Reading the muṣḥaf (Scan mode)

Alongside the verse-by-verse reader, Quran Gallery lets you read the Qur’an as page scans of the printed muṣḥaf — faithful to the original print, line for line.

Scan is one of the reader’s view tabs. Open any surah, juz or page and choose Scan to see the same passage as it appears in a printed muṣḥaf. Everything else in the reader stays with you: the navigation sheet, the tafsir and translation drawer, audio, bookmarks and notes.

Choosing a muṣḥaf

Open Preferences and pick the Muṣḥaf tab. The edition row shows the muṣḥaf you’re reading — its name, its riwāyah (reading), and its page count. Tap it to browse the full library.

The library covers celebrated publishers across many scripts and readings — Ḥafṣ, Warsh, Qālūn, Dūrī, Shu’bah and Urdu editions, plus a colour-coded Tajweed copy. Choose any cover to switch; the reader keeps your place.

Editions paginate differently — a 12-line muṣḥaf runs to 849 pages where a Madani one runs to 604. When you switch, the reader opens the page holding the passage you were on, not the same page number.

Single and two-page reading

The Spread control in the same Preferences tab sets how pages are shown:

View	What you see
Single	One muṣḥaf page at a time.
Dual	Two facing pages, like an open book.

Move through the muṣḥaf with Previous and Next. The page counter shows your place, like 23 / 604.

Zoom

Use the zoom control to size the pages to your screen — zoom out, the percent in the middle (tap it to reset to 100%), and zoom in, anywhere from 50% to 200%. On a phone the control sits in a pill near the bottom of the screen.

Your zoom level is remembered — it carries across pages, across editions, and the next time you come back, so you only set it once.

Tapping a verse

Tap any verse on the page to open the context drawer with its translation, tafsir and word-by-word breakdown — the same drawer the verse-by-verse reader uses.