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The Quran map

114 surahs, 30 ajza', 6,236 verses – and at a glance you see what sits firmly, what is wobbling and what is hard for you. The map is not a progress bar that only grows. It is an honest mirror of your memory: it turns green when you review and fades when you leave a verse alone for too long.

114
surahs as boxes
30
ajza' at a glance
6,236
verses, each visible

How to read your map

Every box is a surah. Its colour is the average of all verses you have already learned in that surah. If a surah is only partly learned, its box is drawn lighter. Tap a box and the surah opens verse by verse.

Green – firm

You reviewed these verses in time, your memory holds them securely.

Nothing to do – the platform brings them back just before they would fade.

Gold – wobbling

Your last review was a while ago. You still know the verses, but no longer effortlessly.

Review today or tomorrow. One pass in memorise mode is usually enough.

Red – difficult

Either not reviewed for a long time or you often slipped here. Mistakes in tests, lessons and reviews all count.

These first: open them with the Shams Method, use the memory hooks and the backward build-up.

Grey – not learned yet

There is still a journey ahead. Grey is not a failing, it is an invitation.

If your plan says so: learn next. The short surahs at the end of the Quran are a good start.

How the map knows what you know

01 · Surahs

114 boxes – from long Al-Baqarah to short An-Nas. The fastest overview of your whole Quran.

02 · Ajza'

30 boxes for the 30 parts. Ideal for hifz plans that think in juz, and for khatm planning.

03 · Verses

Tap a surah: every verse becomes its own box. One tap opens it for review or for new learning.

Behind every learned verse sits a small memory model. It remembers when you last reviewed the verse, at what interval it should come back and how often you slipped on it.

  • Interval: after first learning, a verse returns the next day, then after three days, a week, two weeks, a month and longer. Every successful review stretches the interval.
  • Fading: the further a verse is past its interval, the lower its estimated strength – green turns gold, gold turns red. Just like real memory.
  • Ease: verses that come easily get longer intervals. Verses you slip on come back more often. Every mistake lowers the ease and also counts as a penalty on the map.
  • In sync: with your account the map is the same on every device – learned on your phone, seen on your laptop.

The map is an estimate, not a verdict. Whether a verse truly sits is shown in the end only by reciting it – ideally to someone who can correct you.

What you do with the map

01

Mornings: red first

Before you learn anything new, bring back the red boxes. Five minutes of review save more than twenty minutes of relearning.

02

Before prayer

Short surahs marked gold are perfect for salah: reciting them is reviewing them – and the map turns greener.

03

With your teacher

Show your teacher or parents the map. In seconds they see where to listen to you.

04

For Ramadan

Want to know a juz securely by Ramadan? Switch to the juz view and work from red to green.

Questions about the map

Why does a green box turn gold although I did nothing wrong?+

Because memory fades without review. The map does not show what you once learned, but what you probably still know securely today. One review makes it green again – and the next interval gets longer.

I see an example map – is that my progress?+

No. As long as you are not signed in or have not learned a verse yet, we show a clearly marked example so you can see what it will look like. As soon as you learn your first verse, your own map appears.

Does listening count?+

Listening is the first step of the Shams Method, but a verse appears on the map only once you have learned and recalled it – in the Shams coach, a lesson, a test or review mode.

What if I already knew the surah by heart?+

Open it in memorise mode, recite each verse from memory and rate it “Easy”. It appears on the map immediately, jumps ahead in the schedule and comes back at long intervals so it stays secure.

Can others see my map?+

No. Your map belongs to you. It is transferred encrypted with your account and never shown publicly.

Every green box is a piece of the Quran in your heart.

Start today with a single verse. Tomorrow you will see it on your map – and in a year a whole landscape.

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