About AyaSeerah
Built for a class, shared for every student of the Qur'an.
A free place where the class structure, the Arabic, the reasons of revelation and the review cycles live together.
- Qur'an and Seerah studied side by side, in revelation order.
- Every theme, root and takeaway grounded in authentic and narration.
- Scholars' study methods rebuilt as digital tools.
- Free to use. The only ask is honest feedback.
AyaSeerah was born from a personal struggle: I was listening to an Urdu Qur'an class, typing notes as fast as I could, then copying them into different AI platforms just to record and review them — and still found myself forgetting what I had learned. The barrier was not a lack of effort; it was the absence of a single place where the class structure, the notes, the Arabic meanings, the reasons of revelation, and the review cycles could all live together.
This app is built from those experiences and the barriers I faced while trying to learn, understand, absorb, retain, and reiterate the message of Allāh. The journey has been an ebb and flow: busy days would cause the Qur'an to slip away, sometimes for months at a time. Because the phone stays close at all times, an app felt like the natural way to consolidate every gap I felt was keeping me from my Qur'anic goals.
AyaSeerah was also inspired by a Qur'an class that ties the Seerah — the journey of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ — directly to the Qur'an. The class taught each surah by asking why it was revealed, where it fits in the Prophet's ﷺ life, and what themes and messages it carries. That structure is the heart of this app.
The primary purpose of AyaSeerah is to make learning the Qur'an easy. Arabic is a barrier for many sincere readers; we ground every word, theme, and root in authentic tafsīr and narration, so you understand what you are reading and why it was revealed.
The study tools inside the app are adapted from how Islamic scholars learned and taught the Book — slow reading, reflection, repetition, recall, and review — and then rebuilt with modern tools like spaced repetition, practice tests, and cheatsheets so the methods fit the digital age.
In the end, guidance, knowledge, pure intentions, perseverance, and a close relationship with the Qur'an are in the hands of Allāh. May He bless this effort, accept it, and make it a means of nearness to His Book.
What this app gives you
Qur'an + Seerah
Learn revelation order and prophetic life together, so the surah never floats without context.
Rooted in sources
Tafsīr is attributed to classical scholars and hadith is cited with its source, never flattened.
Scholarly method
Study mechanics are drawn from the advice of the scholars of the Qur'an and adapted for today.
Recite it properly
Tajwīd-coloured Uthmānī script and per-āyah recitation audio from well-known reciters on every surah page.
Practise and retain
Adaptive skill drills, practice papers, phase exams, spaced review and a mastery record — plus offline packs you can install to your phone.
Free to use
AyaSeerah is offered as a service. Use it freely, and keep it in your du'as.
A note from the builder
This is a personal project built from a real learning struggle: taking notes from an Urdu Qur'an class, pasting them across different AI tools, and still watching retention slip through the cracks. I wanted one place that held the class structure, the Arabic, the reasons of revelation, and the review cycles together — and I wanted it on the device that stays with me all day. I do not ask for payment. My only wish is your honest feedback — with respect, if something helps you learn or if something is wrong, I want to hear it. May Allāh accept it, increase it in barakah, and make it a means of nearness to His Book for every believer who wants to understand the Qur'an.
Credits & scholarly inspiration
The study mechanics in AyaSeerah are not invented. They are drawn from the advice of the scholars and carriers of the Qur'an — each principle is quoted with its source, then rebuilt as a digital feature. Below are the scholars and methods that shaped the tools.
The Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ, ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam
d. 11 AH / 632 CE
Principle: Forgetting is the default state, not a personal failing. Retention is a scheduled act, repeated forever, not a one-time achievement.
In the app: Every theme question and root card you meet enters a spaced-repetition queue. The interval is computed from your own recall grade, so the review arrives at the edge of forgetting instead of at random.
Try Daily review queueThe annual muʿāraḍah
Revelation period, 13 BH – 11 AH
Principle: Beyond daily revision there is a full re-presentation of everything learned, on a fixed cycle — the original 'cumulative exam'.
In the app: Your study log timestamps every surah pass, so you can see what has gone longest without a full re-reading and deliberately re-present it rather than only servicing the day's due cards.
Try Study logʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd رضي الله عنه
d. 32 AH / 653 CE
Principle: Small units, fully understood and acted on, before moving forward. Coverage without comprehension is not progress.
In the app: Surahs are cut into themed themes, not verse counts. A theme is not marked complete until you have read its tafsīr, answered its recall questions, and written one line on how it changes something.
Try The study pathʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ
d. 63 AH / 683 CE
Principle: Writing is not note-hoarding; it is the mechanism that fixes a fleeting understanding into something recoverable.
