Quran radio, recitation that keeps playing.
Play the whole Quran from Al-Fatiha to An-Nas and round again, a station such as Juz Amma or Al-Kahf, or a single surah. Choose your qari, set a sleep timer and listen from your lock screen.
ٱلْفَاتِحَةِ
Surah Al-Fatiha
Mishary Rashid Alafasy
Ayah 1 of 7
Stations
Audio streams ayah by ayah from EveryAyah. Your qari, station and place are saved on this device, so you can carry on later. On a phone, the lock screen controls play, pause and skip.
Guide
Listening to the Quran, with attention and adab.
Press play and the recitation runs on its own: ayah after ayah, surah after surah, until you stop it or the sleep timer does. Choose a station, or pick any one surah to play or repeat. The radio remembers where you stopped, so the next time you open it you can carry on from the same ayah.
The stations
- The whole Quran plays from Al-Fatiha to An-Nas and starts again: about 30 hours of recitation for most qaris.
- Juz Amma, the last juz, holds the short surahs most people know from salah.
- Al-Kahf for Friday, and Yasin, Al-Waqiah and Al-Mulk, three surahs many people recite often.
- Al-Baqarah: the Prophet ﷺ said, "Do not make your houses graves. Satan flees from the house in which Surah Al-Baqarah is recited."1
Listening with adab
Allah says: "So when the Quran is recited, then listen to it and pay attention, that you may receive mercy" (7:204). The best way to use the radio is to give it your attention: while resting, driving, cooking or before sleep, rather than as background noise in a busy, noisy place. Hanafi jurists disliked reciting aloud where people are occupied and cannot listen, and many scholars apply the same respect to recordings. Lower the volume or pause it during conversation.
Ayat of sajdah heard on a recording
Sajdat al-tilawah is wajib on whoever recites or hears an ayah of sajdah. Most contemporary Hanafi scholars say that hearing it from a recording does not make the sajdah wajib, because a recording is not a live recitation. A live broadcast is different. Making the sajdah anyway is good.
Other madhhabs
- Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanbali
- Sajdat al-tilawah is sunnah, not wajib, for the reciter and the listener. It is not prescribed for a recording, though there is no harm in making it.
Using it from the lock screen
On Android and iPhone, the surah and qari appear on the lock screen with play, pause and skip buttons, through the browser's media controls. If your phone stops the audio when the screen locks, add the page to your home screen or keep the browser in the foreground. Recitation streams over the internet, about 1 MB per minute at 128 kbps, so use Wi-Fi for long sessions.
- Sahih Muslim 780, from Abu Hurayrah.
- Ibn Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar, on reciting aloud where people are busy and on sajdat al-tilawah. The ruling on recordings is from contemporary Hanafi fatwa works. The other madhhabs' positions are summarised from their standard manuals.
The rulings on this page are pending review by the scholars on our team.
Questions
Good to know.
Can I listen to the Quran 24/7 here?
Yes. Choose "The whole Quran" and it plays from Al-Fatiha to An-Nas, then starts again, until you stop it or a sleep timer ends it.
Which qaris are on the Quran radio?
29 qaris from EveryAyah, including Mishary Alafasy, Abdul Basit (murattal and mujawwad), Al-Husary, Al-Minshawi, As-Sudais, Ash-Shuraim, Maher Al-Muaiqly, Yasser Ad-Dossari and Saad Al-Ghamdi.
Does it work with the screen locked?
Yes on most phones. The browser's media controls show the surah on the lock screen, with play, pause and skip buttons.
Can I fall asleep listening to the Quran?
Yes. Set the sleep timer to 15 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes, or to stop at the end of the surah, and the recitation stops by itself.
Do I need to do sajdah when I hear an ayah of sajdah on the radio?
Most contemporary Hanafi scholars say it is not wajib from a recording, though doing it is good. The other three madhhabs hold the sajdah of recitation to be sunnah in any case.