SECTION A: General
With Quran Companion’s super effective memory techniques, fun games and social motivation, you’ll be achieving your memorization goals easier, faster and with more enjoyment than you ever thought possible.
Our current free features include:
- Reading the Quran
- Listening to Audio
- Reading any Translation
Purchasing the app will give you lifetime access to all free and premium features, plus you’ll also enjoy any new premium features released in the future without paying any extra.
Our current and upcoming premium features include:
- Guided Lessons (Available on Android. Coming soon for iPhone)
- Group challenges
- Hasanah Calculator (Available on Android. Coming soon for iPhone)
- Daily Hasanah Leaderboard (Available on Android. Coming soon for iPhone)
- Dashboard with Progress Analytics (Available on Android. Coming soon for iPhone)
- Personal Challenges (Available on Android. Coming soon for iPhone)
- Swipe to Reveal Game
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- C) Google Wallet Balance
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- D) Paypal Balance
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If none of these payment methods work for you, please reach out to hello@quranacademy.io
If you already paid for the app, and the app crashes or you get a new device, you never have to pay again. Just simply login with your credentials Insha’Allah 🙂
Please note however that Quran Companion is NOT available for iPads or tablets.
SECTION B: How to Use Quran Companion
Our guided lesson plan feature gives you daily assignments without you needing to think about how to organise your day-to-day memorization. You can choose exactly what you’d like to memorize and the time frame you aim to achieve it by, and Quran Companion will produce a personalized guided lesson plan to fit your time and stay on track with your goals.
Here’s how to use it:
- Pick a surah you’d like to memorize. You can choose a surah of your choice or pick from one of the recommended challenges for you.
- Select your level: ‘Beginner’, ‘Intermediate’, or ‘Advanced’. ‘Beginner’ level has the least number of ayahs to memorize a day, ‘Intermediate’ level is in the middle, while ‘Advanced’ level has the most.
- Start your memorization based on the daily lesson breakdown provided for you.
If you select no guided plan for a Surah but then decide later that you want a guided plan, you can choose a guided plan. Here are the steps:
- Choose no guided plan
- You’ll see the Surah
- Press the back button and you’ll see a popup that shows: I’ve Memorized & Quit
- Below Quit you’ll see, “Do you want to start a Guided Lesson?
- Tap on that and you can select a Guided Lesson
Now if you select a Guided Lesson & want to go to a Manual Lesson, you can follow the similar approach above and you’ll be able to access a Manual Lesson
You can go to reading mode to review what you’ve memorized, Insha’Allah.
The righteous companions of Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. would race to perform good deeds and actions with the intention of pleasing Allah SWT. Keep yourself accountable,stay motivated with healthy challenges, and race towards the same goal, whether it’s memorizing a new surah or just a few ayahs.
Here’s how to use it:
- Go to Groups.
- Create a group.
- Choose up to 25 people to join your group. You can invite people in the app or your Facebook friends.
- The people you invite will get an invite code to join the group. They can either manually enter it or automatically accept the group invite inside the app.
- Once your group has members, you’ll be able to see each other’s progress to motivate each other and keep each accountable to your Quran memorization goals.
Step up to your goals with the personal challenges feature where you can select a Surah you’d like to memorize or take one of the recommended challenges for you. Choose to take on the challenge with a guided lesson plan, or have it your own way without a guided lesson plan.
Here’s how to use it:
- Pick a surah you’d like to memorize. You can choose a surah of your choice or pick from one of the recommended challenges for you.
- You can choose to do the personal challenge on your own or with a guided lesson plan.
- Refer to Question 3 on how to use the guided lesson plan option
This challenging game makes revision easier, faster and fun! Our unique “swipe to reveal” technology reveals the hidden ayah as your finger slides across it, so you can spot and correct mistakes as you recite from memory. Additionally, this multisensory learning process engages visual, speech and motor senses that aids in fast and accurate retention.
Here’s how to use it:
- Select the ayah you’d like to memorize manually or from your guided lesson plan
- Under techniques on the bottom, click on ‘Swipe”
- In ayah view, you’ll see the translation display of each ayah with a white space above it.
- In page view, you’ll see the Quran page view with blank lines.
