The Library
A library of masters, in your pocket.
The greatest voices in 1,400 years of Islamic thought — tafsīr, hadith, fiqh and sīrah, translated from the original Arabic. Bookmark, download, and listen anywhere.
Now on Google Play The classical canon
The classical canon
is now on Android.
The full Joyful Muslims library — al-Ghazali, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Battuta and the masters, translated from the original Arabic and narrated — is live on Google Play. Free to start.
- 68+ audiobooks
- 7 named scholars
- Full feature parity
- On iPhone too
Nothing held back
The same app, built for Android
This isn't a stripped-down port. The Android build matches the iPhone app feature-for-feature — we'd rather take the extra weeks than ship something lesser.
- The full classical library — same audiobooks, same narration
- Background playback with media-notification controls
- Daily Verse notifications and the NextDrop home-screen widget
- StudyKit, the Living Manuscript transcript, JM Scholar, and Masterclasses
- Offline downloads and cross-device sync
Inside the app
Not an audiobook player. A house of knowledge.
The same house of knowledge, rebuilt for Android — every screen below is live in the app on Google Play.
The Living Manuscript
Every word, illuminated as you listen.
A real-time transcript illuminates each sentence the moment the narrator speaks it — the way the masters once studied, now on glass. Tap any line to hear it again.
Structured completion
Finish the Iḥyāʾ — one sentence at a time.
al-Ghazali’s forty-volume masterwork, broken into bite-sized passages with the narration right beside you. A thousand-year classic, finally finishable.
StudyKit
One chapter. Two ways in.
Move at your own rhythm — Read, Understand, Apply — or let a scholar walk you through in fifteen guided minutes, with reflection prompts at every turn.
Your Journey
See how far you’ve come.
Streaks, hours of sacred knowledge, books completed cover to cover, and a scholar rank that grows with you — quiet encouragement, never gamified into noise.
A taste of the canon
Wisdom that has outlived empires.
Every line below is read aloud, in full, inside the app — sourced, attributed, and a single tap from the whole book.
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The heart is a king, and the limbs are its army. If the king is corrupt, the army is corrupt.
Imam al-Ghazali Wonders of the HeartOpen the book → -
Be in this world as a traveller. A traveller does not build a house on the road.
Imam al-Ghazali Poverty and AsceticismOpen the book → -
Yūnus called from three darknesses: the darkness of the sea, the darkness of the fish, and the darkness of the night. And Allah answered.
Ibn Kathir Stories of the Prophets — YūnusOpen the book → -
The door of repentance does not close until the sun rises from the west. Until then, it is open for every soul.
Imam al-Ghazali The Book of RepentanceOpen the book → -
I set out alone, finding no companion to cheer the way, swayed by an overmastering impulse within me, and a long-cherished desire to visit those illustrious sanctuaries.
Ibn Battuta Riḥlah — Volume OneOpen the book → -
Allah took Ibrāhīm as a friend. Not because Ibrāhīm asked — but because of what Ibrāhīm was willing to put down.
Ibn Kathir Stories of the Prophets — IbrāhīmOpen the book → -
The one who remembers death clearly will not spend his life chasing what will not follow him into the grave.
Imam al-Ghazali Remembrance of DeathOpen the book → -
Whoever treads a path in search of knowledge, Allah makes easy for him the path to Paradise.
Imam al-Ghazali The Book of KnowledgeOpen the book →
“We built Android with the same care as iPhone — the same narration, the same scholarship, full feature parity, no shortcuts. It's live on Google Play today. One library, for the whole Ummah, on whatever you carry.”
FAQ
Android, answered.
Is Joyful Muslims on Android?
Yes — it is live on the Google Play Store now. Download it free and start with five hours of listening every month, no credit card.
Will it have everything the iPhone app has?
The Android app ships the core experience today: the same one open library, offline downloads, the Living Manuscript transcript, Daily Verse notifications, and the NextDrop home-screen widget. The Lantern, the Masterclasses study system, and JM Scholar arrive with the Android v2 update, in progress now.
Is the Android app free?
Same as iPhone: every book is open, and you start free — five hours of listening every month, with no credit card. There is just one paid plan, Joyful+, at $6.99/month or $59.99/year — no free-trial games, cancel anytime: unlimited listening, plus the full study system as it lands on Android.
Does my progress sync between iPhone and Android?
Yes. Sign in with the same account and your listening progress, your library, and your Joyful+ membership follow you across iPhone and Android.
Can I get it right now?
Yes — it is on the Google Play Store today. And if you have an iPhone, the app is live on the App Store too, at joyfulmuslims.com/ios.
Begin with the masters.
Free to start — five hours a month, every book open, no card. On Android and iPhone.