In the app: Notes attach to the specific theme that produced them. Handwritten class notes can be photographed, transcribed, translated and filed under the right theme, then exported as a printable sheet.
Try Your notes and exportsImām al-Shāfiʿī
150–204 AH / 767–820 CE
Principle: Two of the six are structural, not intellectual: a teacher, and duration. No amount of effort compresses the timeline.
In the app: The curriculum is laid out as a multi-year path in revelation order, and the app is explicitly the work you do between sittings with a teacher — never a replacement for one.
Try The curriculumAl-Shāfiʿī to Wakīʿ
150–204 AH
Principle: Retention has a moral dimension. Technique is necessary but not sufficient; the state of the heart is part of the method.
In the app: Each theme closes with an action prompt — one concrete thing to change — because the classical model treats acting on knowledge as a condition for keeping it, not an optional extra.
Try How to studyAl-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī
392–463 AH / 1002–1071 CE
Principle: Two mechanisms named a thousand years before cognitive science: retrieval practice with a partner, and distributed rather than massed learning.
In the app: Theme quizzes are randomised in order and paraphrased in wording, so a retake tests recall rather than pattern memory — a mudhākarah partner who never asks it the same way twice.
Try Theme quizzesIbn ʿAbd al-Barr
368–463 AH / 978–1071 CE
Principle: Consistency beats intensity. A daily minimum sustained for years outperforms occasional immersion.
In the app: The home screen only ever asks for today's due items — usually five to ten minutes — and the study log makes the streak of small sittings visible rather than the size of any one session.
Try Today's queueBurhān al-Dīn al-Zarnūjī
fl. early 7th century AH / 13th century CE
Principle: An explicit expanding-repetition schedule: newer material rehearsed more often, older material less — the pre-modern statement of spaced repetition.
In the app: The scheduler implements exactly this curve numerically: an item you graded 'again' returns within a day, one you graded 'easy' returns in weeks, and every card carries its own interval.
Try Spaced reviewIbn Jamāʿah
639–733 AH / 1241–1333 CE
Principle: Mastery gating and prior preparation: arrive at the lesson already read, and never advance on a shaky foundation.
In the app: The mastery dashboard scores each theme on unaided recall and tells you what to study next, while mistakes and misconceptions only clear after two consecutive correct answers.
Try Mastery dashboardIbn Khaldūn
732–808 AH / 1332–1406 CE
Principle: Learn in widening spirals, not in one exhaustive pass. Depth on a first encounter overwhelms and teaches nothing.
In the app: Every surah is built in layers you can stop at: seerah context, then theme summaries, then verse-by-verse Arabic with tafsīr, then roots. Returning later takes the next layer instead of rereading the first.
Try Layered surah sessionsImām al-Nawawī
631–676 AH / 1233–1277 CE
Principle: A fixed daily wird plus deliberate reflection. Volume of recitation without meaning is not the goal.
In the app: The daily queue is your wird, and each theme pairs recall questions with one reflection prompt whose answer is saved — so months later you can read what you understood at the time.
Try Reflection promptsIbn al-Jazarī
751–833 AH / 1350–1429 CE
Principle: Recitation is transmitted mouth to mouth (talaqqī). No text and no screen can certify how you sound.
In the app: This app deliberately does not teach recitation. It handles meaning, context, vocabulary and retention so that time with a qualified teacher is spent on the one thing only a teacher can give.
Try What this app is forIbn Taymiyyah
661–728 AH / 1263–1328 CE
Principle: A fixed hierarchy of evidence, and asbāb al-nuzūl as an interpretive tool rather than a story.
In the app: Every theme cites in that order — related āyāt, then ṣaḥīḥ narration, then named classical tafsīr — and each source is printed with the āyah so you never learn a claim you cannot trace.
Try Sources in each themeJalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī
849–911 AH / 1445–1505 CE
Principle: Context is not background colour; it is a precondition of correct meaning.
In the app: Each surah opens on an interactive seerah timeline that places the revelation inside the Prophet's ﷺ life, with the narration that reports it named beside the event.
Try Seerah timelinesIbn al-Qayyim
691–751 AH / 1292–1350 CE
Principle: The metric of a session is understanding produced, not pages covered.
In the app: Progress here is measured in themes you can explain unaided and takeaways you have acted on — never in verses scrolled. The dashboard reports recall, not coverage.
Try What gets measuredAbū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī
450–505 AH / 1058–1111 CE
Principle: Personalisation: read the āyah as addressed to you, today, in your circumstances.
In the app: The reflection prompt for each theme asks for your own situation, and the notes you write are searchable later — turning the Qur'an's address into a record of your own answers to it.
