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The long stroke of the #alif ألف
is never joined to the next letter.
But it is almost always joined to the previous
letter. When this happens, the alif should be drawn upwards,
without lifting the marker from the paper,
and stopping at the top all of a sudden. The next
figure shows a #alif ألف
following a tooth.
The horizontal line joining the tooth and the stroke should be at least one square long. I usually make these lines exactly one square long in the images, but you can make them longer of shorter whenever you feel like it. However long you draw them, they're never wrong.
Now copy the figure a few times. Here I wrote horizontal lines of slightly different lengths, but you'll perhaps find it easier to make all of them the same length.
You'll often see a long vertical stroke
joined to the next letter by a horizontal line.
That stroke is not a #alif ألف, but a laam لام ل.
When that L stroke is joined both to the previous letter
and to the next, it's drawn in four movements, like the tooth
we saw in the previous lesson 
. It's just longer.
Don't lift the marker from the paper, and make
sure the downward stroke exactly covers the previous upward stroke.
Repeat the exercise until the result feels right.
The strokes we have seen so far almost suffice to draw the word #isbaaniyaa إسبانيا, "Spain". Notice that three of the teeth are very close to one another; that's because they form the letter siyn سين. These three should be about half a square from each other; you may not lengthen the horizontal lines between them, because they'd no longer look like an S.
BTW, I said "almost" because Arabic for Spain is in fact not #isbaaniyaa إسبانيا but #al#isbaaniyaa ألئسبانيا, with an article, as if we were saying "the Spain", or "the Soviet Union". (See figure). The second symbol in the figure is a laam #alif لام ألف, we'll get to it later.
Copyright (c) 2001-2009
Jordi Mas Trullenque.
email: jordimastrullenque at gmail dot com
http://purl.oclc.org/net/arabe/unionhorizontal2.en.html
Last revised: 2006-06-09
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