[3] These devices were capable of audio playback of recorded recitations of the Qur'an with synchronized on-screen Arabic text.
It allowed basic navigation of the Quran with the ability for the user to select a specific surah (chapter) and ayah (verse).
[5] There is debate surrounding to what degree a digital form of the Qur'an should be treated like a hard copy in terms of etiquette when reciting from it.
[6] Commenters speculated about how the special barakah or contagion heuristic associated with the Qur'an translates to electronic texts.
[7] Other observers noted that this way of thinking is foreign to the devices users, who adopt western digital technology unthinkingly.
This has led to the expansion of Islam among people of faith, scholars who are now able to study the book and scientists that see new opportunity arise.
[11] Another Journal by Engku Alwi went to college campuses to see how the new form of technology, phone and tablet applications were seen by over 200 Muslim students.
Correct encoding is also hampered by the fact that input methods, i.e., keyboard layouts for Arabic, are based on modern everyday orthography, which differs from Qur'ān orthography in many respects: there are more characters used in the Qur'ān and some characters are different in terms of Unicode, such as yā' with or without dots in final position.
[14] If the digital content and context of what these followers are using is trustworthy, then listening to Tajweed[15] online can help to provide "spiritual merit" to them.
Through the use of digital resources, a follower of Islam is given the ability to learn even if their life circumstances (work, location, health, etc.)
This algorithm allows people to take a verse and search the true meaning of it by out the diacritics which could be interpreted incorrectly by non-Arabic speakers and evaluates just the words.