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title: "Help Center"
description: "Guides and information to help you get the most out of Truth Promoters — Getting Started, Prayer Times, Hijri Calendar, Notifications, Listening, Watching, Our Names, Glossary, Working With AI, AI, Explained, Technical Writings and Proving a Backup Restores."
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# Help Center

Guides and information to help you get the most out of Truth Promoters.

Each guide below is also available as Markdown by appending `.md` to its URL.

## [Getting Started](https://www.truthpromoters.com/help/getting-started)

Welcome to Truth Promoters. Learn about our mission, explore our features, and discover how to get the most out of your experience.

## [Prayer Times](https://www.truthpromoters.com/help/prayer-times)

Learn how Islamic prayer times are calculated, including Fajr angles, Asr calculation methods, and high latitude adjustments. Comprehensive guide to Salat times worldwide.

## [Hijri Calendar](https://www.truthpromoters.com/help/hijri-calendar)

Understanding the Islamic lunar calendar, moon sighting vs calculation, Unity of Horizon (Wahdat al-Ufuq), and guidance from maraji on determining Islamic months.

## [Notifications](https://www.truthpromoters.com/help/notifications)

Learn about push notifications for prayer times, community events, and Islamic calendar reminders.

## [Listening](https://www.truthpromoters.com/help/listening)

How the Truth Promoters audio player works — narrated pages and original recordings, the listening queue, and how your place is remembered on your own device.

## [Watching](https://www.truthpromoters.com/help/watching)

How video works on Truth Promoters — the Captions button, why our videos carry captions both printed into the picture and as a separate file, how quality adjusts to your connection, and why nothing downloads until you press play.

## [Our Names](https://www.truthpromoters.com/help/our-names)

What our sections are called and why — Reflections, Vignettes, Events, Athenaeum, Lyceum and Odeum, the meaning behind each name, and why some of our tools carry Arabic names instead.

## [Glossary](https://www.truthpromoters.com/help/glossary)

A plain-English glossary of the terms used across Truth Promoters — majlis, maqtal, nohe, nasheed, marsiya, latmiya, azadari and ziyarah — with the reasoning for which words we keep and which we translate.

## [Working With AI](https://www.truthpromoters.com/help/working-with-ai)

Why Truth Promoters works with artificial intelligence, the scholarly case for it, what our own equipment does first, and the human review behind everything we publish.

## [AI, Explained](https://www.truthpromoters.com/help/ai-explained)

Plain-English explanations of the AI behind Truth Promoters — speech to text, translation, synthetic voice, phonetic transliteration, how passages are found, image generation and drafting.

## [Technical Writings](https://www.truthpromoters.com/help/technical-writings)

Occasional write-ups from Truth Promoters on building and running the systems behind this site. Not a technology site: an Islamic community that works with technology, publishing what it learns.

## [Proving a Backup Restores](https://www.truthpromoters.com/help/proving-a-backup-restores)

A bare-metal restore from Proxmox Backup Server, start to finish: why the LVM UUIDs matter more than the filesystem ones, and six tools that reported failure while succeeding.