Credits & copyright
Credits, licences and copyright
Sukon is built with care for other people’s work. This page lists every outside source we use, its owner and the licence or terms we use it under — including all 42 Quran translations and all 38 reciters. Last updated 20 October 2026.
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Outside sources we use
| What | Source and owner | Licence or terms |
|---|---|---|
| Quran Arabic text (Uthmani) | Tanzil Project | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, used without changes, with a link back to Tanzil |
| Quran translations in 43 languages | The translators and publishers listed in the table below | Shown free, unchanged and never sold, with the translator named on screen. Rights stay with the translators and publishers. Streamed from public Quran data services under their published terms |
| Read-aloud translation audio | Your own device’s text-to-speech voice | Generated on your device; nothing is recorded or stored |
| Sukon AI | Sukon’s own AI service, run in the Asia-Pacific region | Answers are AI-generated and may contain mistakes; questions are not used to train the model |
| English translation of the Quran | Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872–1953) | Original translation; public domain in India |
| Quran audio | 38 Arabic reciters (including Alafasy, Abdul Basit, Al-Husary, Al-Minshawi, As-Sudais, Ash-Shuraym and Maher Al-Muaiqly) and translation audio in Urdu, English, French, Turkish, Persian, Russian, Chinese, Kazakh and Uzbek | Free for everyone on Sukon. Streamed from the provider, never copied or sold. Rights stay with the reciters and publishers |
| Makkah and Madinah live | Saudi Broadcasting Authority (Saudi Quran TV and Saudi Sunnah TV) in the broadcaster’s official player | Shown only in the broadcaster’s official embedded player, under its terms. Sukon is not affiliated with the broadcaster |
| City list for place search (Qibla and world prayer times) | GeoNames — cities with 15,000+ people, with time zones. Stored on Sukon’s own server; searches run on your device | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
| Fonts | Fraunces, Inter and Amiri (Arabic, used in the Quran eBooks) | SIL Open Font License 1.1 — free to use, embed and self-host |
| 1,034 free eBooks | 8 guides written by Sukon (© INDO CHATS PRIVATE LIMITED); 1,026 surah eBooks built from the Tanzil Arabic text and the nine translations named on each eBook | Sukon guides: free to read, print and share for non-commercial use with credit. Surah eBooks: Tanzil text under CC BY 3.0 with credit; each translation stays with its translator and publisher and is shared free |
| Prayer time and Hijri calculations | Standard published astronomical formulas; calculation methods of the Muslim World League, ISNA, Umm al-Qura, Egyptian General Authority, University of Islamic Sciences Karachi, Diyanet and others | Methods are named for reference only. Sukon’s code is our own |
| Map links | Map view (opens in a new tab) | Map provider’s terms apply |
The 42 Quran translations
| # | Language | Translator or publisher | How we use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Abdullah Yusuf Ali | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 2 | Hindi | Suhel Farooq Khan & Saifur Rahman Nadwi | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 3 | Bengali | Muhiuddin Khan | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 4 | Urdu | Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 5 | Telugu | Abder-Rahim ibn Muhammad | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 6 | Marathi | Muhammad Shafi’i Ansari | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 7 | Tamil | Jan Trust Foundation | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 8 | Gujarati | Rabila Al-Umry | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 9 | Kannada | Muhammad Hamza Battur | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 10 | Malayalam | Abdul Hameed & Kunhi Mohammed | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 11 | Pashto | Abdul Wali | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 12 | Persian | Mohammad Mahdi Fooladvand | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 13 | Bahasa Indonesia | Kementerian Agama (Ministry of Religious Affairs, Indonesia) | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 14 | Tagalog | Dar Al-Salam Center | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 15 | Spanish | Julio Cortés | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 16 | Portuguese | Samir El-Hayek | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 17 | English (second) | Saheeh International | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 18 | French | Muhammad Hamidullah | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 19 | German | Bubenheim & Elyas | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 20 | Turkish | Diyanet İşleri | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 21 | Russian | Elmir Kuliev | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 22 | Chinese | Ma Jian | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 23 | Malay | Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 24 | Swahili | Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 25 | Hausa | Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 26 | Somali | Mahmud Muhammad Abduh | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 27 | Azerbaijani | Mammadaliyev & Bunyadov | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 28 | Bosnian | Besim Korkut | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 29 | Albanian | Sherif Ahmeti | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 30 | Italian | Hamza Roberto Piccardo | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 31 | Dutch | Sofian Siregar | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 32 | Japanese | Japanese translation (translator as credited by the publishing source) | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 33 | Korean | Korean translation (translator as credited by the publishing source) | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 34 | Thai | King Fahad Quran Complex | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 35 | Uzbek | Muhammad Sodik Muhammad Yusuf | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 36 | Sindhi | Taj Mehmood Amroti | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 37 | Kurdish | Burhan Muhammad-Amin | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 38 | Dhivehi | Office of the President of Maldives | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 39 | Amharic | Sadiq & Sani Habib | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 40 | Tajik | AbdolMohammad Ayati | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 41 | Uyghur | Muhammad Saleh | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
| 42 | Sinhala | Naseem Ismail & Kaleel | Attribution shown on screen; free, unchanged, never sold |
The 38 Arabic reciters
| # | Reciter | What | How we use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mishary Rashid Alafasy | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 2 | Abdul Basit Abdus Samad (Murattal) | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 3 | Abdul Basit Abdus Samad (Mujawwad) | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 4 | Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husary | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 5 | Al-Husary (Mujawwad) | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 6 | Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 7 | Al-Minshawi (Mujawwad) | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 8 | Abdur-Rahman As-Sudais | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 9 | Saud Ash-Shuraym | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 10 | Maher Al-Muaiqly | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 11 | Abu Bakr Ash-Shaatree | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 12 | Ahmed Al-Ajamy | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 13 | Ali Al-Hudhaify | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 14 | Muhammad Ayyoub | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 15 | Muhammad Jibreel | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 16 | Abdullah Basfar | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 17 | Hani Ar-Rifai | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 18 | Ibrahim Al-Akhdar | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 19 | Ayman Suwayd | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 20 | Shahriar Parhizgar | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 21 | Saad Al-Ghamdi | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 22 | Yasser Ad-Dossary | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 23 | Nasser Al-Qatami | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 24 | Abdullah Awad Al-Juhany | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 25 | Fares Abbad | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 26 | Khalid Al-Qahtani | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 27 | Salah Bukhatir | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 28 | Mohammad Al-Tablawi | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 29 | Ali Jaber | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 30 | Abdullah Matroud | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 31 | Mustafa Ismail | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 32 | Hani Ar-Rifai (HD) | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 33 | Muhsin Al-Qasim | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 34 | Akram Al-Alaqimy | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 35 | Ahmed Neana | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 36 | Mahmoud Ali Al-Banna | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 37 | Al-Minshawi (teaching, with children) | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
| 38 | Abdur-Rahman As-Sudais (HD) | Recitation audio | Streamed from the public audio library, never copied or sold; rights stay with the reciter and publisher |
Translation audio is also offered in Urdu (Shamshad Ali Khan), English (Ibrahim Walk, Saheeh International), French (Youssouf Leclerc), Persian (Fooladvand, read by Hedayatfar) and Chinese, on the same terms.
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