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v4.5 · July 25, 2026

Al Islam v4.5 - Bayt al-Hikmah

📅 Release Date: July 25, 2026

Release Type: Major Intelligence, Reading, Hadith & Widgets Update

Version 4.5 answers the request that has followed Al Islam the longest: I can open the hadith, but not in my language.

Translations are files. Files have to be written, checked and published — and most of the world's languages have never had most of the classical collections rendered into them at all. A reader in Hausa, Malay, Somali, Turkish, Bosnian or Tamil can hold the whole of Sahih al-Bukhari in their hand and still not read a word of it.

Version 4.5 introduces Intelligence — a complete AI system built into Al Islam, running on models you connect yourself. Every reading in the app gains the same three abilities: Translate, Listen, and Ask. Beside it, the hadith reader now holds several translations at once and lets you arrange them; the Quran reader gains the same abilities across every interpretation on screen; the random hadith on the home screen has been rebuilt into a full daily-reading engine; the notes editor learns to take dictation; and the home screen widgets have been sharpened for modern Android.

Intelligence is in its first major public phase. It is already deep and fully usable across the whole app, but future updates will keep widening the provider catalogue, the places it reaches, and the control you have over it.

🧠 Intelligence — Your Own Models, Throughout the App

Intelligence is a new system, reachable from the Tools grid and from your Profile. It is not a chat window bolted onto the side of the app. It is a layer sitting underneath every reading surface, so the app's own content — the ayah, the narration, a scholar's translation, your own notes — is what the models actually work on.

Intelligence is part of Al Islam Premium. The subscription unlocks the suite itself; the models run on your own provider account and its billing, under your own keys. Al Islam never resells model access, and your keys never leave your device.

Setting it up

Three steps, once:

Connect an account. Pick your provider from the catalogue and paste your key. It is verified on the spot.
Choose what serves what. Pick a model for translation, for explanations, for speech. One choice is enough to begin — everything else falls back to it.
Open any hadith or ayah. The actions are already there, underneath the text.

Nothing else needs configuring. Everything beyond this point is refinement.

Bring your own key — 35 services

Connect the accounts you already have. Al Islam speaks ten different provider protocols, covering thirty-five services between them:

Group	Services
Major AI labs	OpenAI · Anthropic · Google AI (Gemini) · Azure OpenAI · Mistral · xAI · DeepSeek · Moonshot · Qwen · Z.ai · Perplexity
Arabic-first	Fanar — built for Arabic and for Islamic material
Inference platforms	Groq · OpenRouter · Together · Cerebras · Fireworks · DeepInfra · Nebius · SambaNova · Novita · Hyperbolic · GitHub Models
On your own machine	Ollama · LM Studio · Jan · llama.cpp · vLLM — keyless, private, running locally
Translation services	DeepL · Google Cloud Translation · Azure Translator · LibreTranslate
Voice	ElevenLabs (speech and transcription) · Deepgram (transcription)
Anything else	A general connection for any OpenAI-compatible gateway, proxy or service not named above

What your models can do

Capability	What it gives you
Translation	Any passage rendered into any language you ask for
Text generation	Explanations, summaries, key lessons, and instructions of your own
Speech	Content read aloud in a natural voice
Transcription	Your own speech turned into text inside the notes editor

Connecting an account

Every service has its own idea of what a connection looks like — a key; a key and a region; a key and an endpoint; a project id; a deployment name; nothing at all. Al Islam builds the right form for whichever service you choose, so each asks for exactly what it needs and nothing more.

Instant verification. Saving a connection tests it straight away against the lightest call the service offers, so a mistyped key is caught the moment you paste it rather than the first time you try to read something.
Custom headers on every connection, passed through exactly as written — enough to reach a company proxy, a gateway, or a service that arrived after this release did.
As many accounts as you like. A personal key and a work key; a fast inexpensive model and a careful expensive one; a cloud service and a local one. Each is enabled or disabled on its own.
Masked once saved. A key is shown only as a hint (••••3kfa) and never displayed again.
A neutral catalogue. Every service is presented plainly, with links to its own console and documentation when you need to fetch a key or check what you are paying.

Deciding what serves what

A Routing screen decides which connection, model and voice serves each kind of work — and lets you override it for individual areas of the app.

Read hadith with one model, the Quran with another, your notes with a third.
Anything you have not set falls back to a single global default, so no request is ever left unanswered.
Model and voice lists are read from your own account wherever the service supports it, so you see exactly what you are entitled to use.
Any model id can be typed in directly. A model released this morning is usable this morning, without waiting for an app update.
Per-capability tuning — creativity, response length, formality, and the other settings each service genuinely accepts — shown where it applies and hidden where it does not.

The Intelligence screens

Screen	What it holds
Hub	Your connections at a glance, their health, and a lane for each capability showing what is ready and what still needs a model
Provider catalogue	Every supported service, what it can do, and links to its console and documentation
Connection editor	The form for a single account, validated as you type, with a combined save-and-test
Connection detail	Health, the full model catalogue for that account, which routes it currently serves, its usage history, and removal
Routing	Capability by area — the whole table of what serves what, with connection, model and voice pickers
Playground	Live benches for all four capabilities: translate a phrase, generate a reply, hear a voice, transcribe a file — without touching your own content
Activity	Totals, day-by-day bars, a breakdown per connection, and a log of individual requests with how long each took
Engine settings	Streaming, caching, time limits, retries and privacy
Actions studio	Your own instruction templates and translation lanes
Library	Every translation the app has produced for you — searchable, pinnable, prunable

Engine settings

Area	What you control
Responses	Whether answers stream in as they are written, or arrive complete
Speed	Whether repeat translations are served instantly from the device
Patience	How long a single request may take, from five seconds to ten minutes
Reliability	How many times a failed request is tried again before it gives up
Privacy	Whether usage is recorded at all, and whether a short excerpt of what you read is kept beside it

📖 Translate, Listen and Ask — On Every Reading

The screens above are the smaller half of Intelligence. The larger half appears underneath the content itself.

Every reading surface in the app — a hadith, an ayah, a scholar's translation, a tafsir, a translation your own model produced, and the random hadith on the home screen — now carries the same row of three actions.

Translate

One tap renders the passage into the language you choose.

The result is presented as a scholar-style card, laid out exactly like a published translation — the same typography, the same per-language fonts you have already set, the same reading experience. A translation reads as a translation regardless of what produced it.
Translations are kept. Every one is saved to your Library, attached to the ayah or narration it came from, so you never pay twice for the same passage and never lose one you wanted back.
Duplicates are recognised, so asking again for the same passage with the same model returns what you already have.
Repeat translations are instant and free, served from the device rather than the network.
Changed sources are noticed. If the underlying text is later updated, the saved translation is marked out of date, with one tap to produce a fresh one.
Pin the ones that matter so they stay at the top of your Library.
Copy or insert. Take the text out, or drop it straight into a note.

Translation lanes turn a good combination into a single tap. Save one as Urdu via DeepL or English via Gemini — a target language, and optionally a specific account and model — then choose it from the reading itself, without ever opening the routing table. Your last choice is remembered, so the common case is one tap from then on.

Listen

Content is read aloud in a natural voice, and listening reaches everything in the app with words in it — not only the app's own text.

Readings — the Arabic, or any translation shown beneath it.
Answers — anything a model has written for you, spoken once it is finished rather than half-written.
Your notes — where a Qalam document is read as continuous prose, so headings, formatting marks, table borders and drawings never reach the voice.
Voice and speed are yours, adjustable from the player and remembered between visits.
A specific account and model can serve speech regardless of what serves everything else — useful when one provider has the voice you like and another has the translations you trust.
One voice at a time, and it keeps reading when you leave the screen, with the player following you.

Ask

A conversation about the passage in front of you, appearing inside the screen you are already reading — nothing to copy out, nothing to navigate away to.

Threads stream in as they are written.
Follow-up questions keep their memory, so a conversation builds instead of restarting.
Answers can be read aloud, copied, or inserted into a note.
Each reading keeps its own thread, so moving between ayat does not mix them up.

The instructions behind Ask are written specifically for Islamic source material: stay faithful to the text, invent no rulings and no attributions, preserve honorifics, and say plainly when something is uncertain rather than smoothing it over.

The workspace

For longer work, the same three abilities open into a fuller surface with Translate, Ask and Listen side by side as independent sections — translate a passage, question it, and hear it without any one of them interrupting another.

Where a reading has several versions on screen — the Arabic and its translations, or a narration and its renderings — each section chooses its own source. Ask about the Arabic while listening to the Urdu, or translate a scholar's English into a fourth language while the original stays in view.

🧩 Standing Translations

Beyond one-off actions, a language can be pinned to stay.

Set a standing translation to Urdu, and every hadith you open arrives with Urdu already beneath it — filled in as you go, laid out as an ordinary part of the page rather than something you had to ask for.

More than one at a time. Urdu and English together, or three languages one below another.
Chainable. Take a scholar's English rendering and produce Turkish from it, or build a second language out of the first rather than out of the original.
They report themselves. If a connection is removed or a model stops answering, the card says so plainly instead of quietly disappearing.
They know where they belong. A standing translation built from one book's published translation appears only in that book. One built from the narration itself works everywhere — including the home screen, where the hadith belongs to no particular book at all.
Reorder, rename and remove them at any time from the reading itself.
They work in the Quran too, filling in as you move from ayah to ayah.

⌨️ Your Own Commands

Translation and asking cover most of it. For everything else, you can write your own instructions and run them over any passage in the app.

A command is a short template with placeholders for the passage, its reference, and a target language. Extract the fiqh points as a numbered list. Explain this to a ten-year-old. Give me three lessons and one action for today. Rewrite this translation in plainer English. Write it once and it appears wherever readings appear.

Five are included to begin with — Summarize, Key lessons, Explain simply, Deep explanation and Remaster — and every one of them is yours to rewrite or delete. Commands and translation lanes are both managed in the Actions studio, where you can see what each will do before you run it.

🎙️ Dictation — Speaking Into Your Notes

The Qalam notes editor gains a microphone.

Tapping it opens a recorder inside the editor — nothing opens over your note, nothing navigates away from it.

Record, pause, resume, and stop when you say so. It never decides on its own that you have finished speaking.
A live waveform driven by your actual microphone level, so you can see that you are being heard.
A running timer and an unmistakable state at every stage.
Import instead of recording — hand it an audio or video file you already have and transcribe that.
Transcribe is a deliberate step. When you take it, the words land exactly at your cursor, inside the note you were already writing.
Language can be stated or left open for the model to work out.
Record as many times as you like into the same note, each take landing where you put it.

Dictate a lecture as you listen to it, capture a thought on the move, or write a long note without typing a word of it.

The editor also gains Ask Intelligence on a selection or on the whole note — question what you have written, or have a passage explained, with the answer available to insert straight back into the page.

📚 The Hadith Reader — A Reading Stack

The hadith reader was rebuilt around how people actually read: rarely with one rendering, and rarely in a fixed order.

Several translations on screen at once, stacked one beneath another.
Arrange them by dragging. Arabic first with Urdu below it, or your own standing translation at the top and the published ones underneath.
Choose which one is authoritative. Reference information — chapter, narrator, grading, numbering — is taken from a resource you nominate, independently of reading order. Read in Urdu while the reference details still come from the Arabic edition.
The header states the book and number once, above everything, instead of repeating itself for every translation.
Show none at all, if that is what you want. For a reader who reads only their own standing translations, an empty stack is a real choice — and the reader tells you how to fill it again if you would rather.
Removing and reinstalling a translation restores your arrangement exactly, rather than resetting it.
Chapter names, narrator names and sub-chapter titles now render their formatting properly, so honorifics and emphasis appear as they were written.
Language flags throughout the resource pickers, in place of text abbreviations.
Choose several resources at once when picking what to show.

