Improving your Urdu hand writing.

Urdu handwriting.

Every student in Pakistan has to give an Urdu paper. I am talking of only those who give their exams through the Board system. Some even have Islamiat and Pakistan Studies in Urdu. Thus, these students have no choice but to improve their Urdu handwriting.

In olden days, I mean the days of our grandparents, takhti was used for writing. People at those times were taught Urdu calligraphy with qalam and siyahi. They had their qalam's cut at the tips so as to to give an inclination to their hand writing. Today with the modern ink pen's, pointer's and ball pen's, the condition of Urdu hand writing is deteriorating. People barely worry whether their mim's end is long enough or not, whether their choti ye makes a complete semi circle or not. These tiny things matter if you want your hand writing to be neat and beautiful.

Beautiful Urdu hand writing / Calligraphy.

Some people think that once you have adopted a style of writing, you can not alter it. That ofcourse is not true, I speak that from experience. Some times our hand writing changes of it's own accord, but at times we have to change it too. It is not impossible. All you have to do is pay attention to how your pen moves on the paper, how your fingers form the alphabets and specially how you put the dots.

Using a cut nib pen can be very good for the sake of your Urdu handwriting as is evident from these images. At times, however, we have no choice but to use a round nib pen. That does not mean that your writing is allowed to be wreck now. Remember this that no matter what pen you use to write, you writing should have a neat and tidy appearance.

Arabic hand writing/ calligraphy.

Here is some advice for students for improving their hand writing:

• Always pay attention to the shape of your alphabets.
• Try to copy a beautiful hand either from some khushkhati book or from a teacher.
• Make sure your spellings are accurate because that gives an impression to the reader as well.
• "Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect". So make sure you practice the write kind of hand writing.
• When marking the dots of alphabets like pe, te and se, make sure each dot is separately marked and not joined together.
• Also when need use the signs of zabar, zair and paish. It only shows how acquainted you are with the language.
• Bring uniformity to your hand writing by continuous practice.
• Some people write free and easy and the others give more pressure on their pen, you can do either but the results should please the reader. That should be your soul objective.

Have fun improving your hand writing!!!