وشم عـربي Arabic Tattoos

People who get Arabic tattoos 

- Arabic is written from Right to Left and not from Left to Right, and so… a lot of you actually have it tattooed the wrong way round. 

- the alphabet system is different. 

- do not put a line into Google Translate, choose the option “arabic” and have whatever google generates tattooed on your back. Over 90% of the time, the phrase is grammatically incorrect. Even more times than that, they do not make sense.

GUYZ… I may have gotten a cheeky Arabic tattoo as a leaving present to self…. A line from Imru’ al-Qays’ mu3allaqa, from the night sequence:

ألاَ أَيُّـهَـا الـلَّـيْـلُ الـطَّـوِيْــلُ ألاَ انْـجَـلِــي بِـصُـبْـحٍ وَمَــا الإصْـبَـاحُ فيـكَ بِأَمْثَلِ

Yay.