🕌 The Quran Reader

The ayah preview gains the same reach.

Every translation and every tafsir currently on screen is individually actionable — translate the Arabic, or translate a translation; listen to the ayah, or to a scholar's rendering of it; ask about the verse, or about one particular commentary on it.

Standing translations work here as well, filling themselves in as you move from ayah to ayah, and your typography settings carry through to every one of them.

🔀 The Random Hadith, Rebuilt

The hadith card on the home screen has been rebuilt into a proper daily-reading engine.

Say exactly what may be drawn

A Draw settings screen defines what the card may reach for. Every filter is independent, and they combine — the Urdu renderings of Bukhari and Muslim, sahih only, short, that I have not read before is a single, ordinary thing to ask for.

Filter	What it selects
Books	Any collections you choose, or all of them
Rendering	Specific published translations, down to the individual edition
Language	Any language, across the whole shelf at once
Gradings	Sahih, Hasan, Da'if and the rest
Only the six collections	Restrict the draw to the Sihah Sittah
Length	A shortest and a longest, or an exact length
Only ones I have not read	Skips anything already in your reading history
Avoid repeats	Never the one before, or never the last several

Every list leads with its way out — All books, Any language, Any grading — so a filter is never something you can enter and not leave. Each setting states its own answer in plain words on a single line, and an empty selection reads "All books" rather than "none". Counts appear as sentences beneath the setting they belong to — 1,203 hadith available — and when a combination reaches nothing, the screen says so before you leave it rather than after.

More than one set of settings

Save as many as you like. A long, contemplative set for the evening; a short sahih one for the commute; a Ramadan set built around fasting and patience.

The set you are editing is the first thing on the screen — named, switchable with one tap, renameable, and deletable when you have finished with it. The screen keeps your changes as you make them; there is no Save button to remember and nothing lost by leaving.

Changing your settings does not take the hadith away. It stays on screen as long as your new settings still allow it, and only the rendering changes if the rendering is all that changed.

Decide when it changes

Cadence	Behaviour
Daily	One hadith for the whole day
Weekly	One for the week
Every time you open the app	A fresh one each session
Only when you ask	It stays until you draw again

A hadith of the day now genuinely lasts the day. Rotating the phone, scrolling away, opening another screen and coming back all leave it exactly where it was.

It tells you what it did

When your settings are narrow enough that nothing matches — a translation was removed, everything short has been read, "not read before" has run its course — the card widens the search one careful step at a time, and says which step it took.

It gives ground in the order that costs you least: first how recently you saw something, then unread-only, then length, then gradings, then the six collections, then specific renderings, then languages, and last of all the books themselves. Short sahih hadith from Bukhari surrenders shortness long before it surrenders Bukhari.

Read it in

A picker on the card answers one question only: what do I read this in?

Languages lead, because a language decides whether a narration is readable at all. Those already on the device sit at the top; those still to be downloaded sit beneath them, one tap from the same answer. The full translation library is one level further down, for anyone who wants to choose an exact edition.

Beneath them sits AI translation — a standing instruction that renders whatever is drawn into a language nothing on the shelf was ever published in, and keeps doing so as the draw moves from book to book.

Choosing a language keeps the hadith you are looking at and re-renders it, drawing a new one only if this narration genuinely does not exist that way.

And it remembers

Every hadith the card draws is written into your History like any other reading, so what you were given last Tuesday is still there to find.

The card carries the same Translate · Listen · Ask row and the same standing translations as every other reading surface in the app, and the actions you reach for most — a fresh draw, a bookmark, the language picker — sit in the open along its title.

🔒 Your Keys, Your Content

A system holding your provider credentials owes you a plain account of how it treats them.

Keys are encrypted on your device with a hardware-backed key that cannot be taken off it, held separately from everything else the app stores.
They are never shown again after you save them — only a masked hint.
They never appear in logs, usage records, backups or exports.
Traffic goes only where you sent it. Al Islam's AI connection has no default destination; requests reach the providers you configured and nowhere else.
Removing a connection removes its keys first, so a connection can never be left behind without a way to clear it — and removal stays available to you at all times.
Provider messages are cleaned before you see them. Some services quote your own credential back inside their error text; anything of that shape is stripped before it reaches the screen.
Usage records hold facts, not content — which service, which model, how long it took, how much was used. An excerpt of what you read is stored only if you switch that on yourself.
Caching and usage recording can both be switched off entirely.
Nothing is sent anywhere until you ask for it, and when you do, it goes to the provider you chose.

📱 Widgets — Sharper on the Home Screen

The home screen widgets have been tuned for modern Android.

They arrive at the right size. Dropping a widget on the home screen now gives you the full layout immediately, instead of a cramped one you have to stretch open by hand — while shrinking it stays entirely free.
Upcoming Occasions gains a coloured stripe down the edge of each entry, so a glance tells you what kind of date is coming without reading a word of it.
The Hijri month calendar gains a small legend for its markers — today, fasting days, and Islamic occasions.
Consistent icons across every widget.
Steadier refreshing, with clearer behaviour while data is still loading and a retry that genuinely retries.

The full set: Prayer Times, Daily Companion, Hijri Date, Hijri Month Calendar, Upcoming Occasions, and Fasting Planner.

✨ Across the App

A language picker covering seventy languages, each with its own native name and correct writing direction — and a free entry field for anything not on the list, so nothing is out of reach.
AI translations respect your typography settings. A translation into Urdu uses the Urdu face you chose; Arabic renders in the Quranic face, right to left.
Rich answers render properly — headings, lists, emphasis and Arabic passages appear as intended rather than as raw markings.
Resource pickers show language flags, and let you pick several at once.
Searching, filtering and selecting share one consistent set of controls across the new screens.
Settings read as sentences. Every setting states its current answer beside its name, in your terms rather than the data's.
Interface polish across the reading surfaces, the hadith preview, the tools grid and the profile.

🌟 Overall

Version 4.5 — Bayt al-Hikmah is the release in which Al Islam stops being bounded by which translations happen to exist.

Major additions in this release

Intelligence — a complete AI system running on models you connect yourself, across 35 services
Translate · Listen · Ask on every reading in the app
Standing translations that fill themselves in on every passage, chainable and reorderable
A translation library — everything kept, searchable, pinnable, and refreshed when its source changes
Translation lanes and your own instruction commands
A workspace where translating, asking and listening run side by side on different sources
Listening across readings, answers and your own notes
Dictation inside the Qalam notes editor, with file import and a live level
Routing, Playground, Activity and Engine settings for full control of your own models
A hadith reading stack — several translations at once, arranged by you, with a separately chosen authoritative source
The Quran reader, with every translation and tafsir individually actionable
The random hadith rebuilt — filters, saved sets, cadences, and an engine that explains itself
Sharper home screen widgets for modern Android
Hardware-backed key storage, with your content sent only where you send it

Reading, understanding, listening and writing — in your language, with the models you choose, on the books you came for.

📱 Application: Al Islam

🏷️ Version: 4.5 — Bayt al-Hikmah

🗓️ Release Date: July 25, 2026

4.4

Miqat

v4.4 · July 13, 2026

Al Islam — Version 4.4

Miqat

Miqat (ميقات) — the appointed times and places. A fitting name for a release built around the rhythm of the Islamic day: prayer, direction, the lunar calendar, dhikr, and the pen.

📅 Release Date: July 13, 2026

Release Type: Major Tools, Notes, Calendar, Prayer Times, Widgets & Content Update

Version 4.4 is the largest daily-utility expansion Al Islam has received. It introduces a complete Qibla Finder, a full Hijri calendar system, a Tasbeeh counter with long-term dhikr tracking, an all-new rich notes system, a major astronomy expansion for Prayer Times, Android home screen widgets, and new reference collections — alongside deep refinement work across the app.

The theme of this release is simple: Al Islam should be useful at every point of your day. Finding the Qibla in an unfamiliar place, checking prayer times against the sun, following the Hijri month, logging a fast, counting dhikr after salah, writing down what you learned in a lecture, and keeping the essentials visible on your home screen — all of it now lives in one connected app.

Several of the systems in this release are in their first major public phase. They are already deep and fully usable, but future updates will keep improving their layouts, flexibility, widgets, and overall experience.

🧭 Complete Qibla Finder

A new Qibla Finder arrives in the Tools section — not a single compass screen, but a complete direction system with five ways to find, verify, inspect, and personalize the Qibla.

It connects directly to your existing Prayer Times location profiles: follow your active prayer location, pick any saved profile, or use live location detection where available. No separate Qibla setup required.

Five ways to find the Qibla

View	What it does
Compass	Live Qibla compass with heading, bearing, sensor accuracy, declination, Sun/Moon markers, and alignment feedback
Map	Geographic view with the Kaaba, your position, the Great Circle path, and a Rhumb Line comparison
AR	Camera overlay that places the Qibla direction in your real surroundings
Sun	Sensor-free verification using the sun's position and shadows
Insights	The scientific layer: bearings, distances, Earth geometry, and your magnetic environment

The Compass view shows live heading, Qibla bearing, degree markings, the Qibla marker, and clear alignment confirmation. It can place the Sun and Moon on the dial, show the current moon phase, your coordinates, your distance to the Kaaba, and solar verification data. Because phone compasses are easily disturbed, it also includes sensor accuracy indicators, magnetic declination handling, tilt warnings, a bubble level, and interference awareness — so you know when nearby metal, electronics, vehicles, or magnetic cases may be affecting the reading.

The Map view draws both the Great Circle (the true shortest path over the Earth's surface) and the Rhumb Line (the constant-bearing path), which makes visible why the Qibla can look "wrong" on a flat map while being exactly right on a round Earth.

The AR view overlays the direction on your live camera feed — point the phone around a hotel room, office, airport, or open field and see the Qibla in the actual environment.

The Sun view offers a physical cross-check that needs no sensors at all: solar Qibla moments such as shadow-along-Qibla and sun-over-Qibla alignments let you verify the direction with nothing but sunlight.

The Insights view opens the technical layer for those who want it: Great Circle, Ellipsoidal (WGS-84), and Rhumb Line bearings side by side; your coordinates and the Kaaba's; the journey midpoint; distance comparisons and bearing drift; an Earth globe visualization with the day/night terminator; and the magnetic picture — declination, inclination, expected versus measured field strength, and interference warnings.

Qibla customization

A dedicated customization screen puts the whole system under your control:

Bearing method: Great Circle, Ellipsoidal / WGS-84, or Rhumb Line
North reference: True North or Magnetic North, with manual declination override
Heading offset and calibration
Coordinate format, distance unit, and bearing decimal precision
Needle smoothing and alignment tolerance
Haptic feedback and haptic detents
Tilt warning and bubble level
Dial skin, dial motion, tick density, dial size, and needle color
Cardinal letters, degree numbers, and Sun/Moon dial markers
AR bearing ruler and AR marker size
Earth globe, sky path chart, moon arc, and moon phase disc
Field strength gauge, bearing comparison ruler, and declination rose
Default opening view, location behavior, and which cards, chips, and scientific overlays are visible

🌙 Full Hijri Calendar System

Version 4.4 adds a complete Hijri Calendar — not just a date grid, but a full Islamic calendar environment: Hijri dates with Gregorian correspondence, moon phases, Islamic occasions, fasting logs, personal events, date conversion, Hijri birthday calculation, reminders, and deep customization.

