Apuntes del taller.
De dónde salen las citas, qué se comprueba antes de publicar una y en qué estamos trabajando ahora.
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Du’ās for anxiety, with their sources
Five supplications from the Qur’an and the Sunnah for worry, grief and distress, each with its Arabic, its meaning, and exactly where it comes from.
Dónde aprender sobre el Islam en español
Una lista corta y honesta de fuentes en español que puedes usar hoy: el Corán traducido, su tafsir, los hadices con su explicación y respuestas a preguntas básicas. Y lo que todavía falta.
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How to start learning the Qur’an as an adult: a realistic first year
Not a crash course. A first year in four parts, reading, meaning, memorising and keeping it, with what each one takes and what to skip.
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How to lock apps until you’ve prayed, on iPhone
Screen Time can block apps at fixed hours, but prayer times move every day. What the built-in tools can and cannot do, and how to get a lock that follows the prayers.
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What to read when you can’t sleep
The Sunnah has a short routine for the moment you lie down. Here it is, part by part, each with its source, in an order that is easy to keep.
Cómo empezar a leer el Corán si no sabes árabe
No hace falta saber árabe para empezar. Hace falta una buena traducción, una forma de entender lo que lees y un orden sensato. Aquí están las tres cosas.
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How long does it take to memorise Juzʾ ʿAmma?
Twenty-three pages, thirty-seven sūras, and a pace you choose. The arithmetic is simple; what surprises people is where the time actually goes.
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How to stop doomscrolling before Fajr
The scroll that costs you Fajr usually starts the night before. What helps is less about willpower at dawn and more about what your phone is allowed to do after ʿIshāʾ.
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Juzʾ ʿAmma is not 9% of the Qur’an
Almost every memorisation tracker counts verses. Juzʾ 30 has 564 of them and juzʾ 6 has 110, so counting verses tells someone who has finished Juzʾ ʿAmma that they know 9% of the Qur’an. They know 3.3%.
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The shortest sūra to memorise is not the one with the fewest verses
Al-ʿAṣr has three āyāt. Al-Ikhlāṣ has four. Al-Ikhlāṣ is a third less text. If you are picking what to memorise next by verse count, you are picking with the wrong ruler.
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Al-Mukhtaṣar or Ibn Kathīr: which tafsir to read first
One gives you a few sentences on every āyah in three languages. The other gives you several thousand words on a passage, in two. They answer different questions, and the numbers make the difference concrete.
Solo hay un tafsir en español
Hemos revisado cuatro bibliotecas públicas de tafsir. Entre las 108 obras que reúne QUL hay 55 en árabe, 5 en inglés y exactamente una en español. Esto es lo que significa para quien lee el Corán en castellano.
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Arabic in next/og: which fonts work, and why yours probably doesn’t
Satori renders Arabic with unjoined letters, backwards word order, or throws outright — depending on the font. Here is what fails, what passes, and the two rules that fix it, measured over 90 real Arabic strings.
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The slug rule that deleted a letter from the name of Allah
A URL slugifier that kept Arabic letters and separated on everything else looked correct and was not. It silently dropped alif wasla — turning ٱللَّهِ into لله on 102 of 250 rows.
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Splitting a Next.js sitemap 404s the URL you submitted to Google
generateSitemaps() emits the parts and no index. Every part serves correctly, /sitemap.xml stops existing, and nothing in the build tells you — the only thing that breaks is the address Google is actually polling.