Sources and licences

Nahfaz is free because many people shared their work. Here is every source, what we use it for, and under which licence. The Qur'an text, translations and tafsir are shown exactly as published, never edited.

• Tanzil Project

  • Tanzil Project — Quran text (Uthmani) · v1.1
  • Saheeh International (via Tanzil)

  Used for: The Arabic text of the Qur'an and the surah data.

  Licence: The source's own terms of use, followed as written

• QuranEnc.com

  • Saheeh International (QuranEnc edition, issued by Noor International Center) · v1.1.2
  • Spanish Translation - Isa Garcia · v1.0.2
  • Urdu Translation - Muhammad Junagarhi · v1.1.3
  • Persian Translation - Rowwad Translation Center · v1.1.3
  • al-Mukhtasar fi Tafsir al-Qur’an al-Karim — Arabic (via QuranEnc.com)
  • al-Mukhtasar fi Tafsir al-Qur’an al-Karim — English (via QuranEnc.com)
  • al-Mukhtasar fi Tafsir al-Qur’an al-Karim — Spanish (via QuranEnc.com)
  • al-Mukhtasar fi Tafsir al-Qur’an al-Karim — Persian (via QuranEnc.com)

  Used for: Translations and tafsir, in the language you read.

  Licence: The source's own terms, as published on its site (linked)

• quran-align (Collin Fair)

  • quran-align — Abdul Basit Murattal 64kbps · v2016-11-24
  • quran-align — Abdurrahmaan As-Sudais 192kbps · v2016-11-24
  • quran-align — Alafasy 128kbps · v2016-11-24
  • quran-align — Husary 64kbps · v2016-11-24
  • quran-align — Husary Muallim 128kbps · v2016-11-24
  • quran-align — Minshawy Murattal 128kbps · v2016-11-24

  Used for: Word timings that follow the recitation.

  Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

• quran-tajweed (Collin Fair)

  • quran-tajweed (Hafs Uthmani) · v496f71cd191da00fa2a37ded79dbbddb033bb0ad

  Used for: Tajweed colouring of the text.

  Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

• Quran Mutashabihat Data (Waqar144)

  • Quran Mutashabihat Data

  Used for: Similar ayahs, to help memorization.

  Licence: Public domain (CC0 1.0)

• GeoNames

  • GeoNames cities15000

  Used for: The city list for prayer times and Qibla, adapted from GeoNames.

  Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

• EveryAyah.com

  Used for: Ayah-by-ayah recitations for Memorize.

  Licence: Streamed from the reciters’ audio hosts; those hosts see the request. Only your browser keeps a copy on your device when you choose offline saving; you can remove it. We do not re-host the audio.

• mp3quran.net

  Used for: The radio recitation streams.

  Licence: Streamed from the reciters’ audio hosts; those hosts see the request. Only your browser keeps a copy on your device when you choose offline saving; you can remove it. We do not re-host the audio.

• adhan-js (Batoul Apps)

  Used for: The program that works out prayer times and the Qibla on your phone.

  Licence: MIT licence

• Aladhan and PrayTimes.org

  Used for: Published calculation angles for each country's method.

  Licence: The source's own terms of use, followed as written

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