The Beloved — Salawat

A library of more than two hundred salawat — the prayers upon the Prophet — and of the great odes written in his honour, from one land to another: one hundred and seventy-four poems, one hundred and thirty-eight of them given in full, nearly five thousand verses translated. EVERY PRAYER IN FULL, AT A SINGLE GLANCE The reading screen is split in two: fully vocalised Arabic above, its translation below. Both stay visible together. A transliteration for those who do not read Arabic. English or French, chosen in the settings. THE GREAT COLLECTIONS The Ibrahimiyya prayer taught by the Prophet, Salat al-Fatih, the Nariyya, the Munjiyya, the Mashishiyya, Jawharat al-Kamal, the 'Azimiyya, the formulas of the Dala'il al-Khayrat, and al-Busiri's Burda in full, its ten chapters and one hundred and sixty-two verses, presented verse by verse. THE POEMS, FROM ONE LAND TO ANOTHER The odes of praise written from Senegal to Yemen, from Morocco to Java, from Bosnia to China, with their history, their authors and the way each country sings them: al-Busiri's Hamziyya, the Persian and Urdu na'ts, the Turkish and Swahili mawlids, the khassaids of Senegal. SHAYKH AHMADOU BAMBA A tab of his own: sixteen khassaids, over twelve hundred verses, arranged by the periods of his life — before the exile, the exile, the return — with, for each, what is complete and what is still missing. THE WORLD A globe on which every text lights the place it comes from, from Touba to Tarim, from Fez to Lahore. Turn it, touch a light: the texts of that place open. LISTEN, AND FOLLOW WITH A FINGER When a public recording exists, it plays in the app and the sung verse lights up as it goes. Tap a verse to return to it. The performer, country and source are always shown. No video, no third-party player: audio, and nothing else. THOSE WHO LOVED More than a hundred masters, and the story of each: al-Busiri and the mantle, Ibn Mashish, Ahmad al-Tijani, al-Jazuli, Ibn 'Arabi, al-Shafi'i — and women, Nana Asma'u of Sokoto, Sultana al-Zubaydiyya of Hadramawt, 'A'isha al-Ba'uniyya of Damascus. RECITE A large recitation counter, under the thumb, that keeps the total. Favourites. A prayer or a poem of the day. WITH HONESTY Every text carries its source and its level of verification. When a text is missing, the entry says so and asks whoever knows more. Nothing replaces a scholar's advice, and the app says so. FREE, NO ADS, NO ACCOUNT No data is collected. All the text works offline.