01 · Read
Surah by surah
Read the whole text in the order of the book, or in the order of revelation, with the passage around every verse kept in view.
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Forgotten.
Read · listen · understand
Read and listen to the Qur'an, with its context kept visible.
Listen verse by verse to five reciters while the Arabic, an easy-read line and a translation in any of 19 languages follow along on screen. Then see where named translators differ.
What does the Qur'an say about anxiety?
How does the Qur'an describe mercy?
Does the Qur'an forbid music?
What does verse 4:34 actually say?
AALAMIN helps you find and inspect the evidence. It does not issue religious verdicts.
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6,236 verses, each with Arabic, translation and easy-read (transliteration)
23 translations in 19 languages
616 studies, each answering one question
137 verses in plain words
5 reciters, every verse recited
2 easy-read guides: English, Hindi
What AALAMIN is
AALAMIN helps readers distinguish the Qur'anic text, named translations, editorial observations and later sources - without blending them together or deciding what the reader must believe.
AALAMIN is not a new translation, tafsir, fatwa service or replacement for qualified scholarship. It is a transparent reading and research platform.
What does context mean here?
- the verses surrounding a passage
- differences between named translations
- the historical and linguistic information attached to those translations
- clearly identified editorial observations
- later sources, when available and legally cleared
The Arabic Qur'anic text is never rewritten or modified.
Three ways in
02 · Explore
A question
616 studies, each built on the verses that answer one question, with every passage and its reason shown.
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Where translators differ
The verses where the translations share the fewest words, measured across the whole text, side by side.
Most divergent versesWhat makes AALAMIN different
The text stays at the centre. Its own context stays visible.
AALAMIN keeps the Qur'an at the centre and shows it in its own context: each verse among its neighbours, its translations side by side, its easy-read line, and a plain-words reading. Every layer is named, dated and sourced — and it says plainly what it does not supply.
AALAMIN currently focuses on the Qur'anic text and legally cleared translations. Later-source material will only be displayed when its source, edition, translation and usage rights can be verified.
See it on a verse-
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Named sourceThe verse
Source text, edition and licence.
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Named + datedThe translations
Several, each named and dated, and where they differ.
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In contextIn its own context
Every verse shown among its neighbours, never read alone.
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Every verseEasy-read
Every verse, so you can say it.
Sources and licences
Arabic text and section divisions: Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0). English: George Sale 1734, John Medows Rodwell 1861, Edward Henry Palmer 1880, Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall 1930 and Talal Itani 2012. Other languages: QuranEnc, from Rowwad Translation Center, Azizul Haq Al-Omari, Islamic Content Service Association in Languages and Muhammad Ibrahim Junagarhi. Every source and its licence is on Sources & rights.