The calendar is useful the moment it opens: today's Hijri date, the Arabic month name, the Gregorian date, the weekday, sacred-month status where it applies, the current moon phase, month progress, and the next important Islamic date are all in view.

Today, moon phase & upcoming dates

A rich current-day card leads the screen — Hijri date, Arabic month name, Gregorian date, weekday, moon phase with illumination percentage, and progress through the Hijri month. Beneath it, a dedicated strip surfaces what's coming next, so important dates never require browsing:

The White Days
Ramadan-related dates
Rajab and Dhul-Hijjah dates
Ashura and Arafah
The two Eids
Mawlid an-Nabi ﷺ
Other significant Islamic occasions

Interactive Hijri month grid

Every cell carries the Hijri date with its Gregorian companion. The grid highlights today, your selection, Jumu'ah, days outside the month, Islamic occasions, recommended fasting days, your logged fasts, personal events, and moon phase markers.

Selecting any day opens a detail panel with the full picture: both dates, weekday and Arabic month name, moon phase and illumination, occasion details, countdowns, fasting context, personal events — plus direct actions to log a fast, add an event, copy, or share.

Year overview & fast navigation

A year overview presents all twelve Hijri months as compact cards showing each month's length and event count — planning around Ramadan, Dhul-Hijjah, Muharram, or Rajab becomes a glance. A new jump system moves you anywhere instantly: month chips, year selection, typed input, or the Today shortcut.

Events, reminders & fasting logs

A dedicated Events & Occasions area gathers built-in Islamic occasions, personal events, reminders, and fasting logs in one place.

Personal events support a custom title, an emoji or icon, a custom color, a Hijri or Gregorian date, yearly repetition or one-time behavior, reminder timing, rich notes, and archive/delete management. That makes them right for Hijri birthdays, family dates, anniversaries, vows, study milestones, and private calendar notes.

Fasting is a first-class citizen: log fasts directly, see them on the grid, follow the month's activity, review the last thirty days, and keep all-time records. A fasting lens can highlight Sunnah fasting days, obligatory fasts, days on which fasting is forbidden, your own logged fasts, and gentle nudges such as Monday/Thursday reminders.

Date converter & Hijri birthday finder

The new Date Converter translates between Hijri and Gregorian with smooth date wheels — change one side and the other follows instantly. The result card shows the converted date, weekday, Arabic month name, moon phase, and how many days away (or ago) it falls, with actions to open it in the calendar, copy, or share.

The Hijri Birthday Finder answers a question surprisingly hard to answer elsewhere: from a Gregorian birth date it derives the Hijri birth date, your age in both calendars, your next Hijri birthday, and the countdown to it.

Calendar customization

Deep control, without complicating the everyday experience:

Area	Options
Calculation	Reckoning method, sighting adjustment / Hijri offset
Layout	Hijri-first or Gregorian-first grid, week start day, numeral style
Grid	Density, grid size, companion dates, outside-day dimming
Highlights	Jumu'ah, today pulse, moon phases, Islamic occasions
Lenses	Personal events, fasting lens, built-in occasions
Cards	Today card, upcoming strip, look-ahead count
Behavior	Fasting nudges, haptic month ticks, morning digest
Data	Export/import and reset to defaults

📿 Tasbeeh Counter & Dhikr Tracker

Tools gains a complete Tasbeeh Counter — a focused dhikr companion built around live counting, custom adhkar, routines, goals, streaks, and long-term statistics.

The core stays simple: choose a dhikr, tap to count. Around that simplicity sits a full system — progress tracking, session data, undo and redo, quick-add controls, custom dhikr creation, templates, a managed library, and a statistics history that turns counting into a habit.

The counter

Pinned and recent adhkar sit at the top for instant switching — SubhanAllah, Alhamdulillah, Allahu Akbar, La ilaha illallah, Astaghfirullah, and anything you create. Each dhikr can display its Arabic text, transliteration, translation, and virtue, with a large progress ring showing the current count against its target.

While counting you can:

Tap anywhere to count
Quick-add +10, +33, or +100
Undo mistakes and redo
Reset the current lap
Watch session duration, count, and pace
Track daily goal progress, streaks, today's total, and the seven-day total

A focus mode strips the screen down to the dhikr and the counter for distraction-free sessions.

Dhikr library & custom adhkar

The Dhikr Library manages everything — built-in and custom. Search across adhkar and categories; favorite, pin, edit, and archive entries; create your own from scratch or from templates. A custom dhikr can carry Arabic text, transliteration, translation, virtue text, a category, a per-lap target, a step-per-tap value, a daily goal, an icon, and an accent color.

Routines

Structured sequences move you through multiple adhkar in order — post-prayer adhkar, morning and evening adhkar, or any personal sequence — hands-off, with target behavior deciding when to advance.

Statistics

The statistics screen turns history into insight: lifetime counts, today, the last seven and thirty days, current and best streaks, best day, goal days, personal records, and per-dhikr breakdowns — visualized through a daily activity heatmap, a recent-weeks grid, a fourteen-day goal chart, per-dhikr progress bars, and a session history including your longest session, fastest pace, and counts per minute.

Tasbeeh customization

Area	Options
Feedback	Haptic strength, milestone pulses, milestone interval, sound, visual flash
Input	Tap anywhere, quick-add chips, swipe to switch, double-tap undo, volume-button counting
Behavior	Repeat, stop at target, advance to next, reset confirmation, session idle timeout
Goals	Daily goal, weekly goal, fresh start each day
Reminders	Smart suggestions, keep screen on, daily dhikr reminder
Appearance	Counter style, count text size, Arabic/transliteration/translation/virtue visibility, meters row, accent color
Data	Export library, import library, reset to defaults

✒️ Qalam — The All-New Notes System

Qalam (القلم) — "the pen", after Surah Al-Qalam: "Nun. By the pen and what they inscribe."

Version 4.4 replaces the app's simple note box with Qalam, a complete rich-writing system designed for Islamic study — and built on a principle worth stating plainly: everything you write is stored as readable plain text. Headings, highlights, tables, Quran references, even drawings are recorded in a light, open notation. Your notes can be copied out whole, survive every backup and update, and are never locked into a private format.

A real editor

Live formatting as you type. Bold turns bold, headings grow, highlights glow, and references become colored chips — while the underlying notation stays visible in a faded tone so your note never hides anything from you.
Two faces. Writing mode for composing; Reading mode for the finished page, where notation disappears, tables become real grids, and everything turns interactive.
A full toolbar — history, text styles, structure, inserts, Islamic tools, and drawing — where every button is a true toggle that lights up when the cursor sits inside its formatting.
An insert menu. Type / on an empty line and every block type is a keystroke away, filtered as you type.
Lists that think. Return continues a list with the next bullet, number, or empty checkbox; return on an empty item exits the list; numbered lists renumber themselves when you insert in the middle.
Two hundred steps of undo, with typing grouped into sensible chunks.
Find & replace with match counting and one-at-a-time or replace-all.
Outline & statistics — every heading becomes a tappable table of contents, alongside word count, reading time, and task progress.
Format document — one command that rewrites the whole note into perfectly tidy notation without changing a word.
Hardware keyboard shortcuts for bold, italic, underline, undo, redo, and find.
Editor settings — text size and line height on smooth sliders, an optional monospace body, control over how formatting symbols appear, and your preferred opening mode.

Everything you'd expect to write with

Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, highlight, inline code, superscript and subscript; text in any color and highlights in any color through a full color wheel; six heading levels; bullet, numbered, and task lists with live, tappable checkboxes; quotes; real tables with per-column alignment and sideways scrolling; code blocks with language coloring and one-tap copy; dividers; labeled links, bare links, and images; and #tags — including Arabic tags like #رمضان — that search the note when tapped.

Built for Islamic writing

This is where Qalam is unlike any general-purpose editor:

Quran references. A searchable directory of all 114 surahs — Arabic names, transliterations, meanings, and ayah counts — with live validation (it knows Al-Fatihah has no ayah 8) and support for ranges. References appear as elegant chips; tapping a chip opens that exact ayah in the Quran reader.
Hadith references across the classical collections — Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, the four Sunan, Muwatta Malik, Musnad Ahmad, Sunan ad-Darimi, Riyad as-Salihin, and the Forty Hadith collections — with chips that open the narration in the hadith reader.
Du'a chips that make supplications stand out from surrounding commentary.
A one-tap honorifics library: ﷽, ﷺ, ﷻ, عليه السلام, رضي الله عنه, رحمه الله, and everyday phrases with full diacritics — inserted as proper text, searchable and copyable.
Arabic runs rendered in the Quranic typeface, enlarged and right-to-left, even mid-sentence — and full support for entirely Arabic notes.

Drawings

Insert a canvas and sketch freehand — narrator trees, tajweed marks, diagrams — with a row of inks plus a full color wheel, a smooth stroke-width slider, undo, and clear. Drawings live inside the note like any other block, reopen for further editing with a tap, and — true to the Qalam rule — are stored as text, so they travel intact through every copy and backup.

Callouts, collapsibles & smart tags

Five styles of accented callout panels (info, note, tip, warning, danger) make key paragraphs impossible to miss; collapsible sections fold long detail away behind a titled row. Both belong to Qalam's open smart tag system — one consistent notation behind every special ability — which carries two promises: content from future versions is displayed and preserved, never destroyed, and the notation itself will never change meaning under your notes.

Notes, now woven through Collections

Qalam is fully integrated where your notes actually live:

Every saved item — an ayah, a hadith, a folder — carries its own Qalam note, opened from the item's Notes action. Saving is automatic: while you type, and again the moment you leave.
Standalone notes are now real collection items. The new New → Note action (and the Write a note option in empty folders) creates a note page that lives in your folder tree — renamed, moved, copied, and organized like anything else, and included wherever your collection library is backed up or synced.
Note items open properly. Tapping a note now opens it in the editor — a gap in previous versions where these items had no destination.
Accurate previews. Item cards summarize note content through the real note engine, so headings, references, and formatting are reflected faithfully in the preview line.
References connect. Tap a Quran or hadith chip inside any collection note and the app takes you to the actual ayah or narration.
The notes step of the save-to-collection flow uses the full Qalam editor as well.

A complete user guide to Qalam — every tool, every notation, and the full format reference — is published separately in the documentation.

☀️ Prayer Times: Sun, Sky & Hijri Expansion

Prayer Times was already a deep system — location profiles, precise and manual locations, time zone control, eleven calculation methods, Asr standards, high-latitude rules, rounding, twilight definitions, Hijri offset, and full offline calculation. Version 4.4 expands it with three new views — Sun, Sky, and Hijri — turning it into a visual, educational Islamic time system.

Sun view

The prayer day, explained through the sun. A solar altitude curve traces the sun's path with Fajr, sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha placed directly on it — making visible why each time falls where it does: Fajr and Isha inside the twilight zones, sunrise and Maghrib at the horizon, Dhuhr at solar noon, Asr on the descending arc according to your chosen standard.

A live Twilight Ladder visualizes the depression angles behind the calculations — the apparent horizon, civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight, and the sun's current position — so angles like 18°, 17°, 15°, or 19.5° stop being abstract numbers.

