For mosques and organisations

Who Rafiq is for

Adults who have recently become Muslim, do not speak Arabic, and are in the weeks when the questions are most constant and hardest to ask out loud. It is free, needs no account, and is designed to be used quietly by someone who has not told their family yet.

Why it is safe to point someone here

• It never invents scripture. Qur’anic text and translation are retrieved from canonical sources and shown with their citation. If a passage cannot be verified, Rafiq says so rather than guessing.
• It issues no rulings. A personal question — “am I allowed to…” — is never answered by the tool. It explains the general sourced principle and routes the person to a qualified human.
• It takes almost nothing. No account, no email, no payment, no advertising, no third-party trackers. Nobody is profiled, and there is no list of your people anywhere.
• It points back to you. Rafiq is built to return people to a local community, not to hold onto them. Every path through it ends at a human being.

How the hand-off works

When someone asks a question Rafiq must not answer, it does not dead-end them. The question goes to a coordinator, who routes it to a real human channel — a named scholar, a mosque, or a care line. The person stays anonymous throughout: they keep a short code, and the reply comes back to them through that code. No name is passed to anyone, and no lasting archive of people’s questions is kept.

Alongside that, Rafiq keeps a small, checked directory of mosques and organisations that welcome people who are new to Islam, so someone can find a real place near them.

Being listed

If your mosque or organisation would welcome new Muslims and you are willing to be listed, we would like to hear from you. Listing is one short conversation: we confirm your details with a person rather than copying them off a map, and you can ask to be removed at any time.

Write to ask@rafiq.chat and tell us who you are and who you serve. It goes to a person, not an inbox nobody reads.

Where the project is up to

Rafiq is in its pilot stage and is not yet publicly launched. Its religious content is under review by a scholarly oversight board, and pages that have not been signed off say so on the page. We would rather tell you that plainly now than have you discover it after recommending us to someone.

There is nothing being sold here. Rafiq is free to use, carries no advertising, and asks nothing of the organisations it points people to.