Who recites, who translated, and where the text comes from

Recitations

The Quran belongs to no one. A reciter's recording does. That is why we only use voices whose reciter released the recording himself, or that we record ourselves by permission. Each voice lists who it is and under which licence.

• Aaqib Azeez, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons, own recordings (user Atcovi) (source). Al-Fatiha, all of juz Amma (78 to 114), and surahs 10 to 37; murattal and mujawwad. Our surah videos and the word-by-word clips, once the review is complete.
• Anasskoko, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons, own recordings (Nigeria, 2021) (source). Al-Fatiha and 25 surahs from juz Amma. Not in use yet; waiting for the recitation to be reviewed.
• Saber Gouiez, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons, own recording (source). Surah Ash-Shams (91). Not in use yet.

Earlier videos carried recitations by Abdul Basit Abdus-Samad and Mahmoud Khalil al-Husary through everyayah.com. Those recordings have no licence anyone could give us; we are phasing them out and replacing them by voices under a free licence or our own recording. What remains is shown under the reciter's name.

The Arabic text

The Arabic text is the Uthmani mushaf from Tanzil. We never touch that text: every copy in the app carries a checksum (SHA-256) of the sealed source, so you can verify that what you read comes from that source and nowhere else.

Translations

Only recognised, published translations. Never a machine translation, never a nameless source, and we never rewrite a sentence. If a translated line carries a known error, we would rather leave it out than correct it.

• Dutch: Sofjan S. Siregar. Islamitisch Cultureel Centrum Nederland, 2000, meerdere drukken. Terms: in gebruik onder de open editie van alquran.cloud; herkomst altijd vermeld.
• English: Marmaduke Pickthall, 1930. Overleden 1936.. publiek domein; volledige tekst onder meer bij sacred-texts.com en archive.org. Terms: publiek domein in de EU sinds eind 2006 (overlijden 1936 plus 70 jaar); geen toestemming nodig, ook niet voor afgeleid werk.
• English: Abdullah Yusuf Ali, 1934. Overleden 10 december 1953.. publiek domein; volledige tekst onder meer bij archive.org en wikisource. Terms: publiek domein in de EU sinds 2024 (overlijden 1953 plus 70 jaar); geen toestemming nodig, ook niet voor afgeleid werk. Let op: latere herziene uitgaven kunnen een eigen recht dragen, gebruik de tekst van 1934..
• Spanish: Sheikh Isa Garcia. QuranEnc.com, Encyclopedia of the Noble Quran (King Fahd Complex-project); dezelfde tekst als quran.com-vertaling-id 83. Terms: QuranEnc.com staat downloaden en herpubliceren toe zonder wijziging, met duidelijke bronvermelding 'QuranEnc.com' en het versienummer erbij (quranenc.com/en/browse/spanish_garcia, sectie Terms and Policies).
• German: Frank Bubenheim en Nadeem Elyas. QuranEnc.com, Encyclopedia of the Noble Quran (King Fahd Complex-project); dezelfde tekst als quran.com-vertaling-id 27. Terms: QuranEnc.com staat downloaden en herpubliceren toe zonder wijziging, met duidelijke bronvermelding 'QuranEnc.com' en het versienummer erbij (quranenc.com/en/browse/german_bubenheim, sectie Terms and Policies).

Word by word

The meaning of each word in English comes from the word-by-word corpus of quran.com. There is no recognised word-by-word translation in Dutch; there we show Siregar's translation of the ayah, not a word choice of our own. We measure the timestamps for each word on the recording ourselves and check them; an ayah whose timings are estimated gets no lit-up word.

The masjid data

The masjids in Hasanats don't come out of thin air. Most names, addresses and prayer times come from mawaqit.net, where masjids keep their own times. The rest, and the map data, come from OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL.

A photo that came along that data belongs to the masjid that once uploaded it. We fetch it through our own server, so your browser never talks to a third party directly, and the name of the source sits by the image. If a masjid asks us to remove its photo, we do.

Once a board takes over its own masjid in Hasanats, their own times and their own text lead, and the source is only the history of that page.

Our rules

• A recitation is never altered: no pitch, no tempo, no artificial voice, no clone.
• Every video and every page names the reciter and the licence.
• For a CC BY-SA voice, we release our video using that voice under the same licence.
• If a source isn't listed here, we don't use it.

Spot a mistake in a source or a name? Write to mo@hasanats.com.