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Licences and attribution

This site is built on work by others. Here is all of it, with the terms it is used under. Corrections and takedown requests: support@quranhabit.com.

Quran text

The Arabic text of the Quran is the standard Uthmani text, served as real Unicode. The text of the Quran itself is not subject to copyright; the digital preparation follows the sources credited in the Quran Habit app.

IndoPak script

The reading settings offer the IndoPak Naskh Nastaleeq script as an alternative to the Uthmani text above. Both halves of it, the text and the face it is set in, come from QuranWBW.com. The text is their Hanafi edition corpus. The face is their own "AlQuran Neo 5x2 Arabic" by Ayman Siddiqui, served exactly as they publish it: not converted, not subset, not modified in any way. Its notice ships beside it at /fonts/qh-indopak-LICENCE-v2.txt.

The basis for using them is worth stating plainly. QuranWBW wrote to us on 5 September 2026 permitting the use of their data, and confirmed that permission for our paid accounts on 6 September. Neither message names this text or this font, so we carry both on our own reading of that permission rather than on a line that names them. The font's own notice asks for a written notice from QuranWBW before it is distributed, and we do not hold one for this font. We have not modified it, we do not sell it, and we do not offer it as a font download. If QuranWBW would rather we did not carry the text, the font, or either of them, write to us and it comes off the site the same day.

What we hold to in return binds this website and the Quran Habit app alike: no reader of ours is ever shown an advertisement, and the Quran text and its word by word meanings stay free to read in both products, in every season, including Ramadan. The app does charge, and none of what it charges for is the reading. What a purchase changes includes a Supporter badge beside your name on the leaderboard, your full name there where a free reader's is shortened, and a doubled daily gem rate outside Ramadan, when every reader already has one; separately the app sells packs of gems, its in-app virtual currency, which its own terms say has no monetary value. What a purchase does not change is the reading. The Quran text, the translations, the recitations, the mushaf page view, the tajweed colouring and the offline downloads are free to every reader of the app, subscribed or not. This website charges for nothing at all: no price, no checkout, nothing sold.

QuranWBW credit the IndoPak text to Ata Rafi, originally by InPage; the font to Ayman Siddiqui, built on the Al Qalam Quran Majeed faces; and the Nastaleeq glyphs in its ayah numbers to the King Fahd Glorious Quran Printing Complex. Their own full credit list is on their about page.

Tajweed colouring

The tajweed rule markup shown on our learning pages derives from quran.com's word-level tajweed data, re-anchored to the KFGQPC Uthmani Hafs text we set our Arabic in. Two of the twenty rule classes, izhar and izhar shafawi, were authored by us. The colour palette is our own and reproduces no publisher's scheme. We show short quoted examples for teaching, each with its surah and ayah reference. quran.com's own terms restrict their content to personal, non-commercial use and forbid making it available over a network to multiple users at the same time, so we hold no permission for this markup. If quran.com would rather we did not carry it, write to us and it comes off the site the same day.

Translations

Every translation remains the work of its translator and publisher. Each ayah and surah page names the edition it serves, on a single credit line giving that edition's translator or its publisher, and the archives we source them from are named at /credits. These are the editions this site publishes, each named here exactly as its own pages name it:

A reader may also put a second translation beside the first from any of the editions our reader offers; each one carries its own credit line where it is shown. If you hold rights in a translation shown here and object to its use, write to us and we will act quickly.

Tafsir (commentary)

Fonts

Surah name calligraphy

The decorative surah headers are the "SVG surah headers" set by Rnrctg on Wikimedia Commons, used unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0. Each file's licence was verified individually through the Commons API when the set was fetched on 31 August 2026.

Data

Audio

This site offers 43 recitations and hosts none of them. Every one is streamed from the reciter's own host: the Islamic Network CDN (cdn.islamic.network) for the 18 reciters who have an edition there, and everyayah.com for the other 25 it does not carry, which is also the fallback when an Islamic Network file fails to load.

Islamic Network answered our letter on 5 September 2026 and said their CDN is meant for this kind of linking. That letter described nine reciters, so those nine rest on written permission, and it covers linking only, never copying their files onto a server of ours. The other Islamic Network editions rest on that CDN's own published terms, which say the recitations are licensed to them by the reciters or their estates for free, non-commercial redistribution at the bitrates they publish, that they may be bundled into a commercial product, and that the copyrights lie with the reciters, who may ask for a recording to be removed. everyayah.com publishes no terms at all, so the editions it alone carries rest on the absence of any published licence or prohibition. Recitations remain the work of their reciters, each named beside the player.

Removal on request. Any reciter, estate or other rights holder who asks us to take a recitation down has it removed the same day: write to support@quranhabit.com.

One reciter is pinned to one of those two hosts rather than choosing between them. Mishary Alafasy is streamed from everyayah.com wherever this site follows the words, because the word timings below were measured against that recording, and pairing them with another host's recording of the same reciter is how a word highlight drifts.

What changed on 16 September 2026. Until that day the recitation named above was not streamed at all: this site served its own copies of those 6,236 per-ayah files from cdn.quranhabit.com, taken on 4 September 2026 from the Quranic Universal Library (QUL, published by Tarteel). QUL is governed by Tarteel's terms of service, which say no Service Content may be copied, distributed, reproduced, republished, downloaded or scraped in any form, so those copies were deleted from our storage, together with five leftover QUL timing files, and playback moved to everyayah.com. What a listener hears is unchanged: the deleted copies were the everyayah.com files byte for byte, checked by checksum on three ayat with a wrong-ayah control that differed.

We wrote to Tarteel on 4 September 2026 and again on 6 September 2026 to ask for an explicit grant, and neither letter has been answered. Two further recitations, which no host but Tarteel's own carried, are not offered here while we wait for that answer.

The word timings are a separate matter and they come from somewhere else. Word timings by Collin Fair, from quran-align, used under CC BY 4.0. Copyright (c) 2016 Collin Fair. They are the file that drives the word highlight and tap to pronounce, they were measured against the same recitation this site plays, and we changed them: they are converted from the release format into our own per surah files and renumbered onto our own word split. The unchanged originals are the release of 24 November 2016. The timings are offered as is and with no warranties, and the licence limits the licensor's liability: see section 5 of CC BY 4.0.

Until 15 September 2026 those timings came from QUL instead. QUL is governed by Tarteel's own terms of service, which say that no Service Content may be copied, distributed, reproduced, republished, downloaded or scraped in any form. Serving those files is exactly that, so they were removed and replaced with the licensed ones above rather than kept.

Reciter portraits

Portraits are self hosted rather than linked, and each was cropped square and resized, which makes ours a derivative of the original. Reciters without a freely licensed portrait keep a generated monogram instead; we do not publish a photograph we cannot license.

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