The best online resources about the Qur’an

August 31, 2009 by Nadim Quran and Sunnah
48 comments Tags: online resources · Quran · Quran on web

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The month of Ramadhan [is that] in which was revealed the Qur'an, a guidance for the people and clear proofs of guidance and criterion

Let's use this blessed month to read, understand, memorize, reflect and ponder upon the verses of Allah swt. Alhamdulillah, it is now easier than ever to do it with the help of Internet.

Here is a selection of the best resources available about the Qur'an in different topics:

Read:

QuranFlash.com: very neat interface. You can turn the page one by one like a real mushaf. You can choose the Madani Mushaf, the Indo-Pak style mushaf, the Mushaf with colored tajweed rules, transliteration, etc.

Memorize:

Reciter.org: probably the best website if you want to memorize the Qur'an. You can select a reciter and configure the number of the times the verse has to be recited, the length of the pause, etc. The interface looks like the Madani mushaf, which is much better for the memorization than the regular Arabic fonts

EHafiz.com: allows you to download the audio Quran (mp3) that has been divided digitally into tracks/ayahs. So if Baqarah has 286 ayahs, the eHafiz version now has 286 tracks.

Memorize-Quran.com: It has mp3′s that are broken up into a few ayahs (usually not more than 5 lines at a time) of quran, so that you can concentrate on those ayat and memorize the one's you need go over. You can download either husary's, mishary's, or alghamidi's recitations.

Translation:

Quran.com: Propose 6 different English translations (including the best one, Sahih International) as well as 19 foreign language

Allah'sQuran.com: very complete site with word by word translation, tafseer, recitation, search…

Tanzil.info: the translation appears when you move your mouse over an ayat.

QuranExplorer.com: Â It has the translation next to the Arabic text.

Tafseer

Tafsir.com: Tafseer Ibn Kathir

AlTafsir.com: contains the most known Tafseer books. Be aware that this site contains Tafseer from the Shi'a, and other groups. (Note from Sh. Jamaal Zarabozo's class:Â the English translation of Tafseer ibn Abbass was done by a Shi'a group and you find very strange and weird interpretations. This group also did the translation of Jalalayn.)

IslamicStudies.info: Tafseer Maulana Maududi (Towards Understanding the Quran)

Audio

QuranicAudio.com: high quality recitation

IslamWay.com: contains probably the largest number of reciters (over 200)

HalalTunes.com: awesome way to listen the Qur'an by instant streaming (fastest and easiest way to listen to your favorite reciters without having to download)

Video

QuranOnline.net: verse by verse video

Search

SearchQuran.net: Â search by sura (eg. 1, 2:25-35), or an english, arabic, or phonetic term (eg. 'bismillahi alrahman').

SearchTruth.com: Â in addition to common features, you can search in different language

Arabic

Sultan.org: for those who can understand Arabic, please refer to this website for the best resources available

May Allah swt make us amongst those who will read, learn, understand, apply and convey to others the Qur'an.

Please feel free to add your favoriteÂ website in the comments.

Tags: online resources · Quran · Quran on web

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‘Uthmaan

JazakAllahu Khayran! I was particularly pleased to find the translation by Sahih International which I have been looking for online for some time. :)

UmA

If you get a chance you should read the awesome article about the team of 3 sisters who put this translation together: it’s in Sisters magazine.

http://www.nomad-one.com nomad-one

SubHaanAllah, are you aware that Church of scientology ads are being posted on your google ads on this site? Please have a look and see if you can block these.

http://duskanddawn.wordpress.com Ameera

It has been troubling me for a long while and I’d always come up to the question, “But MM is letting them be displayed… wouldn’t they do something about it if it was unacceptable?” However, we can see it clearly is wrong… Adsense for content has this major drawback! :(

habib

This is an awesome website that should be put into the above article as well:

http://www.allahsquran.com/learn/

Its got word by word translation and also tafseer as well masha Allah

http://muslimmatters.org/about/mm-associates/ MM Associates

It has been added under translation. JazakAllah Kheir!!

-Nadim

http://www.mujahideenryder.net MR

And to listen to the Qur’an online, check out http://www.halaltunes.com

http://muslimmatters.org/about/mm-associates/ MM Associates

MashAllah, this site is awesome! It has been added to the list under Audio. JazakAllah Kheir for sharing

-Nadim

yahmtz

http://qurancomplex.com/

It has a reciter application similar to reciter.org, among other things.

yahmtz

http://qurancomplex.com/quran/display/tahfeez.asp?TabID=1&SubItemID=4&l=eng&SecOrder=1&SubSecOrder=4

And they have support for many languages (English, Arabic, French, Urdu, Malaysian, etc.)

Nazir

AlTafsir.com: contains the most known Tafseer books. Be aware that this site contains Tafseer from the Shi’a, and other groups. (Note from Sh. Jamaal Zarabozo’s class: the English translation of Tafseer ibn Abbass was done by a Shi’a group and you find very strange and weird interpretations. This group also did the translation of Jalalayn.)

Actually what Sh. Jamaal mentioned in class is that the main problem is the fact that the “tafseer of Ibn Abbas” (tanweer al-miqbaas”) is dubious to begin with and not attributable to Ibn Abbas because there is in the chain someone accused of lying and forgery – Muhammad ibn Saa’ib al-Kalbi.
http://trueword.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/quran-on-google-books/ aarij

The Qur’an on Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=EwyRGM3KFswC

Excellent way to read the Qur’an.

