Frequently Asked Questions
Short answers to what readers of Nayestan ask most.
Using Nayestan
What can I read without an account?
The couplet text and its plain meaning are free across every published story and need no account. Commentary, Qur’anic and Hadith references and the reflection prompts are the members-only layer and load only once you sign in.
How do lessons work?
Every story is split into lessons — the same lessons as the app. A lesson moves couplet by couplet: first the couplet and its meaning, then its Qur’anic/Hadith links, commentary and reflection. Each step has a short reading time worked out from its length, after which “Continue” unlocks. The next lesson opens once the previous one is finished, and your progress is shared with the app.
How does the diacritics toggle work?
Every couplet that has a vowelled version carries a small toggle beneath it that swaps that one couplet between plain and diacritics. To make one of the two the default everywhere, turn on “Diacritics on every couplet” in Preferences — the per-couplet button still overrides a single couplet.
How do I listen to a couplet?
Couplets that have a recording show a play button. Turn on “Audio autoplay” in Preferences and the couplet you land on starts by itself, and when it ends the next couplet with audio follows.
What does search cover?
Search runs over couplet text, plain meaning and couplet numbers across every published story, and theme chips narrow the results. Choosing Ayahs, Hadiths, Commentaries or Reflections searches the members-only layer instead, which is only loaded — in your own browser — once you are signed in.
What are Today, Review and Archive on the master couplet, reflection, Qur’an and Hadith pages?
Each of those four pages has three tabs, as in the app. Today shows one item a day (the master couplet of the day is open to everyone; the reflection, ayah and hadith of the day are picked from what your study has reached). Review shows the item you have gone longest without reviewing, and Archive lists everything your study has collected. The collections are shared with the app.
Account & progress
Is my progress shared with the mobile app?
Yes. Likes, notes, read couplets, streak and points all live on the same Nayestan account, so the website and the app show one and the same record.
What are streaks and points?
A streak counts the consecutive days you studied; points accumulate as you read and mark couplets. The website mirrors what your account already holds — it does not award anything of its own.
Where do my notes and likes live?
On your account. The top bar carries two separate icons: the heart opens your liked couplets and the pencil opens your notes.
How do I change the language?
The FA/EN icon in the top bar opens the very same page in the other language, and your choice is remembered for next time.
Privacy & data
How do I delete my data?
The Data deletion page explains how to ask for your account and everything stored with it to be erased.
Is Nayestan free?
Yes. Everything published so far is open to every signed-in reader, and there is no paid subscription on the website yet.
What is stored about me?
Your account e-mail and your reading data: likes, notes, which couplets you marked read, and your streak and points counters. The Privacy page has the detail.
Can I share a couplet?
Yes. Each couplet’s share button prepares the couplet, its meaning and the link to that page. The members-only layer is never included.