Searching in Tanzil is pretty easy. To find a word in Quran, simply enter it in the search box of Tanzil Quran Navigator and press “GO”. You will then receive a list of ayas containing your search string.

*Automatic and :: By default, Tanzil returns ayas that include all of the search words. For example, the search phrase

كتاب قرآن

will return ayas that contain both

كتاب

and

قرآن

(in any order).

*Exact phrase :: To search for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in quotation marks, like

"رسول الله"

.

*Whole words :: To search for a whole word only, put quotation marks around the search word. For example,

"كتاب"

matches

كتاب

, but not

الكتاب

and

كتابهم

.

*Similar letters :: Tanzil automatically matches similar letters. For example, the search word

نعمت

matches both

نعمت

and

نعمة

.

*Partial diacritics :: You can refine your search by adding some diacritics to the search word. For example, the search word

مخلِص

matches

مُخْلِصِين

but not

مُخْلَصِين

.

*Logical or:

|

:: The

|

operator is used to simultaneously search for more than one word in ayas. For example, the search phrase

كتاب|میزان

will return ayas that contain either

كتاب

or

میزان

, or both.

*Logical not:

-

:: If you want to exclude some words in your results, simply put a minus sign in front of the words you want to avoid. For example, the search phrase

كتاب -میزان

will return ayas that contain

كتاب

but not

میزان

.

*Any letter:

?

:: The

?

wildcard matches any single letter. For example, the search phrase

ت?ون

matches

تكون

and

ترون

, but not

تعلمون

.

*Zero or more letters:

*

:: The

*

wildcard matches any sequence of zero or more letters. For example, the search phrase

مس*ون

matches words like

مسلمون

and

مستضعفون

.

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