From the team

Notes & walkthroughs.

Feature walkthroughs, behind-the-scenes engineering, and short reflections on building a calm Islamic companion.

The Umrah Packing List: 28 Essentials and What to Leave Behind

Built from the 28 default items in Aydeen's checklist, each with a reason: unscented toiletries, riyals in small notes, a shoe bag for the Haram.

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How to Find Which Surah a Verse Is From, Even From a Translation

Someone quotes a line with no reference. How to get the exact surah and ayah, see the Arabic and several translations side by side, and why a longer quote works better.

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Why Prayer Apps Show Different Fajr and Isha Times

Your app says 4:12, your masjid says 4:35. The explanation is a handful of published parameters, and the practical answer is to match your masjid.

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The Kutub al-Sittah: The Six Major Hadith Collections, Explained

A reference guide to who compiled each collection, when, and what distinguishes it, with sizes given as approximate because numbering varies by edition.

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Lost Count in Tawaf? How to Keep Track of Your Seven Rounds

In a crowded mataf, counting slips. Traditional methods, a quiet digital option, and who to ask if you're genuinely unsure.

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How to Read and Cite a Hadith Reference: What 'Bukhari 5027' Means

A reference that looks authoritative can still point to the wrong place, or use another edition's numbering. How to decode a citation and check it.

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The top Islamic apps. Led by Aydeen.

The top Islamic apps in 2026, led by Aydeen

A respectful tour starting with the app we built — Aydeen, with every feature highlighted — followed by Muslim Pro, Quran.com, Athan, Tarteel, and Pillars. What each does well, where each falls short, and which to install for which job.

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That image in your group chat? Validate it.

Validate any forwarded hadith image in seconds

A step‑by‑step tour of Aydeen's Verify flow — how to take a hadith image from your camera roll, run it through the canonical corpus, and get the authentic text plus citation.

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Your daily worship, in one calm place.

A tour of Aydeen's daily worship features

Prayer times, qibla, the Holy Qur'an, du'as & adhkar, tasbeeh, and the prayer tracker — what each one does, how they fit together, and why we built them the way we did.

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