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Why This Site Exists

VerseSurah started from a personal need: a fast, clean, uncluttered way to reach the Quran. Most Quran resources were either painfully slow, cluttered with ads, or broken on mobile. This site was built to close that gap, as a one-person effort, and is still run that way.

This means the site isn't a corporate publication — it's an independent project maintained carefully by one person, which keeps accountability for content quality and source selection in one place.

Qualifications and Role Limits

To be clear: Kadir Özbek is not a scholar, mufti, or theologian with formal religious education. As editor and technical lead, the role is to carry the Quran's Arabic text and translations faithfully and without alteration from licensed, attributed sources like Tanzil Project and QuranEnc; to prepare or review editorial content such as blog posts and topic pages against criteria for source count, cautious language, and freedom from absolute-outcome claims; and to run the site's technical infrastructure — hosting, security, and data privacy.

This boundary is deliberate: an editor claiming religious authority outside their own area of expertise would directly contradict the site's own cautious-language principle. That's why questions requiring a definitive religious ruling aren't answered in editorial content — instead, statements from recognized, attributed sources are conveyed, and readers are pointed toward an independent religious advisor.

How Content Is Prepared and Checked

Articles, topic pages, and dua guides on this site are prepared according to sourcing, cautious-language, and content-quality criteria, and are checked against those criteria before publishing. Religiously sensitive topics never use language that carries the weight of a definitive ruling or fatwa — instead, a source is cited and hedged language ("it is narrated", "a commonly held view") is used.

The Quran's Arabic text and translations aren't our own interpretation — they come from sources like Tanzil Project and QuranEnc, whose attribution and licence status are listed openly on our /sources page. Editorial content like blog posts and topic pages is checked for source count, internal-link density, and whether any absolute-outcome language slipped in.

Full details of this process are on our Editorial Policy page.

Why You Can Trust This

Running this site as one person is a deliberate transparency choice, not a shortcut. Rather than hiding behind a large, anonymous "editorial team" label, who is responsible for the content, when it was last updated, and which source it relies on is visible on every page. If an error is found, who to reach and how the process works is never ambiguous.

When an independent religious advisor or reviewer is assigned, that person's name and title are noted on the relevant content; content that hasn't had that assignment yet makes no such claim either — nothing is presented as "reviewed" that hasn't actually been.

If You Find an Error

Being open about errors matters on a platform presenting the Quran and religious content. Our Correction Policy page explains how to report an error and how the process works. For questions, you can reach us directly through our contact page.