Exercise types

Each Nazira lesson is a short sequence of exercises built from the real words of the āyāt you’re learning. Every exercise is a single tap-or-arrange question — there’s no typing in Arabic. This page walks through each kind you’ll meet and what it asks of you.

The lesson screen

Every exercise shares the same frame:

• A progress bar across the top fills as you move through the lesson.
• Your remaining hearts sit at the top right.
• The exercise itself fills the middle of the screen.

Tap an answer to commit to it. A tray slides up from the bottom telling you whether you were right, often with a short note (the meaning of a word, or the correct order). Tap Continue to move to the next exercise. A wrong answer costs one heart — see Streaks, XP & League for how hearts work.

The exercises

You’ll see a mix of the following inside each lesson. Most lessons combine word-recognition questions with reading-in-sequence questions.

Match the meaning

You’re shown one Arabic word, large, with its romanised pronunciation underneath. Below it are several English meanings.

What to do: Tap the English meaning that matches the Arabic word. The prompt reads “What does this word mean?”

Tap the Arabic word

The reverse of the above. You’re given an English meaning, and several Arabic words to choose from (each with its pronunciation).

What to do: Tap the Arabic word that means what the prompt shows. The prompt reads “Tap the Arabic word.”

Which word comes next

You’re shown part of an āyah — the verse up to a certain point — and a row of candidate words.

What to do: Pick the word that genuinely continues the āyah from where it left off. The prompt reads “Which word comes next?” This trains you to read forward through a verse, the way recitation flows.

Fill the missing word

You’re shown an āyah with one word replaced by a blank in the middle, with the words before and after it still in place.

What to do: Tap the word from the options that belongs in the gap. As you pick, the word drops into the blank so you can read the whole āyah back. The prompt reads “Fill the missing word.”

Put the āyah in order

You’re shown the words of a short āyah, scrambled, in a word bank below an empty build area.

What to do: Tap the words one by one, in the correct order, to rebuild the āyah. Each tap moves a word up into the build area; tap a placed word to undo it. The verse reads right to left, and the exercise finishes once you’ve placed every word. The prompt reads “Tap the words in order.”

How the choices are made

The wrong answers you see aren’t random — they’re drawn from other words in the same surah wherever possible, so every option looks plausibly Qur’anic. That’s deliberate: it pushes you to recognise the right word rather than spot the odd one out.

Because each lesson is generated from a fixed set of its own āyāt, the exercises stay the same every time you return to that lesson. Repetition on familiar material is exactly how reading fluency builds.

Stuck on an exercise? There’s no penalty for thinking it through — take your time. A wrong tap only costs a heart, and the feedback tray always shows you the correct answer before you continue.

A note on audio and recitation

Nazira is focused on reading from the page — recognising words and reading them in order. Spoken-recitation feedback (recording yourself and getting per-letter scoring) is part of the longer-term plan but isn’t part of today’s lessons. For listening to recitation, the suite’s Listen app and the Quran Reader both offer audio.