How to use Documentation

Single/Multiple => Surahs/Verses

• Surahs:
  • To view any Surah from Alquran just double Click on the "Surah Name" from the list or select one and press the Button underneath: " Show Selected", underneath the surahs names.
  • If u need one or more translations, select the "Translation(s)" you want and do as before.
  • We can also view multiple Surahs by clicking on the choosen Surahs while holding Ctrl-key, than click on: " Show Selected".
• Verses:
  • If you need a Link to a specified Verse while viewing a whole Surah, just add a sharp sign "#" at the end of the Url-Adresse and the Verse number.
    Example: ..index.php?sel_sura=2,&trans=Quran,khalifa#2:110"
  • If you click on the Number of any verse (e.g. 1:6), it will show you only this verse with a Root explanation (see Roots meaning) of every word in this verse
    Example: ..index.php?trans=Quran&rootvers=1:6&srchT=Quran
  • Here you can click on the Word/Root to view all verses of this Root with all Shapes, or on a single Root/Shape to view verses that have same shape.
  • Over the Single-Verse-View you also see all Verses-Numbers from same Surah. You can click the right/left arrows to show next or previous Verse or click on the x-icon to view the whole surah to this specific verse. This one is useful if you want to read verses before and after!
  • When you set your mouse cursor on any verse number you will see something like e.g. (sn: 295 , 297) 3:2, which means: From the begining of the quran 1:1 till verse 3:2 there are 295 verses without counting Basmalas and 297 with counting Basmalas
• Root - Under every root you see the word "Description" and beside it 3 icons, than you see a Number:
1. icon: is an Arabic Lexicon Explanation to this root
2. icon: is the English Explanation and the derivation of the root
3. icon: is same as before in German Language
4. The Number shows the Verses-Count of this root. Clicking it shows all verses which can be viewed individually
   

How to Search

To search in one of the offered translations, click on the upper right side of the search menu ( Search in: Quran) underneath search-button to choose you search table!

• Whole Quran: Search in the whole Quran: Check radio button "whole Quran"!
  Note: If you click the word "Quran" underneath the search-input you can choose another Table/Translation
• Only selected Surahs: Search in selected Surah/'s: Check the radion button "Only selected Surahs"! On desktop computers, hold your Ctrl-key pressed and select the Surahs you would like to search in.
  Note: If you click Icone underneath you'll finde different selection options (Initials, uninitials, meccan, medinan etc. Surahs)
• In Content: If we search for something and we want to search in these results for a second phrase, we check the "In Content" and type our second phrase and click search again.
• Roots: Search in Roots:Check radio button "Root" to find all words which have same root. Only in arabic for now! (Roots are explained in 3 languages arabic "ar", english "en" and german "de").
• Multiple Verses: In AlQuran we can view single or different multiple verses!
  To do that, check the radio button "Multiple Verses". A small box will appear underneath! Now type in the box similar to the following examples:
  Note: You can also simultaneously search in these verses of your choice!
  • 2 {view Surah 2}
  • 1-9 {view Surahs 1 to 9}
  • 1:2 3:5 5:7 {view these 3 different verses}
  • 2:1-7 {view verse 1 to 7 from surah 2}
  • 1 2:1-19 {view Surah 1 whole and from Surah 2 the verses 1 to 19}
  • 1:1-3,5,7 {view from surah 1 the verse 1 to 3, 5 and 7}
  • init {will get all initialed Surahs, such as: الم, ص, طس, يس, etc.}
  • uninit {will get all Surahs which has no initials}
  • الم {will get the Surah which has the specified initial} Here we choosed (الم) as example. But you can choose any other initial, such as: الم, ص, طس, يس, etc.
    
    Note: In the "desktop version" of alquran you can Right-Click on the textarea to view all Initials.
  • Note: In the "E-Search" seaction you can build different sequinces by using the Multiple Verses Extension.
• Analyze: If this checkbox is checked our program will analyze your search and view results as calculations.
  All results will be divided through the number 19. This number ist beside the checkbox "Analyze" and can be changed to any other number you choose.
  
• Autocomplete in the search box works only for arabic/quranic search! It should help/show us the right term of the quranic words and find exact results.
• RegEx Hints: If we need to find all shapes of a word, we write the root of it and double click it. A popup hint will apear showing us a Regular Expression. If we choose to click it, it will show us all forms of this root.

Tools

Selection Menu is especially made to select initial Surahs (The 29 chapters which begin with initials such as ALM, Q, TH etc.). You can keep Multi Selection checked, if you want to get multiple selections!

Show text only, in case you need to copy the text without the verse numbers or links

Copy Short Version of the Url-Adresse: You can surely copy the whole Url from Adress bar of your Browser. But sometimes url-adreses get bigger and it would be easier to have a short version of them. This way you prevent any error showing wrong character signs too.