The Solar Almanac covers the rest:

Solar data	Meaning
Solar noon	When the sun reaches its highest point
Equation of time	The difference between sundial time and clock time
Day / night length	Duration of daylight and darkness
Solar declination	The sun's celestial latitude
Apparent sunrise / sunset	Refraction-aware rise and set times
Duha begins	Duha time derived from solar altitude
Solar midnight	The sun's lower culmination
Sun altitude now	The sun's current height above or below the horizon
Hour angle	The sun's angle from the local meridian
Shadow ratio	The current shadow-length relationship
Right ascension, Julian day, sidereal time	Advanced astronomical reference values

Sky view

The Sky tab connects prayer times to the visible heavens: a sky chart plots the sun's and moon's altitude curves across the day with a current-time marker, and a Moon card reports the current phase, illumination percentage, moon age, moonrise and moonset, distance, direction and altitude, and the next new and full moons.

Hijri view

The Hijri tab brings the Islamic date into Prayer Times: the current Hijri date, month progress, upcoming occasions with short descriptions — the White Days, Mawlid an-Nabi ﷺ, the beginning of Rajab, Ramadan dates, and more.

It also includes a crescent visibility forecast for the next month, built on the Yallop visibility test: conjunction time, first- and second-evening visibility, the Yallop grade, best viewing time, moon age, lag, ARCV, ARCL, crescent width, and the q value — with a clear note that official month starts follow your local sighting authority.

Date picker & almanac controls

Date switching now uses the new dual Hijri/Gregorian picker — calendar, wheel, or typed input, from either calendar — which makes checking prayer times for a Ramadan day, Ashura, the White Days, or any specific date effortless. And since Prayer Times now carries far more almanac data, every optional card can be shown or hidden from the options menu: as simple or as deep as you want it.

📱 Android Home Screen Widgets

Version 4.4 brings Al Islam to the home screen. Five widgets keep the essentials visible without opening the app:

Widget	What it shows
Prayer Times	Location, current Hijri date, the next prayer with countdown, and the full daily prayer row
Compact Prayer	A smaller prayer layout for tight home-screen spaces
Hijri Date	The current Hijri day, month, and year with the Arabic month name and Gregorian date
Upcoming Occasions	The next Islamic dates with icons, both calendars, and countdowns
Hijri Month Calendar	A full Hijri month grid with companion Gregorian dates and event markers

Fajr through Isha at a glance, the Islamic date always in view, and upcoming occasions — the White Days, Rajab, Ramadan dates, Mawlid an-Nabi ﷺ — visible days in advance.

Widgets are in their first release phase; more types, layouts, and controls are planned.

📚 New Islamic Collections

The reference library grows with five additions:

Collection	Notes
Vision	Newly added collection
Fatah al-Rabbani	Newly added Islamic reference collection
Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah	Newly added hadith collection
Kanzul Ummal	Newly added hadith compilation
Hisnul Muslim	Newly added du'a and adhkar collection

Together with the new tools, these continue Al Islam's growth into a complete platform for reading, study, reference, and daily practice.

🛠️ Refinements, Edge Cases & Stability

Integrating this many new systems surfaced — and resolved — a long list of edge cases. Improvements in this release include:

Qibla calculation, sensor handling, and magnetic interference behavior
Compass and AR reliability
Hijri date synchronization and Hijri/Gregorian conversion accuracy
Prayer Times date picker integration
Crescent visibility calculations
Calendar event and fasting log handling
Tasbeeh session tracking and dhikr statistics
Notes editing, previews, and collection integration
Widget rendering, updates, and home-screen data consistency
Tool customization screens
Cross-feature date handling
General UI consistency, performance, and stability

Just as importantly, 4.4 deepens the connections between features: Prayer Times, the Hijri Calendar, the Qibla Finder, the Tasbeeh Counter, the Date Converter, the date picker, home widgets, fasting logs, personal events, notes, and upcoming occasions now share their data and behave as one system.

🌟 Overall

Version 4.4 — Miqat is a defining step toward Al Islam as a complete daily Islamic companion.

Major additions in this release

Complete Qibla Finder with Compass, Map, AR, Sun, and Insights views
Full Hijri Calendar with occasions, moon phases, and year overview
Personal events, reminders, and fasting logs
Date Converter and Hijri Birthday Finder
Dual Hijri/Gregorian date picker
Tasbeeh Counter with library, routines, and statistics
Qalam — the all-new rich notes system, woven through Collections
Prayer Times Sun, Sky, and Hijri views
Solar Almanac and Twilight Ladder
Crescent visibility forecast
Five Android home screen widgets
Five new Islamic reference collections
Deeper customization across every new tool
Extensive edge-case and stability work

Prayer, direction, calendar, moon, sun, fasting, dhikr, notes, widgets, and reference content — one connected experience, kept modern, convenient, and yours to customize.

📱 Application: Al Islam

🏷️ Version: 4.4 — Miqat

🗓️ Release Date: July 13, 2026

4.3

Discovery

v4.3 · June 28, 2026

Al Islam — Version 4.3

Discovery 🔍

📅 Release Date: June 27, 2026

Version 4.3 is one of the most comprehensive and content-rich releases in Al Islam's history — introducing a completely reimagined search experience, the largest single content expansion to date, and sweeping UI redesigns across nearly every major section of the app.

All-New Search Section

🔍 Reimagined Search Experience

A completely rebuilt search section has been introduced alongside the original, accessible via swipeable tabs. Both sections remain active simultaneously — users who prefer the classic hierarchical reference workflow can continue using the original at any time.

Original Search vs New Search

The original search section was built around structured reference navigation: users stepped through dropdown menus to select a book, a chapter, and a reference number — with additional scope options for global ID, Ruku, Para, and language. Effective for targeted lookup, but limited to structured navigation.

The new search section is fundamentally different. Built for discovery first — with references as a natural extension rather than the starting point.

✍️ Unified Smart Search Bar

A single, intelligent search bar powers the entire experience. Users type once and receive results across all indexed content simultaneously.

Input is analyzed automatically:

Free-form text triggers full-text search across the entire corpus
Reference-style input (e.g., 2:35) automatically surfaces matching reference results alongside text results
Hybrid and ambiguous inputs are handled gracefully, delivering the most relevant results from all sources

🧠 Lucene-Inspired Search Engine

The text search engine has been built from the ground up, heavily inspired by Apache Lucene with domain-specific extensions for Islamic content:

Diacritic-insensitive matching — Arabic tashkeel is fully ignored during search
Token-level text splitting and analysis
Fuzzy matching for approximate and near-match results
Relevance scoring and intelligent result ranking
Multi-field pattern analysis across related content
Connection-aware indexing across structured Islamic data

Results are delivered in nanoseconds to milliseconds across millions of records.

📂 Results Organized by Source

Results are automatically grouped into dedicated, swipeable tabs:

Hadith — across all downloaded and installed books
Quran — translations and Ayahs
Tafsir — commentary content where resource packs are installed
Collections — user-created folders, saved items, notes, and item descriptions

🎛️ Granular Search Filters

An advanced filter panel provides complete control, with defaults carefully chosen to deliver an excellent out-of-the-box experience:

Search method — Text matching (default) or Reference mode
Sources — Selectable checkable chips for Hadith, Quran, Tafsir, and Collections
Scopes — Filter by Surah, Juz/Para, Ruku, or any structural element
Resource by — Narrow to specific languages or individual resource packs
Hadith books — Scope search to specific books, or keep all selected
Reset — One-tap to restore all filters to their defaults

🔗 Reference Search Mode

Selecting Reference mode adjusts all sources and chips to optimize the reference-based workflow. Scope options include:

Universal book order
Hadith chapter-based references
Quran by Surah, Para/Juz, or Ruku
Multi-scope combined selections

Matched references are clearly labeled, grouped, and highlighted throughout results.

🗂️ Searchable Collections & Notes

User-generated content is fully indexed and searchable:

Personal collections and folder names
Notes attached to saved Hadith, Ayahs, and other items
Item descriptions and metadata

Matched keywords are highlighted directly within results at the exact location they appear.

⚡ Automatic & Transactional Indexing

Indexing runs automatically whenever a new resource pack is installed or a collection is modified. The engine is RAM-aware, ANR-proof, and designed to have no noticeable foreground impact.

All indexing is fully transactional — a force-close or crash during indexing leaves no corrupted or half-indexed state. The app detects and recovers incomplete operations automatically on the next launch.

A manual reindex option is also available.

📄 Full Pagination

Every result set is completely paginated. No memory exhaustion regardless of corpus size or result count.

Content Expansion

📚 7 New Hadith Collections

Seven new Hadith collections have been added, each available in Arabic and Urdu, with additional languages planned for future updates:

Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Lulu wal-Marjan
Musnad Abdul Rahman Ibn Awf
Musannad Abdullah Ibn al-Mubarak
Musnad Abdullah Ibn Umar
Musnad Ishaq Ibn Rahwayah
Al-Mu'jam al-Saghir

🕋 38 New Quran Translations

38 additional translations have been added across a wide range of languages and scholarly traditions:

Tatarstan Religious Board — Russian
Ignaty Krachkovsky — Russian
Elmir Kuliev — Russian
Valeriya Porokhova — Russian
Gordy Sablukov — Russian
Knut Bernström — Swedish
Ali Al Barwani — Swahili
Abdol Mohammad Ayati — Tajik
Muhammad Saleh — Uyghur
Sodik Muhammad Yusuf — Uzbek
Ivan Hrbek — Czech
Abdul-Hamid Haidar & Kanhi Muhammad — Malayalam
Ahl Al-Hadith Central Society of Nepal — Nepali
Bashir Missouri — Kannada
Bayanul Furqan (Koshur Quran) — Kashmiri
Dar Al-Salam Center — Hebrew
Dar Al-Salam Center — Serbian
Mikhailo Yaqubovic — Ukrainian
Ghali Apapur Apaghuna — Oromo
Hasan Abdul-Karim — Vietnamese
Hussein Taji — Dari
Khalifa Altay — Kazakh
King Fahad Quran Complex — Thai
Abder-Rahim ibn Muhammad — Telugu
Muhammad Anwar Badkhashani — Dari
Muhammad Azeez ur Rahman — Telugu
Muhammad Karakunnu & Vanidas Elayavoor — Malayalam
Muhammad Shafi'i Ansari — Marathi
Othman al-Sharif — Italian
Rabila Al-Umry — Gujarati
Rowwad Translation Center — Sinhala
Rowwad Translation Center — Vietnamese
Ryoichi Mita — Japanese
Saeed Sato — Japanese
Mikael Aykyuni — Yoruba
Society of Institutes and Universities — Thai
Taj Mehmood Amroti — Sindhi
Rwanda Muslims Association — Kinyarwanda

📖 87 New Tafsir Resources

The Tafsir library has received its largest single expansion in the app's history. 87 new Tafsir resources have been added spanning classical Arabic scholarship, multilingual editions of foundational works, and language-specific series reaching dozens of global languages.

This brings total Tafsir coverage from 8 resources to 95, dramatically deepening the Quranic commentary experience available within the app.

