The map
Every verse on one screen — in the order of revelation, or the muṣḥaf’s.
For studying the Quran
One place to study
One place to study
the Quran.
كِتَـٰبٌ أَنزَلْنَـٰهُ إِلَيْكَ مُبَـٰرَكٌ لِّيَدَّبَّرُوٓا۟ ءَايَـٰتِهِۦ وَلِيَتَذَكَّرَ أُو۟لُوا۟ ٱلْأَلْبَـٰبِ
(This is) a Scripture that We have revealed unto thee, full of blessing, that they may ponder its revelations, and that men of understanding may reflect.
Surah Ṣād: 29 · tr. PickthallOn iPhone: tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
Inside Silah
The tools you study with.
Notes, roots, connections, structures — the things you reach for when you sit with a passage and want to understand it properly.
Grammar & iʿrāb
The naḥw of every word, and its iʿrāb, as you read.
Roots, forms & lexicons
Every root and its forms, what the classical lexicons say, and search by pattern — every فَعْلَان in one click.
Echoes — al-mathānī
كِتَـٰبًا مُّتَشَـٰبِهًا مَّثَانِىَ (39:23): the sentences, words and shapes the Book repeats, found for you.
Names of Allah
The 99 names, where they appear.
Notes that connect
Write #themes, @verses and [[roots]] — they link themselves.
Verse connections
How verses complete, contrast or light each other.
Structures
Refrains, chiasms and rings in the text.
Figures
From the person to the archetype — and where you stand.
Modern ideas, the Quran's words
Today’s idea, the Quran’s own words for it.
Study board
Pose a question to the Quran and map the answer. Your paths, open questions and roots in progress sit on one board.
Articles from researchers
Read what researchers publish in the Journal — and soon, publish your own.
The whole text at once
All 114 surahs,
All 114 surahs,
on one screen.
Lay the Book out in the order it was revealed — every surah on the Timeline — or as a circle, a grid or a spiral. Your connections are drawn across all of it, and a change of layout is sometimes when something clicks.
- See the Book in the order it was revealed — how its message unfolded over time
- Narrow the map to a theme, a tag, a connection, or to Makkī and Madanī
- See at a glance where an idea gathers in the Book, and where it’s absent
Notes
Notes that link
Notes that link
themselves.
A #hashtag becomes a theme that runs across the Quran. An @verse links to its page. A [[root]] opens its word study. You just write — the connections come with it.
- Your thoughts on one verse connect to everything else you’ve written
- Nothing you notice is lost — find it again from any verse it touches
Patience here mirrors @2:153 — the same root [[ṣabr]] opens both passages.
File under #perseverance and #trust; compare Ibn @@al-Qayyim.
Sources
Every source,
Every source,
on the verse.
Translation, tafsir, asbāb al-nuzūl, word-by-word grammar, and how different scholars read it — all sitting on the verse you're looking at, instead of scattered across ten tabs.
- Read the verse with the translations and tafsīr you trust, side by side
- Understand each word from its grammar and its root
- Learn from reviewed study packages prepared by verified teachers
Translation “O my father, indeed I have seen eleven stars…”
Tafsīr The vision of Yūsuf opens the sūrah's arc of trial and reunion.
Asbāb Context of revelation and chain noted inline.
Root ر أ ى — to see, to perceive, to behold.
Scholar Compare classical and contemporary readings.
Study Paths
Ask a question.
Ask a question.
Follow the answer.
Pose the question you actually have — why patience and prayer go together, what the Quran says the self is, how it answers grief. Then follow it through the text, stop by stop, and record what each verse adds. The answer isn't in one place; you watch it build.
- Bring the question you actually have, and let the Quran answer it
- Watch the answer build verse by verse, in your own words
- Guided paths lead you when you’re unsure where to start
Your question
Why does the Quran pair patience with prayer?
2:45 — Both are named as help to seek, together.
2:153 — The same pair, now with a promise: Allah is with the patient.
2:155–157 — Why it's needed: fear, hunger and loss will come.
Pause — what is prayer doing that patience alone can't?
103:3 — next: patience as something people urge on each other
The answer so far
Patience is enduring; prayer is turning to the One you endure for. The Quran keeps them together so that holding on is never done alone.
3 of 4 stops · your notes and links build as you go
Figures
Who the Book
Who the Book
speaks of.
Firʿawn, Qārūn, Maryam, the believer, the hypocrite — the Quran returns to them across many surahs, and each is also an archetype: power that answers to no one, wealth that forgets where it came from, devotion, faith, doubt. A figure's profile gathers what you've found, facet by facet and verse by verse, so you go past the person to the archetype — and ask where you stand next to it.
- See past the story to the kind of person it describes
- Hold each figure up against yourself — where do I stand?
