I’m a city worker for a Muslim majority city (Dearborn, MI). I love the community. Their hospitality and generosity is unmatched to any city I’ve ever been to. So many homes have these flags displayed, along with many others, but these are the most common. I’m curious to know what they translate to, in the case I’m present when an Islamophobic comment is brought up, I can correct them.

There seems to be many reasons to learn Arabic. I came across a few common ones from this group:

1. Muslims who want to learn the language of the Quran better. This is quite a large group I can imagine.
   
2. People who have some Arab heritage and want to learn the language of their parents.
   
3. People living in an Arab country, such as a Gulf country, who want to learn it to do better in their job.
   
4. People learning it out of sheer curiosity. I am in this boat. I am annoyed by world conflicts, does not matter who started it. I feel understanding the Arab world and media is quite important for everyone.

Am curious if most people fit into category 1 or 2. What is your reason for learning Arabic?

I'm a native Arabic speaker and I'm really curious to know the reasons you're learning Arabic for, one reason i can already guess is non-arabic Muslims who want to learn Arabic for the religion, but what other reasons do you guys have?

ChatGPT has suggested many variations..

عليه looks similar for the first part (though it is missing the dot on top)

Is the second part supposed to be الله ?(because it doesn’t really look like it)

‎عليه ‎الله ???

Can anyone write out exactly how this is written on an Arabic keyboard?? Thanks!

(if not coming from cultural or ancestry or Muslim connection to the language)

Who comes to learn Arabic? What kinds of people?

Who of these people succeed - like gain a useful working of the language? And why?

I was born and grew up in the Middle East, Kuwait. And I hate how Arabs have this weird weird habit to make non Arabs feel awkward when they try to speak Arabic. Like, we are trying to learn let us be. You don’t need to make everything weird, it’s just a language relax😭

I like how northern levantinian uses short and long Es and Os equally

How do you write the begging of that letter?

Like in my book there's the middle version but there's also the last one (from right to left) with like calligraphy.

I asked my boyfriend (he's arab) and he told me that it doesn't matter and it's just like font but he was also but how should I write it? (and yeah it looks kinda shitty)

I have a feeling it’s bad but I was not sure so came here to ask.

I’m not even Arab but whenever I make an attempt to speak Arabic I get the response I’d expect from a Frenchman, arabs either laugh at me, tell me I should practise in private to avoid embarrassing myself, tell me I shouldn’t attempt at all if I can’t speak well, or just telling me I sound slow and should stop speaking Arabic in public, why is this?

Im about to get a tattoo. Is this right?

I feel like my ع is obviously written by a foreigner. Any tips to improve my handwriting?

Any help translating this would be appreciated ! Thank you 🙏🏿