🌍 30 New Languages Now Supported

30 additional languages are now supported across Quran and Tafsir resources, bringing the total to 62 supported languages:

Swedish, Swahili, Tajik, Uyghur, Uzbek, Malayalam, Nepali, Kannada, Kashmiri, Hebrew, Serbian, Ukrainian, Oromo, Vietnamese, Dari/Persian, Kazakh, Thai, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Sinhala, Japanese, Yoruba, Sindhi, Kinyarwanda, Arabic, Indonesian, Assamese, Kyrgyz, Tagalog

📊 Content Summary

Total Quran Resources: 92 → 217
Quran Language Support: 32 → 62 languages
Tafsir Resources: 8 → 95
Quran Translations: 84 → 122
Hadith Collections: 22 → 29

UI Redesigns

📖 Quran Section

Significant interface improvements across the Quran reading experience:

Go To Ayah Dialog — A comprehensive navigation tool for jumping directly to any verse by Surah, Juz, or inline reference, with smooth control sliders and a frictionless selector
Improved ayah listing — Smoother scrolling, easier navigation, seamless resource switching, and a toggle to disable translations
Redesigned Ayah Preview — Completely reimagined with Go To Verse shortcuts, richer references, and smooth multi-resource selection and switching

🕌 Hadith Section

All Hadith screens have been refreshed for improved readability and navigation:

Hadith Books — Refreshed layout and visual organization
Hadith Chapters — Now includes convenient inline search
Hadith Listing — Improved layout and navigation flow
Hadith Preview — Richer references, improved context, and adaptive layout for all screen sizes

🎨 Text Customization

The Text Customization screen is now centralized and significantly more convenient:

Switch between sections and languages within a single screen
View all section configurations in parallel
Fully frictionless and intuitive throughout

📁 Collection Screen

The Collection screen has been substantially improved:

Each component now displays richer visual details and engagement metrics
Cloud backup and sync has been fully stabilized — all edge cases addressed, with significantly improved performance, concurrent operations, and full awareness of device capabilities and network state

🔗 Additional Redesigns

History Section — Refreshed interface and improved usability
Home Screen — Visual refresh and improved layout
Profile Section — Cleaner design with better information hierarchy
Authorization — The most seamless sign-in experience yet, with full password manager support

📱 Application: Al Islam
🏷️ Version: 4.3 — Discovery
🗓️ Release Date: June 27, 2026

4.2

Expansive Horizons

v4.2 · May 19, 2026

Al Islam — Version 4.2

Expansive Horizons 🌍

📅 Release Date: May 17, 2026

Version 4.2 continues the evolution of Al Islam with major expansions to Hadith collections, advanced reading analytics, comprehensive sorting systems, improved resource management, and broader usability refinements throughout the app.

This update focuses heavily on organization, discoverability, reading insights, and giving users more powerful yet seamless control over their Islamic library experience.

Hadith Collection Expansion

📚 New Hadith Collections Added

Two additional Hadith collections have now been introduced into the app, continuing our ongoing effort to expand authentic Islamic resources with structured multilingual support.

Newly Added Collections

📖 Riyad as-Salihin

Supported Languages:

Arabic
English

📖 Bulugh al-Maram (Labeled Edition)

Supported Languages:

Arabic
Urdu

These additions further strengthen the growing Hadith ecosystem within Al Islam while maintaining organized references, multilingual accessibility, and structured navigation throughout the experience.

🔖 Expanded Hadith Labeling (Gradings)

Explicit Hadith grading support has been significantly expanded in this release.

While many narrations already included grading information within their content, users requested clearer and more structured visible labels such as:

Sahih
Da‘if

In response, dedicated labeling support has now been expanded across additional collections.

Newly Labeled Collections

Mishkat al-Masabih
Sunan al-Kubra al-Bayhaqi

Nearly 30,000 Hadith narrations have now been explicitly labeled, with continued expansion planned for future updates.

Our long-term goal remains to provide comprehensive Hadith coverage, broader multilingual support, and richer scholarly classification across all supported collections.

History & Insights Expansion

📊 Advanced Reading Analytics

The History & Insights system has been significantly expanded with deeper reading statistics, additional metrics, and new visual analytics.

New Unique Read Metrics

In addition to total read tracking, the app now separately tracks and visualizes unique reading activity.

New metrics include:

Total Quran Unique Reads
Total Hadith Unique Reads
Average Unique Reads Per Day
Unique Read Distribution Analytics

A new dedicated Unique Read Share visualization has also been added alongside existing total read analytics.

These additions provide a more accurate understanding of engagement patterns and study consistency over time.

📈 Activity Graphs

Two new activity visualization graphs have been introduced to provide broader insight into reading behavior and engagement trends.

📅 Activity Over Time

This adaptive graph visualizes reading activity across dynamic time ranges, including:

Daily activity
Monthly activity
Yearly activity

The graph intelligently adjusts based on the selected time range, helping users quickly identify periods of highest engagement and long-term reading patterns.

🕓 Reading by Hour of Day

A second activity graph now displays reading engagement distributed throughout the day.

This allows users to better understand:

Peak reading hours
Daily study habits
Time-based engagement patterns

These additions further evolve the Insights Dashboard into a more complete activity and productivity tracking system.

Date Range Filtering

📆 Global Dashboard Time Ranges

History and Insights now fully support reactive date-range filtering across the entire dashboard experience.

Users can instantly filter:

History listings
Metrics
Charts
Activity graphs
Reading statistics

using predefined or custom date ranges.

Included Quick Ranges

All Time
Today
Yesterday
3 Days
7 Days
30 Days
3 Months
1 Year
2 Years
3 Years

Custom date-range selection is also fully supported.

All analytics and listings update instantly based on the selected range, creating a more flexible and research-friendly experience.

⚡ Optimized History Performance

The History system has also received major backend and performance refinements.

Enhancements include:

Improved pagination
Smoother scrolling
Reduced memory usage
Better responsiveness with large datasets
Faster filtering and searching
More efficient data handling

These improvements ensure smooth performance even with extensive reading histories and analytics data.

Unified Sorting System

🔃 Comprehensive Sorting Infrastructure

A fully unified and consistent sorting system has now been implemented across all sections of the app.

This redesign introduces:

Standardized sorting behavior
Consistent UI patterns
Ascending and descending ordering support
Context-aware sorting options based on content type

The goal is to provide maximum flexibility while maintaining a modern, intuitive, and user-friendly experience.

📚 Example — Hadith Book Sorting

Supported sorting options now include:

Default — Original curated order of Hadith books
Book name — Alphabetical order by English book title
Arabic name — Alphabetical order by Arabic book title
Chapter count — Number of chapters contained in the book
Total Hadith — Total number of Hadith narrations in the book
Compiled date — Historical order by when the book was compiled
Translations — Number of available language translations
Read progress — Percentage of Hadith you have read in the book
Read count — Total number of Hadith you have read across all sessions
Last read — Most recently opened books appear first

🕋 Example — Quran Surah Sorting

Surah listings now support sorting by:

Traditional Sequential Quranic Ordering Based on Surah Number
Alphabetical Ordering Using Romanized (English Transliteration) Surah Names
Alphabetical Ordering Using Native Arabic Surah Names
Chronological Ordering Based on Historical Revelation Sequence of the Surahs
Numerical Sorting Based on Total Number of Verses (Ayahs) Within Each Surah
Numerical Sorting Based on Total Number of Rukus Contained in Each Surah
Alphabetical Ordering Using English Translation or Meaning of Surah Names
Classification-Based Grouping by Revelation Type (Makki or Madani Surahs)

📂 Supported Sections

Sorting support has now been integrated across all sections, including:

Collections
History
Hadith Books
Hadith Chapters
Quran Surahs
Quran Juz / Parah
Resource Packs
Almost all list-based sections throughout the app

Further expansion is planned as more datasets and systems evolve.

Resource Pack Management

📦 Improved Resource Pack Controls

Users now have greater control over downloaded resource packs.

A redesigned unified resource management dialog now allows users to:

Delete downloaded resource packs
Redownload resources at any time
Manage storage more efficiently
Maintain cleaner local content organization

Resource removal and restoration have also been optimized to ensure data integrity and faster processing.

UI, Stability & Performance

✨ UI Consistency Improvements

Version 4.2 introduces additional refinements focused on visual consistency and interface polish throughout the app.

Enhancements include:

More consistent iconography
Improved spacing and layout standards
Better theming consistency
Refined component styling
Cleaner visual hierarchy across screens

These refinements contribute to a more cohesive and modern user experience.

⚡ Performance Improvements & Bug Fixes

This release also includes continued infrastructure improvements and system optimizations.

Enhancements include:

Improved overall responsiveness
Better compatibility across devices
SDK and dependency upgrades
Stability improvements across multiple sections
General bug fixes and reliability refinements

📱 Application: Al Islam
🏷️ Version: 4.2 — Expansive Horizons
🗓️ Release Date: May 19, 2026

4.1

Chronicled

v4.1 · May 9, 2026

Al Islam — Version 4.1

Chronicled 📚

📅 Release Date: May 09, 2026

Version 4.1 focuses on restoring and expanding some of the app’s most requested productivity and tracking capabilities. This release introduces a fully redesigned History system, deeper reading insights, enriched Hadith collection details, and continued infrastructure modernization across the platform.

History System — Rebuilt

🕘 History Section Remastered

The History Section, temporarily removed during the major architectural transition in Version 4.0, has now returned with a completely rebuilt foundation.

Reading activity is once again automatically tracked across supported sections, allowing users to revisit previously accessed content with greater speed and organization.

Core features include:

Automatic reading history tracking
Section-based filtering
Direct navigation back to previously viewed content
Improved history organization and responsiveness
Enhanced reliability and data handling

The redesigned system also lays the groundwork for future analytics, tracking, and personalized insights features planned for upcoming releases.

📊 Insights Dashboard

A brand-new Insights Dashboard has been introduced to provide a deeper understanding of reading activity and engagement patterns throughout the app.

Users can now access detailed reading statistics and progress metrics, including:

Total Reads and Unique Reads
Per-section activity breakdowns
Average Reads Per Day
Active Reading Days
Current Reading Streak
Highest Recorded Streak
Section-based engagement distribution

The dashboard also includes visual analytics such as section share charts and progress indicators to make activity tracking clearer and more engaging.

This release establishes the initial foundation for a much broader insights and productivity ecosystem planned for future updates.

Hadith Collections Enhancements

📚 Enriched Hadith Book Profiles

The Hadith Books section has been significantly expanded with richer metadata, progress tracking, and improved discoverability.

Each collection now includes more detailed information, such as:

Book title
Compiler information
Collection category and labels
Total Hadith count
Total chapter count
Supported language count
Compilation dates in both Hijri and Gregorian calendars
Scholarly descriptions and contextual information

These additions provide a more informative and research-friendly browsing experience.

📖 Reading Progress Tracking

Detailed reading progress metrics have now been integrated directly into Hadith collection profiles.

Users can now view:

Total Hadiths read
Completion percentages
Total reads and unique reads
Visual progress indicators
Last read timestamps

These additions make it easier to monitor study progress and continue reading seamlessly across collections.

🔍 Improved Book Search

Search functionality within the Hadith Books section has also been enhanced.

Users can now search collections using multiple metadata points, including:

Book name
Compiler
Collection category
Labels and classifications
Additional indexed reference data

This provides faster and more flexible navigation across large collections.

Platform Improvements

⚙️ SDK & Library Updates

Core frameworks, libraries, and system components have been updated across the app to improve compatibility, performance, and long-term maintainability.

Enhancements include:

Improved support for modern Android devices
Compatibility updates for newer Android versions
Better optimization based on device and Play Console insights
Stability improvements across multiple environments

These updates help ensure a smoother and more reliable experience across a broader range of hardware and operating system versions.

⚡ Performance & Stability Improvements

This release also includes continued optimizations focused on responsiveness and reliability throughout the app.

