Ali Dawah - November 29, 2025


OUR SISTER NEEDS HELP


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901

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In this episode, we speak to the founder of Alhamdulillah, a social learning platform for Muslim women. She talks about how she and her team are building a safe space for women to learn and practice the Quran and Tajweed.

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00:00:00.000 So, okay, let's know a bit about this app. You said you had the app, the website, 16,000 sisters.
00:00:04.880 What is the app useful? Because we want to obviously get the app again, and there is funds that's needed.
00:00:10.640 For one year, I think it's just around £4,000.
00:00:14.100 Can you just tell, because the people who want to help, who want to support, who want to invest in the Akhirah,
00:00:19.120 so what would it entail? So when somebody's donating, what service would that give to the Ummah?
00:00:24.240 So the app really is a technology that allows us to manage a safe space for Muslim women,
00:00:33.300 a halal compliant, if you like, place where there's no fitna, but sisters can connect.
00:00:40.300 They can have courses. They have free material.
00:00:44.460 They can download some of the Quran or Tajweed courses that we do.
00:00:49.800 They have online exams, so they can practice their knowledge.
00:00:54.760 It also gives other sisters a space for them to create their own groups and courses.
00:01:02.700 The idea is that we ensure the quality of what the sisters are learning.
00:01:08.740 So we had one sister, for example, in Reva and Returners who became Muslim, 1.00
00:01:14.100 and she had no one else to turn to. It's actually in the UK.
00:01:16.960 And she ended up going to various not-so-authentic, should I say, organisations.
00:01:27.720 And she came to us learning, you know, really, I don't know how to describe it.
00:01:34.660 She learnt Islam wrong, and we had to explain the differences between sects and groups
00:01:41.180 and what they are and what the sunnah was.
00:01:43.300 So we'd like to create a space for our sisters who are looking to learn about Islam,
00:01:48.980 a space that they can be assured they're going to learn about the authentic Islam
00:01:55.440 that Rasulullah ï·º shared with us, and a space to learn other things.
00:02:01.620 So it's not just about learning your deen, but we do programmes to help sisters
00:02:06.260 who are having problems with HR, and they have no consultants in HR.
00:02:12.380 And we do programmes with lawyers to give them advice about issues about home.
00:02:19.460 So there's various different things and programmes that we run on the programme.
00:02:22.720 So it's a platform that when it comes to all these other courses,
00:02:26.260 you're doing the Qur'an, etc.
00:02:29.240 So the programme, so basically the app will be used to have these sisters, 0.65
00:02:33.480 like a little hub where they can all come, and then from there you channel them
00:02:36.800 back to the Qur'an thing, to do the exams, or for example,
00:02:40.740 sisters going through certain issues, etc.
00:02:42.720 Okay, that's interesting.
00:02:43.340 So it's actually, so the way we explain it is,
00:02:46.480 it's a social learning platform for Muslim women.
00:02:50.220 So there's the social element, and then there's the learning element.
00:02:54.440 So we grow together and we socialise together.
00:02:56.920 Social learning platform for Muslim women.
00:03:00.000 I'm just thinking of SLMM.
00:03:02.040 I'm trying to make a word so we can hear.
00:03:03.660 Okay, good, perfect.
00:03:04.980 So alhamdulillah, when it comes, alhamdulillah, 0.82
00:03:08.160 mainly your focus is the Qur'an?
00:03:10.560 Yes, the core of our work is obviously Islam.
00:03:15.180 And we spend a lot of time and energy building,
00:03:18.020 structured tajweed programmes.
00:03:20.280 We've been very successful, alhamdulillah.
00:03:22.500 We've been running it since 2016.
00:03:26.080 The teachers are scholars, and they, most of them,
00:03:31.300 I'd say 90% of them are in Mecca or Medina.
00:03:35.240 One of the girls that works with us was actually a teacher 1.00
00:03:38.400 in Umar al-Qura University in Mecca.
00:03:41.140 And the concept behind our tajweed programme
00:03:46.040 was to give sisters access to female scholars. 1.00
00:03:50.620 It's easier for men, back then at least, 0.90
00:03:54.060 to travel to Saudi and study the deen.
00:03:57.640 But a sister at home with five children and having to work,
00:04:02.100 that accessibility was very minimum.
00:04:04.700 So we wanted to open those doors and create teachers at home.
00:04:08.600 One of the sisters, for example, that was on our course,
00:04:12.020 alhamdulillah, she completed, I think, three years on our courses.
00:04:16.600 And she now, at that time, she taught 300 sisters in Bangladesh for free.
00:04:22.920 So the idea is to build this knowledge at home,
00:04:26.300 in every home, if we can.
00:04:28.520 That's good, Masha, because we're also working,
00:04:30.480 we want to work with you with the Salah Pro project,
00:04:33.240 which is, and we also want to teach Qur'an
00:04:35.660 to new Muslims or Muslims who don't know.
00:04:38.240 So I want it really basic.
00:04:39.240 It's the three quls and surah fatiha. 0.99
00:04:41.000 We want every Muslim who may not, 1.00
00:04:43.460 may not know for whatever reason,
00:04:45.120 or revert, subhanAllah, to memorize.
00:04:47.100 And we do want to, we are still discussing,
00:04:48.600 we want to work with you to get them to,
00:04:50.360 if they want to further develop their, you know,
00:04:51.840 reading, etc.
00:04:52.920 So we are working closely with you with that as well, inshallah.
00:04:55.080 So it's like a joint venture that we're doing, subhanAllah.
00:04:57.500 So for our donors who are watching this as well,
00:04:59.660 it is a project that we are working with,
00:05:01.080 sister and self, on that as well.
00:05:02.940 That's fantastic.
00:05:03.760 Okay.
00:05:04.260 So for that app, we need around $4,000.
00:05:07.180 Yes.
00:05:07.780 And that's on the deal.
00:05:09.180 And we've got about four days.
00:05:10.800 Yes.
00:05:11.220 We don't have very long to do that.
00:05:12.420 We don't have very long.
00:05:13.200 We've got four days to raise that amount, guys, inshallah.
00:05:17.160 And whatever amount you give Brom and sisters,
00:05:18.740 do not belittle the amount.
00:05:19.820 Don't look.
00:05:20.440 No donation is too small.
00:05:21.680 No donation is too big.