Joyful Muslims Audiobooks

Islamic classics, finally read

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The great works of Islam, finally made for everyday life. al-Ghazali, Ibn Kathir, Ibn al-Qayyim — and the Qur’an, free for everyone. Listen. Read. Study. Begin. The books you always meant to read—al-Ghazali, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Battuta—finally in your ears. Not another someday. Begin the Ihya’ on the drive home. Sit with the lives of the righteous while the dishes soak. Walk with Ibn Battuta on your evening walk. The heritage you revere but never had time to enter can now move with you—one chapter at a time. THE QUR’AN — FREE, AND ALWAYS WILL BE All 114 surahs, recited by Mahmud Khalil al-Husari: forty-two hours of tilawah, open to everyone, outside the monthly listening limit, and free to download for offline listening. Follow the recitation ayah by ayah. Turn on tajwid colours in the scheme students know. Read the meaning in English, Bahasa Indonesia, Türkçe, or Urdu. Or open the full-screen mushaf, with fifteen lines to the page and the original line and page breaks, and memorise from it. It is not ours to sell. PRAYER, WHEREVER YOU STAND Prayer times for where you are. The qiblah. The adhan. Reminders prayer by prayer. Mosques near you. And something only an app that combines listening and prayer can do: when prayer enters, your listening can stop automatically. THE GREAT WORKS — OPEN TO EVERYONE A growing library of the classical works that shaped Islamic thought: • Ihya’ Ulum al-Din — al-Ghazali’s forty-book map of the human heart • Al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya — Ibn Kathir on creation, the prophets, history, and the Last Day • Stories of the Prophets — the prophetic lives, told in full • Ibn Battuta’s Travels — 30 years across the Muslim world • Siyar A’lam an-Nubala’ — adh-Dhahabi’s lives of the eminent • Tafsir Ibn Kathir — the classical commentary, surah by surah And more added weekly. Everyone gets the library. The only difference is how long you can listen. TRANSLATED FRESH. Many of these masterworks exist in English only as dense, expensive, multi-volume academic translations—the kind that belong on a shelf, but rarely make it into a life. We wanted something different. • From the source — rendered from the public-domain classical Arabic of Al-Maktaba Al-Shamila • Edited by hand — drafted with AI assistance, then edited by people who care about getting the meaning right • Clear, natural English — follow the meaning, not fight the language • Five tongues — English, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Türkçe, and Urdu editions, growing book by book FROM LISTENING TO TRULY STUDYING Joyful Muslims is not only an audiobook player. • Living Manuscript — the complete text moves in sync with the audio • Masterclasses — study each classic chapter by chapter, guided • JM Scholar — ask about any passage; answers draw on classical sources, identify the AI used, and defer fatwa to qualified scholars • The Lantern — set an intention, receive the day’s lesson, and reflect on one question at night • The Hifz Room — carry ayat into memory through five classical steps, guided by voice • Hear It Twice — hear each paragraph first in the author’s Arabic, then in your own (beta) • CarPlay, Apple Watch, Lock Screen & Home Screen widgets • Variable speed, sleep timer, offline downloads, and Nasheed Mixer • Moments — turn a passage you love into a short video • A calm, ad-free design in two editions: silver on black by night, cream and ink by day ONE LIBRARY. OPEN TO ALL No locked shelf. No early-access tier. Knowledge should not sit behind a velvet rope. FREE 5 hours of listening every month across the entire library. JOYFUL+ $6.99/month or $59.99/year Unlimited listening, plus Study, Living Manuscript, Light Mode, Watch, widgets, and offline downloads. And the Qur’an stands outside all of it. Free for everyone. On every plan. Forever. Joyful+ is billed to your App Store account and renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://joyfulmuslims.com/privacy

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Version 3.0 · Nūr THE QUR'AN IS HERE — AND IT IS FREE. All 114 surahs, recited by Maḥmūd Khalīl al-Ḥuṣarī. Forty-two hours of tilāwah, open to everyone, exempt from the monthly listening limit, and yours to download for offline listening at no cost. It is not ours to sell. • Follow the recitation ayah by ayah — or tap any ayah to go there. • Tajwīd colours you can switch on, in the scheme students already know. • A pronunciation line beneath the Arabic, for anyone still learning the letters. • The full-screen page: fifteen lines to the leaf, following the muṣḥaf's own line and page breaks — the surface memorisation actually uses. • Keep an ayah for ḥifẓ and it joins your practice deck. • Read the meaning in English, Bahasa Indonesia, Türkçe or اردو. • The scholars on this surah — step from an ayah straight into the passage where al-Ghazālī or Ibn Kathīr sits with it. THE ḤIFẒ ROOM Carry āyāt by heart. The room walks you through the five classical steps — hear it, repeat it aloud, cover it, join it to what came before, then set its return — with a voice that reads each line before you say it back. Keep any āyah from the muṣḥaf and it is waiting here. THE LANTERN 2.0 One flame, one day. Set your intention in the morning, take the lesson it opens, answer one question at night — and the day is kept. Nothing here can be marked done by hand: a day counts because you did the work, never because you tapped a box. THE STUDENT'S DESK Every thread you started, waiting where you left it — your book, your course, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, both doors of the muṣḥaf, and the adhkār of this hour. It tells you where you are, never a percentage. The Qur'ān is not a bar to fill. HEAR IT IN ARABIC, THEN IN YOUR OWN — BETA A new way to listen: each paragraph read first in the author's own Arabic, then in your language. Your ear meets the original while the meaning follows a breath behind. Live on a growing set of works. READ IN THE LIGHT. LISTEN IN THE DARK. A complete light edition — cream and ink, for reading by day. Settings › Appearance (Joyful+). FIVE TONGUES Books now carry English, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Türkçe and Urdu editions, with more as each is finished. TAFSĪR IBN KATHĪR The first volume — Sūrat al-Fātiḥah — with a Masterclass of its own, and a door to it from the sūrah itself. PRAYER TIMES & QIBLAH The times for where you actually stand, the direction to face, and the adhān itself — with the calculation method in plain sight, reminders you set prayer by prayer, a directory of mosques near you, and widgets for your home screen and your wrist. Calculated times, shown as calculated times: never handed to you as a ruling. AND THE ONE THING ONLY AN APP THAT IS BOTH CAN DO A prayer app knows the time but cannot touch your audio. An audiobook app owns the audio but never knows a prayer came in. This one is both — so switch it on, and the listening simply stops when the prayer enters. No banner, no decision, no reaching for pause. Off until you ask for it. IN THE CAR, ON THE WRIST CarPlay puts Continue, your Library and the Qur'ān on the dashboard — listening only, nothing to buy or sign into while you drive. Apple Watch carries the prayer times, the qiblah, a tasbīḥ counter and tonight's question (Joyful+). Also new: The Open Book, a home-screen widget that sets one passage a day from a book on your shelf; a larger Ḥifẓ widget that can filter your deck to Qur'ān or to study; and the usual quiet repairs. The next masterwork we record is chosen by your votes — the door is always open.

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Seller
  • Ahmed El Shahhat
Size
  • 130.7 MB
Category
  • Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
  • Apple Watch
    Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
4+
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