Curriculum provenance
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 ﷺ, 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.