Everyone Can Be a Hafiz! Lantern Nureen is your personal Quran trainer, offering targeted exercises tailored to your learning style and pace. Visualize your progress and review surahs in a world-building game with Nureen and her friends. App development is completed in stages to cover all age groups starting with adults. Test the demo of stage 1! Note that the descriptions of stages 2 to 4 are still in the concept phase and will likely transform further as we move into building these parts of the app.
Stage 1: Manual Full Functionality (Nearly Complete)
Test the demo now! The demo features full functionality that you can access manually. We’re working on optimizing the app for playstore.
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Stage 2: Adaptive Learning Program
An automated program that customizes to your needs and adjusts based on session performance. This stage will include a teacher and parent dashboard to track learners’ progress in real time.
Stage 3: Gamification & World-Building
We are designing a world building game for any muslim that can read (age 7+) to support Qur’an memorization, retention, and understanding. Players earn “barakah points” through exercises in the classic training program developed in stage 2 and unlock a lantern for each surah they memorize. They use these points to build a personal world for their lanterns and recite surahs to combat the darkness which symbolizes fitna, shaytaan, and the loss of iman.
The game emphasizes that the Qur’an is nûr and provides protection from fitna. Interactive dialogues between lanterns address the tafsir of learned surahs, with rewards for participation. This motivates players to retain their knowledge long-term.
Worlds & Community Art: The game features multiple fantasy worlds, including the below desert scene. As students progress they discover new worlds. Students can contribute their own art (buildings, plants and furniture) by submitting it to Nureen.org. These community creations appear as chests that are discovered after combating the darkness. To support our community artists, we will Insha’Allah create a free online game art course to support students in their creative contributions. Professional artists will then do the final touches before it is used in the main game.
Class Mode & Multiplayer: The game is designed with the classroom in mind and offers a class mode for learning and playing together on one screen with the teacher at the lead. Students can continue learning from home on their own personal device and play with the class, family, friends, or alone with up to four shared worlds. Points and progress from the training program and surah recitation are synced across all worlds.
Stage 4: Early Learner Mode
Designed for young children who cannot yet read (age 3-6). Tafsir becomes integrated into a playful narrative where memorization drills are woven into fun, interactive games. Each surah will have a different game and story associated with it. The below example is to illustrate how gameplay, story and memorization can be merged.
Example game for Surah Al-Ikhlas: Nureen says she will visit her family and wants to give them a colored postcard as a gift. The child player is asked to recite Surah Al-Ikhlas with Nureen’s guidance in order to unlock colors for coloring the below postcard of Nureen’s family.
Once the child finishes with the coloring, Nureen glides toward her family’s house. Nureen’s motion is powered by the child’s recitation. With each repetition of the surah, Nureen says less and the child recites more from his or her own memory.
When Nureen arrives, a small animation plays:
She gives the postcard to her family, and they rejoice at the gift.
The child lantern, Manara, says to Nureen, “I love our family! Does Allah also have a family?”
Nureen responds, “That is a wonderful question! No, Allah has no family. He is One. He is eternal, perfect and lives forever. He does not have children, nor was He born. Nothing and no one is comparable to Allah.”
Manara says, “Ohhh… I didn’t know that! Nureen, please tell me more about Allah!”
Nureen replies, “Of course! I will tell you more about Allah as we learn Surah Al-Fatiha!”
What’s Next?
Nureen’s aim is to cover the main aspects of Islam in an interactive and fun way. We plan to develop an adventure game to learn Arabic reading and a caretaking game to learn Islamic habits. With sufficient support and funding, we may create all three apps.
We ask Allah to make these games free for the Muslim world. This will only be possible through sponsorships that will cover our production and upkeep costs. Has Allah chosen you to support us? Email us at info@nureen.org