Where Our Quran Text, Translation and Audio Come From

Arabic Quran text

The Arabic text is the Uthmani-script Quran as provided by Al Quran Cloud, a service of Islamic Network, drawn from the Tanzil project's verified text. It is displayed exactly as received. The only processing we apply is removing an invisible byte-order mark at the start of the first ayah and displaying the basmala that opens most surahs on its own line, without changing any character of the text. The Arabic is never passed through translation software, AI rewriting or summarisation, and the pages carry a marker telling browsers not to auto-translate it.

English translation

The English translation is Sahih International, served through Al Quran Cloud (edition identifier en.sahih). It is shown in a visually separate style from the Arabic and always labelled with its surah and ayah reference. A translation conveys meaning; it is not the Quran, and we never present it as such.

Recitation audio

Ayah-by-ayah recitations are streamed on demand from the Islamic Network audio CDN (cdn.islamic.network), which publishes them for use through the Al Quran Cloud API. Nothing is downloaded and rehosted, and no audio is loaded until you press play. Reciters currently offered:

• Mishary Rashid Alafasy (Murattal)
• Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husary (Murattal)
• Abdul Basit Abdus Samad (Murattal)
• Mohamed Siddiq Al-Minshawi (Murattal)
• Abdurrahman As-Sudais (Murattal)
• Ali Al-Hudhaify (Murattal)
• Maher Al-Muaiqly (Murattal)

If a recording is unavailable for a moment, the player says so and invites you to try another reciter rather than failing silently.

Word-by-word glosses and word pronunciation

The word-by-word Arabic, transliteration, English gloss and single-word pronunciation clips come from the Quran.com word-by-word dataset, published by the Quran Foundation through its public API (api.quran.com, version 4). Data was fetched once and stored; word clips stream from the Quran Foundation CDN only when you press a word. A gloss explains a single word and is shown separately from the Sahih International ayah translation; it is never presented as a translation of the ayah.

Topic collections and duas

Quran-by-topic pages and the duas collection are editorial selections of citations made by the academy's teaching team. Every citation was checked against the stored text at build time, the verses are rendered exactly as stored, and each links to its surah so it can be read in context. Selections are not exhaustive and are not rulings.

Stories of the Prophets

The narration on each prophet's page is written by the academy's teaching team from the Quranic account only, and is labelled "story narration" to keep it distinct from the Quran. Every chapter shows the ayahs it rests on, rendered verbatim from the stored text; every citation is validated against the text at build time. Details that come from hadith or the Seerah rather than the Quran are named as such in a sources note on the page; folklore and unverified reports are left out. "Listen to the story" uses the browser's own speech synthesis and is labelled as a synthesised voice; it never reads Quranic Arabic.

What we do not do

• We do not scrape Quran.com, YouTube or any audio website.
• We do not alter, abbreviate or "correct" Quranic Arabic in any way.
• We do not offer synthesised English narration of the Quran, and we will not add spoken English translation unless a source explicitly licensed for it is available, in which case it will be labelled clearly as a translation and never as recitation.
• We do not give automatic Tajweed scores. The practice recorder on the homepage keeps your recording on your device and is intended for your own review or a lesson with a teacher.

Word meanings and Tajweed notes

The word-by-word transliteration and meanings shown in the homepage lesson demo cover Surah Al-Fatihah only and were written by the academy's teaching team. Tajweed notes in the Tajweed guide are written by the teaching team and reviewed before publication. Where a matter of recitation is subject to differing readings, the guide says so.

Planned sources

The site is built with a provider layer so that the Quran Foundation (Quran.com) content API can be added for word-level audio and timestamps when credentials are in place. Credentials for any such provider stay on the server and are never exposed in the browser.

Corrections

If you find any error in the text, translation or attribution, please tell us through the contact page and we will correct it promptly.