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Read Quran Today MCP Server

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Read Quran Today is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 10 tools. Last commit 8 Nov 2026.

The Quran (Madinah Mushaf): Arabic, 127 translations, tafsir, word by word and recitations

Uptime history 15 days of history
15 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
10
Tools
read from the server
499 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 8 Nov 2026

What changed 6

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 26 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

9 Nov 2 tool descriptions were rewritten get_ayah, search
9 Nov a tool disappeared get_ayah_image
6 Nov a tool appeared get_ayah_image
26 Oct a tool description was rewritten get_recitation
26 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for get_recitation

What the code does

We read the source, 13 h ago · tools taken from the live server · rules 995398eba69f

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Builds a file path from a variable mcp/src/app.js:23, mcp/src/image.js:25
    pages[file] = fs.readFileSync(path.join(APP_DIR, file), 'utf8')
In the project's build, not in the package

Found in continuous integration, deployment or infrastructure files, or in a neighbouring package of the same monorepo. None of this is installed when you add the server: it describes how the project is built and released. We list it because a leaked key in a build pipeline is still a real problem, but it is not something this server does on your machine.

Installs itself into autostart deploy/bootstrap.sh:164
  cat > /etc/cron.weekly/umami-dump <<CRON

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add quran --transport http https://readqurantoday.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://readqurantoday.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.quran]
url = "https://readqurantoday.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "quran": {
      "url": "https://readqurantoday.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "quran": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://readqurantoday.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 10

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

ayah
get_ayah
The Arabic of one ayah or a run of them (up to 50), with a translation. The Arabic is the Uthmani text with every mark and its ayah number; quote it exactly as given. Defaults to the King Fahd Complex English (Hilali & Muhsin Khan).
file
get_file
Links to download a surah's files: "text", the Arabic (optionally with a translation and the Tafsir al-Muyassar) as a .txt; "audio", its recording as an MP3 (leave out the surah for all of a reciter's); "timing", where each ayah and word of a recording starts and ends, as JSON; "font", the mushaf's fonts for the surah's pages (QCF v4, one a page) with the glyphs each ayah is written in; "data", for developers, the whole data sets (the Uthmani text, a translation or the tafsir in one file, the mushaf layout, word by word), with their sources.
recitation
get_recitation
The recording of a surah: a link to the MP3, its length, and where each ayah starts and ends, in seconds, with a link that starts at a given ayah, or plays a run of ayahs and stops.
reciters
list_reciters
The recordings on offer: id, reciter, and what tells two recordings by one voice apart.
search
search
Ayahs containing the words given: in the Arabic (diacritics optional) or, with "translation", in that translation; words with no Arabic letter search the English (Hilali & Khan) unless a translation is named. Up to 50 results, each with its reference and link.
send
send_feedback
Send the reader's report to readqurantoday.com: a problem with the site's text, a translation, the tafsir or a recitation, or a suggestion. Only when the reader asks to report or suggest something; send what they said, in their words, and the ayah or reciter it is about. Never on your own initiative.
surahs
list_surahs
All 114 surahs: number, names, ayah count and mushaf pages.
tafsir
get_tafsir
The Tafsir al-Muyassar (King Fahd Complex, Arabic) of one ayah or a run of them, up to 50.
translations
list_translations
The translations on offer, optionally for one language: id, language, translator. Also which languages have word-by-word meanings.
word
word_by_word
Each word of an ayah: its Latin reading and its meaning, in English or one of the other languages that have word meanings.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

get_ayah_image
removed 9 Nov 2026

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://readqurantoday.com/mcp streamable-http answering 460 ms 4 min ago

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Read Quran Today — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Read Quran Today do?
It exposes 10 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_ayah, get_file, get_recitation, get_tafsir, list_reciters, list_surahs and 4 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Read Quran Today working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 499 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Did Read Quran Today ever remove tools?
Yes. get_ayah_image is no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.
How do I connect Read Quran Today?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Read Quran Today need an API key?
No. Read Quran Today completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 10 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Read Quran Today?
It answers our handshake in 499 ms on average, which is faster than 24% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Read Quran Today open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in HTML, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at readqurantoday.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.