What shipped on Barakah.
And when.

Three new content surfaces for the people who needed them. /khutbahs has 24 Friday sermon outlines sourced to the Quran and authentic hadith. /nikah covers the four pillars of marriage, mahr, walima, and the rights of spouses. /inheritance-calculator explains Faraid with worked examples for the most common family configurations.

Every verse in the Quran now has a stable URL at /quran/[surah]/[ayah] with Arabic, transliteration, four English translations, and audio recitation. Static-generated at build time. The biggest SEO unlock on the site — search engines can now rank specific verses like 'ayat al kursi' or 'quran 55:13' against dedicated indexable pages rather than the rotating daily-verse hub.

/app (download page), /who-built-this (author byline for E-E-A-T), /mosques (mosques near me with city directory), /halal-food-near-me, /baby-names with 120 curated names, /ramadan (with the tracker plus suhoor/iftar/last-ten-nights primer), /halal-certifications/[slug] for each major certifier, /family-plan, /zakat-calculator/[country] for eight countries.

Ürümqi resolved to /r-mqi, Düsseldorf to /d-sseldorf, Malmö to /malm, Malé to /mal. The slug generator was destructively stripping diacritics. Now uses Unicode NFD normalisation plus a transliteration map for non-decomposable characters (ß, ø, æ, ł). Tested across 13 city names — all clean.

/daily-verse and /daily-hadith rotated content under stable URLs every day, which made Google de-index them. Each curated entry now has its own permanent /daily-verse/[ref] or /daily-hadith/[slug] page; the hubs canonical to today's permalink so Google ranks the stable URL.

Search Console reported 4.2% index rate (41/971 discovered pages indexed) because Google was wasting crawl budget on _next chunks, opengraph-image endpoints, and www vs apex variants. New robots.txt blocks the noise, middleware adds X-Robots-Tag noindex on OG image responses, and a redirect sends www.barakah.life to the apex.

Until now the Hijri date came from the JS Intl Umm al-Qura tables, which run ±1 day off from the actual Saudi moonsighting announcement for Ramadan, Shawwal, and Dhul Hijjah. A daily server cron now pulls today's date from AlAdhan's HJCoSA endpoint (the one that tracks the Royal Court announcements) and the mobile + web Hijri code defers to it. Manual override path included for regional committees that differ from Saudi.

Mosque finder and halal food finder now combine Apple MapKit POI sweep (across a 3×3 grid for density) with OSM Overpass (raced across three mirrors). Pulls hundreds of results in dense regions like Sharjah and Dubai where the previous version capped at ~20.

The old SVG-based greeting card system is retired. New library has 20 hand-painted photo backgrounds covering the Holy Lands, historic mosques, and quiet places of reflection — 1080×1350 px, free to share. Browse at /gallery.

Full Quran reader at /quran with all 114 surahs, four bundled English translations (Sahih, Haleem, Pickthall, Yusuf Ali), 25 on-demand language translations, romanized transliteration, and audio recitation from 23 reciters. Bookmarks, favourites, daily reading goals, khatam tracking.

A 30-day path written by someone who took it himself. Each day is one focused lesson — shahada, wudu, salah, fasting, zakat, parents, the akhirah — with the Arabic source, transliteration, English meaning, and a single thing to act on today.

Barcode scanner with verdicts on packaged products. Uses OpenFoodFacts plus a 200-rule library for ingredients, E-numbers, and common doubtful items. Free, no login, works in any browser.

First public version of Barakah. Prayer times, qibla compass, daily verse, daily hadith, 99 Names of Allah, the four pillars of zakat, and a basic dua library.