iOS shortcuts for Islamic expressions

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

Here's how you can set these up. 

On iPhone and/or iPad, go into Settings, then General, then Keyboard, then Shortcuts. Click the + button on the top right. 

You will see this screen:

For Phrase, put in the arabic phrase. For example: ﷺ

For shortcut, put in the string you would like to have replaced, for example: pbuh (which stands for "Peace be upon him"). 

Hit save, and you will be back to your list of shortcuts. Here is my list of shortcuts: 






So that you could copy/paste into your own list, here they are in text:

salaam
السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته

ws
وَعَلَيْكُمْا لسَّلاَمُ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

pbuh
ﷺ

jzk
جزاك الله خير

sa
سبحان الله

ma
ما شاء الله

ah
الحمدلالله 

and, of course, everybody's favorite phrase that they use for procrastination: 
ia
ان شاء الله 

Please don't abuse that last one. When you say it, you have to have 100% intention to actually do the thing you are promising, and when you say it, you really are saying "I will absolutely do this, and nothing will stop me, if Allah is willing". It's an aqeedah thing, not a back out strategy for the insincere. 

As for ﷺ , it is worth noting that it is a special case in that it is actually a unicode character built into the arabic character set. More info on that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_Unicode 

Now remember me and my family in your duas when you use this :-)