Islamic Tools Editorial Policy

This Islamic Tools editorial policy explains how the OKS team researches, checks, dates and corrects everything published on oks.digital. Religious information affects how people pray, fast and name their children, so we hold ourselves to a few clear rules.

1. Where our information comes from

• Quran and hadith. Duas and religious statements are taken from the Quran and the main hadith collections: Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Dawud, Sunan al-Tirmidhi, Sunan al-Nasa’i and Sunan Ibn Majah, plus Imam al-Nawawi’s al-Adhkar for supplications. Each dua names the collection it comes from.
• Names. Meanings are checked against classical Arabic dictionaries (such as Lisan al-Arab) and modern references. Where dictionaries disagree, we say so rather than picking one quietly. We do not publish “lucky numbers”, stones or colours for names, because they have no basis in Islamic sources.
• Prayer times. Times are calculated from each city’s coordinates using the method followed in that country: the UAE/Gulf convention checked against Awqaf UAE and IACAD; the Umm al-Qura convention used by the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs; and the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi method with Hanafi Asr for Pakistan. Our guide How Prayer Times Are Calculated explains the methods.
• Local facts. Mosque names, Friday prayer times and official announcements on city pages are taken from the official authority or from reputable local news, and are dated.

2. Who checks each page

A member of the OKS team reads every page in full before it is published. The reviewer checks the Arabic and Urdu text, confirms that each source actually says what the page claims, and tests the tools (prayer tables, Qibla finder, calculators) on a phone. Pages on fiqh questions are kept at the level of widely accepted, mainstream positions; we do not issue fatwas, and we direct readers to a qualified scholar for personal rulings.

3. How we handle differences between scholars

Where the schools of law differ, for example on the start of Asr (Hanafi versus Standard) or on combining prayers while travelling, we present the main positions and let readers follow their own school or local mosque. We do not present one opinion as the only valid one when it is not.

4. Dates and updates

City prayer-time pages show a “Source and last check” line with the date the page was last compared with the official timetable. Guides and articles show their published and updated dates. Prayer tables themselves refresh automatically every day; the written content around them is reviewed at least twice a year and whenever an authority changes a rule, such as the UAE’s change to the Friday prayer time in January 2026.

5. Corrections

If you find a mistake in a meaning, a date, a prayer time or a religious statement, write to info@oks.digital or use the Contact Us page, with the page address and the line you think is wrong. We check the report against the sources and correct the page, normally within a few days. Significant corrections are noted on the page itself.

6. One good page, not many thin ones

We publish a separate page for a city or a name only when it can offer something real and specific: a full monthly timetable with local facts for a city, or the Arabic root, Quranic references and history for a name. Anything that cannot meet that bar is added to a fuller guide instead. We do not publish pages whose only difference is a changed city or name.

7. Software and AI tools

Prayer times are produced by astronomical calculation software, not typed by hand. We sometimes use writing and translation software, including AI tools, to draft or tidy text. Every such draft is checked by a person against the sources before publication, and the person, not the tool, is responsible for what is published. We never publish an unchecked machine draft.

8. Advertising and independence

Islamic Tools is free to use and may show advertising to cover its costs. Advertisers have no say in what we publish, and ads are always clearly separate from our content. See our Privacy Policy for how advertising and cookies work on this site.

This policy was last reviewed by the OKS team on 5 November 2026. Questions about it can be sent to info@oks.digital.