Can someone help me read this?

@Ahmed1977

Having read it in Arabic it clearly is a shia prayer...of a styles called "latmeya" roughly transted "song to slap to"...in which they recite the words out loud repeatedly while "slapping" their chests....unfortunately that is.

No I am not sure if it's a shia poem, but who else calls on Ali than the Shia!

Thank you Antwerp for the clear version, how could you find it!, I think this is a prayer to Ali, probably by Shiite people, it seems to be famous, I found the whole thing online, probably the drawing is limited to the first two sentences though, quite difficult to read since one word in the drawing is fragmented in pieces every where! here it is: "نادِ علياً مظهر العجائب تجده عوناً لك في النوائب، كل هم وغم سينجلي بعظمتك يا الله، بنبوتك يا محمد، بولايتك يا علي يا علي يا علي، أدركني يا الله بحق لطفك الخفي، الله أكبر أنا من شر أعدائك بريء، الله صمدي من عندك مددي وعلى الله معتمدي، بحق إيّاك نعبد وإياك نستعين، يا أبا الحسنين أدركني يا سيف الله أدركني، يا ولي الله أدركني يا مظهر العجائب أدركني"

the words I can read/translate r here, some seem like phrases but in arabic these r single words

Mohammed

above

make us visible

you will find

your houses "I think"

for you

blessed

wonders

Come on MN it's not a cross, line do intersect in arabic as well lol...atwerp's version is certainly clearer and I was able to identify several words but I literally have to keep flipping the drawing to read them...its written from all directions hehehe...still doesn't make any sense

wait a minute! there is a cross in the middle!

Did anyone else notice this?

NICE

i could only read the word "Mohammad" in the upper left

SC: according to the information given on this peice, says that, it's believed to belong to the indaluisa times. back in the day when the Umayyad Caliphate ruled over Spain. so yup it's very old.

Ummmmm say what!!???

Yea that one is gonna go down as "unknown" to me....it's too interconnected and too heavy I think only the calligrapher can reiterate it.

IF it was of better quality and larger size I might be able to deduce what it is based on some words I'll be able to identify here and there, but not like this.

TB: yeah, and I wish I could understand these fab peices