User Database, Alquran.eu uses indexedDB (check your browser storage, e.g. Chrome) to let users collect the important results they've done during their session and save them as links. This way we won't miss any study wherever we are. You can edit, delete any entry from your list or add a new one. We amphasize that all your data can only be seen and edited by you alone!
Note:: You can also click your Avatar image in the upper left menu () to move to database!
Use:
     1. When you have your search results click on your avatar image or the database button,
     2. Add some explanation,
     3. Save the link!
Thats it ;)

The Gematrical Values are numerical values of the arabic letters as they used to be in ancient Arabia before the switch to numbers system (What are abjad gematrical values?).
Use: Select any phrase from the Quran and click on "Gematrical Value" from left-upper Menu oder right-click Menu. You can also add any arabic text to get its value in number ;)

The Calc - is a Big-Number-Calculator made to check if the Number we have is divisible with any specific numbers from the Quran or the one we give.
Use: Select any Number and click on "Calc" from left-upper Menu or Right-Click Menu

Add Selected: Sometimes we need to collect different verses or phrases from different spots, but browsers don't allow it at once. This method lets you collect multiple texts to your Clipboard, and with the second button,

Show multiple selections you can view them all and cleare Clipboard for new selections or Cancel to continue collecting.

Note: If your Clipboard has external content in it, a small banner (only in Firefox) will appear: "Paste", then you should click on "Show Multiple Selections" then on "Clear Clipboard".
Google Chrome will first ask for permission to copy!

Hidden Functions

Note: Please check our new Tools (E-Search), which simplify these and other function in alquran.eu

• runGV Add this function in your URL-adress while searching or viewing verses to get the Gematrical Value of the results:
  ...?multVerses=38:1&searchOption=multi&trans=Quran&runGV Note: If you add a value for the runGV function (only arabic), than you get the GV of it.
  See example: ...?runGV=الله
• total=Nr: Means number equal to: We can find verses which have a total number of our searched word/letter. E.g. we search for verses which have 1 letter ب.
  See example:
  ...?searchText=ب&searchOption=whole&divNum=19&total=1
• total=0: Means empty of search: We can also find verses which have a total of 0 of our searched word/letter. E.g. we search for verses which have NO letter س.
  See example:
  ...?searchText=س&searchOption=whole&divNum=19&total=0
• total=bNr: Means number bigger than: The count of the searched word/letter should be BIGGER than our given number. E.g. we search for verses which have more than 8 ب. It views verses with 9, 10, 11 etc counts.
  See example:
  ...?searchText=ب&searchOption=whole&divNum=19&total=b8
• total=sNr: Means number smaller than: The count of the searchedword/letter should be SMALLER than our given number. E.g. we search for verses which have less than 3 ب. It views verses with 2 or 1 counts only.
  See example:
  ...?searchText=ب&searchOption=whole&divNum=19&total=s3
• view=all: Means all what we search for must be in the verse: E.g. we search for verses which have ال and ص and كت  
  See example:
  ...?searchText=ال,ص,كت&searchOption=whole&divNum=19&view=all
• view=non: Means all what we search are NOT in: It's actually the same as function (total=0), E.g. we search for verses which have No ي or س.
  See example:
  ...?searchText=ي,س&searchOption=whole&divNum=19&view=non
• ispace=true or 1: Means removing Space: This function as the name says ignores the white-space. E.g. we search for verses which have يس in one word or in two words, like in على سفر.
  Note: : The letters in searchText are seprated with comma , !
  See example:
  ...?searchText=ي,س&searchOption=whole&divNum=19&ispace=1
  The function is the same as searching with RegEx! The difference is, we use a [ ]* for the searchText instead of using ispace function:
  ...?searchText=ي[ ]*س&searchOption=whole&divNum=19
• Gematria: The function looks for any of the selected options if the Gematrical Value (GV) is equal to the given value OR the GV is divisible by given Value (in the whole Quran or in the selected Surahs if "Only Selected Suhras" is checked). We have 4 options hier:
  
  1. Serial: The Serial number of the verses, from 1 to 6234
  2. Serial+B: The Serial number + Basmalah, from 1 to 6346
  3. Verses: Any GV of a verse which have same value as given
  4. Words: Any GV of a word which have same value as given

  E.g. We look for verse whose GV is divisible by 114

  ...?searchText=&multVerses=&searchOption=multi&gvData=vers,114,1&analyze=0

  Note: By the 3 options (Serial, Serial+B and Verses not Words) we can also search simultaneously within the results, when we type something in the search box!

• Mutiple Verses Extension: Normally, we have the Multiple Verses option in the search menu (see above: How to search). And there are many variations of verse representations and sequences, which we want to facilitate with this extension. The Multiple Verses Extension is divided into four parts:

  1. Writes the first verse and/or the last verse of each sura, initialized sura, or uninitialized sura.
  2. Writes specific verse numbers up to the verse number of each sura. Only Matches: Write only if the selected verse number exists.
  3. Serial no.: Quranic verses have a serial number from 1 to 6234. They are numbered verses. Therefore, basmalas are not counted. Count++: Takes the number you enter and adds it to itself: 3, 6, 9, 12, etc.
  4. Serial+B no.: Here, basmalas are counted, giving us 1 to 6346 verses. Count++: As explained previously. Add Basmalah: The Basmala is written down as number 1.
  
