Kul ‘am wa antum bikhair
That’s how to say May You Welcome Every Year with Good Health in Arabic. You can say this saying on new year’s eve or for a birthday.
We are welcoming in a new year here in the US, and also a new directory over at Muslimah Blogger. To celebrate, we have a downloaded that you can get for free once you subscribe to the A Crafty Arab newsletter.
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The Arab League has 22 countries that are in the Middle East and North Africa, also called MENA.
Having already created a word search for my daughters for these countries, today I made them one for the capitals.
Click here to download it for free for your children at home or in a classroom.
This is the solution to the puzzle, the letters are 18 across and 18 down. Some of the capitals may go up, down or backwards. The parentheses show where the first letter of each capital starts and in which direction it’s headed. (Over if N was #1 and V was #18,Down if N was #1 and X was #18,Direction the word is going).
ABUDHABI(13,11,N)
ALGIERS(12,14,NE)
AMMAN(2,16,E)
BAGHDAD(5,12,E)
BEIRUT(10,17,W)
CAIRO(9,5,NE)
DAMASCUS(10,8,NW)
DJIBOUTICITY(1,12,NE)
DOHA(9,10,W)
JERUSALEM(16,1,S)
KHARTOUM(12,11,W)
KUWAITCITY(9,14,E)
MANAMA(4,12,S)
MOGADISHU(10,5,SW)
MORONI(7,2,SW)
MUSCAT(18,17,NW)
NOUAKCHOTT(1,1,SE)
RABAT(7,13,SE)
RIYADH(17,6,N)
SANAA(12,5,SW)
TRIPOLI(1,3,SE)
TUNIS(14,1,S)
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Today’s free printable is the third in a series and says “End Everything with Alhamdulillah.”
Alhamdulillah is Arabic for Praise God. It is used by Muslims of every background, but also spoken by Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews.
From Wikipedia:
The word “Allah” is itself the fusion of the definite article al (the) and the word ilah (a god, deity). Like in English, the article is used here to single out the noun as being the only one of its kind, “the god” (the one and only) or “God” with a capital G (the concept of capital letters does not exist in Arabic). Therefore, “Allah” is the Arabic word for “God”. “ilāh” is the Arabic cognate of the ancient Semitic name for God, El.
So frequently do Muslims and Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians invoke this phrase that the quadriliteral verb hamdala (حمدل), “to say al-Hamdu li-‘llah” was coined, and the derived noun hamdalah (حمدلة) is used as a name for this phrase.
Arabs often say this phase when a task is complete.
I chose it to finish off the three part series of prints, Begin Everything with Bismillah, Plan Everything with Ihsan and now you can download today’s free print here.
Enjoy these other free printables on ACraftyArab Pinterest. If you’d like to be crafty when you are showing gratitude, check out our Alhamdulillah Rocks Tutorial.