Re: Arabic (?) found on dollar bill

Sorry for the late uptake, but I couldn't resist taking a stab at it:

Right side of bill: "anti yaa nab3 alHanaan allatii ja3alatnii 'uHibb addunyaa min ajlihaa"

Left side of bill: "ilaa ruuH qalbii alHabiibah alghaaliyah (kifaayah) min aHmad" (not 100% sure about the word in parentheses)

Translation:

"You, o fountain of tenderness, are the one who has caused me to love the world for (its/her) sake"

"To the beloved, precious spirit of my heart (enough) From Ahmad" (not 100% sure about the word in parentheses)

The feminine form of "you" makes it clear that Ahmad is writing to a woman.

- Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: David Starner [mailto:starner@...]
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:52 PM
To: qalam@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Arabic (?) found on dollar bill

At 07:20 AM 7/22/02 -0400, you wrote: >A URL for the pic would help -- are you saying someone wrote on it, or >you found this in the design of the bill? It's at the Yahoo Groups site; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qalam/files/arabic3.png or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qalam/files if that doesn't work. It's written on, in bright purple ink. (Black, in the scan, as I played around with the colors to make it appear better on screen.)

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