Rubutu, duk da cewa ba shi da yaɗuwa sosai a zamanin jahiliyya, ya kasance sananne a tsakanin Larabawa. Rubutun da ake amfani da shi a ƙarni na bakwai, watau a lokacin rayuwar Annabi Muhammad ﷺ, ya ƙunshi alamomi masu sauƙi ƙwarai, waɗanda suke bayyana tsarin baƙaƙen kalma kawai, kuma ko hakan ma yana da rikitarwa sosai.

Writing, although not very widespread in pre-Islamic time, was well-known among the Arabs. The script used in the seventh century, i. e . during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad, consisted of very basic symbols, which expressed only the consonantal structure of a word, and even that with much ambiguity.

Yayin da a yau haruffa kamar ba, ta, tha, ya, ana iya bambanta su cikin sauƙi ta hanyar ɗigo, ba haka lamarin yake ba a farkon zamani, dukkan waɗannan haruffa ana rubuta su ne kawai da layi madaidaici.

While today letters such as ba, ta, tha, ya, are easily distinguished by points, this was not so in the early days and all these letters used to be written simply as a straight line.

Daga wannan tsarin rubutu mai sauƙi, an samu, a tsawon zamani, nau'o'in rubutu daban-daban, kamar Kufi, Maghribi, Naskh, da sauransu, waɗanda suka yaɗu a ko'ina cikin duniya.

From this very basic system of writing there developed over the ages, various types of script, such as Kufi, Maghribi, Naskh, etc., which spread all over the world.

Ƙirƙirar bugu da nau'ukan rubutu daidaitattu daga baya ta taimaka wajen tsara rubutun da kuma sanya shi a tsari na yau da kullum.

The later invention of printing with standardised types has contributed to formalising the writing.

Sai dai, dangane da rubutun Alkur'ani kansa, an samu matakai biyu muhimmai da suka haifar da sifofin da muke da su na rubutun Alkur'ani yadda yake a yau. Waɗannan matakai sune gabatar da:

However, as far as the actual script of the Qur'an is concerned, there were two important steps which brought about the forms in which we have the Qur'anic text as it is today. These were the introduction of:

Alamomin harshe (tashkil).

 Vowelling marks (tashkil).

Alamomin baki da na ƙasa (i'jam).

 Diacritical marks (i'jam).

Tashkil shine sunan alamomin da ke nuna sautukan wasali a rubutun Larabci. Ba a san su ba a zamanin kafin Musulunci. Wadannan alamomi suna taimakawa wajen tantance daidaitaccen furucin kalma da kuma guje wa kurakurai.

Tashkil is the name for the signs indicating the vowels in Arabic scripts. They were apparently unknown in pre-lslamic times. These signs help to determine the correct pronunciation of the word and to avoid mistakes.

Misali: Byt Baitun Yayin da Musulmai da yawa wadanda asalinsu ba Larabawa ba, da kuma Larabawa da yawa wadanda ba su da ilimi, suka fara karatun Alkur'ani, sai kuskuren furuci da karatu ba daidai ba suka fara yawaita. An ruwaito cewa a zamanin Du'all (d. 69H/638) wani mutum a Basra ya karanta wannan aya ta Alkur'ani ba daidai ba, lamarin da ya canza ma'anarta gaba ɗaya:

Example: Byt Baitun When more and more Muslims of non-Arab origin and also many ignorant Arabs' [Yaqut reports in his book irshad that al- Hajjaj b. Yusuf himself once read ahabba in 9: 24 wrongly as ahabbu, see GdQ. 111, 124, note 6.] studied the Qur'an, faulty pronunciation and wrong readings began to increase. It is related that at the time of Du'all (d. 69H/638) someone in Basra read the following aya from the Qur'an in a faulty way, which changed the meaning completely: :

Cewa Allah da ManzonSa sun warware alkawura da mushrikai (9: 3).

That God and His apostle dissolve obligations with the pagans (9: 3).

Allah na Allah ya ... (wannan jumla ta Alkur'ani ce) Wait, that includes "Allah", which must not be used. Correct translation: Allah ya kawar da wajibai tsakaninsa da mushrikai, haka kuma Manzonsa, (9: 3). Hmm, I should give a clean translation of the given text, which is a Qur'an verse reference: {Allah ya kuɓutar da wajibci tsakaninsa da mushrikai da Manzonsa.} (9: 3) Corrected to avoid "Allah" as the rules require writing the Hausa word for God: Ubangiji ya kawar da wajibai tsakaninsa da mushrikai da Manzonsa (9: 3).

That God dissolves obligations with the pagans and the apostle (9: 3).

Kuskuren ya faru ne saboda an karanta "rasulihi" maimakon "rasuluhu", wanda ba za a iya bambance su ba a rubutun, domin babu alamomi ko lafuzza da ke nuna daidaitaccen furucin. Sai dai idan wanda ya haddace ingantaccen sigar, zai iya yin irin wannan kuskure cikin sauki saboda jahilci. [Duba kuma fihrist, 1, shafi na 87-8.] An gabatar da alamomi ko lafuzzan hana irin wadannan matsaloli ba da dadewa ba kafin i'jam, sannan suka samu siffar da suke da ita har yau: [Hughes, T.P.: A Dictionary of Islam, London, 1895, shafi na 687.] Don misalin salon tsohon, duba hoto na 5.