How to use the Qur'an Journal

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Your own Qur'an journal

Open ayahink.com/journal in any browser. All 114 surahs are there, and it keeps working with no internet.

1. Write your name on the cover — it's your journal.
2. Note the day you began, so you can look back on how far you've come.
3. Link your AI companion from the cover too: tap ✨ AI companion → Connect an AI model → choose your service, paste your key, Save. Step by step below.

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It shows you how

Tap How to use this journal on the cover.

1. The illustrated guide — this page, one tap from the journal.
2. Four short steps: pick a surah, meet its map, then journal ayah by ayah — read, reflect, a du'ā and one action.

Everything you write is saved on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to turn on sync.

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Your streak, ḥasanāt and time

Right on the cover — gentle encouragement, not pressure.

1. Days spent with the Qur'an in this run. Missing up to 3 days in a row doesn't break it.
2. The week — a tick for each day you read or wrote.
3. Ḥasanāt — ten per Arabic letter of each ayah you read or journal, counted from the app's own text. Simple arithmetic.
4. Time — counted only while you're actually there.
5. Tap any figure to see its history.

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Take your journal to every device

Tap ☁️ Cloud sync & account on the cover.

1. Your progress travels with you — writing, highlights, drawings, voice notes, notes, bookmarks and your streak, on your phone, tablet and laptop.
2. Create account once, then log in on each device.

Premium includes ☁️ sync across all your devices · 🔒 optional end-to-end encryption — we can't read it, and can't recover it, so keep your recovery code · ✨ the AI companion · and more on the way.

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Link your AI companion — it only asks questions

On the cover, tap ✨ AI companion → Connect an AI model.

1. Choose your service — OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Groq and others.
2. Get a key — the link takes you to that service's key page.
3. Paste your key. It stays on this device, never on our servers.
4. Test connection — it checks the key and lists the models you can use.
5. Save. Now it can suggest extra questions on any ayah.

It never explains verses, quotes scripture or gives rulings. It only asks — the reflecting is yours.

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Put it on your home screen, like an app

1. 📥 Install app appears on the cover whenever your browser can install it. One tap.

Or, with ayahink.com/journal open:

The Index

All 114 surahs

Your home base — tap any surah to open it.

1. Your progress across the whole Qur'an — here, 20 of 6,236 āyāt.
2. Recitation mode — switch it on to read a surah as one flowing mushaf page.
3. Search by name, meaning or number.
4. Each surah shows how much of it you've journalled.

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Search the way you'd say it

Surah names are full of accents most keyboards don't have. You don't need any of them.

1. Type in the search box: a name ("baqarah"), a meaning ("the cow") — or just the surah number, like 36.
2. The surah comes straight up — Al-Baqarah in the first picture, Yā Sīn in the second. Tap to open it.

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Continue where you left off

Close the app mid-surah and come back tomorrow — it opens where you were.

1. One tap takes you back — even to a single ayah in recitation mode. The same button is in the bottom bar on every page.

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Every surah opens with a map

1. Its own artwork.
2. The facts — Meccan or Medinan, how many verses, its other name.
3. Its big themes, one card each.
4. The shape of the surah, from beginning to end.
5. Begin journaling takes you to ayah 1.

Your page for every ayah

One page for each ayah

1. The ayah in Arabic, with a transliteration beneath it.
2. Translation switches — English, Urdu, Bangla.
3. Open this ayah on quran.com to listen or study further.
4. Mushaf — see this ayah in the flowing surah.

Your page for every ayah

Three languages — any combination

1. English, اردو, বাংলা — each is its own switch. Turn on one, two, all three, or none.
2. Every language you switch on shows together under the ayah — here, English and Urdu.

Your page for every ayah

A word to hold, and a question for you

So you never face a blank page.

1. Word to ponder — one word from the ayah to carry with you.
2. Reflect on this — a question written for this exact ayah.
3. More prompts — want a different angle? Tap for more.

Your page for every ayah

How is your heart today?

A one-tap check-in. Looking back later, you'll see how you felt when you read each ayah.

1. Tap Seeking, Peaceful, Hopeful, Struggling or Grateful…
2. …or name your own feeling and tap Set.

Your page for every ayah

Four boxes to write in

Fill one, or all four. Everything saves as you type — there is no save button anywhere.

1. My reflection — what the ayah stirred in you.
2. A du'ā or intention — what you want to ask for.
3. One action I'll take — small and doable today.

There's also Today I'm grateful for — and + Add a section for anything else you want to track.

Writing tools

Write it your way

1. The toolbar: bold, italic, underline, strike-through, highlight, plus a font and a size.
2. Select some words, then tap — just like a phone's notes app.
3. Drag the corner to make the box bigger. It remembers.
4. "Saved ✓" — there's no save button to forget.

