About Taahad

What this site covers

Everything a Muslim in the UAE needs in one place: the full Quran in the Uthmani script with tafsir, translation, transliteration and recitation; prayer times for thirty locations across all seven emirates; a day-by-day Ramadan timetable; Qibla bearings; the Hijri calendar; and a zakat calculator in dirhams.

Every page is readable without an account and without advertising. Arabic is the original language of the site and is served from the root; English lives under /en.

Sources

Quranic text in the Uthmani script; Tafsir al-Muyassar from the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran; the English translation by Saheeh International; recitation by Shaykh Mishary Rashid Alafasy.

Ayah text is never altered and its vocalisation is never normalised. The text is checked automatically on every update to confirm that no surah or ayah is missing or damaged.

How prayer times are calculated

Times use the method of the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department in Dubai — the standard across the UAE — with the Shafi‘i position for Asr.

The computed table is reconciled against 150 days of the official table published by the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowments, spread across the seasons, and that check is re-run on every data update.

Where the calculation differed from the official table by a minute or two for Fajr, Asr or Maghrib, the cautious side was taken: no time is ever published earlier than the Awqaf one for those three prayers, because early is the unsafe direction — Fajr before dawn, Asr before its time, or a Maghrib that breaks a fast before sunset.

Iqama times use the published Awqaf offsets. They vary from mosque to mosque, and the pages say so.

Qibla and the Hijri calendar

The Qibla bearing is pure computation: the shortest great-circle path from the city to the Kaaba. It is given from true north, not magnetic north, and every page states this, because a phone compass points to magnetic north.

Date conversion uses the Umm al-Qura calendar, round-trip tested across more than thirteen thousand days without a single mismatch. Umm al-Qura is calculated; the start of Ramadan and both Eids in the UAE are set by moon sighting through the official committee, and can fall a day either side.

Zakat is a calculator, not a fatwa

The calculator derives nisab from the current gold and silver price, converted to dirhams at the peg that has held since 1997. Both the gold and the silver nisab are shown, because scholars differ on which to use and the difference can decide whether zakat is due at all.

The site issues no rulings and takes no side. For specific cases — zakat on end-of-service gratuity, property, shares or deferred debts — refer to the UAE Council for Fatwa, or the official Awqaf fatwa line on 800 2422.

The Taahad Quran app

Alongside the site, the Taahad Quran app lets you read the Quran while it counts the letters you recite and the reward earned, and share that with the people around you. It is free on iOS and Android.

Found a mistake?

If a time, a number or a letter is wrong, tell us. Correcting an error in a prayer time or in the text of an ayah matters more to us than any new feature.