About Inheriting Islam

An old leather-bound book on a dark wooden table with a newer notebook resting on top of it and a set of keys beside them, lit by a single shaft of light. — ميراث mīrāth · inheritance

"The deen is a mīrāth. We received it, we live it, and our whole job is to pass it on well."

Everything in this house is one answer to the same question — how do you pass it on? A class in a masjid. A website that lets a community's work be seen. Software a student can trust with their time. A conversation recorded before the person who lived it is gone. Same inheritance, different hands.

The founder

Hamza Abdul-Tawwaab

Former imam · builder · Los Angeles roots · Morocco-based

I taught Qur'an and led taraweeh before I ever wrote a line of code. That is not a line for a website — it is the order the two things happened in, and it decides how I build.

I have taught at Islah LA in Los Angeles, Midtown Mosque in Memphis, Masjid As-Sabur in Las Vegas, and Atlanta Masjid in Atlanta. Four cities, four communities, and the same thing needed in each of them.

Standing in front of a congregation teaches you something no design course does: you can tell within thirty seconds whether people are with you or being talked at. Websites are the same. Most masjid websites are talking at people.

This house is kept deliberately small, because I would rather do a small amount of work properly than take on more than we can carry well. When capacity is full, I say so.

My roots are in Los Angeles and I am currently based in Morocco. The Studio's clients are American, the banking is American, and the calls happen on your clock, not mine.

Hamza Abdul-Tawwaab Founder

The co-founder

Khadija Wade

Co-founder · client care · operations

Khadija co-founded this with me and runs client care and operations — the part where somebody has to actually reply, keep a project moving, and notice when a client has gone quiet because they are confused rather than uninterested.

She is the reason "we will get back to you" means something here.

It is the two of us, and that is a decision rather than a stage we are trying to grow out of. It is why we take a small number of projects at a time, and why the ones we take get finished.

How we work

The rules we are willing to be held to.

Written down so that you can hold us to them, and so that we can be reminded of them when a shortcut is tempting.

One

We do not claim a team we do not have

It is two co-founders. There is no "team" page here because there is no team, and you would find out eventually.
Two

Nothing is described as finished until it is

Not an app, not a client site, not a podcast season. Where the honest word is "in development" or "not live yet," that is the word we use, even on our own flagship project.
Three

Free to learn and to worship

We do not paywall the fard. Where we charge, it is for convenience — or it is charged to those who can carry it, so that those who cannot are not asked to.
Four

We do not sell data. Ever.

No surveillance advertising, no analytics resale, no list rental. This website itself carries no trackers, no cookies, and no third-party scripts. You can check the network tab.
Five

The premium work pays for the khidma work

Businesses and large centres pay a full rate. Small masajid get the same care at a price they can carry, shown as a visible discount rather than quietly given. That is the arrangement, and it is the only reason both are possible.