How we source
Every card in MuslimGrow shows where it comes from. This page says what is quoted and what is ours, where the texts come from, and how a card is checked before you see it.
What is quoted, and what is ours
The text itself. The Qurʾān's Arabic and the Arabic of a hadith are taken from published sources exactly as they have them. We never type, change or shorten them, and a verse's English is a named edition, shown with its name. A recitation is always a human reciter's recording.
In our words. Where a card puts a text's meaning in our own words (a hadith's English, a duʿāʾ's meaning, a Name's meaning, the story of a friend of God), it is a rendering of the meaning, never the source's own words and never a translation: Go deeper heads it Meaning, and a link you share says meaning summarised beside the source. Some English translations of the hadith are not freely licensed, which is why a hadith's English here is in our words.
Reflections and lessons. A line that draws a lesson from a text is marked as a reflection, and a lesson, a pause or an intention is our own words: its heading says so.
Where the texts come from
The Qurʾān. The Arabic is taken, unchanged, from openly licensed texts (Tanzil's, and DigitalKhatt's script for the recitation player), and the recitation timings are from Quranic Universal Audio. The English beside a verse is Marmaduke Pickthall's The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), which is in the public domain. Recitations are by human reciters; each is credited in the app.
The hadith. The Arabic of the nine collections is taken from the hadith-api project and shown with its collection and number. Before a hadith ships, its Arabic is compared with a second, independent source (digitised printed editions), and a set of pages was read against the printed books.
The Names of God, and the friends of God. A Name's transliteration, short meaning and root come from our own table, worked from the Arabic. The friends of God are told from public-domain English works (R. A. Nicholson's 1911 translation of al-Hujwīrī's Kashf al-Maḥjūb among them), each named on its card.
Every source, with its licence and the credit it asks for, is in the app: Garden → Settings → Sources and licences.
How a card is checked
Our own words are drafted by software from a source in our library, and are checked before anything is shown:
- Automated checks that the sacred text is quoted untouched, that no reading is credited to authorities the source doesn't name, and that nothing reads as a ruling or as pressure.
- Two separate review passes that score each card from 1 to 5 on faithfulness to its source, on being presented as our rendering and never as the source's words, on staying clear of rulings, and on tone. A card that falls short on any point is not shown. A hadith, or anything resting on one, must score the top mark from both.
- Corrections. Every report is read. A card that is wrong is corrected or withdrawn, and the fix reaches every phone with its next content update.
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If something is wrong
Tell us: support@muslimgrow.com, or Garden → Settings → Send feedback, which attaches the card you were on. A card we withdraw leaves every phone with its next content update, not its next app release.
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