- Compare two figures, and what the Book sets between them
Qārūn
قَارُون
a person · 5 entries · Al-Qaṣaṣ
Traits Given treasures whose keys would weigh down a band of strong men 28:76
Speech “I was only given it because of knowledge I have” 28:78
Actions Came out before his people in all his adornment 28:79
Fate The earth swallowed him and his home 28:81
Set against Those given knowledge, who said the reward of Allah is better 28:80
Your note · where do I stand?
The archetype: success taken as proof of one's own worth. “I was only given it because of knowledge I have” is closer to how I talk about my work than I'd like.
Themes
The word isn't there.
The word isn't there.
The thought is.
Leadership, mental health, finance — the modern word is often missing from the Quran, but the thought is not. It is there under the Quran's own words. Give the idea a theme in today's language, then find the words the Book uses for it, and the verses that carry them.
- Bring today’s questions — leadership, grief, finance — to the Book
- Find the Quran’s own words for an idea, and every verse that carries them
- Keep one note of where you’ve got to, and watch it grow
#leadership
9 verses · 6 surahs
How the Quran says it
إِمَامًا أ م م one to follow 2:124
خَلِيفَةً خ ل ف one entrusted, in succession 2:30
أُولِي الْأَمْرِ أ م ر those in authority 4:59
شُورَىٰ ش و ر deciding by consultation 42:38
Where I've got to
No single word for leadership — but between imām, khalīfa and shūrā the Quran describes it: someone followed, entrusted with what isn't theirs, and answerable to counsel.
Words and grammar
Every word, taken apart,
Every word, taken apart,
and where it falls.
Click any word to see its root, the parts it's built from and its iʿrāb; when the address turns from He to You — iltifāt — or the tense shifts, the verse is marked for you. Then search the whole Book by root, exact word or pattern, and watch the surahs that hold it light up on the map.
- Understand how each word works in its verse, not only what it means
- Find every place a word, a root or a pattern appears, in seconds
- See what the classical lexicons say about each root
Text
Root
Exact word
Form
ر ح م
313 verses · 62 of 114 surahs
Makkī
Madanī
brighter: more verses
Narrow by form
فَعِيل · رَحِيم 116
فَعْلَان · رَحْمَٰن 57
أَفْعَل · أَرْحَم 4 · superlative
Circles
Study together,
Study together,
in your own field.
Start a circle of doctors, economists, engineers or parents — people who bring the same questions to the Book. Set a reading and a pace; everyone reads and marks on their own, and the circle is where you compare what each of you noticed.
- Study with people who share your field and your questions
- Compare what each of you noticed, and grow from it
Counsellors’ halaqa
Halaqa · reading Yūsuf · a page a week · 9 members
12:86 · shared by Huda, clinical psychology
إِنَّمَآ أَشْكُوا۟ بَثِّى وَحُزْنِىٓ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ
Grief named, not hidden — and taken somewhere. What does بَثّ add to حُزْن?
Omar · psychiatry
Two verses earlier, وَٱبْيَضَّتْ عَيْنَاهُ مِنَ ٱلْحُزْنِ (12:84) — a prophet’s grief shown in his body, and no blame for it.
Two verses earlier, وَٱبْيَضَّتْ عَيْنَاهُ مِنَ ٱلْحُزْنِ (12:84) — a prophet’s grief shown in his body, and no blame for it.
Hala · family therapy
Which term in our practice of Western psychology is closest to حُزْن — sadness, grief, or depression?
Which term in our practice of Western psychology is closest to حُزْن — sadness, grief, or depression?
Sami · school counselling
Where else does حُزْن appear in the Quran, and how does Allah speak of it?
Where else does حُزْن appear in the Quran, and how does Allah speak of it?
Huda · clinical psychology
I searched the root in Silah: ح ز ن — 42 times, in 25 surahs. 13 of them are وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ.
I searched the root in Silah: ح ز ن — 42 times, in 25 surahs. 13 of them are وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ.
3 members took this into their own study
Publishing · coming soon
Research it.
Research it.
Publish it.
إِنَّ هَـٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ يَهْدِى لِلَّتِى هِىَ أَقْوَمُ (17:9) — and what is most upright reaches every field of life. Research here means taking your specialty to the Book and drawing out a way to live in the world: a model of finance where no one wrongs or is wronged, an economy where wealth circulates instead of pooling among the rich, a way to heal, to build, to teach, to raise a family.
When it's ready, publish it from Silah — every verse you cite stays a live link, so readers can check your work against the Quran itself.
- Turn what you’ve found into guidance others can use
- Readers follow the people whose work they trust
Draft · economics · 6 verses cited
Wealth that circulates: an economic model from the Quran
The principle is stated outright in 59:7, and the limit on lending in 2:279: a return without wrong on either side…
كَىْ لَا يَكُونَ دُولَةًۢ بَيْنَ ٱلْأَغْنِيَآءِ مِنكُمْ
Not published yet · publishing opens soon
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