Today I am not continuing my lessons because I would like to clarify some issues about two words, هاذا and ذلك. After learning from a few sources I discovered that one source say that هاذا is spelled without an ا after ه, thus هذا. Another source would say that هاذا should be spelled with a dagger ' after ه like this, ه'ذا. I think this second way of spelling is the way it is spelled in the Quran. I am now, therefore, confused as to which to follow :) Whatever it is, since I am now focusing on general Arabic and not Quran Arabic, I have decided to follow this spelling, هذا.
As for ذلك I also discovered that sources who teach the Quran would spell ذلك with an ا after ذ like this, ذالك. Yet I think that the general arabic spelling is ذلك. Again, since I am now not focusing on the Quranic language, thus I shall follow the general spelling which is, ذلك.
I, however, would also like to reserve the right to use, at anytime, any of the following spellings: هاذا, هذا, ه'ذا, ذالك ,ذلك :)
Note also that I can now PROUDLY type the dagger ' because I discovered a new Arabic keyboard layout which is a little easier to use :)
