As a non-Muslim with very, very limited exposure to the Qur’an, I’d be interested to know some of your favorite passages you’ve personally saved and/or read often.
Cool app. Simple, to the point, and with actual useful functionality.
Ayah means verse in Arabic but can also mean a miracle. For Muslims every Ayah is an Ayah. There are 6236 such Ayat in the Qur'an.
In the last four months since turning 41, I've restarted my memorisation of the Qur'an and have just completed finishing the longest chapter this morning, all 49 pages of it.
The timeless nature of the Qur'an is such that it speaks to you directly, it challenges you to pause and reflect.
I finished memorising this verse this morning
"God does not burden any soul with more than it can bear: each gains whatever good it has done, and suffers its bad- ‘ Lord, do not take us to task if we forget or make mistakes. Lord, do not burden us as You burdened those before us. Lord, do not burden us with more than we have strength to bear. Pardon us, forgive us, and have mercy on us. You are our Protector, so help us against the disbelievers.’"
I initially developed an iOS app (https://ayahbyayah.com) using Objective-C in 2012 (10 years on the AppStore next month)
Re-developed in Xamarin.iOS in 2016 which has been a solid decision due to the productivity gains I get from C# and Visual Studio tooling.
Xamarin.Forms works well for line of business apps and the performance with iOS was fine, however encountered a number of Android performance issues which is simply due to the nature of the framework.
Having worked on my side project https://ayahbyayah.com for the last 10 years, (10 year anniversary on the AppStore next month) my biggest take-aways are
1. Consistency instead of Intensity - steady progress in small chunks help instead of all-nighters which lead to burn out
2. Fall in love with the process - ignore the outcome and keep working on your steps instead, it stops the worry about what's going to happen in the future
3. Ship an initial version before talking about it - talking about a project before you've released something makes you think that you've already achieved it.
I'm starting to think, for lack of a better way of visualizing the three ideas together, that true success requires a "slow, quiet masochism": build quietly, enjoy the pain from what it'll become, and pace it out to never have a burnout.
I find 1. very hard to achieve when I'm in a phase where I am really motivated. It's hard for me to not do too much then (and expect too much outcome).
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I'm a fullstack C#, .NET and Xamarin certified mobile professional developer with a range of experience from the last sixteen years across a number of different domains.
I released my first app to the Apple app store in 2012 from conception to completion.
An ideal project would be to work on an MVP, Prototype or Proof of Concept mobile app and deliver it to your phone via TestFlight within a month.
My grandfather undertook months long journey to perform Hajj in the 1960's, travelling by so many different means. Carrying dried fruit, bread and meat with them, it truly was a once in a lifetime trip.
Having performed the Hajj in 2014, there is a sense of nostalgia for what it was but equally the practically of accommodating millions of pilgrims from across the world has led to a number of changes.
In University I developed a simulation and model of crowd evacuation based on certain rites of the Hajj. Something which was previously not an issue.
While the project is ongoing (probably another month or so), it'll just be for the climbers. But, yes, when they are done I intend to release something that will allow anyone to put their own Strava activities on it. One huge caveat, and one of the main down sides of rolling my own mapping tech, is that I've only processed imagery and elevation data for the Sierra Nevada region.
An iOS app which I originally released in 2012 as a simple app for listening to the recitation of a single Ayat (verse) of the Qur'an.
I've been performing intermittent upgrades over the years as I wanted to retain its simplicity and ease of use.
It's not much but its nice to have complete autonomy over something.