Licenses & attribution
Full provenance for every content asset shipped with this site.
Data sources at a glance
- Arabic text: Tanzil Project — Uthmani & simple (CC BY 3.0).
- English: Pickthall (public domain) via Tanzil; transliteration from Tanzil.
- English: Maududi (Tafhim al-Quran, tr. Zafar Ishaq Ansari) mirrored via alquran.cloud with attribution to the Islamic Foundation UK.
- Urdu: Maududi & Jalandhry via Tanzil.
- French: Hamidullah (public domain) via Tanzil.
- Spanish: Cortés & Garcia via Tanzil.
- Indonesian: Kemenag (Bahasa) via Tanzil.
- Fonts: Amiri, Noto Naskh/Sans Arabic, Noto Nastaliq Urdu (SIL OFL 1.1) via Google Fonts.
- Icons: Lucide (ISC).
- AI explanations: Lovable AI Gateway (Google Gemini), cached server-side. Not tafsir, not fatwa.
- Paper texture & topical index: original assets owned by this operator.
Detailed per-asset breakdown follows below.
Arabic Quran (Uthmani script)
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0)
Source: https://tanzil.net
Tanzil Project, quran-uthmani.txt and quran-simple.txt. Used unmodified.
Translations
English — Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)
License: Public domain
Source: https://tanzil.net
Language code: en. Direction: LTR. Sourced from the Tanzil Project translation collection. Each translation is presented unmodified; please consult the source for the canonical text.
English — Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1934)
License: Public domain
Source: https://tanzil.net
Language code: en. Direction: LTR. Sourced from the Tanzil Project translation collection. Each translation is presented unmodified; please consult the source for the canonical text.
English — Sayyid Abul Aʿla Maududi — Tafhim al-Quran (tr. Zafar Ishaq Ansari)
License: Mirrored via alquran.cloud — non-commercial use with attribution to the Islamic Foundation UK
Source: https://alquran.cloud
Language code: en. Direction: LTR. Sourced from the Tanzil Project translation collection. Each translation is presented unmodified; please consult the source for the canonical text.
English — Sahih International (1997)
License: Free redistribution with attribution (Tanzil / alquran.cloud mirror)
Source: https://tanzil.net
Language code: en. Direction: LTR. Sourced from the Tanzil Project translation collection. Each translation is presented unmodified; please consult the source for the canonical text.
Urdu — Sayyid Abul Aʿla Maududi — Tafhim al-Quran
License: Tanzil distribution — non-commercial use with attribution
Source: https://tanzil.net
Language code: ur. Direction: RTL. Sourced from the Tanzil Project translation collection. Each translation is presented unmodified; please consult the source for the canonical text.
French (Français) — Muhammad Hamidullah
License: Public domain
Source: https://tanzil.net
Language code: fr. Direction: LTR. Sourced from the Tanzil Project translation collection. Each translation is presented unmodified; please consult the source for the canonical text.
Spanish (Español) — Julio Cortés
License: Tanzil distribution — non-commercial use with attribution
Source: https://tanzil.net
Language code: es. Direction: LTR. Sourced from the Tanzil Project translation collection. Each translation is presented unmodified; please consult the source for the canonical text.
Bengali (বাংলা) — Muhiuddin Khan
License: Public domain (Tanzil distribution)
Source: https://tanzil.net
Language code: bn. Direction: LTR. Sourced from the Tanzil Project translation collection. Each translation is presented unmodified; please consult the source for the canonical text.
Indonesian (Bahasa) — Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs (Kemenag)
License: Public domain — Government of Indonesia
Source: https://tanzil.net
Language code: id. Direction: LTR. Sourced from the Tanzil Project translation collection. Each translation is presented unmodified; please consult the source for the canonical text.
Other assets
English transliteration
License: Tanzil Project translation collection — see source
Source: https://tanzil.net (en.transliteration.txt)
Sourced from Tanzil's translation collection. License terms to be verified before any commercial use; if ambiguity is found prior to public launch, this asset will be replaced with a deterministic generated transliteration.
Arabic fonts
License: SIL Open Font License 1.1
Source: https://fonts.google.com
Amiri, Noto Naskh Arabic, Noto Sans Arabic, Noto Nastaliq Urdu — served by Google Fonts.
Handmade paper texture
License: Generated asset — owned by this operator
Source: —
Original generated texture (no third-party paper photo). Free to redistribute.
UI icons
License: ISC License
Source: https://lucide.dev
Lucide icon set.
Audio recitations
License: Royalty-free / public-domain reciters, freely redistributable
Source: https://everyayah.com
Ayah-by-ayah MP3 recitations streamed from EveryAyah.com. Reciters included: Mishary Rashid Alafasy, Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husary (Murattal), Abdul Basit Abdul Samad (Murattal), Saad Al-Ghamdi, and Abu Bakr Al-Shatri. All recordings are released for free public distribution or are in the public domain; EveryAyah.com has hosted them as the de-facto source for Quran apps for over a decade. No audio files are re-hosted on this site.
AI explanations
License: Generated content — see Disclaimer
Source: Lovable AI Gateway (Google Gemini)
Generated on demand and cached. Not tafsir, not fatwa. Constrained by system prompt to avoid rulings.
Concordance & topical index
License: Original compilation by this operator
Source: —
The keyword search and topic browse list are an original compilation built from the Pickthall translation and Tanzil Uthmani text already licensed above. No content was copied or derived from any copyrighted concordance or subject index.
Excluded from this release
The following are deliberately not included until each is individually license-verified: Shakir, The Clear Quran (Mustafa Khattab), Muhammad Asad, any English classical tafsir (including translations of Tafsir al-Jalalayn or Ibn Kathir), and copyrighted audio recitations.
If you are a rights holder and believe content is used here without proper permission, please contact the operator via the link in the footer and the asset will be removed pending review.
Verified assets (auto-generated)
Regenerated from source by scripts/generate-license-report.mjs. Font hashes are checked in CI so any change to a bundled asset requires a matching license update.
| File | License | SHA-256 |
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| inter-400.ttf | SIL Open Font License 1.1 | d3641a4ba1f6c109… |
| inter-600.ttf | SIL Open Font License 1.1 | e8f1310969c036c8… |
| noto-naskh-arabic-400.ttf | SIL Open Font License 1.1 | e62e84cf72fe9e89… |