Golden Hilal

Acknowledgements

Last updated: September 30, 2026

Golden Hilal is built on the generous work of many others. We gratefully acknowledge the following sources, used with respect and attribution.

Qur’an text

The Uthmani Qur’an text is from the Tanzil Project (tanzil.net), used unmodified and with attribution. The "Amiri" Unicode Uthmani text is by Dr. Khaled Hosny.

Recitations

Qur’an recitation audio is streamed through the AlQuran Cloud API (alquran.cloud), which sources recordings from EveryAyah.com. All rights to the recitations remain with their respective reciters and publishers.

Translations

English — Sahih International, M. M. Pickthall, Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Uzbek — Muhammad Sodik Muhammad Yusuf
Russian — Elmir Kuliev
Turkish — Diyanet İşleri
French — Muhammad Hamidullah
Indonesian — Kementerian Agama

Fonts

Scheherazade New and Amiri Quran are provided by SIL International under the SIL Open Font License (OFL).

Gelasio (The Gelasio Project Authors) is used under the SIL Open Font License (OFL).

Recite mode

Recite mode listens with Tadabur-Whisper-Small (huggingface.co/FaisaI/tadabur-whisper-small), a fine-tune of OpenAI’s Whisper small (MIT License) on the Tadabur Qur’an recitation dataset, by its authors (“Tadabur: A Large-Scale Quran Audio Dataset”). It is published under CC BY-NC 4.0 and used in Golden Hilal under a separate license from its rights holder. Until it has downloaded, Recite mode listens with whisper-small-quran (huggingface.co/basharalrfooh/whisper-small-quran, MIT License). We converted both to whisper.cpp’s format and compressed them; they were not retrained. They run on your device with whisper.cpp (MIT License, ggml-org) through whisper.rn (MIT License, mybigday).

Prayer times, Qibla & Hijri

Prayer times are calculated on your device using the open-source “adhan” library. Qibla direction (great-circle bearing to the Kaaba) and the Hijri date are also computed on-device — no external service is used.

APIs & services

AlQuran Cloud (alquran.cloud) — Qur’an text, translations, and recitation audio.
Quran.com (Quran Foundation) — the Madinah mushaf's page layout, and the King Fahd Glorious Qur’an Printing Complex's page fonts (QCF V1) that draw it.
mp3quran.net — the recitations and live stations in Listen.
Internet Archive (archive.org) — Abdurrahman Mossad’s recordings, and Muhammadloiq Qori’s complete recitation (from the Quran_KG audio library), in Listen.

Reciter photos

Photos under a free licence that asks for credit are listed here. To have any reciter's photo changed or removed, write to support@goldenhilal.com.

Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais — Prime Minister’s Office, Government of India (GODL-India)
Adel Al-Kalbani — I3bdulghani, CC BY-SA 3.0
Ahmed Nuaina — NeinaaQari, CC BY-SA 4.0
Bandar Baleela — محبين يحيى الزعبي, CC BY-SA 3.0
Maher Al-Muaiqly — Real avdulmouhd, CC BY-SA 4.0
Nasser Al-Qatami — Ayman dhū alghiná, CC BY-SA 4.0
Saad Al-Ghamdi — Haitham Al-Dukhayn, CC BY-SA 4.0
Salah Al-Budair — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Saleh Al-Talib — Ayman dhū alghiná, CC BY-SA 4.0
Yahya Hawwa — Kouider bounama, CC BY-SA 4.0
Yasser Al-Dosari — MAL MALDIVE, CC BY-SA 4.0
Licenses: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 · creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 · data.gov.in/government-open-data-license-india

Icons

The dua hands icon is from Flaticon (flaticon.com/free-icon/dua_4682995), used under the Flaticon free license, with attribution.

Hadith and prices

Hadith books (Arabic and translations): the public-domain hadith-api by Fawaz Ahmed (github.com/fawazahmed0/hadith-api).

Uzbek hadith translations, and the explanations (sharh) and lessons shown with them: HadeethEnc.com, the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, written here in Latin script.

Zakat calculator prices: gold-api.com (gold and silver) and ExchangeRate-API (exchangerate-api.com).

Contact

Questions about attributions or licensing? Contact support@goldenhilal.com.