above!). A Unicode font is a font that maps glyphs to Unicode characters. These symbols can be accessed using special code points (UNICODES) defined in the Unicode Standard. They usually start with U following a mix of numbers and letters.

How can you write them in MS Word or LibreOffice? Arial and Times New Roman offer UNICODE symbols, but the Amiri-font is perfect for this.

An easy solution:

Using Unicode-Table

STEP 1 Go to https://unicode-table.com

STEP 2: Enter the UNICODE

I gave the codes above. I will use the unicode  U+FDFD for the Basmallah (“In the name of Allah…”):

STEP 3: Copy and finally paste it where you want it

Note that you need to use Amiri font or at least Arial or Times New Roman. If you cannot see it, mark it and choose Arial. It should work.

Remark: If your system does not display Allah automatically in a nice way when you only type the letters of the word Allah, try the UNICODE as well. For Allah, it is: U+FDF2

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