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What is the ruling on writing the verse: (So take admonition, O people of insight) as (الابصار) without a hamza, and writing (بالله) as (بلله)? And is pronouncing the letter Qaf in the Beautiful Names of Allah in the Saudi colloquial dialect considered a distortion? And what is the ruling on writing (Ameen) as (أمين)?

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Omitting the hamza is permissible for Qur'anic manuscripts whose readers apply the rule of transferring the hamza's vowel. The hamza was added to the Qur'anic manuscripts after the Companions had written them.

As for writing "بالله" (billāh) in this form, it is an orthographical error. However, adhering to spelling rules is not a religious obligation.

Pronouncing the letter Qaf as a 'kāf ma'qūdah' (a glottal stop or similar sound) is a linguistic variation that is not permissible in the Qur'an, as no one recites it this way. It is permissible outside of the Qur'an.

Writing "آمين" (āmīn) as "أمين" (amīn) is permissible. This is a linguistic shortening of the word "āmīn." Al-Shatibi mentioned it in "Hirz al-Amānī," and its meaning is: "O Allah, answer (our prayer)."

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