Received · Lived · Passed on
The deen is a mīrāth. Our work is to pass it on well.
Inheriting Islam is one house with three hands: Qur'an taught by a former imam, software a Muslim can trust, and a podcast of Muslims telling how they received it.
It is two people — Hamza and Khadija. We do a small number of things at a time and say no more often than we say yes. That is why the things we start get finished.
Received from those before us. Lived in front of our children. Passed on — in a class, in software, in a conversation worth recording.
The house
Same inheritance, different hands.
Three arms, one idea. Every one of them is an answer to the same question: how do you pass this on?
Inheriting Qur'an
Live and recorded Qur'an and tajwīd, taught by a former imam, imam-recommended, at $50 a month. Priced low on purpose — the ajr is the point, not the margin.
See the programThe Apps
Life Is Temporary is live — free guidance for Muslim families when someone dies. Of the three others still moving, one is in private beta and two are in development, and none of those has shipped. We were building seven; the page names the three we stopped and the one we set down.
See all four, and what happened to the restThe Podcast
Muslims telling how they received the deen, how they live it, and what they are handing on. Season one is being recorded now. There is no back catalogue — this is the beginning.
Read what it isWho is behind this
"I taught Qur'an and led taraweeh before I ever wrote a line of code."
That is the whole reason this house exists. I taught at Islah LA in Los Angeles, Midtown Mosque in Memphis, Masjid As-Sabur in Las Vegas, and Atlanta Masjid in Atlanta — teaching people to read the Book of Allah. Then I learned to build software, and found that the same job was waiting for me there.
The deen is a mīrāth. We received it, we live it, and our whole job is to pass it on well. Sometimes that is a class in a masjid. Sometimes it is software a student can trust with their time. Sometimes it is a conversation recorded before the person who lived it is gone. It is all the same inheritance, handed on with different hands.
My wife Khadija co-founded this house with me and runs its operations. It is the two of us, and we intend to keep it that way. So we are careful about what we say yes to — and we finish what we start.
Say salaam
A class, an app, a guest, or a question.
It reaches the same two people either way, and a person writes back.