Many products. One mission.

Live Athan

It tells you whether a masjid is alive right now — and carries the athan, the khutbah and the dars from the masjid's own room to your pocket, your car and your living room. Live on the App Store since 2026-08-13.

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 sits a prayer companion: prayer times computed on the device with no network, qibla, the athan chain including the masjid's own recording, Listen Live, Masjid Mode — open to everyone, with no enrolment and no role — the masjid's own iqāmah table with its source labelled, Announcements, Tasbeeh, and Apple TV. It is free, and it carries no financial surface of any kind: no Companion, no Ummah Stars, no Qardon, nothing to pay. It does not translate or caption the khutbah, it never reports how many people listened, and it runs on iPhone and Apple TV — there is no Android build.

Read the full Live Athan brief

MIS — Masjid Information System

The invisible engine that holds each masjid's record and serves it honestly. Nobody signs up for MIS.

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 answers this, silently and one masjid at a time. It holds a masjid's identity, position and iqāmah record, and serves it with the source and the confidence labelled — the masjid's own published table always wins, then its own website, then a worshipper's typed correction, and a phone entry never overrides what the masjid published. Where the masjid has published nothing, MIS says so rather than passing a calculated time off as the masjid's. Each masjid's public website is rendered from one shared template, and it is a gift that is never withdrawn for money.

Two things MIS pointedly does not do. It does not crawl the world: a masjid enters the active set when a real worshipper appears for it, because paying to index masajid no one asks for serves nobody. And there is no census — no heat map, no density map of where Muslims live, no masjid-needed alert. That was designed and never built, and no surface may speak of it as though it runs. A prayer app must never make a Muslim feel watched for praying in his own home.

Read the full MIS brief

Tasmeea — Quran Memorization

An AI companion for personal hifz, outside salat. The reciting is free.

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 is designed to sit beside the student in those solo sessions: you select the surah and ayah range, recite into the phone, and it follows along against the Quranic text to show you where you went wrong. Part of that is built and part of it is not. The recitation screen and the listening work exist; the accuracy scoring, the tajweed rules engine, the review scheduler and the mastery record do not yet. Nothing here ships Quran-specialised recognition, and the page will say so until it does.

Tasmeea is hifz practice outside salat. The in-salat verse features that once belonged here moved into Live Athan in April 2026 and are no longer Tasmeea's.

The reciting is free, without caps. Charging for it would be charging to memorize the Quran, and that is not something Fotoh will do. A family or teacher progress dashboard — management, not worship — is the paid part, and it has no price yet.

Read the full Tasmeea brief

Qardon — qardon.org

The remedy of riba. A lender lends — permanently, or for a set period he chooses — and qardon.org records rather than holds.

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 ancient. A person lends — not gives — and lends as waqf: permanently, or for a set period he states, after which it is returned to him in full. Allah did not say who gives Allah a qard hasan; He said lend Allah a beautiful loan. The money stays in an account in his own name and moves directly between people's own accounts: there is no pool account and no escrow, and money never passes through a Fotoh account at any moment. The corpus lends at 0% and is repaid whole; the yield the invested corpus earns is what meets a calamity claim. The lender never sees a borrower, and the borrower never sees a lender.

The dignity principle is absolute. No borrower records a video begging. No borrower tells a story — the application asks facts. No lender picks a face. A lender sees exactly three things and nothing more: his balance, his cycles, and the number of families helped. Never a count of his hasanah — no software may total a person's standing with Allah — and never any detail of a single loan or borrower. Islam forbids the humiliation of the receiver looking up at the lender, and the architecture is built to make that impossible rather than merely discouraged.

Qardon is one company: Fotoh, Inc., which is for-profit. qardon.org is a technology platform Fotoh owns and operates. It records; it does not hold and does not own — and it is not a nonprofit, not a 501(c)(3), and it will not seek that status. It holds nothing in escrow, issues no tax document of any kind, and promises no deductibility, ever. qardon.com is the marketplace and installment side of the same company. There are no late charges of any kind: a late buyer is late, and the price does not move. The money door is not open yet — what the site takes today is a record.

