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Last updated: July 15, 2026

Happy Islam builds on the work of many scholars, translators, reciters, and open-source projects. We list every text, audio, and data source below. If you believe your work is used incorrectly or without proper credit, please file a report or email request@aitwauthentica.com.

Qur'anic text

  • Arabic Uthmani text — King Fahd Glorious Qur'an Printing Complex (KFGQPC), served via the Tanzil / QuranEnc corpus. Public devotional use.
  • Verse boundaries & metadata — Quran.com / QUL open datasets.

Translations

  • English — Saheeh International, Marmaduke Pickthall and Muhammad Ali (Sher Ali).
  • French — Muhammad Hamidullah (1959).
  • Spanish — Julio Cortés (1990).
  • Portuguese — Helmi Nasr.
  • Indonesian — Al-Qur'an dan Terjemahnya, Kementerian Agama Republik Indonesia (1965).
  • Malay — Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih (1959).
  • Urdu — Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry.
  • Bengali — Muhiuddin Khan (1969).
  • Hindi — Farooq Khan.
  • Turkish — Kur'an-ı Kerim Meali, Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı.
  • Russian — Elmir Kuliev.
  • Persian — Makarem Shirazi.
  • Uzbek — Muhammad Sodik.
  • Chinese — Ma Jian (1981).
  • Swahili — Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani (1969).
  • Somali — Mahmud Muhammad Abduh.
  • Twi — Kur'aan Kronkron no Arabek Atwerensem ne Asante Nkyereasee, Sheikh Harun Nkansah Agyekum (2008).
  • Yoruba — Mimọ Al-Qur'an pẹlu Yoruba translation, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at.
  • Kikuyu — Kũrani theru, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (1988).
  • Dagbani — Muhammad Baba Ghatubo.
  • Hausa — Abubakar Gumi (1992).
  • Amharic — Translation of the Meanings of the Noble Qur'an, Sh. Muhammed Sadiq and Muhammed Sani Habib.
  • Pashto — Abdulwali Khan.
  • Thai — Translation of the Meanings of the Noble Qur'an in Thai, King Fahd Complex (2006).
  • Italian — Hamza Roberto Piccardo.
  • German — Der edle Qur'an, Frank Bubenheim and Nadeem Elyas (2002).
  • Tamil — Tamil translation of the Holy Qur'an, Jan Trust Foundation.
  • Dutch — De Edele Koran, Sofian S. Siregar.
  • Polish — Koran, Józef Bielawski (1986).
  • Azerbaijani — Qurani-Kərim, Ziya Bünyadov and Vasim Məmmədəliyev (1992).

Recitations

  • Reciter audio (Mishary Al-Afasy, Abdul Basit, Al-Ghamdi, and others) is streamed from public archives (EveryAyah, Quran.com CDN) for devotional listening only.
  • AI-narrated translations use ElevenLabs multilingual voices and Khaya AI / GhanaNLP for African-language voices.

Tafsir

  • Ibn Kathir (abridged English), Al-Jalalayn, Al-Sa'di — via QuranEnc open tafsir corpus.
  • Editorial summaries are written by the Happy Islam team and clearly labelled as such.

Live Islamic radio & TV

  • Third-party live streams are embedded from their original publishers (station name shown on each card).
  • We do not rehost, record, or redistribute third-party streams. Users are directed to the publisher's own stream URL.
  • Publishers may request removal at any time via Report a concern.

Prayer times & Qibla

  • Prayer-time calculations use the adhan-js library (open-source) with user-selected calculation method and madhhab.
  • Location is resolved on the user's device via the browser Geolocation API; not stored on our servers unless explicitly saved.

Names of Allah (Asma ul-Husna)

Arabic names, transliterations, and short meanings are traditional; long-form explanations are original editorial content by the Happy Islam team, reviewed against Ibn Kathir and Al-Sa'di.

Fonts & iconography

  • Uthmanic Hafs Arabic font — KFGQPC (free for devotional use).
  • UI icons — Lucide (ISC license).

Open-source software

Happy Islam is built on React, TanStack Start & Router, Vite, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Radix UI, TanStack Query, and Supabase client SDKs. We are grateful to every maintainer.

Corrections

If a translation is wrong, an attribution is missing, or a source is incorrect, please tell us. We fix it and republish quickly. Report a correction →