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I came across this some weeks back, but thought it was not working because there was no sound – turned out to be a computer problem. Fulaan ibn Fulaan helped me rediscover it after my very long and boring post entitled Hatim – may Allah reward him. And now Ann and my friend Tariq from my class have reminded me that it is a tool too useful to keep to myself.

If you’re trying to learn the Qur’an and you want to do so properly, this may be the tool that helps you. While it is easy to download MP3 recordings of the Qur’an these days, the advantage of this is that it allows you to select single verses, set a range of verses, repeat a verse more than once, pause after playing for its duration to allow you to repeat or pause for a set period, all whilst highlighting the verse in the manuscript. So go ahead: visit www.reciter.org and tune in to Mahmood Al-Hosari’s recitation.

In detail, this is what you get:

• Scan of the entire Quran, displaying two pages with headings to mimic exactly the Madena Quran style (Huffaz).
• You can select from six recitations: Abdulbaset, Ali Al-Hodaifi, Mahmood Al-Hosari, Abdullah Basfar, Ibrahim Al-Akhdar and Mohammed Ayoub.
• There are four books of tafseer to read from – I haven’t got as far as looking at any of these.
• It provides translations in six languages: English, French, German, Turkish, Indonesian and Malayu.

Go on, have a look, you know you want to. You’re on the internet already. All you need is to have Flash installed on your computer. Wouldn’t that be better for you? Here, let this send you on your way…

Let the Qur’an be the light of our hearts and our means to success.