How a page earns its place.

The Islam Compass is an independent, non-commercial educational project. It has no advisory board, no named scholars and no reviewers to display yet. None will be invented. If human scholarly reviewers join the project, their real names and credentials will be shown only with their permission.

Nothing here is written to persuade at the expense of accuracy. Where the honest answer is "scholars differ" or "this cannot be verified", that is what the page says.

Religious content follows the hierarchy set out on the Sources & Methodology page: the Qur'an with surah, verse and a named translation; rigorously authenticated hadith with collection and number; recognized Sunni Tafsir; established Sunni scholarship. Empirical claims — astronomy, medicine, history, manuscripts — cite reputable academic and scientific sources, and are never used as evidence for theology.

Every substantial page ends with Sources & References, grouped so a reader can see at a glance what rests on the Qur'an, what on the Sunnah, and what on scholarship or science.

Software, including AI tools, is used to build this site: layout, formatting, retrieving and organising identified sources, and technical work. It is never a religious authority. No belief, interpretation of a verse or hadith, hadith grading, legal ruling, reason given for a command, or theological conclusion on this site may originate from a model. If a sentence cannot be traced to the Qur'an, authentic Sunnah or recognized Sunni scholarship, it is not published — it is flagged for a source or removed. A citation is never invented to satisfy this rule.

Where the Qur'an says one thing and a hadith another, the site does not draw its own conclusion. It looks for what established Sunni scholarship has said, and if that cannot be found, it says so.

Every article carries an internal verification record: whether its Qur'anic citations, hadith numbering and gradings, Tafsir attributions, historical claims and scientific claims have been checked, and whether a human scholarly review has approved it.

Until a page's core religious content is approved, it is published for readers but marked so that search engines do not index it, and it is left out of the sitemap. Search visibility is earned after verification, never before. This is a deliberate constraint on the project's own reach.

No verse is re-read to fit a theory. No popular claim is repeated because it is popular. No pages are generated in bulk, no page is duplicated to target a spelling, and no question is framed to inflame. Titles and descriptions describe what a page actually answers.

Religious content is not machine translated. A language appears on the site only after a person has checked the translation, and a translated page becomes indexable only after that check — the same rule as the original.

If something here is wrong — a verse number, a hadith grading, a historical date, a scientific figure, a misrepresentation of another faith — we would rather know than not. Corrections are made openly: the page is fixed, and where the error was material the correction is noted on the page itself.