I just got this tapestry as a gift. Can anyone tell me what it means?

by Aardvarkjon
Has_the_funk

At first I thought it was the Shahada, but it looks more like the Bismala; an Islamic saying prefacing most of the books of the Quran. The general gist, and most common translation, is "In the name of Allah the most just and merciful."

Source: Associates degree in the culture/language of the Pashtuns, an almost exclusively Islamic people living in Afghanistan and Pakistan.