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NURA for Ramadan: from suhoor to Eid, computed honestly

Ramadan runs on two clocks — the sun that opens and closes each fast, and the Hijri calendar that counts the month toward Eid. NURA computes both from real astronomy and your device's Islamic calendar, so suhoor, iftar, and the countdown are exact for exactly where you are.

Suhoor to iftar, from your real prayer times

NURA's fasting window is built on the same engine-derived prayer instants as the rest of the app — not a rough table. Before dawn it counts down to the close of suhoor at Fajr; through the day it counts down to iftar at Maghrib, with a progress read of how much of the fast has passed; at Maghrib it simply marks the fast complete. The labels are plain nouns — "Suhoor ends," "Iftar," "Fast complete" — never a pressuring "hurry."

The month, counted from the real calendar

NURA reads the Umm al-Qura Islamic calendar from your device — verifying the platform genuinely honoured an Islamic calendar rather than silently substituting another — to tell you how many days remain until 1 Ramadan and until Eid al-Fitr on 1 Shawwal. During Ramadan it shows the day of the month and counts down to the Eid that ends it, with no hand-rolled table that goes stale a year later.

A fast log that respects the Sunnah

Beyond Ramadan, NURA helps with the recommended fasts. Mark any day fasted and it is kept on your device. NURA tells you when today is a Sunnah fasting day and why — Monday or Thursday (the Prophet ﷺ fasted them, Tirmidhi), or one of the three "white days," the 13th–15th of the Hijri month (Bukhari and Muslim) — and counts how many recommended days in a row you have kept, treating a still-unmarked today as pending rather than broken.

Read the Qur'an through the month

Many aim to complete a khatm in Ramadan. NURA's tracker follows your progress across the 604 pages (30 juz) of the Madani mushaf, tells you whether you are keeping pace with a goal — "finish in N days" or "finish by a date" — and keeps your daily reading streak. It holds progress only: NURA never displays a word of the mushaf, the same way it never invents a prayer time.

The night's remembrance, and the year's zakat

• Morning and evening adhkar, each labelled with its source, with tap counters for the repetitions — the rhythm of the fasting day.
• A tasbih for the tarawih nights and the 99 Names in their canonical order.
• A zakat calculator for the many who pay in Ramadan: it adds cash, gold, silver, and business assets, subtracts debts, compares the remainder to the nisab (85 g of gold or 595 g of silver at the gram price you enter, or a value you type directly), and takes 2.5% only when you are above the threshold — a clean zero below it, never an "almost."

Private, offline, free

Your fast log, reading progress, and zakat sheet live on your iPhone. No account, no server, no signal required for any of it.

NURA is coming soon to iPhone — free, from NuroNova Genix Co. (Houston, Texas). A steady companion from the first suhoor to Eid.