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فَهْمُ ٱلْقُرْآنِ Understand every word.

Learn the meaning of the words of the Quran, one word at a time, with short daily reviews so you keep what you learn.

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I · Revelation

The Quran was revealed in Arabic.

Most people who recite it every day have never studied Arabic. Fahm was made for them.

Measured from the text

  • 77,429words
  • 4,964dictionary forms
  • 1,642roots

One revelation. Every word of it can be learned.

II · The Opening

Begin where every prayer begins.

سورة الفاتحة Al-Fātiḥah · 7 ayahs · 29 words

III · Word by word

Every word, lifted out of its ayah.

Like an engineer’s exploded view: each part on its own, so you can see what it means and where it fits.

Al-Fātiḥah 1:1

Translation: Saheeh International · Word meanings: Quran.com word by word

IV · The galaxy

Every word of the Quran, in orbit.

Each light is a word. The brighter it burns, the more often you will meet it.

Point at a star to read it

55%

The 100 most frequent words make up 55% of all the words in the Quran.

They are the golden core

Start with those,
and every page begins to speak.

See how it works

The method

From a single word
to a whole surah.

Four levels, each built on the one before. Every card is followed by a question, because recalling a meaning is what makes it stay.

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Level 1 · The word card

Meet the word.

The Arabic, how to say it, and its meaning in this ayah. Below it: the dictionary form, the root, and how many times it appears in the Quran.

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Level 2 · In its ayah

See it where it lives.

The same word, highlighted in the ayah it came from, with the recitation a tap away. A word learned in context is a word you will recognise in prayer.

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Level 3 · The whole ayah

Read it word by word.

Every word of the ayah with its meaning underneath, then a matching quiz: tap an Arabic word, then its meaning.

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Level 4 · The surah review

Make the surah yours.

Once you have studied every ayah, pass the review (80% or more) to complete the surah. Reviews then return at growing intervals, so what you learn stays.

Try it now

Five words of Al-Fātiḥah.
One minute.

This is how a session feels. Pick the meaning of each word as it is used in its ayah.

Word 1 of 5

Three paths

Choose how you
walk through it.

One Quran, three ways in. Each learner in the family picks their own.

Path B

Short surahs first

Al-Fatiha, then Juz ʿAmma from An-Nas backwards: the surahs you know from prayer. Good for children and beginners.

Path A

Most frequent words first

The words that appear most often, in any surah. The 100 most frequent words make up 55% of all the words in the Quran. Good for adults starting out.

Path C

In order

Al-Fatiha, then Al-Baqarah, following the order of the mushaf.

Built on how memory works

Remembered,
not just seen.

A word counts as learned once you remember it a day or more after you last saw it. Completing a lesson, streaks and points are not evidence of learning; recall is.

Recall Days review review review
Illustration of spacing: each successful recall makes the next one last longer. Fahm schedules reviews with FSRS, aiming to catch each word just before it fades.

Retrieval, not re-reading

Every word card is followed by a question. Reviews are questions, never a passive re-display.

Roediger & Karpicke, 2006

Spaced at the right moment

Reviews are scheduled by FSRS at growing intervals, targeting 90% recall: hard enough to strengthen memory.

Cepeda et al., 2006 · Ye, Su & Cao, 2022

Feedback that teaches

A mistake shows the right meaning, the word in its ayah and, where relevant, the word it is easily confused with.

Hattie & Timperley, 2007

Always in context

Every card shows a real ayah. Several meanings of one word are shown where the text uses them.

Nation, 2013

Made for families

Learn it
together.

Several learners on one device, each on their own path. A private family page, streaks, stars and crescents, and a mistakes page that turns every missed word into one tap of revision.

Where the words come from

Never generated.
Never altered.

The Quran text comes from a verified scholarly source, bundled verbatim and checked every time the app starts. Nothing in the text is produced by AI.

Quran text (Uthmani)Tanzil 1.0.2

Bundled verbatim, never normalised; SHA-256 checked at launch.

Grammar: dictionary form, root, part of speechQuranic Arabic Corpus 0.4

Bundled verbatim and checked word by word against Tanzil.

Word meanings & translationQuran.com

Word by word, and Saheeh International, matched to the text word by word.

RecitationEveryAyah

Mishary Alafasy, streamed when you tap.

Word meanings are going through scholarly review before public release, and the app says so until it is complete.

صَدَقَة جَارِيَة

Free. Forever.

Built as sadaqah jariyah, a continuing charity. No ads, no tracking, no subscriptions. Open source under the GNU GPL.

  • No adsNot now, not later.
  • Stays on your deviceProgress never leaves the phone. Export or delete any learner’s data in Settings.
  • Open sourceGNU GPL v3 or later. Anyone can read how it works.

فَهْمُ ٱلْقُرْآنِ

Begin with one word.

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