Al Madina Library Version 4.5

Al-Madina LibraryAl Madina Library is a great collection of Urdu books (though all in unique style of Dawat-e-Islami such as  unique words like (علیہ رحمت المنان) instead of normal (رحمۃ اللہ علیہ) and terminalogy of Dawat-e-Islami like Madadni Soach & other terms frequently used by its lovers, even in the translations of the books, written before a millenium.
In Spite of these minor changes, the library provides a huge collection of great books written by our beloved authors & saints everyone wants to read.

More to do:

While using the version 3.0 a few years ago, I contacted the developers & told that a proper size navigation button is needed for going next & back pages. They did not listen & even in version 4.5, it is not added yet and off course, it makes it less functional & useful for the regular users of the software. Can you see in the image below the smallest possible navigation buttons? Off course in the left bottom corner of the picture.
Version 4.5 View

I think that few things its developers must keep in mind as my suggestions:
  1. Provide a proper size Next & Back navigation buttons instead of the arrows smaller than the mouse pointer.
  2. Application as well as books updating must be more improved.
  3. Be more to the point. Use less additional words in translations.
  4. Be more open. Provide simple text books addition in the library.
  5. There is no "Setting" tab in menu which must be provided. 
  6. Provide more general islamic books rather than Dawat-e-Islami's own books.
  7. Use less braces (like this) in texts. Use less organizational terms. No one is going to steal your work.
  8. Set default "row counts" in search to 500, instead of only 10. Or at least set it to 100. It bothers the searcher.
  9. Recent pages list must be in reverse sort order i.e newest first.

Why to use Al Madina Library?

These are only suggestion which its developers may easily neglect. Besides these few things mentioned above, its advantages are great. Few of them are:
  1. All books are in text format. You can re-use this text in your writings & blogs.
  2. Almost all difficult words are explained in simple Urdu. And that is great.
  3. All these books in the Al Madina Library cost thousands of rupees & maybe more costly. I'm not sure. Maybe in millions. And you provide it all free. That's great.
  4. Some very rare & less common books are now easily readable by this software.
  5. Naatia Kalam is really a good addition in Al Madina Library.
  6. It has a beautiful & simple & customizable interface.
  7. Default color themes are simple & beautiful.
  8. Explanations & foot-notes are really good & helping.
  9. Almost all text is trusted. That is a great satisfaction for the internet users where the texts are mostly in doubts.
Using Al Madina Library is a good experience for me. I hope it will replace "Al Maktubatush Shamila" one day from my computer.


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  1. I am also one of the users of this Software and I found it very useful :)

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