Try Your reflectionsWhy this app exists — and what it covers
Five things stand between reciting the Qur'an and understanding it: not knowing the Arabic, not knowing the moment of revelation, not seeing how a sūrah holds together, not retaining any of it a week later, and being lost by the terminology. This app was built to close those five. Your attachment is still to the muṣḥaf — this is here to help you understand what you are already reading there, and to hand you back to it.
What AyaSeerah covers
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Word by word, with roots
Every ayah is broken into root, literal sense and the meaning it carries here, so vocabulary builds as you read rather than after it.
Open a surah, then the Words tabRoots repeat across the Qur'an, so the same handful of them unlocks page after page. Each word can be played on its own by the reciter you pick, so you hear it before you try to say it.
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Revelation in its moment
The occasion of revelation sits beside the text, tied to the moment in the Prophet's ﷺ life it answered, with the report and its grading shown.
See the Qur'an beside his life - 03
Qur'an and Seerah in one line of study
One curriculum: the surahs in the order they were revealed, walked beside the events of the twenty-three years, so the story and the revelation explain each other.
The six phases - 04
Terms explained where they appear
Scholarly vocabulary — mutawātir, asbāb al-nuzūl, matn — is recognised wherever it appears. Tap the word for its meaning on the spot, without leaving the page.
The glossary, grouped by themeOver three hundred entries, grouped rather than alphabetical: belief, worship, character, prophets, places, language and the vocabulary of ḥadīth study itself.
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Sources shown, gradings stated
Every claim carries its source and its grading, and where the scholars differed or a report is weak, the page says so plainly instead of smoothing it over.
How we verify - 06
Themes, mapped
Each surah is mapped into themes with their ayah boundaries, and every theme opens to the full translation of its ayat with the tafsir in brief.
Surah cheatsheets - 07
Retrieval, not re-reading
Practice papers, a daily spaced-review queue and a mastery score that shows what has actually stuck.
Today's review queueItems you get right return less often; items you miss return sooner. Ten minutes a day moves more than an hour once a week.
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A record of what you missed
Every miss is kept in a mistake list and re-asked later, so the gaps close instead of quietly following you around.
Your mistake list - 09
Study at your level
Beginner, intermediate and advanced, with an override if you would rather see everything. Questions are filtered to the level you chose.
Set your study levelThe levels are ours, not a standard anyone certifies. What each one means in terms of the actual content is spelled out on the levels page.
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Nothing examined that was not taught
Every question carries a link that opens the exact lesson section behind it, so an exam is always a check on something the app taught you.
Practice and papers - 11
A companion on every page
Ask in plain English, by voice or by typing. It answers from the page you are on and takes you where you need to go.
Open Teach me - 12
Listen when you cannot sit and read
Listen mode teaches a whole surah aloud, hands-free — context, themes, tafsīr and takeaways — with control over speed, voice and warmth.
Listen to a surah - 13
How to study, not only what
How the scholars of the tradition learned, retained and recalled — and how each of those habits maps onto a tool here.
How the scholars studied - 14
A clear next step
A study log, a coverage map of the whole Qur'an, and one obvious thing to do every time you return.
Your progress
What it doesn't cover
Plainly, so you know what to expect from this app.
A replacement for your printed muṣḥaf
All 114 surahs can be read end to end here, with a choice of translations and reciters. But the Arabic, translations and audio are fetched from Quran.com rather than authored by us, so a printed muṣḥaf remains the reference copy.
A memorisation programme
AyaSeerah builds understanding and recall of meaning. It does not run a ḥifẓ schedule, hear you recite, or track how much you have memorised.
Tajwīd correction
Colour-coding and recitation audio are here so you can follow along. The app does not listen to you and does not correct your recitation.
A full Arabic language course
Roots and vocabulary are taught in the context of the āyah you are reading. There is no systematic grammar syllabus here.
Fatwā and rulings
This is study material. It does not answer questions about your own situation and gives no rulings.
A complete recitation library
A few reciters are offered so you can study with a voice you are comfortable with. It is not a full recitation library.
Start with the small things you can keep up every day. Underneath them sits the rest: every surah studied inside the moment of the Prophet's ﷺ life it was revealed into, in the order it came down, with every claim carrying its source.
Start today
Small things you can do in a minute, today, without signing up or committing to a course.
Read a surah
2 minOpen the muṣḥaf and read. Your place is saved, so tomorrow you carry on where you stopped.
Count a zikr
30 secA target ring that buzzes when you reach your number, a daily streak, and a history you can look back through.
Learn one zikr properly
3 minIstighfār, tasbīḥ, durood and the morning and evening lines — Arabic, plain-English meaning and a named source for each.
Play the ruqyah set
8 minThe verses of protection recited straight through as one set, with pause, resume and skip.
Listen instead of reading
10 minHave a whole surah taught to you aloud, hands-free, while you walk or drive.
