Resources Used

Underlying Qur'anic text, mushaf imagery, word-by-word morphology, and audio.

• King Fahd Glorious Qur'an Printing Complex (KFGQPC) — Madinah Mushaf

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  Source of the Uthmani text and the Madani mushaf page imagery used across the site.

  Licence: Public dissemination by the Complex

• Tanzil.net Qur'an Text

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  Reference Uthmani / Imlaei / Indo-Pak text variants used for verse rendering and search.

  Licence: Tanzil Qur'an Text License (CC-BY-ND 3.0)

• Quran.com API (Quran Foundation)

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  Translations, tafāsīr metadata, word-by-word data, audio segment timings, and reciter media.

  Licence: Open API; individual edition licences vary

• EveryAyah.com

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  Per-ayah recitation audio for several reciters featured in our audio player.

  Licence: Free for personal & non-commercial use

• Qur'anic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com)

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  Word-by-word morphology, root analysis, and POS tagging for the Quran reader.

  Licence: GNU GPL / academic use

All translator biographies and creed assessments are listed on the Sources & Scholars page.

• Hilali & Khan (English)

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  Default English translation, vetted in Madinah.

• Saheeh International (English)

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  Modern accessible English rendering.

• Pickthall, Yusuf Ali, Asad, Arberry (English)

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  Comparative reading. Asad and Arberry are listed for academic comparison only — see our notes.

• Junagarhi & Jalandhry (Urdu)

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  Standard Urdu translations used across the subcontinent.

• Bubenheim (German), Kuliev (Russian), Hamidullah (French), Diyanet (Turkish), and 25+ more

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  Multilingual coverage so non-Arabic speakers can read in their first language.

Mufassir biographies and creed notes live on the Sources & Scholars page.

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Arabic & abridged English)

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  Primary classical tafsir.

• Tafsir at-Tabari

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  Foundational tafsir bil-ma'thur.

• Tafsir as-Sa'di

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  Beloved contemporary Salafi tafsir.

• Tafsir al-Muyassar (King Fahd Complex)

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  Concise official Arabic tafsir.

• Ma'arif al-Qur'an (Mufti Muhammad Shafi)

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  English Hanafi tafsir; useful for fiqh-related ayāt with caveats noted.

• Sunnah.com

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  Reference for English translations, in-book references, and grading citations of the Six Books and beyond.

  Licence: Free for personal & da'wah use

• fawazahmed0/hadith-api

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  Bulk JSON dumps of the ten hadith collections currently seeded into our database.

  Licence: Public domain (Unlicense)

• King Saud University Hadith Encyclopedia

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  Cross-referencing of Arabic hadith text and isnāds.

  Licence: Free academic use

• Qur'an reciters catalogue (multiple sources)

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  Recitation audio for Mishary al-Afasy, Abdul Basit, Sudais, Shuraim, Husary, Al-Ghamdi, Maher al-Mu'aiqly, Saud al-Shuraim and dozens more.

  Licence: Audio served from EveryAyah, QuranicAudio, and the Quran.com CDN

Works cited across Seerah, 'Aqīdah, Fiqh, and Tazkiyah articles.

• Sahih al-Bukhari & Sahih Muslim — al-Bukhari (d. 256 AH) & Muslim (d. 261 AH)

  Primary hadith references in nearly every article.

• Sunan Abi Dawud, Tirmidhi, an-Nasa'i, Ibn Majah, Muwatta Malik

  Secondary hadith references.

• Tafsir Ibn Kathir, at-Tabari, as-Sa'di, al-Muyassar

  Quoted for ayah explanations across Seerah and creed articles.

• Ar-Raheeq al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar) — Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri (d. 1427 AH)

  Primary Seerah reference, awarded first prize by the Muslim World League.

• Zad al-Ma'ad — Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751 AH)

  Seerah, fiqh, and Prophetic guidance.

• As-Seerah an-Nabawiyyah — Ibn Hisham (d. 218 AH)

  Classical Seerah source.

• Al-Bidayah wa an-Nihayah — Ibn Kathir

  Islamic history, stories of the prophets, signs of the Hour.

• Kitāb at-Tawhid — Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (d. 1206 AH)

  Foundational text on tawhid quoted throughout the 'Aqīdah section.

• Al-Aqidah al-Wasitiyyah & At-Tadmuriyyah — Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728 AH)

  Core Salafi creed references.

• Sharh as-Sunnah — al-Barbahari (d. 329 AH)

  Early Salafi creed text.

• Fatāwā Ibn Bāz, Fatāwā Ibn 'Uthaymīn, Silsilat al-Ahādīth as-Sahīhah & ad-Da'īfah — al-Albani

  Modern Salafi authority on rulings and hadith authentication.

• Riyad as-Salihin & Al-Arba'in — Imam an-Nawawi

  Adab and tarbiyah articles.

• Hilyat al-Awliyā', Siyar A'lām an-Nubalā' — adh-Dhahabi (d. 748 AH)

  Biographies of the Sahabah, Tabi'un, and great scholars.

• Madarij as-Salikin & Al-Fawā'id — Ibn al-Qayyim

  Tazkiyah (purification of the soul) articles.

• KFGQPC Uthmanic Hafs Script

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  Arabic Qur'anic text rendering on web pages and OG images.

  Licence: Free distribution by the King Fahd Complex

• Amiri

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  Arabic body text in articles, hadith cards, and OG images.

  Licence: SIL Open Font License

• Playfair Display

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  Serif headings sitewide.

  Licence: SIL Open Font License

• Inter

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  Sans-serif body and UI text sitewide.

  Licence: SIL Open Font License

• Lucide Icons

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  Icon set used across the interface.

  Licence: ISC License

• React, Vite, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS

  Frontend framework and styling.

  Licence: MIT

• shadcn/ui & Radix UI

  Accessible component primitives.

  Licence: MIT

• Supabase (Lovable Cloud)

  Database, authentication, edge functions, and search.

  Licence: Apache 2.0

• TanStack Query

  Client data fetching and caching.

  Licence: MIT

• Puppeteer

  Build-time prerendering and OG image generation.

  Licence: Apache 2.0