Improvements include:

Faster screen rendering
Improved responsiveness during large data operations
Better memory management
Reduced interface lag
General bug fixes and stability enhancements

📱 Application: Al Islam
🏷️ Version: 4.1 — Chronicled
🗓️ Release Date: May 09, 2026

4.0

Elevated

v4.0 · April 30, 2026

Al Islam — Version 4.0

Elevated ✨

📅 Release Date: April 30, 2026

Version 4.0 represents the most ambitious and transformative release in the history of Al Islam — a complete evolution of the platform designed to deliver a faster, smarter, and more scalable Islamic experience for years to come.

This update introduces a fully modernized foundation, major improvements to collections and prayer systems, optional cloud capabilities, enhanced customization, and extensive usability refinements throughout the app.

A Completely Reimagined Foundation

⚙️ Fully Rebuilt Architecture

Al Islam has been completely rebuilt from the ground up using a modern, modular, and scalable architecture.

Every major layer of the application — including the interface, data handling systems, and content infrastructure — has been redesigned to improve:

Reliability
Performance
Scalability
Long-term maintainability
Future feature expansion

The underlying data architecture has also been elevated to support improved integrity, compatibility, synchronization readiness, and future cloud-connected capabilities.

This new foundation enables significantly faster feature delivery, smoother updates, and a more refined experience moving forward.

Resource & Content System Updates

📦 Resource Packs Rebuilt

All downloadable content packs and backend resources have been fully updated to support the new infrastructure introduced in Version 4.0.

This includes improvements to:

Content organization
Data compatibility
Resource handling efficiency
Future scalability

Important Compatibility Note

To ensure compatibility with the new system:

Existing downloadable resource packs must be redownloaded
Collections and personal user data will migrate automatically
No manual migration steps are required
Existing collection data remains safe and preserved

Support for Version 3.0 resources remains temporarily available, though updating to Version 4.0 is strongly recommended for the best experience.

Cloud Features & Authentication

☁️ Cloud Backup & Sync

Collections now support optional cloud backup and synchronization across devices.

Users can:

Enable cloud backup
Trigger manual synchronization
Use automatic syncing for continuous backup protection
Restore collections across supported devices

Al Islam remains a fully offline-first application, and all cloud functionality is completely optional.

Offline functionality continues to work independently without requiring an account or internet connection.

Premium Feature Availability

Cloud backup and synchronization are available as part of the Premium Plan.

🔐 Optional Authentication

Authentication support has been introduced to power cloud-based features and future account-connected experiences.

Key principles include:

Sign-in remains entirely optional
Core app functionality works fully offline without an account
Future account-based features will always remain permission-based and transparent

This infrastructure lays the groundwork for more personalized experiences in future updates.

Collections System Improvements

📁 Advanced Collection Enhancements

The Collections system has received major usability, reliability, and workflow improvements.

Enhancements include:

Improved multi-item selection
New copy functionality
Collection search support
Better organization workflows
Improved handling of edge cases and error scenarios
Enhanced overall responsiveness and stability

These refinements create a smoother and more reliable content management experience across large and complex collections.

Prayer Times & Location Profiles

📍 Location Profiles

Prayer Times now supports fully independent Location Profiles.

Each profile can maintain its own:

Timezone
Prayer calculation method
Madhab preferences
Date adjustments
Time formatting preferences
Display title and metadata
Additional prayer-related configurations

The system has also been redesigned to intelligently configure many settings automatically based on the selected location.

🌐 Advanced Geolocation & Timezone Detection

Location handling has been significantly improved with enhanced geocoding and timezone intelligence.

Enhancements include:

Improved location detection
Accurate timezone resolution
Automatic country recognition
Local and cloud-assisted geocoding support
Manual customization controls when needed

All location-related data remains locally managed unless cloud-connected features are explicitly enabled.

Users can also:

Create custom titles for profiles
Override timezones manually
Adjust prayer calculation settings independently per profile

🕌 Expanded Prayer Calculation Controls

Each Location Profile now supports extensive calculation customization options, including:

Selection from 11 prayer calculation methods
Asr standard override support (Hanafi / Shafi)
High altitude rule configuration
Prayer time rounding preferences
Twilight definition adjustments
Hijri date offset customization

These controls provide greater flexibility for users across different regions, schools of thought, and personal preferences.

🕓 High Altitude Rule Support

Supported High Altitude Rule options now include:

None
Middle of the Night
Seventh of the Night
Twilight

This improves prayer time accuracy in regions with complex sunrise and sunset conditions.

⏱️ Time Rounding Options

Prayer time rounding preferences can now be configured with support for:

None
Nearest
Up

This allows users to tailor displayed timings according to personal preference.

🌅 Twilight Definition Controls

Users can now customize Twilight Definitions with support for:

General
Ahmar
Abyad

These options provide additional flexibility for advanced prayer time calculation preferences.

🌍 Redesigned Timezone Selector

The timezone selector has been completely redesigned for faster and clearer navigation.

Users can now search timezones using:

GMT offset
Country
Timezone name
Timezone identifier
Current local time

This significantly simplifies timezone selection and verification.

User Experience Improvements

✨ General UX & Handiness Improvements

Numerous refinements have been made throughout the app to improve usability, consistency, and responsiveness.

Enhancements include:

More intuitive controls and selectors
Improved navigation consistency
Better handling of large datasets
Smarter search experiences
Cleaner interaction flows
Improved responsiveness across complex interfaces

These updates contribute to a more polished and fluid overall experience.

Premium Plan

💎 Premium Features

Version 4.0 introduces the new Premium Plan, linked securely to user accounts.

Premium benefits currently include:

Cloud backup & synchronization across devices
Unlimited saved Location Profiles
Early access to upcoming features and improvements

Additional premium capabilities may be introduced in future releases.

Temporary Changes

🕘 History Section Temporarily Disabled

The History Section has been temporarily disabled while a redesigned and more capable replacement system is being developed.

A significantly improved version of the feature is planned for an upcoming release.

Stability & Performance

⚡ Performance Improvements & Bug Fixes

This release also includes extensive optimizations and reliability improvements throughout the app.

Enhancements include:

Improved performance across modern devices
Better overall responsiveness
Reduced interface lag
Stability improvements across multiple sections
Bug fixes and infrastructure refinements

📱 Application: Al Islam
🏷️ Version: 4.0 — Elevated
🗓️ Release Date: April 30, 2026

3.0

Reloaded

v3.0 · July 3, 2025

Al Islam — Version 3.0

Reloaded 🚀

📅 Release Date: July 03, 2025

Version 3.0 marks a foundational shift for the app — not just in terms of features, but also architecture, flexibility, and how content is structured, delivered, and interacted with.

This changelog provides a full breakdown of what’s new, what’s changed, and what’s coming soon.

🕋 Quran Section

🗣️ Multi-Translation Support (with Scholar Metadata)

Previously, translations were limited to one per language (23 languages total). In this update:

Translations have been expanded to 37 languages
Many languages now offer multiple translations, categorized by scholar
Each translation includes metadata: scholar name, language, and other relevant info
The data model has been restructured to allow easier access and future expansion

This makes the Quran section richer, more diverse, and easier to navigate based on user preference.

Translations

Maulana Fateh Muhammad Jhalandari - Urdu
Maulana Sayed Abu Ala Maududi - Urdu
Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani - Urdu
Sahh International - English
Maulana Muhammad Junagari - Urdu
Dr. Israr Ahmad - Urdu
Imam Ahmad Raza Khan - Urdu
Maulana Amin Ahsan Islahi - Urdu
Dr. Tahirul Qadri - Urdu
Maulana Abdus Salam - Urdu
Dr. Muhammad Aslam Siddiqui - Urdu
Allama Jawadi - Urdu
Muhammad Hussain Najafi - Urdu
Mrs. Riffat Ijaz - Urdu
Abdullah Yousaf Ali - English
Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani - English
Maulana Sayed Abu Ala Maududi - English
Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri - English
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall - English
Muhammad Sarwar - English
Muhammad Habib Shakir - English
Suleyman Ates - Turkish
Alİ Bulaç - Turkish
Diyanet Isleri - Turkish
Abdulbaki Golpinarli - Turkish
Yasar Nuri Ozturk - Turkish
Diyanet Vakfi - Turkish
Elmalili Hamdi Yazir - Turkish
Suat Yildirim - Turkish
Edip Yüksel - Turkish
Hussain Ansarian - Persian
Abolfazl Bahrampour - Persian
Mohammad Mahdi Fooladvand - Persian
Mohsen Gharaati - Persian
Mahdi Elahi Ghomshei - Persian
Baha'oddin Khorramshahi - Persian
Mostafa Khorramdel - Persian
Naser Makarem Shirazi - Persian
Mohammad Kazem Moezzi - Persian
Sayyed Jalaloddin Mojtabavi - Persian
Mohammad Sadeqi Tehrani - Persian
Sayyed Mohammad Reza Safavi - Persian
Muhiuddin Khan - Bengali
Zohurul Hoque - Bengali
Abu Rida Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rassoul - German
A. S. F. Bubenheim and N. Elyas - German
Adel Theodor Khoury - German
Amir Zaidan - German
Raúl González Bórnez - Spanish
Julio Cortes - Spanish
Muhammad Isa García - Spanish
Muhammad Hamidullah - French
Muhammad Farooq Khan and Muhammad Ahmed - Hindi
Suhel Farooq Khan and Saifur Rahman Nadwi - Hindi
Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs - Indonesian
Muhammad Quraish Shihab et al - Indonesian
Hamza Roberto Piccardo - Italian
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih - Malay
Salomo Keyzer - Dutch
Fred Leemhuis - Dutch
Sofian S. Siregar - Dutch
Einar Berg - Norwegian
Józefa Bielawskiego - Polish
Abdulwali Khan - Pashto
George Grigore - Romanian
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh - Somali
Sherif Ahmeti - Albanian
Hasan Efendi Nahi - Albanian
Jan Turst Foundation - Tamil
Ma Jian - Chinese
Ma Jian (Traditional) - Chinese
Muhammed Sadiq and Muhammed Sani Habib - Amharic
Vasim Mammadaliyev and Ziya Bunyadov - Azerbaijani
Alikhan Musayev - Azerbaijani
Ramdane At Mansour - Amazigh
Tzvetan Theophanov - Bulgarian
Besim Korkut - Bosnian
Mustafa Mlivo - Bosnian
A. R. Nykl - Czech
Office of the President of Maldives - Divehi
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi - Hausa
Burhan Muhammad-Amin - Kurdish
Samir El-Hayek - Portuguese
Abu Adel - Russian
Muslim Religious Board of the Republiс of Tatarstan - Russian
Ignaty Yulianovich Krachkovsky - Russian
Elmir Kuliev - Russian
V. Porokhova - Russian
Gordy Semyonovich Sablukov - Russian
Knut Bernström - Swedish
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani - Swahili
AbdolMohammad Ayati - Tajik
Muhammad Saleh - Uyghur
Muhammad Sodik Muhammad Yusuf - Uzbek
Preklad I. Hrbek - Czech

📚 Tafsir Support (Verse Explanations)

Tafsir (exegesis or commentary) helps provide deep context for Quranic verses. This update introduces:

Dedicated Tafsir support
Available in multiple languages, with multiple Tafsir entries per language where available
Seamless switching between translation and Tafsir modes
10 Tafsir packs added (currently in Urdu and English)

This builds the groundwork for deeper engagement with the Quran.