Read the full Qardon brief

Karam

For a senior who owns her home outright and can no longer manage alone. She is charged nothing, ever — and Karam is not open yet.

Karam is a service of qardon.org for seniors who own their home outright and can no longer manage alone. The home becomes a permanent endowment recorded in the senior’s own name, and in return the senior is designed to receive comprehensive, dignified care for the rest of her life. She is charged nothing, ever, and care is never priced to what the home is worth. The senior chooses what happens to the home — keep it, sell it interest-free to a family who then carries the care, or rent it — and whichever she chooses, the home’s value becomes a perpetual interest-free fund that carries her name.

Karam also exists to protect seniors from financial abuse, and that is part of the point rather than a footnote. It includes help claiming the benefits she has already earned, and the estate documentation and inheritance calculation so her family’s rights are clear — never paired with a beneficiary Karam has an interest in.

Karam is not open yet. The whole instrument sits behind a legal gate: no real sale, no buyer note, no guarantee, no payment and no endowment happens before counsel has cleared it, and no vetted care network exists. So this page describes what Karam is and what safeguards are designed into it — it is an invitation to a conversation, not an offer. No senior has been served, there is no story to tell, and nothing here promises that a nurse, a doctor or a couple is available to be assigned.

Read the full Karam brief

Baitulmal

An internal engine. It has no public face, nothing to sign up for, and nothing it asks of anyone.

Baitulmal is listed here for completeness and nothing more. It is the engine inside Fotoh that manages qard-hasan money at scale — the conductor over the books, the waqf record and the marketplace rather than a thing a person opens. It has no public surface: there is nothing to sign up for, nothing to download, nothing to buy and no page behind this paragraph. It is not a bank, it is not a pool, and it holds nothing: every dollar it accounts for stays in the account of the person it belongs to, in that person’s own name, and no treasury anywhere holds anyone’s money. Whatever a person sees of its work, he sees on qardon.org under that name.

MRN — Masjid Resilience Network

A solar-powered mesh designed to keep masjids reachable when the internet and the grid both fail. Software only today — no node exists.

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 is designed to turn a masjid into a self-powered communication node: WiFi for the people inside, and a LoRa mesh to the neighbouring masajid, which are already two hundred to eight hundred metres apart, with minarets as the natural antenna mounts. City-to-city radio is a later layer and not part of this design.

Today MRN is software only. A proof of concept runs; no node has been assembled, no enclosure designed, and no hardware purchase has been authorised. Nothing is orderable, and no parts cost is published — the parts list itself is not settled, so any figure here would be a guess. Awwad has also ruled that MRN and the Live Athan broadcast substrate are one network seen from two angles; that reconciliation has not yet been written.

Read the full MRN brief

Masjid Builder — بنّاء المسجد

The construction arm inside MIS. Nobody uses it — and nothing has been built.

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 is designed to shorten that timeline: where a community has Muslims and no masjid near them, Qardon's lenders fund the build interest-free and robotic 3D-printed concrete and modular assembly raise it from standardised regional designs, with the qibla computed for the exact site. It is a concept and it is deliberately deferred. No code is to be written from its specification until MIS is mature, and nothing has been built.

The intent is that a new masjid arrives with its management, connectivity, protection and broadcasting already in place. Fotoh manages projects; it does not own printers or a robot fleet, and it would work through licensed general contractors. Land is the community's, never Fotoh's. No cost figure is published — none in the corpus has been validated, and printing an unvalidated number here would be inventing one.

Masjid Builder is not a standalone product. It is a module inside MIS, and nobody uses it: the only user-facing touch it would ever have is a notification that a masjid is being planned nearby, and a way to lend through Qardon. It promises no paper of any kind — no nonprofit status, no receipt, no deduction.

Read the full Masjid Builder brief