"As our examinations revealed, there are 6 serious shortcomings in Osman Taha script that cause problems for Muslims while reading the Quran," said Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi stressing that these flaws must be corrected.
The cleric stated that only those who are well familiar with the script can read it without making mistakes. "Sometimes even Arabic native speakers get into trouble with this script".
Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi advised Iranian Muslims, who are unfamiliar with Osman Taha script and likely to make mistakes while reading the Holy Book, to use copies of the Quran printed in Iranian scripts that are, as he says, faultless.
In 1970 Syrian calligrapher Osman Taha developed the Arabic script that is used in writing The Noble Quran. The main feature of the script is that verses of the Quran come to end at the bottom of each page.
