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User Guide

Every control, in one line each.

Tap a section to open it.

New here? ▶ Show me around — in a reading page’s ⋯ More, or the app’s More tab — walks you through the screen you are on.

Getting around›

The website and the installed app hold the same texts; the app adds tabs, favorites, daily goals and offline recitations.

Top barChapters · Search · Bookmarks · Listen · Notes · Memorize · ⋯ More · Mutūn ▾ · Translation ▾
⋯ MorePDF · ▶ Show me around · User guide · Nuskha (Jazariyyah) · Appearance
AppearanceAuto · Light · Dark.
App tabsHome · Collection · Marginalia · More. On a matn: Home · Read · Memorize · More.
HomeEvery matn, a Continue card back to your last bayt, and a strip showing overall progress, current streak and total study time.
FavoritesApp → Collection → ★ on up to 2 mutūn; they lead Home, the rest stay in Collection.
Daily goalApp → More → 1–50 abyāt a day, set per matn. Each card shows Goal today.
Opening the appThe al-Asl star beats while the app settles. Tap it to go straight through.
TabletLarger bayt, mutūn two across, tabs gathered in the middle. Turns either way.
Not seeing a new feature? Fully close and reopen the installed app.
The six mutūn›

Teaching order. Each keeps its own colour and its own last mode. Nothing is locked — open whichever you are studying.

KhāqāniyyahAbū Muzāḥim al-Khāqānī · 51 abyāt · the first poem written on tajwīd.
Tuḥfat al-AṭfālSulaymān al-Jamzūrī · 61 · the beginner’s matn: nūn sākinah, tanwīn, mīm sākinah, madd.
JazariyyahIbn al-Jazarī · 109 · the complete rules.
al-Salsabīl al-ShāfīʿUthmān Murād · 265 · tajwīd in full, from the makhārij to the rules of waqf.
Shāṭibiyyahal-Shāṭibī · 1,173 · the seven qirāʾāt.
ṬayyibahIbn al-Jazarī · 1,015 · the ten qirāʾāt.
Reading›
Translation ▾English, and Urdu where it exists. Arabic is always shown.
Tap a wordHighlighted words give their meaning in a pop-up.
Book buttonAn explanation of that bayt. Where one is written in more than one language, a small EN / اردو / ع switch chooses — and the choice sticks.
Qirāʾāt cardShāṭibiyyah. The ۞ button gives the āyah, the disputed word, and who among the seven reads it how (your Ḥafṣ marked). General chapters give a rule card, explanatory ones a commentary (شرح) card. Arabic, English or Urdu.
NuskhaJazariyyah. Abyāt that differ between nuskhas carry ⇄ — compare them side by side. Pick your nuskha in ⋯ More. Recitations follow the nuskha they were recorded in.
CopyArabic, the translations you have showing, and a reference.
PDF⋯ More → Arabic only, or Arabic + English.
A button appears only where its content is ready. Translations and explanations are checked bayt by bayt, so more turn up over time.
Finding your place›
ChaptersType a chapter name (no diacritics) or a number. A bayt number gives Go to bayt N — it lands there and flashes. Long mutūn start collapsed; Show all chapters opens the grid.
Chapter lengthOn every Contents card and repeated in the chapter’s own header.
SearchAny part of a bayt or a chapter title, in Arabic, no diacritics. A matching title brings up its whole chapter.
RibbonTap a bayt’s ribbon. On the website Home gathers them from every matn; in the app that is the Marginalia tab, with your notes alongside.
PenTap the pen; the note sits under the bayt. The Notes button lists that matn’s. Both are hidden in Memorize mode — and untouched.
Memorizing (ḥifẓ)›
StartMemorize in the top bar, on Home, or the app’s Memorize tab. One chapter at a time, words hidden.
Hide 1–41 last word · 2 second half · 3 first word only · 4 everything. Raise it as abyāt stick.
CheckTap a blank, or the bayt number, to reveal — then ✓ Got it or ↺ Review.
MasteredTwo correct passes, or one at level 4.
BadgeThe bayt number rings: learning · mastered · due. Always the matn’s own colour.
Options ▾Reveal all · Tap reveals (a word or the bayt) · Hide mastered · Review due · Your progress.
Your progressMastery per chapter, your streak, today’s goal — and ↓ Back up · ↑ Restore · Reset chapter · Reset all.
ReviewMastered abyāt return after 1, 3, 7, 16, 35, 90 days. The badge counts what is due; Review due drills only those, mixed across the matn.
✕Leaves Memorize and goes back to reading.

learning mastered due

Listening›
▶ on a baytPlays, then runs on through the following abyāt, scrolling each into view. Tap the playing bayt to stop.
Listen & RepeatBy bayt or By chapter · Range · Repeat each bayt · Repeat the range (1–10 or ∞) · Speed 0.75×–2× · Pause to recite.
While loopingTap any bayt in range to jump the loop there, settings kept. The screen stays awake. The website adds a player bar; the app has none.
RecitersShaykha Hind al-Maṭarī and Shaykh Osama bin Abdul Aziz — both muqriʾ of the ten qirāʾāt, ṣughrā and kubrā. The player names who you are hearing.
Kept as you listenThe abyāt a loop is about to reach are fetched before you get there and kept on the device — so it keeps its footing on a weak connection, and the second time round needs no connection at all.
OfflineText, translations and fonts save by themselves. Recitations are a download, never taken without asking: the first time you play audio in a matn you are offered the rest of it, with the size shown. In the app you can also take it from ⋯ More → Download recitations. One matn at a time, and it stays saved across updates.
Your progress & data›
Where it livesThis device only. No account, nothing to sign into. Bookmarks, notes, memorization and appearance all save by themselves.
Move itYour progress → ↓ Back up (copy, share, or save a file), then ↑ Restore on the other device. Carries mastery, review schedule, bookmarks and notes.
“won’t be saved”The browser is blocking storage. In-app browser (Instagram, WhatsApp) → its ⋯ → Open in browser. Private/Incognito → a normal window. Blocked site data → allow mutun.al-asl.com.
Surest fixInstall the app — an installed app always keeps your progress.