Darood e Taj
About Us
daroodtaj.com is an independent, free devotional resource with a single purpose: to help anyone read Darood e Taj (Salat al-Taj) correctly — in Arabic, always — with a translation they can understand, audio to follow, and tools that make daily recitation easier.
Our mission
We started this site because every existing page for this beloved prayer fell short in one of three ways: the Arabic was served as images (unreadable by screen readers and search engines), the experience was buried under ads and pop-ups, or the translation was locked behind sign-up walls. We believe a sacred text deserves better. Our mission is to offer the cleanest, fastest, most honest Darood e Taj reading experience on the web — free for everyone, forever.
What we stand for
Arabic as real text
The prayer is rendered as real, selectable HTML text — never images. This makes it accessible to screen readers, indexable by search engines, and crisp at any font size.
Honesty about sources
We present virtues and benefits as traditionally transmitted beliefs, not guaranteed outcomes, and we label textual variants clearly. Where scholars differ, we say so.
Free and ad-light
All content, the PDF and the MP3 are free with no login wall. If minimal ads are ever shown, they will never interrupt the reading experience.
Respect for the sacred
This site exists in service of one thing: sending salawat upon the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. We handle the text with the care that demands — accurate sourcing, careful proofreading and humility before scholarly differences.
What you will find here
- Line-by-line reading
- Arabic, transliteration and translation presented together for each line, in both the original and expanded versions of the prayer.
- Translations in five languages
- English, Urdu, Arabic, Indonesian and Turkish translations, with more planned. Your language is detected automatically and can always be changed manually.
- Audio recitation
- A full MP3 recitation you can follow line by line as it plays, plus offline downloads.
- A recitation counter
- Track your daily recitations against traditional count patterns (7 after Fajr, 11 daily, and more). Everything stays on your device.
- Free PDF and MP3 downloads
- A clean, printable, branded PDF and the full recitation audio — no email required, no paywall.
Darood e Taj was composed over five centuries ago by Shaykh Abu Bakr bin Salim of Hadhramaut. We are simply caretakers of a small corner of that legacy. If you find an error, or something here could be better, please tell us through the contact page — corrections from knowledgeable readers are a trust we take seriously.