- To reveal the ayah in parts, slide your finger from right to left across the white space (ayah view) or blank lines of the page (page view)
- To hide the ayah, slide your finger from left to right across the white space (ayah view) / or blank lines of the page (page view)
Hot tip: Try sliding your finger back and forth as you repeat your recitation to perfect your memorization, without worrying that your brain might be “cheating” by seeing what’s coming up ahead.
We have two display modes:
Page View – Double tap on an ayah and click on translation. Then you can view the translation
Ayah View – The translation is underneath the Quran Text for each ayah
You can change the translation by going to settings and selecting the translation in your own language
Also, you can also go to settings and click on “DOWNLOAD THE TRANSLATION” to read it while you are offline
Simply go to settings and as you tap on the reciter name, the download will be proceeding. Once the download is complete, you can listen to audio offline!
SECTION C: About Hasanah & Hasanah Features
Prophet Muhammad SAW said:
“The one who reads a single letter from the Book of Allah will be rewarded with 1 good deed. A good deed is multiplied ten times over. I do not say Alif Laam Meem is one letter. Verily, Alif is one letter, Laam is one letter, Meem is one letter.” (At-Tirmithi, Sahih)
The Hasanah Calculator is based on a Sahih Hadith (refer to Question 15 for the hadith). Every time you complete a memorization, the calculator will multiply the number of letters in the ayahs you’ve memorized by 10 fold. This will be the Hasanah points calculated.
Keep in mind however that this is NOT a guarantee of Hasanah on your scale of deeds, for only Allah SWT knows best of your intentions, effort, and the reward He gives. The purpose of the Hasanah Calculator is a gentle reminder of the good deeds that Allah SWT has promised you when you recite the Quran. This is to help you stay motivated with your progress and on track with your goals as you pursue your memorization.
The Daily Hasanah leaderboard lets you see how others are doing to inspire you, as well as motivate you to be on the board and inspire others! The Top 100 Hasanah points will be shown by everyone who is using the app, sorted out by country, and by Facebook friends. The Hasanah points on the leaderboard are reset daily so that everybody has a new chance each day to get on the leaderboard. Let’s race with each other towards good deeds as Allah SWT has commanded us to do.
If you would rather keep your Hasanah progress private and not visible to the public on the leaderboard, you can hide your Hasanah stats on settings if you’d like so no one can see them. Refer to the next question for more details.
Go to settings, then can tap to hide your Hasanah/Ayah progress. Nobody will be allowed to see your progress if you tap on Hide in settings. Keep in mind that your name won’t show up in the Leaderboard or Group Challenges section if you do this.
SECTION D: On Learning & Memorizing
If one fails to remember an event or written text or spoken words, according to Imam Jafar bin Muhammad al Sadiq one should put the right hand on the forehead and recite:
According to Imam Ali ibn abi Talib, to retain in memory whatever one listens or reads, recite the following dua after every obligatory salat.
“In the name of Allah the most kind the most merciful.
Glory be to Him who does not treat the citizens of His kingdom unjustly.
Glory be to Him who does not let the torment and pain come suddenly upon mankind.
Glory be to the compassionate the merciful.
O Allah, fill my heart with true enlightenment, wisdom, understanding and knowledge.
Surely you are able to do all things.”
Recite the following dua 7 times after obligatory salat to increase in beneficial knowledge and understanding.
رَّبِّ زِدْنِى عِلْمًا
“O my Lord! Advance me in Knowledge.”
اللَّهُمَّ لاَ سَهْلاً إِلّاَ مَا جَعَلّتَهٌ سَهْلاً وَأَنّتَ تَجّعَلَ الحَزَنَ إِذَا شِئتَ سَهْلاً
“Oh Allah! Nothing is easy except what You have made easy. If You wish, You can make the difficult easy.”
