Parse about any Arabic textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp

Arabic StrToTime:

Parse about any Arabic textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp.

The function expects to be given a string containing an Arabic date format and will try to parse that format into a Unix timestamp (the number of seconds since January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT), relative to the timestamp given in now, or the current time if none is supplied.

Example Output 1:

Friday 13th November 2026

الخميس القادم - 1795046400 - Thursday 19th November 2026

الأحد الماضي - 1794096000 - Sunday 08th November 2026

بعد أسبوع و ثلاثة أيام - 1795424979 - Monday 23rd November 2026

منذ تسعة أيام - 1793783379 - Wednesday 04th November 2026

قبل إسبوعين - 1793351379 - Friday 30th October 2026

2 آب 1975 - 176169600 - Saturday 02nd August 1975