Tafsir

Tafsir Ibn Kathir - Urdu
Tafheem-ul-Quran - Urdu
Bayān al-Qur’ān - Urdu
Aasaan Qur’an - Urdu
Ahsan-ul-Bayan - Urdu
Tafsir Ibn Kathir - English
Ma’ariful Qur’an - Urdu
Ma’ariful Qur’an - English
Tafheem-ul-Quran - English
Tayseer-ul-Qur’an - Urdu

📖 Multi-Translation & Tafsir Preview Experience

The ayah preview now allows users to select and view multiple translations and Tafsirs simultaneously within a clean, modern, and user-friendly layout. The interface supports instant drag-and-drop reordering, making it incredibly simple to prioritize your preferred texts by sliding them up or down. Users can also fluidly swipe between dedicated Translation and Tafsir modes, enjoying a seamless, handy navigation experience that includes frictionless jumping directly between verses.

📖 Enhanced Reference Tracking

The app now features an advanced referencing engine that provides unparalleled clarity when exploring Hadith and Quranic citations. References have become richer and more informative while maintaining a highly readable layout, allowing users to instantly track their reading journey through sleek visual progress bars that show exactly how far they have come and what remains. For instance, when looking at a Hadith, a single, intuitive metric block elegantly displays the exact Hadith number within its specific chapter, the current chapter number relative to the total chapters in the book, and its precise sequential position. These dense yet incredibly clear visual statistics bring a new level of context and convenience to every verse and narration you study.

🕰️ Prayer Times Section

Completely rewritten with a focus on flexibility, privacy, and accuracy.

📍 Flexible Location Setup

Users now have multiple ways to configure their prayer location:

Use precise GPS (as before)
Search by address (geocoding)
Enter coordinates manually

This is especially helpful for privacy-conscious users or those in less-mapped regions.

🌐 Manage & Switch Between Multiple Locations

Users can now:

Save multiple locations
Rename, edit, or delete any saved location
Easily switch between saved profiles

Ideal for users who travel or want to track times for family in different regions.

🕓 Time Zone Handling

Time zone is automatically detected based on coordinates
Can be manually overridden for custom use cases
Resets easily back to default detection with one tap
Time zone is saved per-location and applied across the app

Timezone management is now a fully integrated core configuration of the app, ensuring absolute consistency across every single feature. Any changes instantly reflect everywhere—from calendar dates to precise prayer times and general time stamps. Users can easily update this setting via an intuitive selection dialog that simplifies the choice by clearly presenting their current device system timezone, the geographical location timezone, and the active timezone currently applied to the app.

📅 Date-Based Timing View with Hijri Sync

View prayer timings for any day, past or future
Built-in calendar picker makes date selection easy
Islamic calendar (Hijri) updates alongside Gregorian selection
Reset to today with one tap

This makes planning, reviewing, and learning easier.

Introduced a significantly enhanced prayer times experience ✨ Users can now view the current prayer status, remaining time for the active prayer, and countdowns to upcoming prayers with live clock counters, dynamic progress bars, and real-time prayer status indicators.

📁 Collections Section — Now a True File Manager

The bookmarks/collections section has been fully redesigned, transforming it into a file manager-like experience for your saved Islamic content.

🏠 Root-Based, No Default Folder

No mandatory "Bookmarks" folder anymore
Users start from a clean root space
Items (Hadith, Ayahs, etc.) can be saved directly in the root or inside folders

🗂️ Unlimited Nesting & Hierarchies

Create folders inside folders without limits
Design your collection structure however you like
- Example: /Hadith/Sahih Bukhari/Charity/Reminders

🗃️ Save in Multiple Locations

One item (e.g., a Hadith) can exist in multiple folders — just like copying a file
Ideal for organizing the same reference under different topics. with your very own titles and metadata.

🔧 File Manager-Like Controls

Select multiple items
Bulk move, copy, delete, rename
Reorganize layout as you grow your content

This redesign unlocks complete control over how users store, revisit, and study Islamic material.

📝 A Note on Infrastructure & Requests

📊 App Infrastructure Rewritten

App rebuilt using modern architecture (Android Industry standard Compose, MVVM, scalable schema, etc.)
Improved modularity, future-proofing, and maintainability
A completely live and reactive experience.

🔖 Hadith Labels (Grading)

Labels like Sahih, Da'if are being added gradually
Some books already have them, others will follow as verified data becomes available

🌍 In-App Language Selection (UI)

Currently under consideration
Would allow changing app UI language (not just content language)
We're exploring proper localization for future updates

🚧 Temporarily Disabled or Sunset Features

🔍 Search Functionality

In older versions:

Users could search by text, regex, or reference

In v3.0:

Only reference-based search remains active (for both Quran and Hadith)
Text & regex search are disabled temporarily as we rebuild the system

They will return with a more refined, accurate engine soon.

📦 Data Packs / Expansion Downloads

Due to schema restructuring:

Existing data packs (books, translations, Tafsir) are no longer compatible
Users must redownload them from within the app
First-time access will prompt for redownload

📱 Application: Al Islam
🏷️ Version: 3.0 — Reloaded
🗓️ Release Date: July 03, 2025

2.5

Ramadan Special

v2.5 · March 26, 2024

Al Islam — Version 2.5

Ramadan Special 🌙

📅 Release Date: March 27, 2024

The Ramadan Special update introduces major enhancements to note formatting, content organization, and history management, alongside continued improvements to performance, compatibility, and overall app stability.

This release focuses on providing a richer and more flexible reading and study experience throughout the app.

New Features & Enhancements

✍️ Advanced Formatting Support

Rich Markdown and HTML formatting support has now been introduced for Notes and supported content views.

Users can now create more structured, expressive, and organized content using a wide range of formatting options, including:

Images
Tables
Checklists
Ordered and unordered lists
Bullet points and numbering
Multiple heading styles
Inline and reference links
Blockquotes
Code blocks
Horizontal dividers
Bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough formatting
Superscript and subscript text
HTML entities and extended formatting support

These enhancements provide greater flexibility for personal notes, study references, structured content organization, and detailed Islamic research workflows.

The formatting system has been designed to maintain readability while offering advanced customization capabilities within the app experience.

🕘 Enhanced History Section

The History Section has been further improved with enhanced filtering and tracking capabilities.

Users can now navigate and analyze previously viewed content more efficiently through improved history management tools and refined organization.

Enhancements include:

Improved activity filtering
Better history organization
Faster access to previously viewed content
Enhanced tracking and navigation controls
Improved readability of historical activity records

These refinements make it easier to revisit content, continue previous reading sessions, and manage activity history more effectively.

Performance & Stability

⚡ Performance Improvements & Bug Fixes

This release also includes multiple optimizations focused on improving app responsiveness, reliability, and compatibility across modern devices.

Improvements include:

General bug fixes and stability enhancements
Improved app responsiveness
Better performance across large content sections
Enhanced compatibility with newer Android devices and operating system versions
Refinements to overall interface smoothness and usability

Additional polishing and usability improvements have also been applied throughout the app experience.

📱 Application: Al Islam
🏷️ Version: 2.5 — Ramadan Special
🗓️ Release Date: March 27, 2024

2.4

Prayer+

v2.4 · February 11, 2024

Al Islam — Version 2.4

Prayer+ 🕌

📅 Release Date: February 11, 2024

The Prayer+ update introduces one of the most requested additions to the app with the launch of a fully offline Prayer Times system, alongside enhanced search capabilities, advanced color customization tools, and broader interface improvements.

This release focuses on accuracy, flexibility, and a more personalized daily Islamic experience.

New Features & Enhancements

🕰️ Offline Prayer Times

Prayer Times support has now been fully integrated into the app with offline accessibility and high-precision astronomical calculations.

After granting location access, users can view accurate prayer schedules without requiring an active internet connection.

Key features include:

Fully offline prayer time support
Accurate location-based calculations
Automatic timezone and regional adjustments
Prayer start and end times
Sunnah and night-based timings
12-hour (AM/PM) and 24-hour time format support

The app also intelligently recommends suitable calculation methods and jurisprudence preferences based on the user’s region while still allowing complete manual customization.

🌍 Supported Prayer Calculation Methods

Al Islam now supports multiple internationally recognized prayer calculation methods, including:

Muslim World League
Egyptian General Authority of Survey
University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi
Umm al-Qura University, Makkah
General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowments (UAE)
Moonsighting Committee Worldwide (MCW)
Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, Kuwait
Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs, Qatar
Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS)
Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, Turkey

Support for different schools of thought, including Hanafi and Shafi methodologies, has also been included for more personalized calculations.

🌙 Included Prayer & Islamic Time Indicators

The Prayer+ section includes detailed timings for:

Fajr
Sunrise
Dhuhr
Asr
Maghrib
Isha
Islamic Midnight
Last Third of the Night

These additions provide a more comprehensive daily prayer and worship experience.

🔍 Search by Regular Expression (Regex)

A new advanced search method, “Search by Regex,” has been introduced for more precise and flexible content discovery.

This feature allows users to:

Search using pattern-based expressions
Perform advanced Hadith and Quran searches
Find content beyond exact keyword matching
Improve search precision across large collections

This enhancement is especially useful for advanced research and detailed content exploration.

🎨 Advanced Color Adjustment

The Text Adjustment section has been expanded with advanced color customization controls.

Users can now personalize text appearance using:

Hue controls
Saturation controls
Brightness adjustment
Alpha (transparency) support
Custom color code input

These additions provide more flexibility for creating comfortable and personalized reading environments across the app.

User Experience Improvements

🖥️ Refined User Interface

The user interface has been further refined to improve readability, accessibility, and overall navigation throughout the app.

Enhancements include:

Improved navigation flow
Cleaner visual presentation
Better interaction consistency
More responsive layouts
Enhanced reading comfort across sections

These refinements contribute to a smoother and more polished overall experience.

⚡ Performance Improvements & Stability

This update also includes extensive performance optimizations and stability improvements across multiple areas of the app.

Improvements include:

Faster loading times
Improved scrolling performance
Better responsiveness during heavy usage
Reduced interface lag
General bug fixes and reliability enhancements

📱 Application: Al Islam
🏷️ Version: 2.4 — Prayer+
🗓️ Release Date: February 11, 2024

2.3

2024 Edition

v2.3 · January 4, 2024

Al Islam — Version 2.3

2024 Edition ✨

📅 Release Date: January 04, 2024

The 2024 Edition introduces major personalization enhancements, expanded typography support, improved search capabilities, and continued refinements to the reading experience across the app.

This update focuses on delivering greater flexibility, deeper customization, and a smoother overall user experience.

New Features & Enhancements

🎨 Advanced Text Customization

A dedicated Text Adjustment section has now been introduced, providing extensive control over text appearance and reading preferences across the app.

Users can now customize text settings independently for different sections and languages, allowing for a more personalized and accessible reading experience.

Customization options include:

Adjustable font size
Line spacing and letter spacing controls
Multiple built-in font selections
Bold, italic, underline, and text case formatting
Real-time preview while adjusting settings

These controls are supported across multiple reading interfaces, including:

Hadith previews
Hadith listings
Chapter views
Quran sections
Random hadith screens
Additional content views

Language-specific enhancements have also been added, including Arabic diacritic (A‘rab) visibility controls for more flexible Arabic reading preferences.

The Text Adjustment system has been designed to provide advanced customization while maintaining a clean, intuitive, and easy-to-use interface.

🔤 Custom Font Support

Support for importing custom fonts has now been added.