Many have found much blessing (barakah) in performing the following prayer, as reported by Imam Tirmidhi in his Jami`:
On a Thursday night, wake up in the last portion of the night. If the last portion is difficult, then wake up the middle of the night. If that too is difficult, then the first portion of the night. Perform four cycles (rak`at) in such a manner that in the first cycle (rak`at) you recite Surah Yasin; in the second cycle (rak`at) Surah Al-Dukhan; in the third cycle (rak`at) Surah al-Sajdah; and in the forth cycle (rak`at) Surah al-Mulk. After completing the prayer praise Allah, and send salutations upon the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) and the rest of the Prophets (Allah be pleased with them all). Ask for forgiveness for the community of believers, and then recite the following supplication:
اللَّهُمَّ ارْحَمْنِي بِتَرْكِ الْمَعَاصِي أَبَدًا مَا أَبْقَيْتَنِي وَارْحَمْنِي أَنْ أَتَكَلَّفَ مَا لَا يَعْنِينِي وَارْزُقْنِي حُسْنَ النَّظَرِ فِيمَا يُرْضِيكَ عَنِّي اللَّهُمَّ بَدِيعَ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ذَا الْجَلَالِ وَالْإِكْرَامِ وَالْعِزَّةِ الَّتِي لَا تُرَامُ أَسْأَلُكَ يَا أَللَّهُ يَا رَحْمَنُ بِجَلَالِكَ وَنُورِ وَجْهِكَ أَنْ تُلْزِمَ قَلْبِي حِفْظَ كِتَابِكَ كَمَا عَلَّمْتَنِي وَارْزُقْنِي أَنْ أَتْلُوَهُ عَلَى النَّحْوِ الَّذِي يُرْضِيكَ عَنِّيَ اللَّهُمَّ بَدِيعَ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ذَا الْجَلَالِ وَالْإِكْرَامِ وَالْعِزَّةِ الَّتِي لَا تُرَامُ أَسْأَلُكَ يَا أَللَّهُ يَا رَحْمَنُ بِجَلَالِكَ وَنُورِ وَجْهِكَ أَنْ تُنَوِّرَ بِكِتَابِكَ بَصَرِي وَأَنْ تُطْلِقَ بِهِ لِسَانِي وَأَنْ تُفَرِّجَ بِهِ عَنْ قَلْبِي وَأَنْ تَشْرَحَ بِهِ صَدْرِي وَأَنْ تَغْسِلَ بِهِ بَدَنِي فَإِنَّهُ لَا يُعِينُنِي عَلَى الْحَقِّ غَيْرُكَ وَلَا يُؤْتِيهِ إِلَّا أَنْتَ وَلَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ الْعَلِيِّ الْعَظِيمِ
“O Allah, have mercy on me by helping me to leave sins forever, as long as you keep me alive. And have mercy on me from taking upon myself what does not concern me, and provide me good sight for what will make You pleased with me. Ya Allah! Originator of the heavens and the earth, Possessor of such glory, generosity, and honour that is not exceeded, I ask you, O Allah, O Rahman, by Your glory and the light of Your Countenance, to make my heart constant in remembering Your Book as You taught me, and grant me that I recite it in the manner that will make You pleased with me. O Allah, Originator of the heavens and the earth, Possessor of glory, and generosity, and honour that is not exceeded, I ask you, O Allah, O Rahman, by Your glory and the light of Your Countenance, to enlighten my sight with Your Book, and make my tongue free with it, and to relieve with it my heart from all problems, and to expand my chest with it, and to wash my body with it. For indeed, none aids me upon the truth other than You, and none give it except You, and there is no might or power except by Allah, the Most High, the Magnificent.”
Anyone at any age can memorize the Quran, and there are plenty of examples from the Prophet’s family and companions that prove this. We have users that are as old at 70 and as young as 9 that are memorizing Quran in our app. Remember, Allah SWT has promised us that:
No amount of technology in the world can replace the virtues and benefits that a good teacher can bring. Quran Companion was not built to replace a teacher, rather our intention to create a Quran memorization app is to make Quran memorization easier and more accessible for the everyday busy Muslim who doesn’t have the time or resources to be part-time or full-time student with a Quran teacher.
If you are blessed with a Quran teacher to personally guide you, Quran Companion can further enhance your personal revision in between classes so that you can make even faster progress with your teacher.
Other than the many rewards promised by Allah SWT, you can also experience impact across all areas of your life.
SECTION E: Etiquette of Usage
SECTION F: Support
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