Re: [developers] Error in Simplified Naskh Font

[Muayyad AlSadi <alsadi at gmail dot com>]

the word Quran mean The recited book [not the written book]
ie. Quran is passed vocally from authentic certified reciters to
another by memorising it
the prophet reviewed his recitation before the archangel Gibrail
once a year and twice in the year he died

the prophet reviewed the memorization of many of his companions and
certified them

Quran was written during prophet Muhammad PBUH life, and he assigned
that job to "Kuttab alwahi" among his companions

many of them have complete copies of Quran

Quran was collected from what was already written into a single hard
covered book during Abu Bakir [r] time as he choose Zaid the one who
the prophet made him the chief of the "Kuttab alwahi". Zaid [r] did
not accomplish the mission in secret
instead he collected every single leaflet and tablet already written
during prophet time before everybody and he compared what is written
to what the companions already memorize

and that was done before everyone's eyes

and the word Mus-haf means the hard covered book

that first copy is called the al Mus-haf alimam

and in times of othman [r] (the one who do tahajud every night
reciting the whole Quran in one Raka) he ordered the same "Kuttab
alwahi" [assigned by prophet Muhammad PBUH] to make mass copies of al
Mus-haf alimam to send them to each city
each is called Mus-haf al-amsar [plural masahif al-amsar]

the calligraphy art style was ancient Kufi style
and it was written with special care to hold all the authentic Qira' a
[ie. the recitation styles which were approved by prophet Muhammad]

for a Qira'a to be authentic there are some conditions like
1. it should match the Othmani written script
2. it should be mutawatir ie. passed from prophet Muhammad vocally
into so many companions and from them into so many followers forming a
parallel narration tree each node was certified and trusted [parallel
means that it's not possible for them to conspire on faking it]

later some recitations hints were added
scholars refused the idea  of adding the teaching hints to the
original masahif and said that's only permissible only for teaching
purpose

so those hints were added with ink in a different color [it was red]
they put red dots above and below letters to indicate harakat
but keeping Quran text in back ink
...etc.
nowadays we use black ink for both Quran and hints, but we distinguish
hints with diacritics and with superscript and subscript and dots and
hamzaz
[and that's why many hamzas are floating on some letters without naberah]

so even if you got a mus-haf hinted with Hafs Qiraa,
you still can get the Warsh Qiraa by ignoring the hints I mentioned above