LessonsThe Marāghah Maqāmah: The Letter of Dotted and Undotted WordsQuiz

«الْكَرَمُ ـ ثَبَّتَ اللَّهُ جَيْشَ سُعُودِكَ ـ يَزِينُ»
Generosity—may God preserve the host of your good fortunes—adorns a person.

The underlying statement is al-karam yazīn, 'generosity adorns'. A blessing is inserted between its two parts. Jaysh suʿūdika, 'the army of your good fortunes', personifies good fortune as an organized force.

The effect is both literary and graphic: the message combines sincere-sounding honorific language with exact alternation of dotted and dotless words. The inserted prayer does not break the grammatical sense of the praise.

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The Marāghah Maqāmah: The Letter of Dotted and Undotted Words

«الْكَرَمُ ـ ثَبَّتَ اللَّهُ جَيْشَ سُعُودِكَ ـ يَزِينُ»
Generosity—may God preserve the host of your good fortunes—adorns a person.

The underlying statement is al-karam yazīn, 'generosity adorns'. A blessing is inserted between its two parts. Jaysh suʿūdika, 'the army of your good fortunes', personifies good fortune as an organized force.

The effect is both literary and graphic: the message combines sincere-sounding honorific language with exact alternation of dotted and dotless words. The inserted prayer does not break the grammatical sense of the praise.