Giving Dawah to Your Computer

Language is power. 

When I use Word Documents on my computer, I get reminded by the Spell Check that I'm not part of the mainstream.  I use words like:



alhumdulillah

astragferallah

asalamu alaykom

ayah

azan

hadith

hijab

hijrah

hajj

inshahallah

Islamically

Jannah

Kabba

masalama

masjid

Quranic

Shaytan

shariah

subhanallah

surah

tasbeeh

That's a list of words which have been tranliterated from Arabic letters to English letters.  Sounds are basically the same.  We Muslims use these words every day yet on Spell Check it's as if they've never existed.  If you've written these words on any Word Document, then you know what I mean.  A wiggly red line appears underneath to tell you that you're wrong.

You're wrong.

This isn't a word in our culture.

You're wrong.

You're not in our culture, are you?

So, I'm going to tell you a very empowering thing to do:  copy my list of words (above) and paste them into a Word Document then do a Spell Check.  Watch all the wiggly red lines appear.  Then with each word go ahead and click, "Add" to your computer's dictionary.  The red lines go away!  You can now type any of those words and have the computer know what you mean.

It is no longer their computer; it's YOUR computer.

And you're not wrong.  You're Muslim. 

Now go use some words which help define you as a Muslim.

Let me know in the comment section if there are more Islamic words which Spell Check needs to be taught.