Shia Companion

Shia Companion – An iPhone and iPad application

Shia Companion is a comprehensive, revolutionary and unique application, with some never seen before features on any smartphone, taking apps catered for Shia Muslims to a whole new level of professionalism and productivity!

CURRENT FEATURES:

Prayer Timings

View Twelver Shia Muslim (Ja'fari) daily prayer times via 2 different methods:

a) Automatically acquired accurate prayer times from any part of the world calculated via GPS.

b) Select from one of our manually entered calendars available for 47 different cities worldwide

You also have the option of manually editing any prayer time by +/- 60 minutes should you wish to amend the timings from either of the 2 methods above.

Shia Adhaan & Quran Audio Notifications

• Automatically receive Adhaan notifications from a choice of 3 reciters

• Play the Quran 5, 10 or 15 minutes before the Adhaan

• Or simply get pop-up notifications alerting you of prayer times, without playing any audio recitations

Supplications & Ziyaraat With Line By Line Translation

• A comprehensive list of Supplications & Ziyaraat

• A beautiful & easy to read Arabic font

• Choice of Arabic only, English only or Arabic with LINE BY LINE translation

• Over 8,000 lines of text manually entered and checked for accuracy

Prayers

• Step-by-step guide of the method of reciting various prayers, including Salaat al-Ghufaylah, Salaat al-Mayyit, Salaat Ja'far al-Tayyar, and much more

Salaat al-Layl

• Step by step guide to performing your Tahajjud prayers

• Recommended supplications before, during and after the entire prayer

• Includes counters for the repetitive recitation of various lines in the prayer, such as the 70 “Isghtighfaar” and the 300 "al-Afwa"

• The ability to store names of 40 believers - a custom-made counter will then appear in the Salaat al-Layl section, cycling through the names of each believer one at a time!

Qadha Tables

Keep track of any Qadha prayers and fasts that you have to make up with just the touch of a finger!

Islamic & Gregorian 2-in-1 Calendar

• Never lose track of the Islamic date & upcoming religious events!

• On the morning of a religious event, receive a scheduled pop-up notification reminding you of the significance of the respective day!

• Keep the lunar calendar continuously in sync with the Gregorian calendar with the ability to manually change today's lunar date!

Qiblah Compass

• An easy to use and accurate Qiblah compass

• Also calculates your distance from the Ka'bah

Tasbeeh Counters

• Various Tasbeeh counters which allow you to easily recite specific lines from supplications and prayers a set number of times

• The counter screen displays the passage to recite in Arabic, along with its English translation, and a countdown of the number of times to recite

• From Tasbeeh for special prayers, to worship of special nights like the 19th of Ramadhan

• Create your own custom countdown Tasbeeh!

Bookmarks

• Bookmark any line in a supplication, which will be saved for you in the Bookmarks section

Fully Searchable

• Search within a specific Supplication/Ziyarah or within all Supplications & Ziyaraat

• Search in Arabic or English

Dual Orientation Ready Screen (iPad only)

• Read in portrait or landscape mode

DISCLAIMER: Most of the English translations of Prayers, Supplications & Ziyaraat in this app have been taken from already existent sources and therefore their accuracy is as per their translation guidelines. We continue to update the text both in Arabic and English. Please do send us any corrections of requests.