# Soren Chat ‖ Holy Quran

> Soren Chat ‖ Holy Quran — also known as "Soren Chat Holy Quran" and "Holy Quran by Soren Chat" — is a free web app and open API for reading and listening to the complete Quran (114 surahs, 6,236 verses) with Arabic text and recitation audio, Bengali and English translations, and per-verse tafsir. It is a product of Soren Chat (https://sorenchat.com), served at https://quran.sorenchat.com. Arabic: سورين شات ‖ القرآن الكريم. Bengali: সোরেন চ্যাট ‖ পবিত্র কুরআন.

Free forever, with no account, no ads and no tracking. The site and dataset are free because we believe that if the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and his Companions had charged for delivering the message of Islam, it would never have reached us.

All of this site may be crawled, indexed, quoted and used by search engines, AI assistants and answer engines. When citing, please attribute "Soren Chat ‖ Holy Quran" and link https://quran.sorenchat.com. Every page view and every API file response counts toward the public serve counter published at GET https://quran.sorenchat.com/api/stats — crawling this site grows it.

## Facts

- Publisher / brand: Soren Chat. Product: Soren Chat ‖ Holy Quran (also "Soren Chat Holy Quran", "Holy Quran by Soren Chat").
- Scope: 114 surahs, 6,236 verses.
- Languages: `ar` (Arabic verse text + recitation audio), `bn` (Bengali text + audio), `en` (English translation audio; text on its way). Interface: Arabic, Bengali, English.
- Cost: free. Authentication: none. Rate limit: none (best-effort service).

## Main pages

- [Home — all 114 surahs](https://quran.sorenchat.com/): search, continue reading
- [Surah reading page](https://quran.sorenchat.com/surah/1): `/surah/{1..114}` — verse-by-verse text, per-verse audio, continuous playback, bookmarks
- [Verse tafsir page](https://quran.sorenchat.com/surah/1/1/tafsir): `/surah/{surah}/{verse}/tafsir` — tafsir for a single verse in Arabic, Bengali or English

## Documentation (/docs)

- [Documentation home](https://quran.sorenchat.com/docs): guides and the live serve counter
- [API reference](https://quran.sorenchat.com/docs/api): every endpoint, parameter, response code, CORS rule
- [Code examples](https://quran.sorenchat.com/docs/api/examples): cURL, PowerShell, JavaScript, HTML, Node.js, Python, PHP, Flutter
- [Try it live](https://quran.sorenchat.com/docs/api/playground): request builder + live counters
- [Tafsir guide](https://quran.sorenchat.com/docs/tafsir): the four tafsirs and their authors
- [FAQ](https://quran.sorenchat.com/docs/faq): the site and the API, in all three languages
- [About & license](https://quran.sorenchat.com/docs/about): brand, why free, license, attributions

## API (GET, no key, CORS open)

- `GET https://quran.sorenchat.com/api/audio/{lang}/{SSSVVV}.mp3` — verse audio, `audio/mpeg`
- `GET https://quran.sorenchat.com/api/text/{lang}/{SSSVVV}.txt` — raw verse text, `text/plain; charset=utf-8`
- `GET https://quran.sorenchat.com/api/tafsir/{lang}/{id}/{SSSVVV}.txt` — one tafsir's raw text for one verse
- `GET https://quran.sorenchat.com/api/tafsirs` — JSON catalog of tafsirs: Ma'arif al-Qur'an (en, 168), Tafsir Ahsanul Bayaan (bn, 165), Tafsir Abu Bakr Zakaria (bn, 166), Al-Tafsir al-Wasit (ar, 93)
- `GET https://quran.sorenchat.com/api` — JSON index of all endpoints
- `GET https://quran.sorenchat.com/api/stats` — the live serve counter (pages + files): lifetimeTotal, currentMonth, currentMonthCount, updatedAt

`{lang}` is one of `ar`, `bn`, `en`. `{SSSVVV}` is the 3-digit surah number followed by the 3-digit verse number (`002255` = Surah 2, verse 255). Errors are JSON (`400` invalid pattern, `404` file missing — `en` text currently returns `404`).

## Sitemaps and machine-readable maps

- [Sitemap index](https://quran.sorenchat.com/sitemap.xml): home, 7 docs pages, 114 surahs and 6,236 verse tafsir pages
- [llms-full.txt](https://quran.sorenchat.com/llms-full.txt): every surah with Arabic/Bengali/English names, verse counts and URL patterns

## Optional

- [Surah 1 — Al-Fatihah](https://quran.sorenchat.com/surah/1)
- [Surah 2 — Al-Baqarah](https://quran.sorenchat.com/surah/2)
- [Surah 36 — Ya-Sin](https://quran.sorenchat.com/surah/36)
- [Surah 55 — Ar-Rahman](https://quran.sorenchat.com/surah/55)
- [Surah 67 — Al-Mulk](https://quran.sorenchat.com/surah/67)
- [Surah 112 — Al-Ikhlas](https://quran.sorenchat.com/surah/112)