Inconsistant arabic letters?

nasheeth_ahmed_a

So a user from my app pointed out that,
one of the verse has a different character arrangement..

in this http://api.alquran.cloud/v1/ayah/70:4
i get the below,
ٱلۡمَلَـٰۤىِٕكَةُ

i cross referenced some other api, where i got this,
ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ

seeing an actual quran, the second one is used in it.

I however dont know if its the same or not ( google translate gives different meaning to both )

Kingdom
Angels

these are just seen/copied from the response object itself.

i've tried changing the font on the first one, out of all those font only 1 of them corrected it (or hided it?)
however the AlQuran web app displays them correctly.

meezaan

nasheeth_ahmed_a They are both the same in Classical Arabic, and depending on the font or script you may see them written either way.

It’s important to not use Google for any Qur’anic translations. Declension (tashkeel) changes the meaning in Classical Arabic because it is an inflected language where root letters have meanings.

Colloquial Arabic, which Google understands, is largely an analytical language (like English), where context and order of words generally requires analysis to infer meaning.

Malaa-ik means angel.
Malik or maalik mean king or owner, but they all share the same root - ملك.

I’m not a teacher or scholar but just a student of Arabic and the Qur’an (and a poor one at that), but I hope this explanation is sufficient, inshaAllah.

And God knows best.

nasheeth_ahmed_a

meezaan I see, So is there any fix to it,
from what i have seen, the unicode itself is different from our api text and the other api text
and it is not the same as in the AlQuran App (which looks like the second one).
am i missing something or is there another way to get it like this, ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ instead of this, ٱلۡمَلَـٰۤىِٕكَةُ

thanks 🙂

meezaan

nasheeth_ahmed_a there is nothing to fix. If you are after what the AlQuran app does, use the quran uthmani edition from Quran Academy and use the Kitab font.