As for the font, mry_KacstQurn is a great quran font (http://mrykacstqurn.wikispaces.com/). I am not a web developer (actually not a programmer at all ), so I don’t know if you can have the Arabic Quran text displayed in this font without having it installed on the user’s computer. If that is not possible, I think Traditional Arabic is installed on most Windows computers and is more suitable than Tahoma.

Wassalamu Alaikom.

ahmed:
jazakAllah khair!

1. yes, i need to do that, insha’Allah on my list of things to do – i didn’t test it in windows very much but someone sent me a screenshot – insha’Allah i’ll try to do that (can you suggest a good font etc – i am not very good with design related things).

2. so for example, lets say that you know that muhammad is getting married – you can tag him with the verse from surat ar-room – “And among His Signs is this, that He created for you mates from among yourselves, that ye may dwell in tranquillity with them, and He has put love and mercy between your (hearts): verily in that are Signs for those who reflect.” – you can then add a comment that says, “may Allah put barakah in your marriage,” for example.

he will get an email (if he doesn’t have the app installed) saying that you tagged him with a verse, and to click to see it – when he follows the link, he’ll see a link to the ayah and the comment that you left.

so for example, during ramadan, you can tag people with the ramadan verses for example. the idea is to increase awareness of quran and to pass verses around.

recently, i tagged some of my friends with verses to encourage them to be patient, for example, or to tell them to keep up good work their doing, or to pray that Allah makes us friends in jannah, etc – sometimes, i just tag people who have their names in a particular ayah and tell them, “hey, do you realize your name is in this verse?”

i understand the concern about the potential problems with a social quran app if its abused, but if its used properly, it can be a great asset and can aid people in learning quran and sharing ayahs and stuff, wa Allahu a3lam.

kbaj: – yep, facebook was down for a bit yesterday – let me know what you think when you tried it out insha’Allah!

hosam – sounds awesome, insha’Allah we’ll talk!

jazakumAllah khair!
walsalam 3alaikum,
-ahmed

salam
hosam

First of all, Jazak Allah kol 7′air.. the application is great, I just have two points:

1- Could the font of the Arabic text be changed? Tahoma (I guess) is not suitable for Quran IMHO.

2- I don’t quite understand the tagging feature. What does it do? If I tag a friend, say Mohamed, with a verse.. what does Mohamed receive? Why would I want to tag him with a Quranic verse in the first place?

Moreover, how can a Quran app be “social” at all? I mean, what direction do you intend to take this app to?

Sorry for the question bombardment

Assalamu Alaikom.