Sixteen products. One mission.

Live Athan

The new way of delivering the athan. The masjid's loudspeaker, extended over TCP/IP to every pocket on earth.

For 1,400 years, the call to prayer traveled by air. The minaret stood tall so the Prophet's call would carry a few hundred meters through the streets — to the believers who lived within earshot. The athan was bound by physics. Distance silenced it.

Live Athan ends that limit. The masjid now pushes its athan, iqama, salat, khutbah, and dars through its own sound-system feed — or through any worshipper's phone running broadcasting mode while standing inside the masjid during prayer time. Every Live Athan user who has connected to that masjid receives the live signal. The masjid's voice reaches its diaspora, its travelers, its students who moved abroad, and any believer anywhere in the world who wants to be present for that community's salat.

On top of that broadcasting backbone sits a complete prayer companion: on-device prayer-time astronomy (no external API, never late), the Haram-Audio Firewall (only athan, iqama, Quran, khutbah, and dars are permitted to broadcast), a 3D globe showing live prayers worldwide, qibla, masjid finder, prayer tracker, khawater feed, the Companion mic, the Ummah Stars gallery. Free for the basics, forever. Premium and Life Services tiers fund the rest of the ecosystem.

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MIS — Masjid Information System

The invisible engine that finds every masjid in the world — and finds where the next one needs to be built.

Nobody knows how many masjids exist on Earth. Estimates run from 1.5 million to 3.6 million. There is no canonical registry. No central database of prayer times. No standard format for hours, services, imam names, or contact info. Every masjid that wants to be visible online builds its own website from scratch — and most don't.

MIS is the infrastructure that fixes this, silently. It crawls the open web, discovers masjids, scrapes their iqama times, monitors them for changes, and offers each masjid a free auto-generated website — beautiful, multilingual, automatically updated. For masjids that already have websites, MIS scrapes and normalizes. For masjids that don't, MIS becomes their web presence.

The second job of MIS is the Ummah Census. Every Live Athan user who gives the athan at home — outside any masjid geofence — sends an anonymous signal: "a Muslim called athan here, at prayer time, with no masjid nearby." MIS aggregates the signals. When a cluster reaches critical mass — 500 Muslims in a 3-mile radius with no masjid — MIS triggers an alert. Qardon funds the build. Masjid Builder constructs it. The map fills in.

Read the full MIS brief

Tasmeea — Quran Memorization

An AI companion for personal hifz. It listens, compares, corrects, and never charges.

Memorizing the Quran is one of the most beautiful undertakings a believer can pursue. Traditionally it required a teacher present at every recitation — to catch every missed letter, every weak tajweed, every confused ayah. The teacher is irreplaceable for the soul of the practice. But for the daily repetition, the spaced reviews, the third or fourth pass of a surah you memorized last month — a teacher's time is scarce and expensive, and the student often practices alone with no feedback.

Tasmeea sits beside the student in those solo sessions. You select the surah and ayah range. You recite into the phone. The app transcribes your recitation phoneme by phoneme, compares it against the correct text, and shows you exactly where you skipped a word, swapped a letter, or missed a tajweed rule (ghunnah, qalqalah, madd). It schedules spaced repetition reviews. It tracks which surahs you've mastered.

A second mode — Live Verse Display — shows the verses on a screen as the imam recites in jama'ah. The text scrolls in sync with what the imam is saying. New Muslims and non-Arabic-speakers can follow along instead of standing in silent confusion.

Tasmeea is and will always be free. It belongs to the Sacred Layer. Charging for it would be charging to memorize the Quran. That is not something Fotoh will ever do.

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Qardon — Qard Hassan

The remedy of riba. The ultimate goal of the Fotoh ecosystem. A global pool, member-funded, that lends without interest forever.

For 120 years — since the historical Bait al-Mal closed around 1924 — Muslims have been forced to think of Allah last when they need money. They go to the bank first, sign the interest-bearing loan, then maybe ask the imam to make du'a that Allah eases the debt. Qardon reverses the order. Allah first.

The mechanism is simple and ancient. Every member commits to give to the pool — monthly, one-time, whenever — even $10/month qualifies. The pool aggregates anonymously: the donor does not pick a borrower; the borrower does not see donors. The donor lends to Allah. The pool invests halal (screened stocks, Sharia-board-approved digital assets, small-business mudarabah) and the yield funds operations and Recovery. The principal lends at 0% to approved members. Borrowers repay the principal at 0%. The cycle repeats forever.

Every member is both a donor and a potential borrower over time. The dignity principle is absolute: no borrower records a video begging. No borrower tells a story. No donor picks a face. Both parties relate to Allah, not to each other. Islam forbids the humiliation of the receiver looking up at the giver — Qardon's architecture protects that.

Qardon is two legally distinct entities. qardon.org is the independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit that holds the pool and issues tax-deductible receipts. qardon.com is Fotoh's for-profit technology subsidiary that operates the platform under a service agreement — a normal SaaS arrangement at fair-market rates. The end-user sees one experience and pays 0% from either side, forever.

Read the full Qardon brief

MRN — Masjid Resilience Network

Off-grid, solar-powered mesh that keeps masjids talking to each other when the internet and the grid both fail.

Modern masjids are completely dependent on the public internet and the public power grid. When either fails — natural disaster, cyber attack, wartime infrastructure collapse, regional outage — the masjid goes silent. Prayer times stop updating on the display. The imam cannot reach the congregation. The neighboring masjid 800 meters away might as well be on the moon.

MRN turns each masjid into a self-powered communication node. Layer 1: WiFi serves people inside (0–300 m). Layer 2: LoRa mesh radio connects neighboring masjids (500 m – 5 km), forming a peer-to-peer network through the natural topology of Muslim cities — minarets become antennas, and masjids are typically 200–800 m apart. Layer 3: directional radio and HF link cities together (10–100+ km).

Each masjid runs on a Raspberry Pi-class node, 200W solar panel, 100Ah LiFePO4 battery, and an off-the-shelf LoRa device. Total hardware cost ~$850. Built into the masjid before the crisis — because in the middle of a crisis, supply chains are gone.

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Masjid Builder — بنّاء المسجد

Robotic construction. 3D-printed concrete. Modular assembly. A new masjid in days, not years — wherever the Ummah Census says one is needed.

Building a new masjid today takes years — community fundraising, land acquisition, architectural design, permitting, contractor selection, construction. Most communities that need a masjid never get one because the timeline outlasts the will.

Masjid Builder collapses the timeline. The Ummah Census (running inside MIS) identifies where Muslims live without a masjid nearby. Qardon funds the construction interest-free. A regional fleet of construction robots — 3D concrete printers, modular assembly arms — arrives at the site. From standardized architectural templates (Ottoman, Moorish, Southeast Asian, Modern), a complete masjid rises in days: prayer hall, wudu area, minaret, imam quarters. Qibla pre-calculated by MIS for the exact site.

The new masjid arrives fully equipped from day one: MMS for management, MRN for off-grid connectivity, Haris for security, Methana for broadcasting. Everything pre-integrated. Robot cost amortizes across many builds — one robot building 50 masjids/year makes the per-masjid equipment cost negligible. Communities pay only for land, materials, and a construction service fee.

Masjid Builder is not a standalone user-facing product. It is a module inside MIS. The end user never interacts with it — they simply receive a Live Athan notification one day: "A masjid is being planned in your area," and a chance to contribute through Qardon.

Read the full Masjid Builder brief