Mutun

Al-Asl Institute

About this app

Mutūn brings together three foundational source texts (mutūn) of Tajweed and recitation, each presented chapter by chapter and verse by verse, with clear translations.

THE FOUR TEXTS

• Al-Qaṣīdah al-Khāqāniyyah, by Abū Muzāḥim al-Khāqānī (d. 325 AH) — the earliest known poem on the art of beautiful recitation and the manners of the reciter, with English and Urdu translation.

• Al-Muqaddimah al-Jazariyyah, by Imām Ibn al-Jazarī (d. 833 AH) — the matn on which the teaching of tajwīd has rested for six centuries, covering the articulation points, the characteristics of the letters, madd, stopping, and Qurʾanic spelling.

• Ḥirz al-Amānī (al-Shāṭibiyyah), by Imām al-Shāṭibī (d. 590 AH) — the celebrated gateway to the seven canonical readings (qirāʾāt), naming every reciter and transmitter through its system of letter-symbols (rumūz).

FEATURES

• Choose your translation: read the Arabic alone, or show English, Urdu, or both. Your choice is remembered.
• Word-by-word meanings: tap a word to see its meaning.
• Copy any verse with one tap, and per-verse explanations for selected verses.
• Reciter symbols (rumūz) shown in color in al-Shāṭibiyyah.
• Jump quickly between chapters with the contents list and chapter bar.
• Read offline: once opened, the texts stay available without an internet connection.
• Download any text as a PDF in your preferred combination of languages.
• Designed for phones, with a clean, distraction-free reader and authentic Arabic and Urdu typography.

No account or sign-in is needed, and the app collects no personal information.

ABOUT

Prepared by the al-Asl Institute as part of its Mutūn Collection, dedicated to making the foundational texts of the Islamic sciences accessible to students everywhere.

Rooted in wisdom, flourishing in knowledge.