Users can now:

Import third-party TrueType fonts (.ttf)
Assign custom font names
Organize fonts by preferred language
Rename or remove imported fonts
Persist custom font selections across the app

The app also continues to include a collection of built-in fonts optimized for commonly used languages and scripts.

This enhancement provides significantly greater flexibility for users who prefer personalized typography and reading styles.

📚 Mustadrak Al-Hakim Added

The collection library has been further expanded with the addition of Al-Mustadrak Al-Hakim.

Currently available languages include:

Arabic
Urdu

Additional language support and expanded resources are planned for future updates as the collection continues to grow.

🔍 Search by Text (Exact)

A new “Search by Text (Exact)” method has been introduced to provide more precise and refined content discovery.

This feature allows users to:

Search using exact keywords or phrases
Search across Hadith collections and Quran content
Filter searches by specific books
Select preferred languages and scripts
Narrow down results for more accurate matching

This enhancement significantly improves content accessibility and makes finding specific hadiths or verses faster and more efficient.

User Experience Improvements

🖥️ Enhanced Interface & Navigation

The user interface has been further refined to improve usability, readability, and navigation consistency across the app.

Enhancements include:

Cleaner visual presentation
Improved navigation flow
Better responsiveness across screens
More polished reading layouts
Enhanced interaction consistency

These refinements contribute to a smoother and more modern overall experience.

⚡ Performance Improvements & Stability

This release also includes multiple optimizations focused on improving performance and reliability throughout the app.

Improvements include:

Faster content loading
Improved scrolling responsiveness
Better memory and resource handling
Reduced interface lag
General bug fixes and stability enhancements

📱 Application: Al Islam
🏷️ Version: 2.3 — 2024 Edition
🗓️ Release Date: January 04, 2024

2.2

Quranic Edition

v2.2 · November 25, 2023

Al Islam — Version 2.2

Quranic Edition 📖

📅 Release Date: November 25, 2023

This release marks a major milestone for the app with the introduction of a fully integrated Quran section, transforming the experience beyond hadith collections into a more comprehensive Islamic learning platform.

The update also includes multilingual Quran support, enhanced navigation, improved note formatting, and overall performance refinements.

Major New Addition

📖 Quran with Multilingual Support

The app now includes a dedicated Quran section with support for translations in 23 languages, providing a more accessible and inclusive reading experience for users around the world.

The Quran section has been carefully structured for ease of navigation and comfortable reading, featuring:

Organized Surah and Juz/Parah browsing
Dedicated bookmarks and favorites section
Smooth scroll-based reading experience
Verse preview with detailed references
Swipe-based verse navigation
Rapid reference navigation controls
Direct verse and Surah jump functionality

The experience has been designed to balance advanced functionality with a clean, modern, and intuitive interface, ensuring accessibility without compromising usability.

🌍 Supported Quran Translation Languages

The Quran section currently supports the following translation languages:

Albanian
Bangla
Chinese
Dutch
French
German
Hindi
Indonesian
Italian
Malay
Malayalam
Norwegian
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Romanian
Russian
Sindhi
Somali
Spanish
Tamil
Turkish
Urdu

This multilingual expansion enables users to explore Quranic teachings in their preferred language while maintaining a structured and consistent reading experience throughout the app.

Enhanced Reading Experience

✍️ Formatted Notes

The Notes experience has been enhanced with support for rich text formatting and improved organization tools.

Users can now create more structured and readable notes using formatting options such as:

Bold text
Italic text
Strikethrough formatting
Symbol-based organization
Improved content structuring

These enhancements make personal reflections, study notes, and research references easier to organize and revisit.

Additional note formatting improvements and advanced editing capabilities are planned for future updates.

Performance & Reliability

⚡ Improved Performance

This release also includes a wide range of optimizations aimed at improving overall app responsiveness and stability.

Enhancements include:

Faster navigation and loading times
Improved scrolling performance
Better responsiveness across content-heavy sections
General stability improvements
Bug fixes and reliability enhancements

These refinements contribute to a smoother and more seamless reading experience throughout the app.

📱 Application: Al Islam
🏷️ Version: 2.2 — Quranic Edition
🗓️ Release Date: November 25, 2023

2.1

Supreme Update

v2.1 · October 12, 2023

Al Islam — Version 2.1

Supreme Update ✨

📅 Release Date: October 12, 2023

This update delivers one of the largest content expansions in the app’s history, alongside major improvements to references, bookmarking, multilingual accessibility, and overall performance.

Major Content Expansion

📚 Expanded Hadith Library

The hadith collection has been significantly expanded with the addition of 13 new Hadith collections, complementing the existing major hadith books (Sihah Sitta).

This expansion introduces a broader and more comprehensive Islamic library experience with improved organization, multilingual accessibility, structured references, and enhanced navigation throughout the app.

Newly Added Collections

Mishkat Al-Masabih
Supported Languages: Arabic, English, Urdu, Hindi
Al-Silsila Al-Sahiha
Supported Languages: Arabic, Urdu
Muwatta Imam Malik
Supported Languages: Arabic, English, Urdu
Muwatta Imam Muhammad
Supported Languages: Arabic, Urdu
Ma'arif-ul-Hadith
Supported Languages: Arabic, Urdu
Shamail Tirmidhi
Supported Languages: Arabic, English, Urdu
Sahifa Hammam ibn Munabbih
Supported Languages: Arabic, Urdu
Sunan Al-Darimi
Supported Languages: Arabic, Urdu
Sunan Al-Daraqutni
Supported Languages: Arabic, Urdu
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah
Supported Languages: Arabic, Urdu
Sharh Ma‘ani al-Athar (Al-Tahawi)
Supported Languages: Arabic, Urdu
Musnad Ahmad
Supported Languages: Arabic, Urdu
Sunan Al-Kubra
Supported Languages: Arabic, Urdu

⬇️ Flexible Book Downloads

To improve storage management and accessibility, books can now be downloaded individually based on your preferences.

Key improvements include:

Selective book downloads
On-demand content access
Improved download management
Reduced initial app size

Sahih al-Bukhari remains available by default during initial installation, while additional collections can be downloaded anytime within the app.

Enhanced Reading & Collection Experience

🔗 Responsive Hadith References

The Notes section within Collections has been enhanced with support for interactive hadith references.

You can now reference other hadiths directly within your notes, allowing linked references to become interactive and accessible with a single tap.

This enhancement enables:

Faster cross-referencing between hadiths
Improved contextual study
Easier navigation across collections and books
A more connected reading and research experience

❤️ Fav-in-Fav Collections

A new “Fav-in-Fav” feature has been introduced for quicker access to your most important saved hadiths.

This functionality allows you to:

Highlight selected bookmarks within collections
Create a focused layer of favorite saved items
Access priority bookmarks without reorganizing collections

This provides a faster and more convenient way to revisit frequently referenced hadiths while preserving your existing collection structure.

🌍 Enhanced Language Experience

Language setup and multilingual handling within Collections and bookmarked content have been refined for a smoother and more intuitive experience.

Enhancements include:

Improved language synchronization
Better multilingual content handling
More consistent section-based language preferences
Enhanced readability across supported languages

Performance & Stability

⚡ Performance Improvements

This release also includes multiple under-the-hood optimizations focused on improving overall reliability and responsiveness.

Improvements include:

Faster content loading
Improved navigation responsiveness
Enhanced download handling
Better memory and resource management
Stability improvements across multiple sections of the app

📱 Application: Al Islam
🏷️ Version: 2.1 — Supreme Update
🗓️ Release Date: October 12, 2023

2.0

Mega Update

v2.0 · September 22, 2023

Al Islam — Version 2.0

Mega Update 🚀

📅 Release Date: September 21, 2023

Version 2.0 introduces one of the largest upgrades to the app experience so far, focused on organization, personalization, multilingual accessibility, and overall usability improvements. This update significantly expands the reading experience while maintaining a clean, modern, and user-friendly interface.

New Features & Enhancements

📚 Collection Management

A fully redesigned Collection system has been introduced, providing a more organized and flexible way to manage bookmarked hadiths.

With Collections, you can now:

Create custom folders and collections
Save bookmarks into specific collections
Move bookmarks between collections
Add and manage personal notes for bookmarked hadiths
Edit collection notes independently
View bookmark and note modification timestamps
Remove individual bookmarks or entire collections with ease

The Collection system also includes backup and restore support, allowing you to:

Export collections as backup files
Import previously saved backups
Share collection backups across devices

This enhancement provides a more structured and reliable way to organize and preserve your saved content.

🔀 Random Hadith Experience

The Random Hadith section has been enhanced to provide a more dynamic and personalized reading experience.

Users can now customize various aspects of the reading interface, including:

Text size
Line spacing
Letter spacing
Text formatting preferences

The feature also adapts to your selected language preferences and dynamically displays supported resources accordingly, creating a smoother and more personalized experience while exploring Islamic teachings.

🌍 Multilingual Support

The app now provides improved multilingual support across multiple sections and content views.

Supported languages include:

Arabic
English
Urdu
Hindi
Bangla

Language preferences can now be configured independently for different sections of the app, allowing greater flexibility and personalization.

For example:

Arabic for hadith previews
English for random hadiths
Urdu for selected reading sections

This enhancement helps create a more customizable and accessible reading environment while maintaining a polished and intuitive user experience.

📖 Expanded Hadith References

Hadith references have been significantly expanded to provide richer context and easier navigation.

Additional reference details now include:

Book references
Chapter references
Narrator information
Kitab and Baab details
Hadith gradings
Related classifications

These improvements provide deeper context for study, research, and content exploration.

🕘 Reading History

A new History section has been introduced to help users keep track of recently viewed and read content.

Features include:

Automatic local history tracking
Timestamp-based activity records
Quick navigation back to previously viewed content
Section-specific activity history

Users can also:

Clear history manually at any time
Configure automatic cleanup rules
Set limits based on time or entry count
Apply different limits for individual sections

This provides better continuity across reading sessions while giving users more control over stored activity data.

Additional Improvements

⬇️ Background Downloads

Background downloading support has been added for a smoother and more seamless content experience.

Users can now continue using the app while downloads proceed in the background without interrupting ongoing activity.

🎨 Text Adjustment Controls

Text appearance customization has been expanded for hadith reading views, providing greater flexibility and readability controls.

Available customization options include:

Adjustable font size
Letter spacing and line spacing controls
Text color customization
Bold and italic formatting
Arabic diacritic (A‘rab) visibility controls
Uppercase toggling options
Independent visibility controls for Arabic and translation content

These enhancements allow users to tailor the reading experience according to their personal preferences and accessibility needs.

⚙️ Custom Language Preferences

Language settings have been further refined to support section-specific and book-specific customization.

This allows users to configure language preferences independently across different content areas for a more flexible multilingual experience.

🖥️ User Interface Improvements

The user interface has been extensively redesigned and expanded to improve navigation, accessibility, and usability throughout the app.

Enhancements include:

Improved screen organization
Expanded section accessibility
Cleaner navigation flow
Additional utility and informational views
Better overall layout consistency

Additional supporting features such as current timings, Gregorian dates, and Islamic calendar information have also been integrated into the experience.

⚡ Performance Improvements & Stability

This update also includes significant under-the-hood optimizations focused on performance, compatibility, and reliability.

Improvements include:

Faster content loading
Improved app responsiveness
Better handling of edge cases
Enhanced compatibility with modern Android devices and operating systems
General bug fixes and stability enhancements

📱 Application: Al Islam
🏷️ Version: 2.0 — Mega Update
🗓️ Release Date: September 21, 2023