Clear today's review
5 minWhatever you have already studied comes back on schedule, so nothing you learned quietly slips away.
The tasbīḥ, in fifteen seconds
Rooted in the Seerah
This is the part no reading app gives you: every surah is studied inside the moment of the Prophet's ﷺ life that it answered.
Revelation order, not muṣḥaf order
All 114 surahs mapped to the twenty-three years and to six phases of the Seerah, so the Qur'an unfolds as it was revealed.
Why each surah came down
Asbāb al-nuzūl placed in the events it belongs to, with the narration and its grading named — not folklore.
The Qur'an beside his life
A parallel timeline: what was happening, and what was revealed into it.
Seerah as graded recall
The events themselves become study material: dates, places, people and outcomes, reviewed like the āyāt are.
The prophetic lineage
The line from Ibrāhīm عليه السلام down to the Prophet ﷺ, and his household — generations that are disputed are left unnamed rather than guessed at.
Arabia before his birth
The tribes, the trade routes, the Kaʿbah and the religious state of the peninsula, so the first revelation lands in a world you can picture.
Source tiers, stated
Qur'an and the two Ṣaḥīḥs first, then the well-attested seerah literature, with weak or disputed reports marked as such.
Understand
What the words mean, what the surah is saying, and who said so.
Word by word, with roots
Each word's root, literal sense and meaning in context, so vocabulary compounds surah by surah.
Themes with āyah boundaries
Each surah divided into its themes, with the tafsīr reading and the takeaway for each.
Cited classical tafsīr
Ibn Kathīr, al-Ṭabarī, al-Qurṭubī, al-Saʿdī and al-Wāḥidī named at the point the claim is made.
Qur'anic glossary
Over three hundred terms grouped by theme, each with its meaning and its source, with forgiving search that finds a term from two letters or a different spelling.
Tap any term for a definition, right where you read it
Unfamiliar words in the prose — asbāb al-nuzūl, Muhājirūn, Anṣār, mutawātir, nafs muṭmaʾinnah — are underlined and open a pop-up: a plain-English summary first, then an expandable classical definition with its tafsīr or ḥadīth source. Works in the surah context and study tabs, the words tab, the abridged tafsīr panel, the Seerah timeline and the signature concepts.
Cross-surah threads
One subject — patience, tawḥīd, the hereafter — followed through every surah that treats it.
Theme-by-theme table
Every theme of a surah in one table — open a row for the full translation of its āyāt and the tafsīr in brief.
Taught aloud by voice
Hands-free walkthrough of a whole surah, ask questions as you listen, or be quizzed out loud — narrating the written, cited lesson.
Learn the Arabic
From the shape of a letter to the grammar of a sentence — taught from the Qur'an itself, never from invented textbook sentences.
The Arabic alphabet, from zero
All 28 letters in five small stages: how each one looks at the start, middle and end of a word, how it is pronounced and where in the mouth, the lookalikes to watch for, and a real word from a short surah. Then the vowel marks and a naming drill.
Qur'anic grammar, step by step
Sixteen short lessons in order — the three kinds of word, phrases, sentences, then verb patterns and word endings — each rule taught from āyāt you already recite, with a couple of quick checks at the end.
Roots you meet again and again
The key roots of each surah, with the words built on them, so a handful of roots unlocks page after page.
Full sentence grammar at the Leeds Corpus
For anyone who wants the technical analysis, every word and āyah links out to the Quranic Arabic Corpus for its morphology and syntax tree. We link to their scholarship rather than restate it.
Transliteration when you need it
Quran.com's transliteration under the Arabic, off until you switch it on, so you can follow the sounds while your reading catches up.
Recite
The muṣḥaf first. Open it and read, with nothing else on the screen.
All 114 surahs, plain reading mode
Uthmānī script from the Quran.com API, with your place saved and bookmarks you set yourself.
Translations in many languages
Pick from the full Quran.com translation list and read it beside the Arabic.
Reciters of your choice
Āyah-by-āyah recitation audio with repeat, and per-word audio when you are learning to pronounce.
A player that stays with you
A bar along the bottom while you recite: back and forward an āyah, scrub through, change the speed, repeat one āyah, or loop a range from one number to another. It keeps playing with the screen locked.
Quick controls at the top of every page
EN for the English, TR for the transliteration, and Aa for text size — one tap each, no menus to hunt through.
Search the whole Qur'an
Type a word or phrase in English or Arabic and jump straight to the āyah in the reader.
Read page by page, like the muṣḥaf
All 604 muṣḥaf pages, turned one at a time.
Read by juz or by rukūʿ
The thirty juz, or the 558 rukūʿ — the natural topic sections marked in the muṣḥaf.