  

  Note: The results are sent directly to Search_Menu/Multiple_Verses, where you can view or analyze them, or search for a specific term.

• Notifications: Press Alt+J to see Notes. You can add ..&viewNote to view any Notification or ..&viewNote=7 to view Notification number 7 (The number is on the down/left side of the Notification window).

Transliterations & Case Sensitive

Transliterations are only needed if the user is searching for the exact form of an arabic letter.
E.g. ( أ ) Alif with Hamza above is one form of the groupe of Alif letter or ( إ ) is another form

If "Non-Transliteration" is checked, in this case our software will search for:

• all forms of Alif including Hamza { أ إ ا, ء آ }
• all forms of Waw { و ؤ }
• all forms of Yaa { ي ى ئ }
• all forms of Haa { ـة ـه }

If "Case Sensitive" is checked, Alquran will differentiate between mentioned Forms and search only for the specific form

What are Roots?

Arabic Roots Search and Dictionary, containing a list with all roots and their belonging verses and a Link to the online Lane’s Lexicon AR-EN Dictionary. These can also be downloaded for Free.

If you speak a European language, the root system of Arabic may be an unfamiliar concept. Arabic words are made from a few component letters, commonly called a “root”. A root usually consists of three letters (sometimes 2 or 4), which convey a basic idea. By adding various vowels (i.e. changing pronunciation) as affixes*, associated meanings can be derived.
For example, the Arabic letters: Siin–Lam–Miim (see above: س ل م and please remember that Arabic language goes from right to left, unlike languages with latin characters) are the root for the following words:
- salaam (peace),
- islam (submission/compliance/conformance/surrender),
- muslim (one who submits/complies/conforms/surrenders).
In all these words, you will see the root (component letters) are the same, and in the same order, i.e. Siin-Lam-Miim.

In a root based language, words mean what they mean because they are built from other words; these base words are called roots. Now, while most languages are concept languages, there are some words that can be likened to the root system, e.g: if you learn what the word “act” means, you should have no problem when you hear the word “actor” or “action” - you use the root to understand the word built from it.

Classical Arabic as one of the most primitive Semitic languages is primarily a root based language. Almost every word gets its meaning from the roots it is built from rather than by associating a concept with the word. This gives Arabic an almost crystal clear aspect to it; there is little ambiguity or confusion in a classical Arabic sentence. The language is one of clarity, directness, and certainty - qualities that are hard to achieve in other languages.

What are abjad gematrical values (GV)?

The Arabic gematrical system, known as abjad, assigns numerical values to each letter of the alphabet, ranging from ا (1) to غ (1000) (See image), so that any word or phrase can be converted into a number by adding its letters together. Before the invention and spread of modern Hindu–Arabic numerals (0–9), abjad-system was widely used in daily life for counting, record-keeping, and calculations, and it also served in poetry to encode dates and in mysticism to attach symbolic meaning to words, for example the name “Allah” has the value 66 (1+30+30+5).
Click the image to see the values!

What are Serial Counts?

Every verse shown in alquran.eu app has a number on its side: 74:30, which means it's a verse nr. 30 from chapter 74.
If you go with the mouse on this number, you'll see something like: 74:30 (sn: 5523 - 5595), which means:

• Serial:
5523 is the count from verse 1:1 to 74:30 without Basmalas
• Serial+B:
5595 is the count from verse 1:1 to 74:30 with Basmalas

Settings

• Choose your avatar (Clicking on your Avatar-image in the upper menu allows you to save results: See Explanation: User Database)
• Change the interface language Supports 19 international languages
• Choose a different style/look for alquran
  
• Change the font-size, line-height and color of the quranic words
• The four Button are to hide/show single menu window , in case you dont need or use one of them
• To reduce menu size you can hide the title of all menus

Desktop Version

• Left Upper Menu on the upper/left side is Fixed, so it's always reachable for you and has most common comands.
• Right-Click-Menu: A right mouse button click over the left content shows a menu with some important tools.
• Right-Click-Surah-Menu: A right mouse button click over the Surahs shows a small menu with 2 commands.

  1. Show Selected Surahs - Normal Mode
  2. Show Selected Surahs - Analyze Mode

• Right-Click-Multiple-Menu: A right mouse button click over the Multiple Verses Section shows multiple arrangements to choose from (e.g. first or last verses of every Surah, initials etc.)
• Note: On Mobiles/Tablets: Use 2-Fingers-Click on Screen to view all menus
• Shortcuts: for Alquran app
  • Alt+A (Select all: text/results)
  • Alt+C (Copy selected: directly to search and run)
  • Alt+G (Gematrical Value: selected OR results text as Gematrical Value)
  • Alt+F (Tree of life: Show a graphical diagram of all results - search or root results)
  • Alt+K (Calc: Sends the selected Number To Calculation OR selected Quran Word/Text will be transformed to Gematrical Value und sent to Calculation)
  • Alt+U (Indexed DB: Save result to indexed Database)
  • Alt+M (Main Menu: Hide/Show)
  • Alt+O (Serial Counts: of search results)
  • Alt+J (Notifications: Still under constructions)