Sabily (, , ''My Way'') is a discontinued

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, designed by and with the intent to be used by followers of

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/ref> Originally named Ubuntu Muslim Edition (presented as UbuntuME), development for Sabily was active from 2007 to 2011. Sabily was designed for Muslim users to have out-of-the-box

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support and Islamic software and tools installed, including a prayer times tool, a

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study tool, Hijri calendar, etc. The Unity shell is based on GNOME 3 on Sabily 11.10, Unity 2D for graphic cards without 3D capabilities. The Unity shell became available on the Sabily 11.04 Badr DVD. Ubuntu Classic Desktop was the default desktop in Sabily (11.04), but Unity in Ubuntu 11.04. The full version of Sabily comes with out-of-the-box educational software, and

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Release History

Sabily followed the release schedule of Ubuntu. After Ubuntu 9.04, its name was changed from UbuntuME, to Sabily. * UbuntuME 7.04 released 12 October 2007 * UbuntuME 7.10 released 2 December 2007 * UbuntuME 8.04 released 17 May 2008 * UbuntuME 8.04.1 released 22 July 2008 * Sabily 9.04 Taibah released 12 May 2009 * Sabily 9.10 Gaza released 27 December 2009 * Sabily 10.04 Manarat released 28 June 2010 * Sabily 11.04 Badr released 5 May 2011 * Sabily 11.10 Uhud released 19 December 2011

Versions available

There are currently three versions of Sabily, but there is no official host at the moment. * Small version (967.96 MB), contains the main Sabily packages, including artwork and Islamic applications and Arabic support. * Full version (1.55 GB), contains the same as the Small version plus multimedia, educational and miscellaneous packages. * Ultimate version (3.3 GB), has the same content as the Full version, plus Qur'an offline recitations provided by Muhammad Siddeeq al-Minshawi, Huzify, Saad al-Ghamadi and Mishary Rashed Alafasy. The Ultimate version is useful mainly when not connected to the Internet, yet all Sabily versions provide online Qur'an recitations. Sabily is available as a Live DVD, which can be booted on the host computer without installation. The Wisabi installer can install Sabily to the hard disk within

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, without involving risky formatting or partitioning.

Additional software

As compared to Ubuntu: * zekr: Qur'anic Study Tool *

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: Islamic prayer times application *: application that pops up prayers at predetermined times *: Firefox extension that displays Islamic daily prayer times *: UI frontend to DansGuardian (web content filtering tool) *nanny: the GNOME Nanny parental-control system *: Electronic Encyclopedia System *:

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* Othman: Othman Qur'an Browser *: Qur'an viewer *: abbreviated chapters in the Messenger vita *: Men around the prophet

Arabic support

*language-pack-ar: translations for language Arabic *language-pack-gnome-ar: GNOME translations for language Arabic *mozilla-Firefox-locale-ar: Mozilla Firefox Arabic language/region package *aspell-ar: Arabic dictionary for aspell *acon: Text console arabization *bicon: Console that supports bidirectional text display *Arab eyes : Arabic-English dictionary *fonts-hosny-amiri: Arabic Naskh style typographically oriented font (Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface in Naskh style for typesetting books and other running text)

Sabily software

Zekr is an open platform Quran study tool for browsing and researching on the Quran. Recitations and translations are available for download. Small version DVD available online recitations: * Abdulbasit Abdussamad (64 kbit/s) * Mishary bin Rashid Al-Afasy (128 kbit/s) * Saad Al-Ghamdi (40 kbit/s) * Mohammed Siddiq Al-Minshawi (16 kbit/s) * Maher Al-Muaiqly (128 kbit/s) * Abu Bakr Ash-Shatri (128 kbit/s) * Saud Al-Shuraim (128 kbit/s) * Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais (192 kbit/s) Minbar indicates the time when Muslims should pray. It runs in background as a tray icon and plays the ''athan'' (call to prayer) at prayer times. Minbar works with the main calculation methods, such as Muslim League (default), Shafii, and Hanafi. Muslims observe ''

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'' five times a day, and Minbar helps to remind the user of daily prayer times. Monajat is an application for Linux and Windows that displays Azkar messages. It runs in the background as a tray icon and displays

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s. The application is an application provided by the Sabily community. Zakat Calc is an application for Linux. ''

Zakat Zakat (or Zakāh زكاة) is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. Zakat is the Arabic word for "Giving to Charity" or "Giving to the Needy". Zakat is a form of almsgiving, often collected by the Muslim Ummah. It is considered in Islam a relig ...

'', or almsgiving, is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, is the giving of 2.5% of one's possessions (surplus wealth) to charity, generally to the poor and needy. Zakat Calc helps Muslims to calculate ''zakat'' types: gold, silver, stones, jewels, savings in bank, property, loans, business, firms, animals (2.5%) and agriculture (10%). It was created using the Gambas programming language and it runs on Linux. Gnome Nanny (parental control) is an easy way to control how long users or children can be on the computer and what they can and cannot access browsing the web.

References

External links

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sabily blogsphere: Sabily 11.04 Badr Released

Quick Look: Ubuntu Muslim Edition 10.10 (Sabily Al Quds)

Sabily 10.04 review from Desktop Linux Reviews

Sabily 9.04 review from Softpedia

Sabily 9.04 review from ExtremeTech

Sabily 9.04 reviewed in LinuxToday

Zakat Calc in Launchpad
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