Every marker on every āyah
Juz, ḥizb, rubʿ, rukūʿ, manzil and page number shown beside each āyah, with the fifteen prostration verses marked.
Copy or share an āyah
One tap copies the Arabic, the translation and the reference, or sends a link straight to that āyah.
Tajwīd colouring
The same coloured muṣḥaf Quran.com shows, drawn with the King Fahd Complex tajwīd page fonts, so every colour sits exactly on the letter it belongs to.
Abridged tafsīr while reading
A short classical tafsīr panel per āyah, folded away until you want it.
Save a surah to your device
Keep a surah, its translation and the āyahs you played available without internet.
Practise and retain
The study mechanics a degree student would use, applied to revelation.
Skill drills with SmartScore
One skill at a time, difficulty adapting to you, until the score reaches 100.
Practice papers and phase exams
Scored tests per surah, per seerah phase, and timed mocks, with growth tracked over time.
Spaced review queue
Everything you have studied returns on schedule, so it is retained rather than met once.
Cheatsheets and flip cards
One-page references per surah and flashcards for roots, terms and events.
Mistake ledger
Every question you missed collected into one fix list, and re-served until it is fixed.
Mastery dashboard
What you recall, what is fading, and what to study next.
How the scholars studied
Classical method — talqīn, muṭālaʿa, muḏākara — cited, and mapped onto the tools here.
Yours to keep
Sign-in optional. Your record lives on your device unless you move it yourself.
Study log and notes
Sessions, scores and your own notes per theme, kept privately in your browser.
Printable study sheets
A clean halaqah sheet per surah — themes, tafsīr, takeaways and your notes — to print or save as PDF.
Carry your progress across devices
A short pairing code moves your place and your record to another device, with no account needed.
Classroom review
Share progress with a teacher, and review a whole cohort's scores and notes.
Free to use right now — sign-in optional, no ads, nothing to buy. Where the app deliberately stops, that is written down too. Why this app exists or see where the curriculum comes from.
Written so you can answer this for someone else: what is taught, which books it rests on, what the AI voice does, and what this app does not claim to be.
What is actually being taught
The shape of one lesson, and where each piece comes from.
- What does a lesson consist of?
- One sūrah at a time, in the order it was revealed. Each sūrah is broken into: the reason it was revealed (asbāb al-nuzūl) tied to the moment in the Prophet's ﷺ life, the themes of the sūrah with the tafsīr reading for each, the root words that build vocabulary you carry into other sūrahs, the messages a believer takes away, and a self-test. The audio walkthrough follows exactly that order — nothing is spoken that is not in the written lesson.
- Where does the Qur'anic text and translation come from?
- The Arabic text and the translations are fetched verbatim from the Quran.com API and displayed as returned. No model writes, corrects, completes or reformats a single word of the Qur'an. You can verify any āyah live on the Text integrity page, which runs the same request the study pages run.
- Where does the tafsīr and revelation context come from?
- From the classical works, named at each point: Ibn Kathīr, al-Ṭabarī, al-Qurṭubī, al-Saʿdī and al-Wāḥidī's Asbāb al-Nuzūl for revelation context, with ḥadīth attributed to Bukhārī, Muslim and the other canonical collections. Every tafsīr note on a sūrah page carries the name of the work it summarises, so a teacher can check it at the source.
- Where does the seerah come from?
- Seerah events are graded by source strength and labelled as such: what is in the Qur'an and the two Ṣaḥīḥs first, then the well-attested seerah literature (Ibn Isḥāq via Ibn Hishām, al-Wāqidī, al-Ṭabarī, and modern compilations such as al-Mubārakpūrī's al-Raḥīq al-Makhtūm). Where a report is weak or disputed, it is marked, not smoothed over. The Seerah sources page lists the tiers in full.
The AI voice — what it does and does not do
Answer this one directly; it is the question people ask first.
- Is the AI making up the lesson?
- No. The AI is given the written, cited study material for that part of the sūrah and is instructed to teach that material aloud in plain English. It is explicitly forbidden from adding facts, inventing narrations, or citing works that are not in the material it was handed. It is a narrator with a script, not a scholar with an opinion.
- So what is the AI actually for?
- Three things: reading the authored lesson aloud so you can study hands-free, answering your questions about what you just heard using the same on-page material, and generating optional OCR of your own handwritten class notes. Speech and phrasing are AI; the knowledge is not.
- Can the AI still get something wrong?
- Yes — any generated speech can phrase something loosely or emphasise the wrong part, and that risk is real rather than theoretical. That is why the transcript is shown on screen while it speaks, why each part names its sources, and why the written sūrah page is always one tap away. If you hear something that does not match the written lesson, the written lesson is authoritative — and please report it.
