The zekr project software#
The zekr project free#

Of course you can simply add more translations to it. In addition, it includes English, Persian, and Russian Quran translations. Zekr is flexible in adding new plug-ins, themes, language packs, and Quran's translations.Ĭurrently Zekr has English, Persian, French, German, Arabic, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Kurdish, Malay, and Turkish built-in language packs.

The zekr project software#

If you need any information about common Quranic terms used in this software see. It asserts that no one can make something like a Quran sura at all. Quran, is the only sacred writing, which claims to be a miracle.

The zekr project free#

Zekr is a free GPL software and is available for Linux/Unix, Windows, and MacOSX. The main idea is to build an as generic as possible platform to accept different Islamic resources. It is a Quran-based project, planned to be a universal, open source, and cross-platform application to perform most of the usual refers to Quran.

Presidents Office should be cited as THE SOURCE of the translation.Zekr is an open platform for simply browsing and researching on the Holy Quran.

The text should be released as is in the official publication, without modifications.

The text should not be used for commercial purposes.

After much negotiations and a meeting with those involved in the project, and press secretary Mohamed Zuhair it was agreed that we could release it as long as it met the following conditions: We then approached the Presidents Office for review and permission to make the text available for the public. We would have to approach the Presidents Office because they held the rights to it. It took them a few months to tell us that they in fact, could not help us. Malik (who played an instrumental role in the success of this project) and I (as MOSS) approached the islamic ministry, hoping they would review the text for errors. We reviewed the whole thing best as we could, and contributed it to the Zekr and Tanzil (the de-facto hub for collecting all such translations). Some of it was copy-pasted from various sources here and there.

God willing, our small group, along with help from the impressing juggernaut that is Maldives Open Source Society were able to compile a usable enough package. So we began this tall task not knowing if we'd ever be able to finish it. That there were people looking for commercial/political/religious/social/etc gain from the text.Īfter it became apparent that this avenue was futile, we decided that the best and most 'politically stable' way to go would be to type the whole thing out all over again. None of these people were willing to part with anything useful - officially stating the reason that the subject of the Quran Translation was too 'volatile' for them to release it.

We approached the Islamic Ministry, the Presidents Office, and all our friends in nooks and crannies of the government trying to obtain in the very least, an MS Word document that we could work with.

All the while, interest in the efforts grew, and a few of my friends (Bunyameen, his brothers, Nisham, Nadheem and so on to name a few) volunteered to help. PDF's from which - despited many hours spent trying - nothing 'useful' could be extracted. I searched high and low to find such a text. The PDF's available on Presidency Maldives where just that. For this, I needed a standards compliant plaintext UNICODE version of the translation which, needless to say was not available. I wished that the Dhivehi translation was also included among these for everyone to benefit from. Back then, I wanted to be able to use the Dhivehi translation with Zekr a free (as in freedom) versatile open source Quranic study tool that came standard with a multitude of translations, recitations, localizations and so forth. If you must skim, please read the last few paragraphs.Ībout an year ago, I grew frustrated with the lack of a readily usable version of the Quran translation in Dhivehi. I understand that the text here might seem a little long and boring, but please bear with me.