October 13, 2013 - Blue Arch of a Mosque of Isfahan

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Originally Posted by glatt

That's a really impressive structure. It looks really classy, but I bet if I could read Arabic, those words would jump out at me, and the structure wouldn't speak as loudly.

It like how sometimes pop foreign language songs sound better than pop English songs, because you can ignore the lyrics and just hear the music. You assume the lyrics are something really amazing, when really they are just mindless drivel.

I asked to have it translated and this was the response:

It is hard to read it. The letters are mixed and doodled in an art that it would take time untangle it. Sorry. I'll research it and let u know. I could read letters but not the words.

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"Of the prophet or God or one of their disciples"...

the text is in Farsi, not Arabic.

I expect it is not unlike the writing I'd find in English in a church.