- Can I study without the AI at all?
- Yes. Every lesson exists in full as a written page, with a printable study sheet, and Plain Reading Mode lets you simply recite with translation and recitation audio and nothing else. The voice is a convenience, not a dependency.
Limits, honestly stated
What this covers, and what it does not.
- Is this scholar-certified?
- No, and it does not claim to be. It is a compilation with attribution: every reading names the classical work it comes from so it can be checked. It sits alongside your teacher and your class, not in place of them.
- Does it follow one madhhab or school of tafsīr?
- It stays with what the mainstream classical mufassirūn agree on and reports differences as differences rather than picking a side. Where the tafsīr traditions read an āyah differently, the note says so.
- What does it not cover?
- It does not give fiqh rulings, it does not certify ḥifẓ, and it does not issue fatwā. The What it covers page states the scope in full.
- Something looks wrong. What do I do?
- Send it to ayaseerahh@gmail.com with the sūrah and āyah. Corrections are applied. The app is free to use and honest feedback is the only thing asked in return.
Found something that does not match its source? Write to ayaseerahh@gmail.com. The app is free to use; honest feedback is the only thing asked in return.
What each part of the site is, and when to reach for it. If you would rather ask than read, open the assistant at the bottom-left and choose Guide me — it can answer in English, by voice, and take you straight to the page you need.
The study loop
Five steps, repeated. Every tool on this site serves one of them.
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Read
Open a surah in revelation order and read it beside the Seerah event it belongs to.
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Understand
Work the themes, the occasion of revelation, and the Arabic roots. Ask the assistant when a line resists you.
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Retrieve
Sit a practice paper or run a skill drill. Recall, not re-reading, is what builds memory.
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Fix
Open your mistake list and close the gaps while they are still fresh.
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Return
Come back to the daily review queue. Ten minutes a day beats an hour once a week.
Every page, and when to use it
Learn
Read and understand — the Qur'an in revelation order, walked beside the Seerah.
- Teach meThe voice hub: pick any surah and be taught it aloud — Listen (taught aloud), Ask (a tutor), Practice (spoken questions, graded). Also reachable as "Teach me" on every surah, seerah chapter and page.Use when you want to study with your ears and voice instead of reading.
- The curriculumThe six revelation phases with the surahs and Seerah events of each.Start here if you want the whole journey in order, or to find your place.
- All 114 surahsEvery surah, listed in revelation order, each with a full study page.Use when you know the surah you want to study.
- Seerah timelineThe Prophet's ﷺ life as dated events, each also a recall card.Use when you want the story running beneath the revelation.
- Seerah year by yearOne page per year of his ﷺ life, labelled by year of prophethood and BH/AH.Use when your class is working through the years one at a time.
- Cross-surah threadsOne subject — patience, tawḥīd, the hereafter — traced through many surahs.Use when you want a theme rather than a single surah.
- Sūrah familiesGroups of sūrahs named together — the Ḥawāmīm, the Musabbiḥāt, the two bright ones.Use when you want to know what a whole group of sūrahs shares before you read one.
- How to study hereThe study loop this app is built around, step by step.Use on your first visit, or when a session feels aimless.
Practice
Prove you understood it — drills, papers and exams that score you.
- All practice modesThe master list of every drill, test and card deck.Use when you want to see everything practice-related in one place.
- Skill drillsOne skill at a time, adaptive, scored to 100.Use for short focused sessions — roots, themes, occasions of revelation.
- Practice papersScored papers per surah and per Seerah phase, with growth tracking.Use after you have studied a surah, to check what actually stuck.
- Surah summariesA full review of a surah: name, period of revelation, subject matter, themes and takeaways.Use when you want the whole surah in one sitting rather than theme by theme.
- Cheatsheets & cardsOne-page summaries, full theme translations and flip cards per surah.Use for a fast refresh before a test or a class.
- Classroom reviewClass-style progress view and targeted sets.Use if you study with a teacher or a group.
Review
Keep it — spaced repetition, mistakes and mastery over time.
- Daily reviewYour spaced repetition queue — the cards due today.Use every day. This is the habit that makes the rest stick.
- Mistakes & misconceptionsEverything you got wrong, gathered into one fix list.Use straight after a test, while the errors are fresh.
- My study logSessions, scores and notes over time.Use to see whether you are actually showing up.
- Export my progressA shareable summary of your scores.Use when a teacher asks for your progress.
Reference
Look something up — glossary, sources, method, offline pack.
- RuqyahA ready-to-read Qur'an and du'a set for healing and protection, with authentic sources.Use when you want to recite ruqyah over yourself or someone else.
- GlossaryQur'anic terms defined with tafsīr and ḥadīth citations.Use when a word in a translation is unfamiliar.
