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Mashrabaمشربة

Using these texts in a gathering

For a circle, a class or a family: a shared screen, a phone for each person, or paper.

On a shared screen

Open a text's Gathering view on a TV, a projector or a laptop. It shows one line at a time, as large as the screen allows, with Latin letters or a translation under it if you want them. The leader moves it on by tapping, with the keyboard or with a presenter's remote, so the group keeps its own pace. No recording is needed.

On each person's phone

Everyone can open the same text and choose their own language and script. Some links open a language directly, such as ?tr=id for Indonesian. Each reader's page has Listen, Slower and Your turn, which pauses after each line so a person can say it back.

On paper

Each text's Print button gives a clean sheet of the Arabic and its Latin reading.

Before you rely on it

Wordings differ between traditions and orders, and your teacher's wording may not be the one here. Each page says which form it gives and where others differ, and some report objections to the text, so read a page before sending people to it. The vowelling, Latin and translations are made with AI and marked, and most have not yet been reviewed by a person, so have someone qualified look at a text before a group depends on it. Recordings play from YouTube and need a connection. The Gathering view can often run without one, but only in a browser that has already opened it, so open it there first and try it with the connection off before you rely on it.