Also for downloading/audio, http://www.versebyversequran.com for MP3s of Qur’an ayah-by-ayah by all the major qurra’.
http://www.quranclub.net Ikram Hadi

What about mp3quran.net? They have the best collection of Quran torrents.
Adam

If you have an iphone and want to read the quran from it try this:
http://forums.alkauthar.org/showthread.php?t=6955

I have been using it, and alhamdulillah it is very clear and readable. Unfortunately i dont find the quran apps out there very readable and this has been far easier to read from.

hope that helps.
http://tr.im/hosna abu abdAllah Tariq Ahmed

Jazak Allah khayr, Nadim, and Ramadan Mubarak. :)

Mac and Linux users will like the open source project: http://zekr.org
While aal-i-PC should consider http://imaanstar.com
http://tr.im/hosna abu abdAllah Tariq Ahmed

And at least during the month of Ramadan — I am listening to it now, even while I type — the amazing live tafsir of the Qur’an by (Shaykh) Wisam Sharief. Quick link http://tr.im/baqarah
zaynab

Awesomeness!

This is amazing, Jazak Allahu khayran bro.
http://quadirspace.blogspot.com Quadir

Assalam Alaikum,

Please checkout http://www.ehafiz.com

What is eHafiz?

Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular ayah from the Quran on a CD or mp3, [usually during memorization] but found it impossible to find it because most surahs are 20+ minutes and one track long?

Some brothers memorizing the Quran ran into the same problem and came up with a simple solution; take a digital/audio version of Quran and divide all the ayahs of the Quran into tracks.

eHafiz.com allows you to download the audio Quran (mp3) that has been divided digitally into tracks/ayahs. So if Baqarah has 286 ayahs, the eHafiz version now has 286 tracks. Simple!

http://muslimmatters.org/about/mm-associates/ MM Associates

I have added it to the list.JazakAllah Kheir

Abu Rumaisa

http://www.QuranEngine.com
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> Access to Quran Recitations in many languages that you can listen to without having to download the
entire mp3 audio file.
> Listen to Quran Recitation in many languages including # Arabic # Azerbaijan # Bangla & Arabic # Bosnian
# Chinese # English # Farsi # Filipino # French # German # Hindi # Korean # Malayalam # Portuguese # Russian
# Spanish # Tamil # Turkish # Urdu
> You can also download files in mp3 format if you want to.
muslima

This is a really great post!! THANK YOU!!
BlessedMuslimah

Assalaamu’alaykum,

This is a really nice list, barakAllahu feek.

I would *definitely* add http://www.memorize-quran.com to the list. It has mp3′s that are broken up into a few ayahs (usually not more than 5 lines at a time) of quran, so that you can concentrate on those ayat and memorize the one’s you need go over. You can download either husary’s, mishary’s, or alghamidi’s recitations.

I would also highly recommend http://www.quranicrealm.com – on top of providing 6 different types of translation (Muhsin Khan, Yusuf Ali, Pickthal, Shakir, Sahih International, Dr. Ghali ), it also has the option of viewing it in transliteration, in arabic (with tashkeel and without tashkeel), and in arabic as an image instead of text. You can search in english, in arabic or phonetically.

Both are amazing resources ma shaa Allah – may Allah reward the people who put all of these sites together! Ameen

http://muslimmatters.org/about/mm-associates/ MM Associates

- I have added memorize-quran.com to the list .JazakALlah Kheir.
- QuranicRealm.com is the same as SearchQuran.net

Faiez

Good post masha’Allah

also check out http://tvquran.com/

It takes emotional recitations from reciters (some you may have not heard of before) and puts it on the main page. you can also listen to the reciters individually by clicking on a drop down menu.

http://muslimmatters.org/author/saqibsaab/ SaqibSaab

It takes emotional recitations from reciters (some you may have not heard of before) and puts it on the main page. you can also listen to the reciters individually by clicking on a drop down menu.

Lu7aidan clones.

sabiha ameen

assalaamualaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatahu!

another awesome resource:
http://www.quranpda.com

can be downloaded to your iphone!
http://www.untangleyourtime.com Nahyan

Fantastic.

Jazakallahukhair Nadim.
Asif H

Masha’Allah awesome post, may Allah swt reward the writer and all the contributors, ameen! Definitely a print and keep item. Now time to go through all of these resources!!
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k77

Islamonline.net!! I cannot believe you guys missed this – this site never gets credit for its simple and clear Quran
abdul-aziz

assalam aleikum,

jazak Allahu khairan, you missed a project where many have linked to their site. http://www.versebyversequran.com/site/

everything already split into ayah by ayah with many known recitors and with very good audio quality.

this becomes very valuable to when you want to memorize or review a few ayat at a time.

I just want to know, when muslims will start using the valuable resource of using mp3 tags. I have created my own genre, I call it Quran. Other data like title and artist should be filled in too, this makes whatever you play display relevant info. not a big deal but if you put these mp3 on devices the filename doesn’t appear but rather the title does.
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http://www.minimuslims.com Shariq

Nowadays, it is quite difficult to access reciter since the website is mostly unavailable.

A fairly decent alternative that displays quran in the same kind of format (but limited options) is http://www.minimuslims.com

It only contains the last 2 Juz of the Quran. But atleast it works on days when you cannot get thru to reciter.org
Abed

Juz30 (http://www.imaanstar.com/juz30.php) is one of my favorite apps on the pc for memorization. Has ayah-by-ayah, Arabic, translation, and several reciters to choose from. You can stop at certain points in an individual ayah and play back from segment to segment.
http://www.online-quran-learning.com/ Sulaiman

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Thank you for this. It really helped me start memorizing both the arabic and the translation of the quran