Writing tools

Draw and handwrite

Made for a finger, a stylus or a tablet pen.

1. Tap Draw on any box. Tap Type to go back.
2. Pen colours, Erase, Mark (a highlighter in four colours), Size, Undo, Redo, Clear.
3. Your drawing sits on the lines, over anything you typed.

Writing tools

Or just say it

Tap the green microphone on any ayah and speak your reflection.

1. Record, pause if you need to, then Stop and save.
2. Play it back and skip 5 seconds either way.
3. Change the speed.
4. Save the recording to your phone.

Writing tools

Every day gets its own page

Come back to the same ayah next Ramaḍān and write afresh — last year's words are still there.

1. Which day you're looking at.
2. Step back or forward through the days on this ayah.
3. Filled dot — you wrote on this ayah that day.
4. Hollow dot — you wrote on a different ayah that day.
5. Change the date of an entry, or delete a day.

Highlighting

Highlight the Arabic

Mark the words that caught you — on the Arabic, the transliteration or the translation.

1. Tap the highlighter.
2. Pick one of four colours — yellow, green, pink, blue.
3. The eraser takes a highlight off again.
4. Select the words — they stay highlighted every time you come back.

Linking your thoughts

Link one ayah to another

Noticed two āyāt that speak to each other? Type the reference in square brackets — like [1:5] — as you write.

1. It turns into a link you can tap.
2. Notes link the same way, with double brackets: [[Gratitude list]].

Linking your thoughts

The ayah now shows its links

1. A 🔗 Linked verses bar appears on the ayah.
2. Tap it to jump straight there.

Linking your thoughts

…and the link works both ways

1. Now you're on 1:5…
2. …and it points back to 1:2, where you wrote the link.

Changed your mind? Delete the [1:5] from your writing and both links disappear by themselves.

Linking your thoughts

Link a note from any ayah

While writing a reflection, type two square brackets: [[

1. A list pops up with your notes — or create a brand-new one right there.
2. Pick one, and the link is written in for you.

Recitation mode

Read a whole surah

Switch on recitation mode in the Index, then open any surah.

1. Add English, Urdu or Bangla alongside — or read the Arabic alone.
2. Make the text bigger or smaller.

Recitation mode

See where you've already been

1. A red number with a small pen above it — you've journalled on this ayah.
2. A gold number — not yet. Tap any ayah number to open its journal page.

Recitation mode

…and highlight in the mushaf too

1. Choose a colour.
2. A yellow highlight can run across a line break.
3. Blue on another ayah — mix colours however you like.

Mushaf highlights are kept separately from the ayah page, so you can mark one way while reciting and another while reflecting.

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Bookmarks, in folders

Here, four surahs bookmarked in recitation mode and filed in a folder called "Surahs I recite".

1. Bookmark this page (tap again to remove it), or bookmark one ayah by its number.
2. + Folder to make a new one.
3. The folder and its bookmarks — tap one to go there.
4. Move a bookmark with ⇄. Sort your own way, by place in the Qur'an, or A–Z.
5. How to get here: the bookmark button in the bottom bar, on every page.

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My Notes — for thoughts bigger than one ayah

A gratitude list, questions for your study circle, habits you're building. Tap the notes button in the bottom bar.

1. + New note.
2. + New folder to keep them tidy.
3. A folder — here, "Study circle".
4. Move a note into a folder with ⇄, or just drag it.

Or type [[your title]] in any reflection to start a note.

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The note remembers where it came from

1. The title. Rename it, and every link to it updates too.
2. Linked from verses — every ayah that mentions this note. Tap one to go back to it.

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The ⋯ menu

Everything else lives behind one button.

1. Tap ⋯.
2. Jump to an ayah — or straight to a surah's map.
3. Settings.
4. Print / Save as PDF — keep a paper copy of a page.

Settings

Back it up, restore it, make it yours

1. Backup my journal — one file with your writing, notes, highlights and drawings.
2. Restore from backup — open that file on a new phone and it's all back.
3. Appearance — light or dark.
4. Credits — where the text, translations and fonts come from.

Not using sync? Make a backup now and then — your journal lives on your device.

Settings

Choose your script, translations and handwriting

Reading preferences — on the cover, or in ⚙ Settings.

1. Arabic script — IndoPak or Uthmani.
2. Two translations per language — English: Clear Quran or Ṣaḥīḥ; Urdu: Jalandhri or Junagarhi; Bangla: Muhiuddin Khan or Zohurul Hoque.
3. Page view — one page, or two side by side on a wide screen.
4. Writing font — handwriting by default, or six others.

Settings

Dark mode for night reading

Easy on the eyes after ʿIshāʾ or before Fajr. Turn it on in ⚙ Settings → Appearance, and switch back the same way.