- How scholars studiedClassical study method, cited, mapped onto the tools here.Use when you want the reasoning behind the method.
- Seerah sourcesSource tiers and a live ḥadīth lookup.Use when you want to check a narration.
- Text integrityWhere the Arabic and translations come from, and how to verify any āyah.Use when you want proof the text is authentic.
- Saved for offlineThe surahs you have saved to read with no connection.Use before travel, or if your connection is unreliable.
About & help
What this is, how to get help, and how to send feedback.
- Reflection wallA moderated public wall where students share short reflections from their Qur'an and Seerah study. You can post anonymously.Use when you want to write down what a surah changed in you, or read what others took from it.
- Take a tourA 28-second video and a five-screen written walkthrough of how one surah is taught: Read, Context, Study, Words, Practice.Use on your first visit, or when you want to show someone else what the app does.
- Question difficultyWhat the beginner, intermediate and advanced setting changes about the questions you are asked in practice, drills and exams.Use when you want to know why some questions are held back, or want to see everything.
- My study setupThe one place to set your study level and switch optional tracks on or off, with a plain summary of what each choice changes.Use when questions feel too hard or too easy, or when you are not sure what level you are on.
- Optional tracksWhat the Qur'anic Arabic and tafsīr-method tracks teach, and where their questions appear. Papers, drills and exams only ask what you have been taught.Use when you want to read about a track before turning it on.
- About AyaSeerahWhy this exists, and what the app covers.Use to understand the intention behind the app.
- FAQCommon questions about privacy, offline use and cost.Use for quick practical answers.
- FeedbackThree short questions. No account, nothing collected but your words.Use any time — feedback is the only thing asked of you.
- ShareReady-made ways to pass this on.Use when you want to share with classmates or a mosque.
Why it was revealed
Each surah opens with its asbāb al-nuzūl, placed inside the Prophet's ﷺ life story — with the hadith and its grading cited, never paraphrased folklore.
Broken into themes
The surah is divided into themes, the way a teacher walks a class through it: oath, reassurance, evidence, response. You see the argument, not just verses.
Grounded in tafsīr
Ibn Kathīr, al-Ṭabarī, al-Qurṭubī, al-Saʿdī — short, attributed excerpts under every theme so you always know who said what.
Roots that compound
Tap any word for its root and word family. Learn ر ب ب once and you recognise it thousands of times across the Qur'an.
Takeaways and reflection
Each theme ends with what to carry away and one honest question to sit with — study that changes something, not just information.
Built for a class
Follow along with your teacher, keep notes per theme, and revisit the surah in review cycles so it stays with you.
Every surah runs through the same pipeline, and every step writes into one personal record: your study log, your due cards, your mistakes, your mastery scores.
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Context before text
Open the surah on its seerah timeline: what was happening in the Prophet's ﷺ life, which āyāt answer it, and the hadith that reports it.
Feeds → study session log
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Read it in themes
The surah is split into themes with attributed tafsīr, key takeaways and one reflection question — you follow the argument, not just the verse order.
Feeds → theme notes
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Mine the roots
Every word carries its root and word family. Learn م ل ك in al-Mulk and you read it everywhere else in the Qur'an.
Feeds → vocabulary cards
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Test yourself honestly
Theme quizzes with randomised order and paraphrased options, so retaking one is a genuinely new assessment — every answer comes with its source.
Feeds → mistakes & misconceptions
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Review on schedule
Quiz items and root cards enter one spaced-repetition queue graded Again / Hard / Good / Easy, so what you understood today is still there in a month.
Feeds → daily review queue
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Recite with tajwīd and audio
Every āyah is shown in the tajwīd-coloured Uthmānī script served by the Quran.com API, with per-āyah recitation audio from Mishary al-ʿAfāsy, ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ or al-Ḥuṣarī.
Feeds → reading controls on every surah
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Act and record
Write notes per theme, upload handwritten class notes, and print a study sheet. Mastery shows which themes you can recall unaided and what to study next.
Feeds → mastery dashboard
All 114 surahs are indexed in revelation order and mapped to the 6 seerah phases, with canonical text and recitation served live from the Quran.com API.
All 114 surahs, in revelation order
Every surah has its occasion of revelation, thematic sections, attributed tafsīr, takeaways and root vocabulary — placed on the seerah timeline.
Browse surahsTajwīd colouring and recitation audio
Tajwīd-coloured Uthmānī script with per-āyah audio from Mishary al-ʿAfāsy, ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ or al-Ḥuṣarī, switchable on every surah page.
Recite an āyahSeerah curriculum in six phases
Walk the Prophet's ﷺ life phase by phase, with the revelation that met each moment and a phase exam at the end of it.
