Madrasa & Hifz Class Register (Sabaq, Sabqi, Manzil and Attendance)

About the Madrasa & Hifz Class Register (Sabaq, Sabqi, Manzil and Attendance)

A register for maktab and madrasa teachers and hifz academies that runs in your browser and keeps every child’s record on your own device. Add your classes — hifz, nazra, qaida or another subject — and your students, then log each day in a minute: who is present, late, absent or on leave, and each student’s sabaq (the new lesson), sabqi (the recent revision) and manzil (the old revision), each with a grade and the number of mistakes. Ayahs are written the way teachers say them — 2:6-10, Juz 3, Surah 67 — and the register fills in the next sabaq from the last one (the same ayahs again after a Repeat).

From the log it works out what each student has memorised, juz by juz, and makes a monthly progress card for the parents: the attendance, the month’s new ayahs, a box for each of the 30 juz, every day’s lessons, the average grades, your remarks and three signature lines, with labels in English, Urdu or Hindi. A class summary and a monthly attendance register come from the same log. In the free preview, cards, summaries and registers show as marked page images; a Premium pass unlocks their PDFs, printing and phone pictures. Your own data — the CSV files and the encrypted backup — is never locked.

Common uses

• A hifz teacher logging sabaq, sabqi and manzil for a class of twenty students.
• A maktab with evening nazra and qaida classes keeping attendance and lessons.
• A hifz academy printing monthly progress cards for the parents.
• A madrasa moving its paper register to a log it can open in a spreadsheet.

Sabaq, sabqi and manzil

• Sabaq is the new lesson of the day. In a hifz class it is a range of ayahs; in a nazra class, the ayahs read by sight; in a qaida or other class, the lesson in words (“Qaida lesson 6, page 12”).
• Sabqi is the recent revision. The register suggests what the student has memorised of the juz the sabaq is in — the para revised every day; change it to the portion your class revises.
• Manzil (also called dhor) is the old revision. After a whole juz, the register suggests the next complete juz the student has memorised, round and round; type any range instead.
• A sabaq marked Repeat is not counted as memorised, and the next sabaq is the same ayahs again.
• Madrasas name these parts differently (aamokhta, dhor …): write your own words under Settings, in English, Urdu and Hindi, and the cards print yours.

Writing ayahs

Type ayahs as surah:ayah — 2:6-10, 2:280-3:5, 2:255 — a juz as Juz 3 or Para 3 (in a revision just 3, or 1-3), and whole surahs as Surah 67 or Surah 112-114. Urdu (۱۲۳), Arabic-Indic and Devanagari digits work too. Ranges are kept as surah and ayah numbers, which stay the same whatever the page numbers of your mushaf. Surah names, ayah counts and where each juz starts come from Tanzil’s Quran metadata (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0): 114 surahs and 6,236 ayahs, with Juz 2 starting at Al-Baqara 142 and Juz 30 at An-Naba 1.

Grades and the progress card

The five grades, from the best to Repeat, count as 4, 3, 2, 1 and 0 points, and the card shows each part’s average as the nearest grade with its points (“Very good (3.4)”). Rename the grades under Settings (Mumtaz, Jayyid jiddan, Jayyid, Maqbool …). Attendance counts late arrivals as present, and its percentage leaves out days of leave. The 30 boxes on the card are the juz: filled when memorised in full, part-filled for the share memorised.

Labels print in English, English and Urdu, English and Hindi, or all three. Urdu is drawn with your device’s own Urdu font, so the card shows it as your phone or computer writes Urdu.

Children’s data (India)

Most students of a maktab or hifz class are children. India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 counts everyone under 18 as a child (section 2(f)) and asks for the verifiable consent of a parent before a child’s personal data is processed (section 9(1)). Rule 10 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 sets out how, and comes into force with rules 5 to 16 eighteen months after the Rules were published (rule 1(4)). The consent rule does not apply to an educational institution whose processing is restricted to tracking and behavioural monitoring for its educational activities or the safety of its children (rule 12 and the Fourth Schedule, Part A, item 3); whether your register falls under that is a question for a lawyer. One way to keep a record of that consent is an admission form the parent signs. This register keeps every record on your own device and sends nothing anywhere, but it does not collect consent for you — and this is not legal advice.

Your register stays on this device

The register is kept in this browser’s storage (IndexedDB) on this device and is never uploaded. With a passcode, every record is stored encrypted with AES-256-GCM under a key that only your passcode opens (PBKDF2-SHA-256 with 600,000 iterations, the OWASP Password Storage Cheat Sheet figure), and the register locks by itself when it is not used for a while. The encrypted backup moves it to another device; nobody can recover a lost passcode or passphrase.

Limitations

• One device: the register does not sync between phones or computers. Move it with the encrypted backup.
• It records what the teacher enters; it does not listen to recitation or check tajweed.
• Mushaf page numbers are not kept, because prints number their pages differently: lessons are kept as surah and ayah numbers.
• Urdu labels need an Urdu font on the device (phones and computers usually have one); where there is none, choose English, or English and Hindi.
• Cards go to parents one at a time from your phone: the register never messages many parents at once.

Privacy

Students’ names, their fathers’ or guardians’ names and phone numbers, attendance and lessons stay in this browser on your device (IndexedDB), encrypted when you set a passcode. Cards and reports are made on the device; backups are encrypted on the device. Nothing is uploaded.