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Listen to a whole section as one coherent thought. Each paragraph plays in sequence: Arabic recitation, then English translation, and on to the next.
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Listen to the Qur’an by paragraph.
Explore it by theme.
Pick one to start.
Listen to a surah
Arabic recitation alongside English translation, one paragraph at a time.
Start a Theme Search
Choose one theme to begin. From there you can add related themes or conditions to refine your search across the whole Qur’an.
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By theme
Pick a theme and the site shows every paragraph that touches on it, across the whole Qur’an. Each paragraph carries about seven themes on average, drawn from a library of 141 labels covering people, the qualities of God, prayers, daily life, and the afterlife.
Continuity
Bookmarks and resume-where-you-left-off work straight away. Sign in with Quran.com to also sync your bookmarks, reading history, and personal notes across every device you use. Free, takes thirty seconds.
Sources and method
English translation. Talal Itani’s Quran in Modern English, used unmodified.
Arabic recitation. Audio from everyayah.com, with a choice of reciters.
Scholarly commentary. Tafsir for any ayah, available in many languages, drawn live from Quran.com.
Paragraph boundaries. Structural work draws on the translations of M.A.S. Abdel Haleem and The Clear Quran by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, then adjusted manually where needed.
Thematic labels. A taxonomy of 141 labels across 9 facets, applied at the paragraph level. No new exegesis is invented. Labels classify content already present in the translation.
About
A personal, not-for-profit project. Built to make listening to the Qur’an feel like a continuous experience, and to make it easy to explore passages by common themes.
Built for everyone
The Qur’an is for every person, and this site should be too. Whether you use a screen reader, prefer larger text, need reduced motion, or simply find reading easier with a calmer layout, there are options here for you.
Assisted Reading
One toggle in Settings activates a calmer, higher-contrast layout with a dyslexia-friendly font, wider spacing, and gentle focus cues. You can also press Alt+A or Option+A on Mac from anywhere on the page.
Your reading, your way
Adjust text size, line spacing, reading width, and colour warmth independently. Choose the Arabic script that feels most familiar, and set your own listening speed for both Arabic and English.
Screen reader friendly
Proper language tags on Arabic and English text, keyboard navigation throughout, live announcements when verses change, and skip links so you can get straight to the content.
Gentle on the senses
Reduce motion to quiet animations. Turn on focus mode to dim everything except what you are reading. A warm sepia tint is there if bright screens are uncomfortable.
Accessibility standards we design against
POUR principles
The experience is shaped around content that can be perceived, operated, understood, and interpreted reliably by assistive technologies.
WCAG 2.2 AA direction
Contrast, focus visibility, reduced motion, keyboard access, touch targets, and language tags are checked against practical WCAG AA expectations.
Semantic HTML first
Headings, sections, buttons, forms, labels, and links carry as much meaning as possible before any extra ARIA is added.
Careful WAI-ARIA
Dynamic areas use clear names, roles, states, live announcements, and dialog patterns where native HTML needs support.
Accessibility is not a feature we added. It is part of how this project thinks about its readers, and it is always being improved.
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Submitted to the 2026 Quran Foundation Hackathon
Built on Quran.com
This project sits on top of the data and features that the Quran Foundation team shares openly at Quran.com.
What makes it different
Paragraph-shaped audio
Whole sections play as one continuous passage, so the meaning carries the way it was meant to be heard.
English narration made to be heard
Clear spoken English sits alongside the Arabic recitation, paced for listening rather than reading.
Make a video, right here
Turn any passage into a short, shareable video. It is made entirely on your own device, with nothing uploaded anywhere.
Steady and quick
Built light and fast. Pages open quickly and the Arabic and English audio stay in step, even on a modest phone or a slower connection.
Designed with care
Adjust the text size, choose your Arabic script, set your own listening speed. The colours and logo were drawn from a photograph taken at dawn in the Australian outback.
Stay on your path
A gentle picture of your reading over time, so the habit stays visible and easy to return to.
And it’s built on Quran.com
The project draws on both areas the hackathon asks for: a Content API for what you read and hear, and a User API for what you save.
Go deeper on any ayah
Open any paragraph into the Scholar view, and you have scholarly commentary (tafsir) served live from Quran.com. This is where you go from listening to study.
- Tafsir for any ayah in the Qur’an.
- Multiple languages, so you can read it in the one you study in.
- Multiple scholars side by side, classical and contemporary.
Your free Quran.com account
Signing in is free and quick. Once you do, the site can carry your personal things across every device you use.
- Bookmarks that follow you everywhere.
- The ayah you last stopped on, offered back next time you open the site.
- Your own notes on any ayah, saved with your account.
- A view called My Path that turns your reading history into something tangible to look back on.
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FAQ
What is Thematic Qur’an?
A free webapp that does two things. It plays the Qur’an as paragraph-length audio: Arabic recitation followed by English translation, so meaning carries across verses as one continuous thought. And it lets every paragraph be filtered by theme, so passages can also be explored by what they share in common.
Which English translation is used?
Talal Itani’s Quran in Modern English, used unmodified.
How are verses grouped into paragraphs?
Paragraph boundaries draw on structural work by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem and Dr. Mustafa Khattab’s The Clear Quran, with manual adjustment where the source translations differ. The intent is to keep a single thought intact (an annunciation, a prayer, an argument) and play it as one continuous passage.
Where do the themes come from?
A curated library of 141 labels across nine groups: people, the qualities of God, prayers, daily life, virtues, things to avoid, the afterlife, creation, and revelation. Each paragraph is reviewed and tagged against this library. No new exegesis is invented. Labels only classify what the translation already says.
Is it free? Do I need an account?
Free, with no ads, ever. You can listen and explore without signing in. For the personal touches, sign in with a free Quran.com account. That brings your bookmarks, your reading history, and your notes across every device you use, and remembers the last ayah you stopped on so you can pick up there next time. Worth the thirty seconds.
What is the relationship with Quran.com?
This project is built on the data and features that the Quran Foundation team shares openly at Quran.com. The recitation audio, the Arabic, the English translation, and the scholarly commentary in multiple languages all come from there. If you choose to sign in with your free Quran.com account, your bookmarks, reading history, and notes sync back to the same account, so the work you do here travels with you. This project was submitted to the 2026 Quran Foundation Hackathon.
Can I use this for deep study and Tafseer?
This is a companion tool for foundational familiarity and Tadabbur (reflection), alongside traditional Tafseer. For Fiqh, classical exegesis, or detailed theology, consult traditional Tafseer volumes and qualified scholars. The thematic browser is useful for finding relevant passages quickly. What to do with them is the reader’s work.
