www.ShaikhShuraim.tk started off with a handful of recordings from Radio in late 2003. You can still find those early "low quality" recordings on the home page. We used to have a thread similar to the Imaams of Haramain thread on Islamic Awakening forums (I think it was later changed to As-Sahwah). It was there that some more people got the idea of recording all the Taraweeh and daily prayers and uploading them on the internet. Someone even persuaded the Saudi Embassy website to record and upload all the Taraweeh and Tahajjud recordings from Makkah. Later I took permission from www.ePrayers.tk (now known as iHaram) to use their recordings of daily prayers by Shaikh Shuraim (May Allah reward them for that). Then came brother Najiullah who volunteered to record all the prayers from the Haramain Shareefain, and he created the Haramain Recordings website (May Allah reward him too, and all the Haramain Recordings staff).
ShaikhShuraim.tk was earlier hosted on brinkster.com. They had provided 30Mb of free webspace for educational packages. Then MuslimWays.com offered to provide 100Mb of free webspace and a sub domain on their server for Muslim webmasters. I took advantage of their service and for almost 4 years, the site was hosted with them.
www.ShuraimRecitations.com now contains almost all the Taraweeh recordings of Shaikh Sa'ood Ash-Shuraim from Masjidul Haram. But still there are a few recordings missing (1421, 1422, 1423). InshaAllah I will be adding them soon. In addition to that, I have also tried to collect as much as possible recordings from daily prayers to create a complete Quran collection. These recordings are exclusive to ShuraimRecitations.com, I believe.
This was brief history of the website. Now I have added a few more sections. A Dua section and emotional recordings sub-section on the home page. Being a really lazy fellow, I am unable to update the site and add more recordings. I would be grateful is someone volunteers to help collect all the Dua and emotional recordings of Shaikh Shuraim at one place, so that I can add them. I might provide a sub-domain on the site to those who can help, if Rashad agrees.
Any suggestion for changes to colour, design etc for the site is welcome.
Jazakumullahu Khair
Last edited by AabiruSabeel; 02-11-2010 at 08:11 PM.
Jazaakallah khair for sharing that history with us. It was very interesting.
Sheikh Shuraim really has the most awesome recitation, and to have a site like that is just brilliant. One time I used to dream about there being such sites, little did I know that through the hard work of people like yourself, they already existed.
May Allah reward you. Whilst I am unable to physically help, the only thing I can do is to offer much du'aa for you that Allah makes your task easy, reawrds you abundantly, and it makes it a means of sadaqah jaariyah for you. Ameen.
I forgot to mention the brothers who sent the recordings by email to me earlier, 2-3 years ago. A brother from Hyderabad, another from UK had offered to send a complete CD collection by post. A few more brothers had contacted me from India, someone from France, and someone even sent an email addressed to Shaikh Shuraim himself. Jazakumullah Khair to them all.
The Imaams of the Haramain thread visitors were a great source of encouragement for me. May Allah reward them all too.
I can't offer much help, but I'll give some suggestions. Hope you find many volunteers to help you with this great task. May Allah give you all the best!
Masha'Allah, the content on the website is beautiful, but I think we could work up on the design of the website. I noticed most of these download websites, like Aswatal Islam, are very good in content and downloads but lacking in appealing designs.
^Yes it's all HTML, and little of javascript as well. Flash would look good, but I don't know how to design in flash. I have only used MS Frontpage for webpage designing.
Any suggestions for a better design? If there's any available theme or an existing website with a similar theme, I can work on that and customize it, inshaAllah.
^Yes it's all HTML, and little of javascript as well. Flash would look good, but I don't know how to design in flash. I have only used MS Frontpage for webpage designing.
Any suggestions for a better design? If there's any available theme or an existing website with a similar theme, I can work on that and customize it, inshaAllah.
Flash isn't recommended I'd say.
Have you considered changing it into Joomla or WordPress?
So finally Joomla is installed on ShuraimRecitations.com. But I want the visitors to choose the default template for themselves. Please visit ShuraimRecitations.com and check the available templates by selecting it from the drop down menu under the clock on the left side and post your favourite template(s) here.
The site is still being customized. Suggestions are welcome.
Jazakumullah Khair
Last edited by AabiruSabeel; 05-13-2010 at 10:41 AM.
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