What this is, and what it isn't.
The Islam Institute is a place where the Qur'an, the Sunnah, and a working life can meet. We host the content ourselves, we name our sources, and we keep what's personal close to you, not us.
One place for the deen, built like a place worth returning to.
Most Islamic apps either ask you to choose between depth and design, or they sell your attention to advertisers between the ayahs. We disagreed with both options.
We build the things we want to use ourselves. The Qur'an with six translations and three tafsirs. The major hadith collections, searchable. The full Hisn al-Muslim. A daily ayah and hadith pairing. Tools for prayer times, qibla, tasbih, zakat. Reading plans you can finish. A memorisation deck that actually schedules reviews. And courses written by people we respect.
It's a long road and we're early on it. Thank you for walking it with us.
What's inside
Full Qur'an, Uthmani script, with 6 English translations + 3 tafsirs.
Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Nawawi's 40, 40 Hadith Qudsi.
The complete Hisn al-Muslim, 132 categories.
Word-by-word Qur'anic Arabic with transliteration + gloss.
Alafasy, Husary, Muaiqly, Shatri, Sudais, Minshawy.
New courses + texts added on a regular rhythm.
How we choose and check what goes in.
- 1Sources are named, every time.
Every translation, tafsir, and hadith collection in the library has a clear citation. If a translator is contemporary, you'll see their name and the publisher. If a tafsir is classical, you'll see the author and the abridgment used.
- 2Public-domain wherever possible.
The classical texts we host (Riyad as-Salihin, Nawawi's 40, Hisn al-Muslim, Tafsir Ibn Kathir abridged) are public-domain works freely redistributable. We avoid pirated material on principle.
- 3Original course content is reviewed.
Lessons we write are checked against the major schools of jurisprudence and the chains we cite. Where there's scholarly disagreement, we mark it as disagreement, not as one school's verdict.
- 4Bug fixes are public.
If we find a typo or mistranslation in the data, we fix it and note it. If you find one, tell us at the address below. Mistakes will happen. Concealing them won't.
Where the data comes from.
We're grateful to the open projects that made this possible. Hosting the data ourselves means nothing breaks if any one of them disappears, and you don't leave our app to read.
- quran.com
Uthmani Arabic, 6+ translations, 3 tafsirs, word-by-word data, reciter audio + segment timings.
- everyayah.com
Fallback per-ayah audio for reciters not on quran.com.
- fawazahmed0 / hadith-api
Public-domain English translations for Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Nawawi, Qudsi.
- hisnmuslim.com
The full Hisn al-Muslim by Sa'eed bin Ali bin Wahaf Al-Qahtani, 132 categories.
- open-meteo (geocoding)
Free geocoding for the prayer-times city search.
- adhan library
Salah-time calculation engine. Runs on your device.
What stays on your device.
We split features into two buckets. The first set never leaves your device. The second uses our server only so you can read from another device.
- Prayer time calculation
- Qibla direction
- Tasbih counter
- Zakat calculator
- Reciter + translation preference
- Playback rate + loop state
- Word-by-word mode
- Bookmarks (ayahs, hadiths, lessons, etc.)
- Lesson notes (private to you)
- Reading-plan progress
- Memorisation deck + SRS schedule
- Salah + fasting trackers
- Reference reading streaks
The people who teach.
Original course content is taught by instructors whose work we've sat with. Names + bios go here once they're ready to be public. The classical texts we host carry the names of their original authors; we don't put our name on what isn't ours.
We're writing biographies the way they deserve to be written, not the LinkedIn way. Watch this space.
Tell us what's broken.
Mistakes happen. If you spot a typo, a mistranslation, a UI glitch, or an Islamic-law error — tell us. We answer every email and we publish the fixes.
Contact the team