Writing and Pen

Nobody overlooks the importance of writing in the lives of peoples, because the history of the world and its civilizations cannot be passed on from generation to generation except by writing it on papers, newspapers, and other tools. If we accept the absence of writing in the lives of peoples, many civilizations will be mentioned.

The stage of the Pharaohs When they ruled Egypt before the birth of Christ, it was mentioned in many sources and books, as well as the ancient Greek civilization and their knowledge in various fields of knowledge, and therefore the importance of writing is great, and we can summarize it in several points in this article.

The importance of writing

The importance of writing can be summarized into the following points :

• Transferring knowledge and various sciences, so the results of scholars in various ages have reached us through writing; Where man became acquainted with the ideas and innovations presented by his earlier scholars and the writings of Greek scholars such as Socrates, Plato and others reached us, as well as heritage and science books such as The Book of Law in Medicine by Ibn Sina, The Book of Optics by Ibn al-Haytham, and many other books that were filled with it. Our libraries. Man has benefited from these sciences and added to them with the theories he learned and applied. Writing also contributed to the transmission of the noble hadith that was narrated on the authority of the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him.

• Writing down the history of nations and peoples; Writing contributed directly to writing and transcribing what happened throughout history in terms of events, and Muslim scholars have emerged in this type of writing, so the book on the history of nations and kings by Al-Tabari, and the book of the beginning and the end by Ibn Katheer and many other history books.

• Writing is a form of renaissance and advancement in the lives of peoples, and the more useful writing and writing books increase, the more that indicates the people's culture and deep-rooted civilization, and writing is a form of expression of creativity. Where the creator was able to release his creative and cultural reserves in written form.

• Writing is a means of organizing and preserving information from being lost and forgotten. When you keep in your mind certain information, you may forget it because you are preoccupied with life matters, while if you write it and write it down, you save it in a way that enables you to retrieve it when you want it.

• Writing is a means of preserving people's rights from loss or denial; When you write a book to a person to whom you loaned money and indicate in detail the amount of the money, the date of repayment, and so on, you are thus preserving your right to a legal claim if the borrower denies you paying him the money.

The pen

The pen is the first thing created by Allah Almighty has been quoted by scholars from the words of bin silent worship said: I heard the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him say: (The first thing that God created the pen and said to him: type, he said: Lord, what should I write? Said: Write amounts each So God Almighty wrote the powers of the universe and creation through the pen that He commanded to write the destinies of the universe and the preserved tablet.

The first person to write with a pen

The first of the books of the pen is the Prophet Idris peace be upon him and is also the first line dresses and wear them and the first to consider astrology, it understood and the first to make tools, machinery and drawing his people rules civilize cities so I drew all the cities, the city in its territory and established in his time 188 City.

The history of the pen

The history of a pen expands to many eras Nd reigns, let's explore them :

• The Sumerians:

The Sumerians lived in Iraq, and they made the pen from small branches of trees and made them into pens they wrote on soft clay tablets, and after that, the clay dried up, and the writing remained on it for 3500.

• The Greeks:

The Greeks used bird feathers for writing, and that was in the year 500 BC, and they used the feathers for writing in Europe, and after that, it moved to the Muslims.

• Ink pen:

The merit of the invention of the ink pen goes back to (the Mighty to the Religion of God Fatimid) who built the city of Cairo in 969 A.D.

• The pencil pen:

The lead pen was invented by the chemical scientist (Jacques Conte) in 1792 AD, and this invention made the whole world use the lead pen and a factory was built for the manufacture of pencil and engineering pens.

The importance of the pen

The pen is not important, whether it is cheap or valuable, because only through it is possible to obtain things that can only happen through it, such as:

1. Transferring knowledge:

In the eras before the advent of the Internet, writing with a pen on paper was the main source of education, reading, and the transmission of knowledge.

1. Printing:

After the discovery of ink, it became possible to print thousands of books, publish and translate them into many languages ​​and distribute them around the world thanks to the techniques used to deal with ink.

1. Knowledge of history:

It is not possible to know the history of an ancient civilization except what it left and succeeded in writings such as the pharaohs who used to write and lay down on the walls, and like the Greeks who found thousands of these writings on the walls.