The rulings of your marjaʿ, verbatim and sourced, in your pocket. No internet, no ads, no tracking.
Looking up a ruling usually means digging through a PDF scan, a website that only works online, or a forum thread quoting someone who half-remembers the text. For matters of religious practice, “half-remembered” isn’t good enough.
Marjai (مرجعي) puts the actual books on your phone: the complete al-Masāʾil al-Muntakhaba of Sayyid Ali al-Sistani and Fiqh al-Sharia of Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah — more than 1,500 rulings, reproduced verbatim from the official sources and attributed to them. Nothing is paraphrased, summarised, or AI-generated. The app is a reader, not a mufti.
Multiple Marjas, One App
Switch between marjas with one tap from the top of the screen. Each marjaʿ’s book keeps its own structure, and every ruling stays clearly attributed, so you always know whose opinion you’re reading.
More marjas and books are planned.
Browse by Chapter, the Way the Books Are Organized
The full fiqh table of contents: introductions, acts of worship (ʿibādāt), transactions (muʿāmalāt), and family and inheritance — drilling down from chapter to section to individual ruling. Sistani’s book alone spans 26 chapters, 200 sections, and 1,463 numbered rulings.
Smart Arabic Search
Arabic search that doesn’t care about diacritics or spelling variants — type الصلاة or الصلاه, with or without tashkeel, and the same rulings come back. Filter chips for common topics (purity, prayer, fasting, khums, marriage, inheritance) get you to a chapter in one tap.
Under the hood every ruling is indexed in a normalized form (hamza variants, taa marbuta, alef forms, stripped diacritics), so search works the way people actually type.
A Reading Experience Built for Arabic
Full right-to-left layout with the Amiri Naskh typeface throughout, adjustable font size, and light, dark, or automatic themes. Each ruling can be bookmarked, copied, or shared — and a shared ruling carries its attribution with it.
Bookmarks
Save the rulings you keep coming back to in one list, labeled by marjaʿ and chapter, one tap away.
Fully Offline, Genuinely Private
All texts ship inside the app. There is no server, no account, no analytics, no ads, and no data collection of any kind. Airplane mode works exactly like Wi-Fi.
Faithful to the Source
Every ruling is reproduced letter-for-letter from the official published texts — Sistani’s rulings from sistani.org — with the source noted in the app. Marjai is an unofficial reading aid: it doesn’t issue fatwas and uses no AI to generate or modify rulings. For matters of taqlid, precaution, or new circumstances, refer to your marjaʿ’s office.
Technical Details
- Platforms: iOS and Android, from one Kotlin Multiplatform codebase
- UI: Compose Multiplatform, full RTL via
LayoutDirection.Rtl - Storage: SQLDelight 2.0; search over a normalized Arabic text column
- DI: Koin 4.0 with
expect/actualplatform modules for the database driver and share sheet - Typeface: bundled Amiri (Naskh), regular and bold
- Content: imported from bundled JSON on first launch, off the main thread
- Price: free — no ads, no in-app purchases
The rulings of your marjaʿ, organized, searchable, and always in your pocket — exactly as written.
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