Open the curriculumAdaptive mastery drills
Precision drills on roots, themes, terms and occasions — one narrow skill at a time, scored 0–100 until you can recall it unaided.
Start a drillPractice papers and timed mocks
Sit surah papers, seerah papers and timed mock exams as often as you like; each attempt is scored against your own past attempts.
Sit a paperCheatsheets and flashcards
One-page surah sheets where every theme opens to the full translation of its āyāt and the tafsīr in brief, plus two-way flashcards.
Open cheatsheetsSpaced review, mistakes and mastery
Every answer feeds one review queue, one mistake ledger and one mastery dashboard, so you always know what to study next.
Review what's dueQur'anic glossary and root families
Look up any recurring Qur'anic term with its root, core sense, word family and cited usage, then send it to your cards.
Open the glossaryOffline packs, install and alerts
Cache surahs, sheets and recitation for the plane or the commute, install AyaSeerah to your home screen, and opt in to alerts for new content.
Build a packVerifiable sources
Canonical text and recitation come live from the Quran.com API; tafsīr and hadith are named and graded. Verify it yourself on the integrity page.
Check the sourcesClass notes, print sheets and instructor mode
Keep notes per theme, upload handwritten class notes, print a halaqah study sheet, and review a whole cohort's progress.
Open classroomPrivate by default
Your study record lives in your browser. Sign-in optional, no ads — the only ask is honest feedback.
Read the FAQYou stop reciting words you cannot follow
Word-by-word Arabic with roots means the recitation you already perform every Friday and every night starts to carry meaning.
You know why it was revealed
Asbāb al-nuzūl placed inside the Prophet's ﷺ life, with the narration and its source named — not folklore.
You keep what you learn
Active recall and spaced repetition are the same tools used for a university degree, applied to revelation instead of exams.
You are answerable to a record
Sessions, notes, mistakes and mastery are yours and private — evidence of consistency, and a list of what to fix.
It is free to use, and open
Sign-in optional, no app download — open it in a browser and study. Every believer should be able to study their own Book.
Sources
Arabic text and translations come from the Quran.com API, built on the Uthmānī Tanzil/KFGQPC Madinah Muṣḥaf lineage. Hadith narrations are drawn from authenticated collections, each labelled with a verse key you can cross-check.
Citation
Tafsīr notes, asbāb al-nuzūl and quiz explanations carry “Cited to” labels: Ibn Kathīr, al-Ṭabarī, al-Qurṭubī, al-Saʿdī, or the relevant ḥadīth collection. Where scholars differ, the differences are shown rather than hidden.
Privacy
Sign-in optional. Progress, notes and review cards are stored in your own browser.
Read the privacy policyThe companions and the early scholars gathered for du'ā at the completion of a khatm. Anas ibn Mālik would gather his family and supplicate when he completed the Qur'an, and Ibn ʿAbbās would have someone watch for a reciter finishing so he could be present, since mercy descends at the moment of completion. (Sunan ad-Dārimī; al-Bayhaqī, Shuʿab al-Īmān)
اللَّهُمَّ ارْحَمْنِي بِالْقُرْآنِ، وَاجْعَلْهُ لِي إِمَامًا وَنُورًا وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةً. اللَّهُمَّ ذَكِّرْنِي مِنْهُ مَا نَسِيتُ، وَعَلِّمْنِي مِنْهُ مَا جَهِلْتُ، وَارْزُقْنِي تِلَاوَتَهُ آنَاءَ اللَّيْلِ وَأَطْرَافَ النَّهَارِ، وَاجْعَلْهُ لِي حُجَّةً يَا رَبَّ الْعَالَمِينَ
“O Allāh, have mercy on me through the Qur'an, and make it for me a guide, a light, guidance and mercy. O Allāh, remind me of what I have forgotten of it, teach me what I am ignorant of, grant me its recitation through the hours of the night and the ends of the day, and make it a proof for me, O Lord of the worlds.”
See al-Nawawī, at-Tibyān fī Ādāb Ḥamalat al-Qur'ān, chapter on completing the Qur'an.
اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلِ الْقُرْآنَ الْعَظِيمَ رَبِيعَ قَلْبِي، وَنُورَ صَدْرِي، وَجِلَاءَ حُزْنِي، وَذَهَابَ هَمِّي
“O Allāh, make the Mighty Qur'an the spring of my heart, the light of my chest, the remover of my sadness and the departure of my anxiety.”
From the ḥadīth of Ibn Masʿūd — Musnad Aḥmad 3712; graded authentic by Ibn Ḥibbān and al-Ḥākim.
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Reflection wall
There is also a shared, moderated wall where students post reflections from their study — with their name or anonymously. Every post is reviewed before it appears.
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