Questions

Two things.

A page for every mosque in the ministry's register: where it is, the ministry's adhan times, the time that mosque reports it stands for prayer, and the lessons it runs.

And, at mosques where it is switched on, live translation of the Friday khutbah — on your own phone, in the language you choose, while the khateeb is speaking.

Munib does not change the khutbah. The khateeb reads the ministry's Arabic text as always; you read a translation of what he actually said.

No. There is no app to install, no account, no password, no sign-up. You scan a code and read.

It is free. There is nothing to pay, no membership, no advertising, and no donations. A khutbah costs roughly 0.3 MB of data — about the same as opening two or three web pages.

1. Scan the code on the notice at the mosque entrance, or in the women's prayer area. If your camera will not read it, type the short address printed underneath.
2. Choose your language. That is the only tap.
3. Keep the page open. It says "This page will start by itself. Keep it open." — when the khutbah starts, the text starts.

Two taps from the door to the first translated sentence, and no typing.

English · اردو · বাংলা (beta) · हिन्दी.

There is also another language on the picker. Tap it and your language is counted — before you fill in anything. Those counts decide which language is added next; nothing else does. Malayalam is the language most likely to come after these four.

Because Munib's own quality panel has not yet passed it, and saying so is more useful than hiding it.

The Bengali is written in plain spoken language with short sentences — the kind a person from Chattogram or Sylhet understands, not the literary register. The label stays until a panel of Bengali readers scores it above Munib's own bar. It does not come off because time has passed.

No account, no name, no number, no location.

• No account, no name, no phone number. There is nothing to sign up for.
• Your language is stored on your own phone, not on Munib's servers. Settings has a "delete everything stored on this device" button.
• Munib does not store your location. It is used to order the "nearest mosques" list and is kept in no row and no log. That ordering runs on Munib's server for now — computing it on your own phone from a list it already holds is the target and is not built yet, so we do not tell you your location never leaves the device. You can choose a wilayat instead.
• No advertising, no tracking, no third-party analytics. There is no cookie banner because there is no tracking cookie.
• One thing is collected: anonymous diagnostics. When something crashes or runs slowly, the error is sent with no identifier and no caption text, so it can be fixed. Never for advertising, never for tracking.

If you asked Munib for a copy of everything it holds about you, the honest answer would be: there is nothing to send.

Yes, and yes — and Munib does not run at a mosque unless four things exist:

1. Two verified administrators for the mosque.
2. The imam's or khateeb's own recorded consent to his voice being captured. He can withdraw it in one message, and capture stops that same Friday.
3. The board of trustees' written permission for a device on the mosque's internal sound system.
4. A written ministry no-objection naming that mosque.

Nothing goes on a mosque wall and no code appears at a door before all four exist.

Because the words have to be heard, recognised, translated and sent to your phone. The page tells you how far behind it is: "Live · about 4 s behind."

The delay is deliberate at one point: Munib waits until a phrase is finished before translating it, because half a sentence translates badly. Munib's own targets are about five seconds for most lines and eight at worst.

The page says "The imam is reciting the Qur'an" and shows the ayah in Arabic, from a verified source, with its reference.

You do not get a translation of the verse — not yet. The translation in your language is not shown until the ministry approves the translation list, and in its place the ayah carries one line: "translation pending Ministry approval". Munib will not show a translation of the Qur'an the ministry has not approved. A verse is never machine-translated either. When the ministry's list arrives, the translation appears and the label goes, and not before.

If Munib is not certain which verse it is, it says so — "Qur'an (2:136 or 3:84)" — rather than choosing one.

Four states, and they never look the same:

Tap What the labels mean on the page at any time to see them again.

Tap Report this line on the line itself. Choose what was wrong: the translation is wrong · the verse or reference is wrong · that is not what the imam said · this is offensive or religiously wrong · it goes past too fast to read.

"Thank you. A reviewer will look at this line." Every report is read within twenty-four hours. A report about religious content pages a reviewer at once, and if it is not resolved within a day, translation at that mosque pauses automatically.

Report it. Do not screenshot it into a group — a wrong line in a group is a wrong line nobody can correct.

Because nobody at that mosque has confirmed the time yet, and Munib will not pretend otherwise.

Until a mosque confirms, the page shows the usual national gaps — Fajr +25, Dhuhr +20, Asr +25, Maghrib +10, Isha +20 minutes after the adhan — with that label attached to the value. When the mosque confirms, the line changes to "Iqamah as reported by this mosque · confirmed by the mosque · 3 days ago."

Munib does not set prayer times and does not publish them. The ministry determines them; the mosque reports its Iqamah; Munib shows what the mosque reported, and says how old that is.

No. The session stops when the khutbah ends and cannot be resumed. There is no archive, no transcript and no saved copy of the translated text.

What you can see after it ends is the verses in this khutbah with their references, and a link to this mosque's prayer and lesson times.

Both are the same answer: tell Munib by counting, not by asking.

• Your mosque: open its page on munib.org and add your language to the waitlist. When five or more people at one mosque ask for the same language, that mosque's page shows the count, and that count is what Munib takes to the mosque and to the ministry.
• Your language: tap another language on the picker. It is counted the moment you tap it.

No promises and no dates. Only counts, and the counts are public.

Ask the Iftaa Office: iftaa.mara.gov.om.

Munib translates and adds nothing. It gives no explanation, no ruling, no tafsir and no grading of hadith, and it never will. That is not modesty — issuing rulings is reserved, and Munib is a translation of the pulpit, not a voice beside it.