A balance for quoted verses.
Mīzān, mīzān means “a scale,” is a small tool for checking whether a piece of Arabic text is truly a verse of the Qur’an. It exists because fabricated or misquoted verses travel fast, and a quick, trustworthy check should not require expertise in Uthmani orthography.
Why this matters
Verses circulate in group chats, sermons, articles, and social posts, sometimes paraphrased, sometimes mistyped, sometimes composed outright and presented as scripture. Most readers have no easy way to verify them. A scholar can; most people cannot. Mīzān narrows that gap with a single paste.
How the text is handled
A note on reverence
The Qur’an is sacred scripture. Mīzān treats the text accordingly: verses are displayed in the canonical Uthmani orthography with proper diacritics, set in a traditional Arabic typeface, and never altered, abbreviated, or repunctuated for decoration. The tool does not produce translations or interpretations, only a factual comparison against the preserved text.
Data & attribution
The Qur’anic text is not Mizan’s own; it is derived from the publicly maintained Uthmani transcription by the Tanzil project, accessed via the AlQuran.cloud API. Full credit for the text data belongs to Tanzil.
- Tanzil: Quran text projectUthmani orthography, the authoritative source of all verse text used here.tanzil.net ↗
- AlQuran.cloud: Quran APIREST API providing Tanzil Uthmani text in JSON format for programmatic access.alquran.cloud ↗
- Scheherazade NewArabic typeface by SIL International, used for verse display.Google Fonts ↗
The project
Mīzān is open source, a single static HTML file, no build step, no framework, no server. It loads the corpus once and runs entirely in the browser. Contributions and corrections are welcome.