the pen
The pen is the first thing that God Almighty created, and scholars have cited it as evidence from the statement of Ubadah ibn al-Samit, who said: I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, saying: (Indeed, the first thing that God created was the pen, and He said to it: Eat it.) Repent. He said: Lord, what should I write? He said: Write the amounts of all nothing until the Hour arrives) So God Almighty wrote down the decrees of the universe and creation through the pen which He commanded him to write down the decrees of the universe and the Preserved Tablet.
The first to write with a pen
The first person to write with the pen was the Prophet Idris He, peace be upon him, was also the first to sew clothes and wear them, the first to look into astrology and understand it, the first to make tools and machines, and draw up for his people the rules for civilizing cities, so each city was drawn from the cities in the world. In its land, he established 188 cities during his time.
The history of the pen
- Sumerians: The Sumerians lived in Iraq. They made pens from small tree branches and made them pens to write on soft clay tablets, after which the clay dried and the writing remained on them. This was around the year 3500 BC.
- Greeks: The Greeks used bird feathers to write, and that was in the year 500 BC. They used feathers to write in Europe, after which it passed to the Muslims.
- ink pen: Credit for the invention of the ink pen goes back to Al-Mu'izz li Din Allah Al-Fatimi, who built the city of Cairo in 969 AD. This discovery gave the ability to the emergence of many Arab scholars and writers who left great writings and knowledge. Useful and indispensable.
- Pencil: The invention of the pencil dates back to the chemist Jacques Comte in 1792 AD. This invention made the whole world use the pencil, and factories were built to manufacture pencils, which became used by school students and young children, for planning, engineering, and writing under... Water.
The importance of the pen
The pen does not matter whether it is cheap or expensive. Only through it can things be achieved that can only happen through it, such as:
Read also:From the author of the book The Beginning and the End- Transfer of knowledge: In the eras before the emergence of the Internet, writing with pen on paper was the main source of education, reading, and the transmission of knowledge. Great scholars and scholars wrote things that they engraved in the conscience of history through the pen.
- printing: After the discovery of ink, it became possible to print thousands of books, publish them, translate them into many languages, and distribute them around the world thanks to the technologies used to deal with ink.
- Knowledge of history: It is not possible to know the history of an ancient civilization other than the writings it left and left behind, like the Pharaohs who used to write and draw on walls, and like the Greeks, for whom thousands of books were found that were evidence of those civilizations.
