How to write Allah in Arabic correctly

Many fonts do not display the name Allah in Arabic correctly. The main reason is that some ignore the dagger Aleph (like in لكن).

In this article, we will take a look at how to write “Allah” in a nice and correct way.

Examples of Allah with dagger Aleph

Let us first look how common fonts render the Arabic word for God: الله.

Times New Roman and Arial do a good job, I have to say. One of my favorite fonts is Amiri which you can get for free at Google fonts. In one of my articles, I showed how to install the Amiri font.

Choosing the right font for Arabic texts

Times New Roman or Arial are not the only fonts for writing in Arabic. Google Fonts offers many beautiful Arabic fonts for free – it also works for Apple/Mac.

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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 as either the font knows how to render it, or we can use a Unicode.

If the font can render it

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.

If your system does not display Allah automatically in a nice way when you only type the letters of the word Allah, you can try the following solution using a Unicode.

Using Unicode

You can easily produce calligraphies by using a UNICODE of the font. 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. If you do not know how to find or use Unicode, I will explain later in this article.

Unicode: U+FDF2

ﷲ

How to write Islamic salutations (Arabic ligature)

Here are some examples of Islamic phrases:

Peace be upon him: صلى الله عليه وسلم

Unicode: U+FDFA

ﷺ

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

Unicode: U+FDFB

ﷻ

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful: بِسْمِ الله الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ

Also called Basmalah.

Unicode: U+FDFD

﷽

May Allah be pleased with him (رضي الله عنه)

Unicode: U+FDFB

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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 Unicodes

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.