Hum ISLAM is a completely free, non-profit website providing access to the largest and greatest online collection of Qur’anic Commentary (tafsir or tafseer), translation, recitation and essential resources in the world.

Translations of the meanings of the Qur’an are currently available in 24 different languages, and in several cases more than one translation is available. The site also includes audio Qur’an recitations; resources on Qur’an syntax; resources on the Contexts of Revelation (asbâb al-nuzûl); resources on the meanings of words found in the Qur’an, and other works on the Qur’anic sciences. It contains over a million pages of Qur’anic Commentary and translation. Some of the texts presented here exist only as manuscripts and have never previously been published in book form despite their historical importance and influence.

In addition to presenting the standard Classical and Modern Commentaries on the Holy Qur’an (tafsir or tafseer) texts of all eight schools of jurisprudence, the site also contains works of various mystical, philosophical, linguistic and theological currents. Moreover, the first time in one place, comparative studies between the Shafi‘i, Hanafi, Maliki, Hanbali, Ja‘fari, Zaydi, Ibadi and Thahiri schools can be carried out complete with multi-screen displays and search programs.

Through an enormous scholarly labour, each of the Qur’anic Commentaries (tafsir or tafseer) has been typed in, word by word, individually, and at least triple checked by different teams of scholars—none have been scanned in—in order to make it possible, through the use of the latest technology, to search and cross-reference for single words or groups of words, hadiths, or Qur’anic verses anywhere on website database.

Additional resources include a user-friendly interface for the study and comparison of all the established variant readings (qira’at) and tonal keys (maqams) of Qur’an recitation. For students of tajwid and researchers alike, in the voices of the Islamic World’s most beloved Qur’an recites. The audio-video format will aid users in memorizing the Qur’an and also in studying and applying the rulings and variations in recitation styles.

It has also become the most popular and most visited Qur’anic Commentary (tafsir or tafseer) website in the world. It is a unique and invaluable Qur’anic studies resource that facilitates a better understanding and appreciation of the Sacred Text of the Islamic faith—the Holy Qur’an.